September 06, 2017
Solution to DACA problem from Bill Clinton
Jack Kemp
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/09/the_perfect_solution_to_the_daca_problemfrom_bill_clinton.html
I suddenly realized we have a clear precedent from the Clinton administration of how we should deal with the DACA children. For those of you too young to remember the incident, I will summarize it.
Elian Gonzalez's mother attempted to bring him to the United States from the socialist paradise of Cuba. She died in the attempt, but Elian was rescued and brought to the U.S. Fiendish relatives claiming to represent Elian's best interest attempted to keep him in the U.S., but caring and compassionate Federal Agents took him and returned him to his home in Cuba.
End excerpt.
This from Jack:
You realize that the Clintons sent Elian back in order to sabotage the Florida vote and give the election to Bush. That way, there would be no Pres. Gore (Thank G-d) to have the 2004 nomination locked up and Hillary could run then. But the 9/11 events caused the American people to want a wartime President which is generally a male. Hillary understood this early and thus didn't run hard (or at all?) in 2004. The importance of Florida's vote was known by pros well in advance. One professor said it gave Bush an additional 57,000 votes in that state.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/09/the_perfect_solution_to_the_daca_problemfrom_bill_clinton.html
I suddenly realized we have a clear precedent from the Clinton administration of how we should deal with the DACA children. For those of you too young to remember the incident, I will summarize it.
Elian Gonzalez's mother attempted to bring him to the United States from the socialist paradise of Cuba. She died in the attempt, but Elian was rescued and brought to the U.S. Fiendish relatives claiming to represent Elian's best interest attempted to keep him in the U.S., but caring and compassionate Federal Agents took him and returned him to his home in Cuba.
End excerpt.
This from Jack:
You realize that the Clintons sent Elian back in order to sabotage the Florida vote and give the election to Bush. That way, there would be no Pres. Gore (Thank G-d) to have the 2004 nomination locked up and Hillary could run then. But the 9/11 events caused the American people to want a wartime President which is generally a male. Hillary understood this early and thus didn't run hard (or at all?) in 2004. The importance of Florida's vote was known by pros well in advance. One professor said it gave Bush an additional 57,000 votes in that state.
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Some animals are more equal than others.
Wil Wirtanen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/the-lonely-lives-of-silicon-valley-conservatives
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Revisiting wind turbine impacts
Paul Driessen
An article I wrote several weeks ago had a couple of stupid math errors. This column attempts to correct them – and take readers on a journey to the futuristic world of 100 percent "clean, green, sustainable, renewable†wind energy. Since the assumptions always guide the analysis, this column lays mine out, crunches the numbers, and concludes that replacing the 2.85 terawatts of electricity generated worldwide in 2016 – while ensuring stored power for just 48 windless hours – would require:
14.4 million 1.8-GW turbines … 570 million acres (30% of the Lower 48 US states) … and 1.4 trillion Tesla 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs!
Need stored electricity for seven windless days? 50 million turbines, the US-Canadian land mass, and 5 trillion battery packs should do it.
Disagree with this analysis? Wade in with your own. Let’s have a wide-open debate, before renewable energy activists and politicians lock us into an energy future that might be horrendous for humanity and planet. (Or might save us from calamitous climate change.)
Revisiting wind turbine impacts
Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims
Paul Driessen
It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those fuels with "clean, sustainable, renewable†energy.
I’ve criticized this supposed solution many times, on multiple grounds. Unfortunately, a hasty numerical calculation for a recent column was way off base, and readers properly chastised me for the error. I just blew it, using megawatts instead of megawatt-hours to derive the number of wind turbines … and amount of land … it would take to replace the world’s 2016 electricity entirely with wind energy.
My conclusion that it would require 830 million turbines and twice the land area of North America was thus off by embarrassing amounts. However, my reviewers offered many "correct†numbers.
Their turbine totals ranged from 2 million to 4, 10 and 12 million; their acreage figures from 0.5 to 40, 60 and even 247 per turbine. Total acreage for all the turbines ranged from the size of France or Texas – to half of North America. Energy scholar Cork Hayden graciously provided analytical aid.
Bottom line: Assumptions are key – about turbine size; number, location and extent of good wind sites; ability to actually erect turbines on those sites; wind turbine capacity factor, in average hours per day of electricity generation; duration and quality of wind power per year, especially as turbines proliferate into increasingly poor wind areas; and power generation needed to charge huge battery arrays to ensure reliable electricity during multiple windless days (2, 7, 14 or more) when turbines provide no power.
Another variable, of course, is the amount of electricity that is to be replaced by wind. In 2016, the world used 25 billion megawatt-hours (MWh) of electrical energy, generated by fossil fuel, hydroelectric and nuclear power stations, with minor contributions from wood (biomass) and trivial amounts of wind and solar. Year-round average power generation was 2.85 million megawatts (MW) or 2.85 terawatts (TW) – compared to zero generation in 1881.
Electricity makes our industries, jobs, travel, communication, living standards, health and safety possible, and demand will certainly grow as more nations electrify, and more vehicles are battery-powered.
Here are my fundamental assumptions: Wind turbines replace 100% of today’s 2.85 TW global electricity generation, by some future date – as many activists and politicians insist we must (and can) do. Turbines are all 1.8-MW nameplate power. Average turbine capacity factor gradually falls from 33% to 16.5% as the best wind sites are utilized, and much poorer sites must be developed.
(In the USA many of the best wind sites are off the Washington-to-California and Maine-to-Georgia coastlines, and in the Great Lakes, where water depths and powerful local opposition would make it impossible to install many turbines. Onshore turbine size is limited by the size of blades that can be hauled by trucks on winding roads. The same situation would likely apply around most of the globe.)
Further assumptions: One-third of turbine output powers society; two-thirds charge batteries that provide power for 48 of every 72 hours that wind is not blowing. And winds always cooperate with that scheme – always arriving just in the nick of time, as batteries are depleted, and never disappearing for more than two days, even during sweltering summers or frigid winters when demand soars but winds disappear.
Of course, most of these assumptions exist only in the realm of fairies, pixie dust, green energy utopia and easy number crunching. They are meant to initiate important analyses and debates that climate alarmists, renewable energy proponents, legislators and policy makers have never conducted.
Using these assumptions, generating 25 billion megawatt-hours would require 1.6 million 1.8-MW turbines functioning at full 1.8-MW capacity in strong winds, all day, every day, with no worries about storage. If they operate only eight hours a day (33% engineered capacity), we just use electricity when it’s available, instead of when we need it. But that’s terribly inconvenient and disruptive.
So we employ the Dr. Hayden system, instead. We erect 4.8 million turbines that operate steadily for eight hours, sending one-third of their electricity to the grid and two-thirds to batteries. That would yield 8 hours of direct power while the wind is blowing (33% capacity factor) – and let us draw power from the batteries for the next 16 hours, until the wind regularly picks up again. "I love magic,†he says.
That clearly won’t work. We really need at least 48 hours of storage – and thus three times as many turbines, under a similar arrangement, but providing more flexibility, to recognize unpredictable wind patterns and the likelihood of two windless days in a row. We’re up to 14.4 million 1.8-MW turbines.
Want a bigger safety net? To assure against seven windless days? 50 million turbines should do it.
But then we’re really into the mediocre wind sites. Capacity plummets to 16.5% or so. Perhaps 100 million turbines will do the trick. Pray that lulls last no more than a week. Or send the army to those intransigent, unpatriotic coastal communities, and forcibly install turbines in their super windy areas.
That would also ensure that electricity generation is close to our big urban centers – hence shorter transmission lines, and less cement, steel, copper, et cetera to build the power lines. It’s a win-win situation, except for those who have to look at or live next to turbines and transmission lines, of course.
How much land are we talking about, to generate 25 billion megawatt-hours of global annual electricity? Assuming top quality wind sites, at 5 kilowatts per acre (average output per land area for any turbine at the windiest locations), onshore turbines operating 24/7/365 would require some 570 million acres.
That’s 25% of the United States – or 30% of the Lower 48 US states. It’s almost all the land in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona combined!
Change the assumptions – change the numbers. To store electricity for windless days, total power generation (and thus turbine numbers and land acreage) begins to skyrocket. For 48 hours of backup, triple the power generation; that’s the entire Lower 48. For a full week of backup, add in Canada.
Let’s not forget the transmission lines and batteries. They also need land (and raw materials).
How many batteries? Storing 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity – to provide power for 48 windless hours for a US city of 700,000 people – would require 480,000 of Tesla’s new 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs. Backing up 2.85 TW for just two windless days would require 1.4 trillion Tesla units! And this assumes the batteries are charged and discharged with 100% efficiency.
Just imagine the land, raw materials, mining, manufacturing and energy that would be needed to make all those batteries (and replace them every few years). As energy and technology analyst Mark Mills has noted, all the world’s existing lithium battery factories combined manufacture only a tiny fraction of that.
I’m sure the world’s battery makers would be more than happy to take our hard-earned taxpayer and consumer cash to build more factories and make all those batteries – to save us from dangerous climate change that is no longer governed by the sun and other powerful natural forces.
Let’s get real. It’s time to stop playing with pixie dust and renewable energy utopia schemes. Time to open our schools and legislatures to actual thinking about energy, sustainability, climate change and what makes our jobs, health and living standards possible. Time for full-bore studies and legislative hearings on all these issues – in the USA, UK, EU and everywhere else.
Sustainability and renewable energy claims are too grounded in ideology, magic and politics. Wind and solar energy forecasts ignore the need to find and mine vast new metal and mineral deposits – and open US lands that are now off limits, unless we want to import all our wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. They assume land use impacts don’t really exist if they are in other people’s backyards.
Worse, too often anyone trying to raise these inconvenient truths is shouted down, silenced, ignored. That has to stop. The stakes are too high for ideology and pixie dust to drive fundamental public policies.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death and other books on the environment.
An article I wrote several weeks ago had a couple of stupid math errors. This column attempts to correct them – and take readers on a journey to the futuristic world of 100 percent "clean, green, sustainable, renewable†wind energy. Since the assumptions always guide the analysis, this column lays mine out, crunches the numbers, and concludes that replacing the 2.85 terawatts of electricity generated worldwide in 2016 – while ensuring stored power for just 48 windless hours – would require:
14.4 million 1.8-GW turbines … 570 million acres (30% of the Lower 48 US states) … and 1.4 trillion Tesla 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs!
Need stored electricity for seven windless days? 50 million turbines, the US-Canadian land mass, and 5 trillion battery packs should do it.
Disagree with this analysis? Wade in with your own. Let’s have a wide-open debate, before renewable energy activists and politicians lock us into an energy future that might be horrendous for humanity and planet. (Or might save us from calamitous climate change.)
Revisiting wind turbine impacts
Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims
Paul Driessen
It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those fuels with "clean, sustainable, renewable†energy.
I’ve criticized this supposed solution many times, on multiple grounds. Unfortunately, a hasty numerical calculation for a recent column was way off base, and readers properly chastised me for the error. I just blew it, using megawatts instead of megawatt-hours to derive the number of wind turbines … and amount of land … it would take to replace the world’s 2016 electricity entirely with wind energy.
My conclusion that it would require 830 million turbines and twice the land area of North America was thus off by embarrassing amounts. However, my reviewers offered many "correct†numbers.
Their turbine totals ranged from 2 million to 4, 10 and 12 million; their acreage figures from 0.5 to 40, 60 and even 247 per turbine. Total acreage for all the turbines ranged from the size of France or Texas – to half of North America. Energy scholar Cork Hayden graciously provided analytical aid.
Bottom line: Assumptions are key – about turbine size; number, location and extent of good wind sites; ability to actually erect turbines on those sites; wind turbine capacity factor, in average hours per day of electricity generation; duration and quality of wind power per year, especially as turbines proliferate into increasingly poor wind areas; and power generation needed to charge huge battery arrays to ensure reliable electricity during multiple windless days (2, 7, 14 or more) when turbines provide no power.
Another variable, of course, is the amount of electricity that is to be replaced by wind. In 2016, the world used 25 billion megawatt-hours (MWh) of electrical energy, generated by fossil fuel, hydroelectric and nuclear power stations, with minor contributions from wood (biomass) and trivial amounts of wind and solar. Year-round average power generation was 2.85 million megawatts (MW) or 2.85 terawatts (TW) – compared to zero generation in 1881.
Electricity makes our industries, jobs, travel, communication, living standards, health and safety possible, and demand will certainly grow as more nations electrify, and more vehicles are battery-powered.
Here are my fundamental assumptions: Wind turbines replace 100% of today’s 2.85 TW global electricity generation, by some future date – as many activists and politicians insist we must (and can) do. Turbines are all 1.8-MW nameplate power. Average turbine capacity factor gradually falls from 33% to 16.5% as the best wind sites are utilized, and much poorer sites must be developed.
(In the USA many of the best wind sites are off the Washington-to-California and Maine-to-Georgia coastlines, and in the Great Lakes, where water depths and powerful local opposition would make it impossible to install many turbines. Onshore turbine size is limited by the size of blades that can be hauled by trucks on winding roads. The same situation would likely apply around most of the globe.)
Further assumptions: One-third of turbine output powers society; two-thirds charge batteries that provide power for 48 of every 72 hours that wind is not blowing. And winds always cooperate with that scheme – always arriving just in the nick of time, as batteries are depleted, and never disappearing for more than two days, even during sweltering summers or frigid winters when demand soars but winds disappear.
Of course, most of these assumptions exist only in the realm of fairies, pixie dust, green energy utopia and easy number crunching. They are meant to initiate important analyses and debates that climate alarmists, renewable energy proponents, legislators and policy makers have never conducted.
Using these assumptions, generating 25 billion megawatt-hours would require 1.6 million 1.8-MW turbines functioning at full 1.8-MW capacity in strong winds, all day, every day, with no worries about storage. If they operate only eight hours a day (33% engineered capacity), we just use electricity when it’s available, instead of when we need it. But that’s terribly inconvenient and disruptive.
So we employ the Dr. Hayden system, instead. We erect 4.8 million turbines that operate steadily for eight hours, sending one-third of their electricity to the grid and two-thirds to batteries. That would yield 8 hours of direct power while the wind is blowing (33% capacity factor) – and let us draw power from the batteries for the next 16 hours, until the wind regularly picks up again. "I love magic,†he says.
That clearly won’t work. We really need at least 48 hours of storage – and thus three times as many turbines, under a similar arrangement, but providing more flexibility, to recognize unpredictable wind patterns and the likelihood of two windless days in a row. We’re up to 14.4 million 1.8-MW turbines.
Want a bigger safety net? To assure against seven windless days? 50 million turbines should do it.
But then we’re really into the mediocre wind sites. Capacity plummets to 16.5% or so. Perhaps 100 million turbines will do the trick. Pray that lulls last no more than a week. Or send the army to those intransigent, unpatriotic coastal communities, and forcibly install turbines in their super windy areas.
That would also ensure that electricity generation is close to our big urban centers – hence shorter transmission lines, and less cement, steel, copper, et cetera to build the power lines. It’s a win-win situation, except for those who have to look at or live next to turbines and transmission lines, of course.
How much land are we talking about, to generate 25 billion megawatt-hours of global annual electricity? Assuming top quality wind sites, at 5 kilowatts per acre (average output per land area for any turbine at the windiest locations), onshore turbines operating 24/7/365 would require some 570 million acres.
That’s 25% of the United States – or 30% of the Lower 48 US states. It’s almost all the land in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona combined!
Change the assumptions – change the numbers. To store electricity for windless days, total power generation (and thus turbine numbers and land acreage) begins to skyrocket. For 48 hours of backup, triple the power generation; that’s the entire Lower 48. For a full week of backup, add in Canada.
Let’s not forget the transmission lines and batteries. They also need land (and raw materials).
How many batteries? Storing 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity – to provide power for 48 windless hours for a US city of 700,000 people – would require 480,000 of Tesla’s new 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs. Backing up 2.85 TW for just two windless days would require 1.4 trillion Tesla units! And this assumes the batteries are charged and discharged with 100% efficiency.
Just imagine the land, raw materials, mining, manufacturing and energy that would be needed to make all those batteries (and replace them every few years). As energy and technology analyst Mark Mills has noted, all the world’s existing lithium battery factories combined manufacture only a tiny fraction of that.
I’m sure the world’s battery makers would be more than happy to take our hard-earned taxpayer and consumer cash to build more factories and make all those batteries – to save us from dangerous climate change that is no longer governed by the sun and other powerful natural forces.
Let’s get real. It’s time to stop playing with pixie dust and renewable energy utopia schemes. Time to open our schools and legislatures to actual thinking about energy, sustainability, climate change and what makes our jobs, health and living standards possible. Time for full-bore studies and legislative hearings on all these issues – in the USA, UK, EU and everywhere else.
Sustainability and renewable energy claims are too grounded in ideology, magic and politics. Wind and solar energy forecasts ignore the need to find and mine vast new metal and mineral deposits – and open US lands that are now off limits, unless we want to import all our wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. They assume land use impacts don’t really exist if they are in other people’s backyards.
Worse, too often anyone trying to raise these inconvenient truths is shouted down, silenced, ignored. That has to stop. The stakes are too high for ideology and pixie dust to drive fundamental public policies.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death and other books on the environment.
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September 05, 2017
A new Liberal Hypocrisy
Jack Kemp
I recall the time over a decade ago - and in more recent days - when the NY Times was insulting veterans by showcasing stories of their suicides. In other words, The Times was saying there was something wrong with them and their suicide rates were the proof. Now, on the subject of transgenders in the military services, the Times and other liberals have suddenly become silent on this topic of actual suicide rates as being proof of mental instability.
I recall the time over a decade ago - and in more recent days - when the NY Times was insulting veterans by showcasing stories of their suicides. In other words, The Times was saying there was something wrong with them and their suicide rates were the proof. Now, on the subject of transgenders in the military services, the Times and other liberals have suddenly become silent on this topic of actual suicide rates as being proof of mental instability.
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Tim Kaine's son arrested antifa terrorist in Minn.
Jack Kemp
The son of a Democrat U.S. Senator, also Hillary's vice presidential running mate, is an antifa thug, according to police records and Gateway Pundit.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/top-democrat-tim-kaines-son-antifa-member-congratulations-tim-youve-raised-terrorist/
In March Linwood Kaine, youngest son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, was arrested at the Minnesota State Capitol in March after disrupting a pro-Trump rally.
The son of a Democrat U.S. Senator, also Hillary's vice presidential running mate, is an antifa thug, according to police records and Gateway Pundit.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/top-democrat-tim-kaines-son-antifa-member-congratulations-tim-youve-raised-terrorist/
In March Linwood Kaine, youngest son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, was arrested at the Minnesota State Capitol in March after disrupting a pro-Trump rally.
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George Clooney donates $1 mil to Southern Poverty Law Center
Jack Kemp
http://theresurgent.com/george-clooney-donates-1-million-to-southern-poverty-law-center/
Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal recently announced that they are contributing $1 million dollars as a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the wake of racially-motivated violence in Charlottesville, purportedly in order to combat hate. A prepared statement from the Clooneys said:
We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States. What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate.
The problem is that the SPLC only cares about certain kinds of hate — extremist and violent liberals are curiously exempt from their scrutiny.
For example, conservative David Horowitz was speaking at the University of California-San Diego, and a woman in the audience stood up to challenge the veracity of the information offered on a pamphlet that Horowitz had produced, because it identified the Muslim Student Association as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood — a terrorist group. Not only did the young Muslim student refuse to condemn Hamas as a terrorists, she also openly admitted that she’d like to see the Jews from around the world to be gathered in Israel specifically for the purposes of another Jewish genocide. Yet somehow, David Horowitz was the one deemed guilty of hatred by the SPLC and bizarrely landed on their hate map.
Based on that odd turn of events, one might reasonably presume that Horowitz was somehow supposed to be more tolerant and understanding of people who are openly expressing a desire to see him murdered, and only because of his religion. Horowitz has been classified by the SPLC as "anti-Muslim†but given those circumstances, who wouldn’t be?
Even more strange, the Omni Christian Book Club (allegedly a group of "radical traditional Catholicsâ€) of Palmdale, California, makes the SPLC hate map. So do organizations such as The Pray in Jesus’ Name project of Colorado Springs, Colorado, or Tom Brown Ministries of El Paso, Texas, whose statement of faith is similar to the Nashville Statement.
Read it all!
http://theresurgent.com/george-clooney-donates-1-million-to-southern-poverty-law-center/
Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal recently announced that they are contributing $1 million dollars as a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the wake of racially-motivated violence in Charlottesville, purportedly in order to combat hate. A prepared statement from the Clooneys said:
We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States. What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate.
The problem is that the SPLC only cares about certain kinds of hate — extremist and violent liberals are curiously exempt from their scrutiny.
For example, conservative David Horowitz was speaking at the University of California-San Diego, and a woman in the audience stood up to challenge the veracity of the information offered on a pamphlet that Horowitz had produced, because it identified the Muslim Student Association as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood — a terrorist group. Not only did the young Muslim student refuse to condemn Hamas as a terrorists, she also openly admitted that she’d like to see the Jews from around the world to be gathered in Israel specifically for the purposes of another Jewish genocide. Yet somehow, David Horowitz was the one deemed guilty of hatred by the SPLC and bizarrely landed on their hate map.
Based on that odd turn of events, one might reasonably presume that Horowitz was somehow supposed to be more tolerant and understanding of people who are openly expressing a desire to see him murdered, and only because of his religion. Horowitz has been classified by the SPLC as "anti-Muslim†but given those circumstances, who wouldn’t be?
Even more strange, the Omni Christian Book Club (allegedly a group of "radical traditional Catholicsâ€) of Palmdale, California, makes the SPLC hate map. So do organizations such as The Pray in Jesus’ Name project of Colorado Springs, Colorado, or Tom Brown Ministries of El Paso, Texas, whose statement of faith is similar to the Nashville Statement.
Read it all!
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Newsweek Jumps the Shark
Jack Kemp
https://townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2017/09/05/jumping-the-shark-the-news-media-way-n2377040?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Jumping the Shark: The News Media Way
Bernard Goldberg
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It was the fifth season of the sitcom "Happy Days" and producers figured they needed something to boost the show's sagging ratings. So they had the gang leave industrial, blue-collar Milwaukee and head to Southern California, where everybody is beautiful and the sun always shines. And on Sept. 20, 1977 Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known to his pals simply as Fonzie, put on a pair of water skis, hopped into the Pacific Ocean and jumped over a shark.
"The idiom 'jumping the shark' is pejorative," Wikipedia tells us, "most commonly used in reference to gimmicks for promoting entertainment outlets, such as a television series, that are declining in popularity."
Or a news magazine that almost nobody reads or pays attention to anymore.
A few weeks ago, and 40 years after Fonzie jumped the shark, Newsweek came up with its own cheesy gimmick in an attempt to stay relevant.
Abandoning any pretense of grown-up journalism, Newsweek plastered the words "Lazy Boy" on its cover with an illustration of President Trump sitting in a recliner covered in junk food.
Recliner. Lazy Boy. Get it?
He's covered in Cheetos and has a bag of McDonalds on his lap. He's got a Diet Coke in one hand and a TV remote in the other.
The words on the cover read: "Donald Trump is bored and tired. Imagine how bad he'd feel if he did any work."
Once upon a time, Newsweek was a serious news magazine whose editors would not allow their publication to resemble a comic book.
https://townhall.com/columnists/bernardgoldberg/2017/09/05/jumping-the-shark-the-news-media-way-n2377040?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Jumping the Shark: The News Media Way
Bernard Goldberg
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It was the fifth season of the sitcom "Happy Days" and producers figured they needed something to boost the show's sagging ratings. So they had the gang leave industrial, blue-collar Milwaukee and head to Southern California, where everybody is beautiful and the sun always shines. And on Sept. 20, 1977 Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known to his pals simply as Fonzie, put on a pair of water skis, hopped into the Pacific Ocean and jumped over a shark.
"The idiom 'jumping the shark' is pejorative," Wikipedia tells us, "most commonly used in reference to gimmicks for promoting entertainment outlets, such as a television series, that are declining in popularity."
Or a news magazine that almost nobody reads or pays attention to anymore.
A few weeks ago, and 40 years after Fonzie jumped the shark, Newsweek came up with its own cheesy gimmick in an attempt to stay relevant.
Abandoning any pretense of grown-up journalism, Newsweek plastered the words "Lazy Boy" on its cover with an illustration of President Trump sitting in a recliner covered in junk food.
Recliner. Lazy Boy. Get it?
He's covered in Cheetos and has a bag of McDonalds on his lap. He's got a Diet Coke in one hand and a TV remote in the other.
The words on the cover read: "Donald Trump is bored and tired. Imagine how bad he'd feel if he did any work."
Once upon a time, Newsweek was a serious news magazine whose editors would not allow their publication to resemble a comic book.
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Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
Jack Kemp
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/01/public-school-teachers-behind-violent-antifa-group/
Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
Public school teachers are behind a leading far-left militant group that is part of the Antifa network that federal officials say is committing "domestic terrorist violence.â€
By Any Means Necessary, which has played a key role in riots in Berkeley, Sacramento and elsewhere, has dozens of public school teachers among its members, including among its most prominent leaders.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security began paying closer attention to Antifa groups in general after BAMN and other extremists started a riot and attacked marchers at a white nationalist rally in Sacramento last July, Politico reported on Friday. The Sacramento violence left at least 10 people hospitalized, several of whom had knife wounds.
One of BAMN’s most prominent organizers is Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley middle school teacher and pro-violence militant. Felarca currently faces charges of inciting a riot for her role in the Sacramento violence.
After BAMN and other antifa groups staged violent protests in Berkeley to keep right-wing author Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking, Felarca defended her group’s acts of violence. BAMN was able to cancel another event, this time an April speech by pro-Trump author Ann Coulter, by promising a repeat performance of the Milo riots. (RELATED: ‘INFERNO’ — Milo Speech Cancelled After Rioters Set Campus Ablaze [VIDEO])
The FBI and DHS say Antifa groups like BAMN are engaging in "domestic terrorist violence,†according to the Politico report.
Just last weekend, Felarca helped organize BAMN’s mass demonstrations that "shut down†an anti-Marxism rally in Berkeley. As with BAMN’s other organized actions, left-wing actors at Saturday’s demonstrations violently attacked peaceful protesters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi condemned the Antifa violence in Berkeley, while Felarca called BAMN’s actions a "resounding success.â€
BAMN’s members appear to be mixing their far-left activism with their roles as teachers.
Read the whole thing!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/01/public-school-teachers-behind-violent-antifa-group/
Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group
Public school teachers are behind a leading far-left militant group that is part of the Antifa network that federal officials say is committing "domestic terrorist violence.â€
By Any Means Necessary, which has played a key role in riots in Berkeley, Sacramento and elsewhere, has dozens of public school teachers among its members, including among its most prominent leaders.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security began paying closer attention to Antifa groups in general after BAMN and other extremists started a riot and attacked marchers at a white nationalist rally in Sacramento last July, Politico reported on Friday. The Sacramento violence left at least 10 people hospitalized, several of whom had knife wounds.
One of BAMN’s most prominent organizers is Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley middle school teacher and pro-violence militant. Felarca currently faces charges of inciting a riot for her role in the Sacramento violence.
After BAMN and other antifa groups staged violent protests in Berkeley to keep right-wing author Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking, Felarca defended her group’s acts of violence. BAMN was able to cancel another event, this time an April speech by pro-Trump author Ann Coulter, by promising a repeat performance of the Milo riots. (RELATED: ‘INFERNO’ — Milo Speech Cancelled After Rioters Set Campus Ablaze [VIDEO])
The FBI and DHS say Antifa groups like BAMN are engaging in "domestic terrorist violence,†according to the Politico report.
Just last weekend, Felarca helped organize BAMN’s mass demonstrations that "shut down†an anti-Marxism rally in Berkeley. As with BAMN’s other organized actions, left-wing actors at Saturday’s demonstrations violently attacked peaceful protesters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi condemned the Antifa violence in Berkeley, while Felarca called BAMN’s actions a "resounding success.â€
BAMN’s members appear to be mixing their far-left activism with their roles as teachers.
Read the whole thing!
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Google Censorship; Getting Out of Hand
Dana Mathewson
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/31/google-issues-ultimatum-to-conservative-website-remove-hateful-article-or-lose-ad-revenue/
Google Issues Ultimatum to Conservative Website: Remove 'Hateful' Article or Lose Ad Revenue
Trejo argued that the article Google specified "contained no offensive content." Rather, it "was merely distinguishing the many differences between the alt-right and literal Nazis."
The Liberty Conservative writer suggested that the article was singled out because it was written by former Liberty Conservative contributor James Allsup. Allsup was involved in the "Unite the Right" riot (which Trejo described as a "rally-turned-riot") in Charlottesville, Va. Trejo said the article was targeted because "it was authored by a man deemed to be an 'unperson' by the corporate elite."
"Due to financial constraints, we had to comply with Google's strong-arming tactics for the time being," Trejo admitted. "An independent publisher such as The Liberty Conservative needs revenue from the Google ad platform in order to survive."
A NOTE FROM JONATHAN DICKINSON:
Someone this morning made a very astute observation, that the political power influencing Washington DC is now no longer Wall Street, it's Silicon Valley
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/31/google-issues-ultimatum-to-conservative-website-remove-hateful-article-or-lose-ad-revenue/
Google Issues Ultimatum to Conservative Website: Remove 'Hateful' Article or Lose Ad Revenue
Trejo argued that the article Google specified "contained no offensive content." Rather, it "was merely distinguishing the many differences between the alt-right and literal Nazis."
The Liberty Conservative writer suggested that the article was singled out because it was written by former Liberty Conservative contributor James Allsup. Allsup was involved in the "Unite the Right" riot (which Trejo described as a "rally-turned-riot") in Charlottesville, Va. Trejo said the article was targeted because "it was authored by a man deemed to be an 'unperson' by the corporate elite."
"Due to financial constraints, we had to comply with Google's strong-arming tactics for the time being," Trejo admitted. "An independent publisher such as The Liberty Conservative needs revenue from the Google ad platform in order to survive."
A NOTE FROM JONATHAN DICKINSON:
Someone this morning made a very astute observation, that the political power influencing Washington DC is now no longer Wall Street, it's Silicon Valley
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Media Desperation and Media Revolution
Dana Mathewson
John Nolte, writing in Breitbart:
Yes, the MSM has admitted they got 2016 exactly wrong and that they are out-of-touch with the average American. What truly terrifies the media about 2016, though, is something that has remained largely unspoken.
It is what Trump’s victory said so clearly about the MSM’s inability to influence public opinion and, by extension, the outcome of elections. What has also remained unspoken is the media’s desperate and dangerous reaction to this waning influence.
[...]
Before I get into the grit of the nit, it is important to keep in mind that our media is nothing more than the communication branch of the Democrat Party. When you look at everything the media does — the lying, the campaigns of personal destruction, the fake news, the focus on stuff like Melania’s shoes — this explanation is the only one that makes sense. The media is a full-blown leftwing political operation run, for the most part, by former Democrat operatives like Jake Tapper, George Stephanopolous, and Chuck Todd, as well as those related to Democrat operatives.
Knowing that, and knowing the long history of leftwing regimes (Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Chavez, Castro), we know what a leftwing political operation does when its influence begins to diminish. Because their ideas are so unappealing and are proven failures, the left ultimately has no choice but to embrace violence and censorship. This truth is as old as the Bolshevik Revolution, and this is exactly what we are seeing unfold today in our own country. Rather than politicians, though, it is our media that has turned dangerously militant.
Rush Limbaugh is absolutely correct, the Democrat party is dead. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the party’s two supposed leaders, are non-entities. From top-to-bottom, the party is a feckless pile of incompetence. Knowing this, the media has told Schumer and Pelosi to hold their beer as they seize the levers of power in the leftwing cause. As a result, the media has used billions of corporate dollars to launch a propaganda campaign to unseat Trump and to keep the divisive issue of identity politics thriving.
[...]
Hiding behind the media’s absurdly expanded definition of hate (or fake news), America’s Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, advertisers, and Web servers are blacklisting conservatives, banning populists, and outlawing their ideas. People are being disappeared from the public square or, out of fear of being disappeared, they no longer feel comfortable to speak freely.
The violence comes, of course, from the media’s personal army of Brownshirts, the leftwing terrorists in Antifa. Just like Hitler’s henchmen, Antifa spreads out across the country to violently silence speech that the left does not want heard. And it is not only against neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Almost all of the chaos, rioting, and violence waged by Antifa over the past two years has been against everyday Trump supporters, everyday Republicans.
The whole thing is here -- in all its scary accuracy. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/09/01/as-its-influence-wanes-increasingly-militant-msm-promotes-violence-and-censorship/
JACK KEMP ASKS THIS QUESTION:
So if I may show my age, the $64,000 Question then is: Why aren't Pres. Trump and Atty. Gen. Sessions arresting these Antifa thugs as either common criminals and/or outright subversives and terrorists?
THIS FROM TIM:
I suspect it's because they are afraid of turning this from violent protests and strongarming into open political violence, as in assassinations and guerilla warfare. I suspect Sessions and the rest are afraid of what they will unleas if they take teh gloves off. And of course what will be said of them wif and when they do. Frankly, they should arrest that SOB George Soros who has been funding this violence all along.
John Nolte, writing in Breitbart:
Yes, the MSM has admitted they got 2016 exactly wrong and that they are out-of-touch with the average American. What truly terrifies the media about 2016, though, is something that has remained largely unspoken.
It is what Trump’s victory said so clearly about the MSM’s inability to influence public opinion and, by extension, the outcome of elections. What has also remained unspoken is the media’s desperate and dangerous reaction to this waning influence.
[...]
Before I get into the grit of the nit, it is important to keep in mind that our media is nothing more than the communication branch of the Democrat Party. When you look at everything the media does — the lying, the campaigns of personal destruction, the fake news, the focus on stuff like Melania’s shoes — this explanation is the only one that makes sense. The media is a full-blown leftwing political operation run, for the most part, by former Democrat operatives like Jake Tapper, George Stephanopolous, and Chuck Todd, as well as those related to Democrat operatives.
Knowing that, and knowing the long history of leftwing regimes (Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Chavez, Castro), we know what a leftwing political operation does when its influence begins to diminish. Because their ideas are so unappealing and are proven failures, the left ultimately has no choice but to embrace violence and censorship. This truth is as old as the Bolshevik Revolution, and this is exactly what we are seeing unfold today in our own country. Rather than politicians, though, it is our media that has turned dangerously militant.
Rush Limbaugh is absolutely correct, the Democrat party is dead. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the party’s two supposed leaders, are non-entities. From top-to-bottom, the party is a feckless pile of incompetence. Knowing this, the media has told Schumer and Pelosi to hold their beer as they seize the levers of power in the leftwing cause. As a result, the media has used billions of corporate dollars to launch a propaganda campaign to unseat Trump and to keep the divisive issue of identity politics thriving.
[...]
Hiding behind the media’s absurdly expanded definition of hate (or fake news), America’s Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, advertisers, and Web servers are blacklisting conservatives, banning populists, and outlawing their ideas. People are being disappeared from the public square or, out of fear of being disappeared, they no longer feel comfortable to speak freely.
The violence comes, of course, from the media’s personal army of Brownshirts, the leftwing terrorists in Antifa. Just like Hitler’s henchmen, Antifa spreads out across the country to violently silence speech that the left does not want heard. And it is not only against neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Almost all of the chaos, rioting, and violence waged by Antifa over the past two years has been against everyday Trump supporters, everyday Republicans.
The whole thing is here -- in all its scary accuracy. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/09/01/as-its-influence-wanes-increasingly-militant-msm-promotes-violence-and-censorship/
JACK KEMP ASKS THIS QUESTION:
So if I may show my age, the $64,000 Question then is: Why aren't Pres. Trump and Atty. Gen. Sessions arresting these Antifa thugs as either common criminals and/or outright subversives and terrorists?
THIS FROM TIM:
I suspect it's because they are afraid of turning this from violent protests and strongarming into open political violence, as in assassinations and guerilla warfare. I suspect Sessions and the rest are afraid of what they will unleas if they take teh gloves off. And of course what will be said of them wif and when they do. Frankly, they should arrest that SOB George Soros who has been funding this violence all along.
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Comments from a subscriber to "Day By Day"
Dana Mathewson
This man has some very intelligent comments about the government's response to Harvey as opposed to Katrina. I thought you might like to see them. He also excoriated the media, but we needn't concern ourselves with that -- we all know the media are determined not to say anything good about the president.
"I hate to defend the federal government, but in this case, I shall. There are two, maybe three, main differences between the federal government’s reaction this time than in Katrina. The first is the law was changed to allow FEMA and other agencies to pre-position material and get moving in advance of being requested by the governor. The second is that this time the mayor and governor both had plans for lesser disasters that could be used as a foundation for this disaster and were not trying to make the President look bad and worked with the federal government to ask for aid in a timely manner. The possible third is that there seems to be better coordination among federal agencies than there was last time. Partly a lessons learned thing, and partly a President who is more used to pulling together lots of different elements for large projects. (Not to put down President Bush, but his business experience was different.)"
This man has some very intelligent comments about the government's response to Harvey as opposed to Katrina. I thought you might like to see them. He also excoriated the media, but we needn't concern ourselves with that -- we all know the media are determined not to say anything good about the president.
"I hate to defend the federal government, but in this case, I shall. There are two, maybe three, main differences between the federal government’s reaction this time than in Katrina. The first is the law was changed to allow FEMA and other agencies to pre-position material and get moving in advance of being requested by the governor. The second is that this time the mayor and governor both had plans for lesser disasters that could be used as a foundation for this disaster and were not trying to make the President look bad and worked with the federal government to ask for aid in a timely manner. The possible third is that there seems to be better coordination among federal agencies than there was last time. Partly a lessons learned thing, and partly a President who is more used to pulling together lots of different elements for large projects. (Not to put down President Bush, but his business experience was different.)"
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The intolerance of the sanctimonious tolerant
Wil Wirtanen
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267767/blacklist-daniel-greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267767/blacklist-daniel-greenfield
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Cajun Navy critic forgot the 9/11 New York BOATLIFT
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September 02, 2017
Social Justice Pastors and the Book of Life
Timothy Birdnow
Recently Jack Kemp posted here that THE REVEREND Jesse Jackson announced that President Donald Trump was headed for eternal damnation because he wouldn't get with the program, you know, the one where Democrats win elections and he (Jackson) makes lots of shakedown money. From Jack's post:
"I guess Jesse thinks Pres. Trump is going to Hymietown instead (a reference to Jackson's anti-semitic remark of years past). Jackson also said that when he was a waiter as a young man, he used to spit in white people's food before he served it too them. I'm not a Christian but somehow I believe that Jesus isn't asking Jesse Jackson for advice on which individuals to be allowed into what Jackson phrased as "Jesus's Kingdom."
Here are some excerpts from from the Blaze aticle on Jackson's remarks.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/02/rev-jesse-jackson-says-this-is-the-reason-why-president-donald-trump-wont-get-into-jesus-kingdom/
In his speech, Jackson said, "Trump says you must be able to speak the language English [to be] qualified and have a job skill.â€
"Jesus would not qualify to come in Trump’s country. And [Trump] would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom,†he added.
Jackson then paraphrased bible verses from Matthew 25:35-36 in order to give credence to his claim.
Matthew 25:35-36 says, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.â€
End excerpt.
And yet, while Mr. Trump is down in Texas giving food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty Mr. Jackson is giving speeches condemning the Christian charity of Donald J. Trump. Strange.
Jackson also forgets such biblical passages as 1Corinthians 6: 9-10
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
"
Jackson has certainly been a swindler in his time, and an extortionist. He has promoted covetousness and has committed adultery in the past. His party promotes homosexuality and effemininity (transgenderism.) People who live in glass houses really should avoid playing baseball with rocks.
I tire of these hypoctritical so-called "pastors" in these black churches who take no pains whatsoever to redeem souls but rather seek worldly power and wealth. Jackson is king but there are plenty of others. Here in St. Louis groups of protesters plan to shut down the city (and probably riot) if a police officer is found innocent of murder for shooting a criminal who fled from them. It is being organized by "pastors" of black churches in the community. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity and everything to do with liberalism and "social justice" a concept that is antithetical to Christian teaching.
Jesus said if a man strike you turn the other cheek so he may strike you again. Jesus wanted forgiveness. He never called for riots to produce "social justice". He never called for the overthrow of Rome or Roman law. That was for others, and it was the way of death, for it ended in the destruction of Israel - something Jesus probably knew woold happen.
Forgiveness is woefully lacking in modern America. It is the root of our problems (well, one of the roots.) Vengence is such an ugly thing, and it destroyes the avenger as well as the trespasser. The black community does not seek justice but revenge, and it will ultimately destroy them, as it destroys anyone who refuses to forgive. Forgiveness isn't just for the transgressor but for the transgressed. When you forgive you heal yourself. Un fortunately too many in the black community (and in every other community these days as the Left has systematically balkianized and victimized all of us) seek vengence against White America rather than a fair shake.
So along comes Jackson, whose primary job is to help his flock get into Heaven, and instead he leads these wars to avenge the wrongs of the past. HE is the one who will face judgement.
Social justice and other pseudo-Christian ideas will not save souls. I give you the Book of John:
10 "Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.g 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.h 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.i He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.j 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.k 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.†6 Jesus used this figure of speech,l but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
Jackson is ostensibly a pastor and he should know this. His is a strange Gospel.
"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book"
Rev. 22:19
Recently Jack Kemp posted here that THE REVEREND Jesse Jackson announced that President Donald Trump was headed for eternal damnation because he wouldn't get with the program, you know, the one where Democrats win elections and he (Jackson) makes lots of shakedown money. From Jack's post:
"I guess Jesse thinks Pres. Trump is going to Hymietown instead (a reference to Jackson's anti-semitic remark of years past). Jackson also said that when he was a waiter as a young man, he used to spit in white people's food before he served it too them. I'm not a Christian but somehow I believe that Jesus isn't asking Jesse Jackson for advice on which individuals to be allowed into what Jackson phrased as "Jesus's Kingdom."
Here are some excerpts from from the Blaze aticle on Jackson's remarks.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/02/rev-jesse-jackson-says-this-is-the-reason-why-president-donald-trump-wont-get-into-jesus-kingdom/
In his speech, Jackson said, "Trump says you must be able to speak the language English [to be] qualified and have a job skill.â€
"Jesus would not qualify to come in Trump’s country. And [Trump] would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom,†he added.
Jackson then paraphrased bible verses from Matthew 25:35-36 in order to give credence to his claim.
Matthew 25:35-36 says, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.â€
End excerpt.
And yet, while Mr. Trump is down in Texas giving food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty Mr. Jackson is giving speeches condemning the Christian charity of Donald J. Trump. Strange.
Jackson also forgets such biblical passages as 1Corinthians 6: 9-10
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
"
Jackson has certainly been a swindler in his time, and an extortionist. He has promoted covetousness and has committed adultery in the past. His party promotes homosexuality and effemininity (transgenderism.) People who live in glass houses really should avoid playing baseball with rocks.
I tire of these hypoctritical so-called "pastors" in these black churches who take no pains whatsoever to redeem souls but rather seek worldly power and wealth. Jackson is king but there are plenty of others. Here in St. Louis groups of protesters plan to shut down the city (and probably riot) if a police officer is found innocent of murder for shooting a criminal who fled from them. It is being organized by "pastors" of black churches in the community. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity and everything to do with liberalism and "social justice" a concept that is antithetical to Christian teaching.
Jesus said if a man strike you turn the other cheek so he may strike you again. Jesus wanted forgiveness. He never called for riots to produce "social justice". He never called for the overthrow of Rome or Roman law. That was for others, and it was the way of death, for it ended in the destruction of Israel - something Jesus probably knew woold happen.
Forgiveness is woefully lacking in modern America. It is the root of our problems (well, one of the roots.) Vengence is such an ugly thing, and it destroyes the avenger as well as the trespasser. The black community does not seek justice but revenge, and it will ultimately destroy them, as it destroys anyone who refuses to forgive. Forgiveness isn't just for the transgressor but for the transgressed. When you forgive you heal yourself. Un fortunately too many in the black community (and in every other community these days as the Left has systematically balkianized and victimized all of us) seek vengence against White America rather than a fair shake.
So along comes Jackson, whose primary job is to help his flock get into Heaven, and instead he leads these wars to avenge the wrongs of the past. HE is the one who will face judgement.
Social justice and other pseudo-Christian ideas will not save souls. I give you the Book of John:
10 "Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.g 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.h 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.i He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.j 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.k 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.†6 Jesus used this figure of speech,l but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
Jackson is ostensibly a pastor and he should know this. His is a strange Gospel.
"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book"
Rev. 22:19
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Ammo Grrrlll Shoots from the Hip
Dana Mathewson
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-182.php
From the article:
As are all of hers. Comments are pretty good, too.
From the article:
Posted on September 1, 2017 by Scott Johnson in Laughter is the Best Medicine
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll would like certain parties to know: YOU AREN’T IT! She writes:
I finally met a member of The Resistance in my Arizona! Well, I didn’t meet her exactly. I saw her get into her car in the Walmart parking lot. Her Prius had two bumper stickers: the first announced: "Member Resistance: Resist Trump’s Agenda.â€
Coincidentally enough, Mr. AG and I had just watched an amazing documentary called Above and Beyond, which I heartily recommend. It was about a Jewish-American World War II pilot downed behind enemy lines in Belgium. While trying to get back to his unit, the pilot traveled by means of 159 stolen bicycles. He was helped enormously by various local priests, and The Belgian Resistance whenever he could connect with it.
At no time did he locate The Resistance from one of them putting a bumper sticker on any bicycle or hay wagon bragging about membership in the group. The Nazi occupiers who served Actual Hitler would have appreciated such obvious clues. To be discovered was an immediate death sentence. Well, maybe not as immediate as one might wish. There would be torture to get other names first. Those Resisters were not virtue signaling; they were just virtuous. And courageous beyond my ability to comprehend.
Isn’t it revealing how these present-day masked, marauding twits feel perfectly safe with Literally Hitler in the White House to publicly "out†themselves as Resisters? Does that not undercut somewhat both their status as courageous fighters battling Unspeakable Evil and their characterization of President Trump as Literally Hitler? This New Hitler guy must be a much more easygoing, relaxed sort of fella. In fact, these professional malcontents are merely poseurs pimping off the name and exploits of real Resisters who risked everything and often paid the full price.
The second bumper sticker was not just a childish and offensive posturing, but a large part of the reason President Trump was elected.
It said, "I have met ‘the people’ – and you aren’t it.†Cute. Talk about a desire (repressed, of course, I AM 70 years old, for God’s sake) to key a car with: "You lost, loser. Get over it!â€
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More on the Murdering of Monuments and Memory
Timothy Birndow
Our friend and contributor Daren Jonescu had a few thoughts to add to my recent article at American Thinker about the destruction of memorials. Read Daren's essay here.
Here are a few snippets:
"In short, the progressive mindset, both in its avant la lettre and its literal, late modern embodiments, is by its very nature dismissive of the value of old wisdom, great traditions, and "priceless artifacts.†On the contrary, this New Truth mentality has a natural tendency to disregard and scoff at all things that were judged valuable before its own age.
Not only, then, is Birdnow’s thesis tenable regarding today’s leftists, but in fact examples of this kind of "historical erasure†project may be found throughout modern progressive history, including among the most "advanced†American progressives.
In his 1929 apology for Soviet communism, the most influential American philosopher of the twentieth century, John Dewey, gleefully defended the Soviets’ destruction of Russian churches and religious artifacts in the name of obliterating Russian history, and specifically lamented the inability of Western progressives to attack the problem so directly, due to the survival of that annoying old liberal tradition, private property. (For details on this, and a thorough analysis of Dewey’s philosophy and its aims, I refer you to my lengthy chapter on his thought in The Case Against Public Education, entitled "Soft Fichteanism.â€)
The progressive leaders and their useful idiots among today’s "students,†"artists,†and "media†— the scare quotes are necessary here — are not merely out to offend or desecrate. Their intention is complete and comprehensive erasure, which, they hope, will leave a cultural, social, and moral blank slate on which to etch their ruinous designs for mankind’s future. "
End excerpt.
Daren does a fine job of fleshing out my original thesis; be sure to read it in it's entirety.
By the way, my post was not all that well received, a sad testament to the problems with digging into the root causes of things rather than dealing with the shallow nuts-and-bolts of day to day politics. Most people understand politics but few really grasp - or desire to - the fundamental underlying causes of things. It really is too bad because it is there, hidden in the shadows, that the Left wins the day.
Our friend and contributor Daren Jonescu had a few thoughts to add to my recent article at American Thinker about the destruction of memorials. Read Daren's essay here.
Here are a few snippets:
"In short, the progressive mindset, both in its avant la lettre and its literal, late modern embodiments, is by its very nature dismissive of the value of old wisdom, great traditions, and "priceless artifacts.†On the contrary, this New Truth mentality has a natural tendency to disregard and scoff at all things that were judged valuable before its own age.
Not only, then, is Birdnow’s thesis tenable regarding today’s leftists, but in fact examples of this kind of "historical erasure†project may be found throughout modern progressive history, including among the most "advanced†American progressives.
In his 1929 apology for Soviet communism, the most influential American philosopher of the twentieth century, John Dewey, gleefully defended the Soviets’ destruction of Russian churches and religious artifacts in the name of obliterating Russian history, and specifically lamented the inability of Western progressives to attack the problem so directly, due to the survival of that annoying old liberal tradition, private property. (For details on this, and a thorough analysis of Dewey’s philosophy and its aims, I refer you to my lengthy chapter on his thought in The Case Against Public Education, entitled "Soft Fichteanism.â€)
The progressive leaders and their useful idiots among today’s "students,†"artists,†and "media†— the scare quotes are necessary here — are not merely out to offend or desecrate. Their intention is complete and comprehensive erasure, which, they hope, will leave a cultural, social, and moral blank slate on which to etch their ruinous designs for mankind’s future. "
End excerpt.
Daren does a fine job of fleshing out my original thesis; be sure to read it in it's entirety.
By the way, my post was not all that well received, a sad testament to the problems with digging into the root causes of things rather than dealing with the shallow nuts-and-bolts of day to day politics. Most people understand politics but few really grasp - or desire to - the fundamental underlying causes of things. It really is too bad because it is there, hidden in the shadows, that the Left wins the day.
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Yet another renewable energy boondoggle
Paul Driessen
Wilkinson Solar wants to catch the solar wave, and make bundles of money sending electricity to the grid whenever it’s generated, even if it’s not needed at the time. The company’s proposed 288,120 solar panels would blanket 600 acres of now scenic farmland next to a school near the North Carolina coast. The project carries lessons for the rest of America – and all locales considering solar.
Locals are not happy. The electricity would be exported out of the area, which has been hit by Category 3 and 4 hurricanes and multiple tropical storms over the years. Another big one would likely send glass shards flying all over. Meanwhile, the Tar Heel state averages just 213 sunny days per year and 9 hours of bright sun per day; that translates into electricity just 20% of the year – unpredictably, unreliably, less affordably. Carbon dioxide reduction benefits? None. These and other issues must get a full hearing, before regulators issue any approvals.
Yet another renewable energy boondoggle
Croplands, habitats, taxes, family budgets, safety sacrificed to enrich politically connected few?
Paul Driessen
Wilkinson Solar has filed papers requesting permits for a 74-megawatt solar electricity facility about 35 miles east of Greenville, NC. If approved, 288,120 solar panels would blanket 600 acres (0.94 square miles) of now scenic, serene farmland next door to the Terra Ceia Christian School near Morehead City.
The company wants to catch the solar wave, and make a lot of money under "net metering†policies that require payment for electricity added to the grid, whenever it is generated and regardless of whether the electricity is needed at the time. Electricity generated from these new panels would not be sold in the local area; it would be exported to Virginia, Raleigh-Durham and other locations.
Solar power installations doubled in 2016 over 2015, media outlets reported in February. There are now 1.3 million solar installations across the United States, with a cumulative capacity of over 40 gigawatts. That’s enough capacity to power 6,560,000 US households, they say. Of course, there are caveats.
There was intense effort to install as much new photovoltaic as possible in 2016 – driven by a fear that federal tax credits would not be renewed. Solar actually rose from 0.96% of US generation in 2015 only to 1.37% in 2016. 65% of electricity generation is still fossil fuels, 20% is nuclear, 6.5% hydroelectric, 2.0% biomass and geothermal, and 5.6% wind (which is as unreliable as solar).
The reliability factor is critical. The capacity to power 6,560,000 households does not equal actual power generation. It is what panels can generate if the sun shines at high enough intensity 24/7/365. It can be a lot of the time in areas that are bright, dry and sunny most of the year – to very little in other regions.
Those and related issues must guide decisions on whether the Wilkinson facility makes energy, engineering, economic and environmental sense for this North Carolina community, the Tar Heel State – or other locales facing similar decisions. Solar may be advantageous for politicians, corporations, renewable energy activists and their allies. But that should not override other considerations.
A 600-MW capacity coal, gas or nuclear plant operates 90-95% of the time. Its actual output will thus be 540 to 570 megawatts – from 300 acres (or less): 1.8 to 1.9 MW per acre, reliably and affordably.
Wilkinson would theoretically generate 74 MW from twice as much land. That’s 0.12 MW per acre – or 8.1 acres per MW. However, North Carolina averages only 213 sunny days per year, and perhaps 9 hours of good, electricity-generating sun per day.
Instead of 90-95% efficiency, Wilkinson would bring only 20% efficiency. The 288,120 panels would produce electricity only about 20% of the year. That is unpredictable, unreliable, less affordable energy.
The real output would be around 0.03 MW per acre or 33 acres per MW! Wilkinson’s claimed ability to generate enough electricity for 12,500 households shrinks to 2,750 homes, when the sun shines.
Wilkinson and farmers turned occasional power producers would still reap large sums of cash, via net metering and feed-in tariff policies. But crop and wildlife habitat lands would be converted to massive solar arrays, while neighbors would get a blighted landscape and no monetary or other benefits.
As Solar Mania and Solar Sprawl spread, electricity consumers would see their rates climb: from the 9 cents per kilowatt-hour average they now pay in North Carolina and Virginia, ever closer to the 16 to 18 cents per kWh that residents pay in "green energy†states like Connecticut, New York and California. Families, hospitals, schools, businesses, farms and factories would face increasingly tougher times paying their electric bills. Poor and minority families would be hit hardest.
Then there’s the survivability issue. Since 1879, North Carolina has been hit by twelve Category 3 hurricanes, one Category 4 (Hazel in 1954) and multiple tropical storms. Imagine the shards of flying glass that would be torn from solar panels and sent flying in all directions when the next ’cane inevitably hits. What that would do to people, animals and property is not pretty to contemplate. Torrential rains brought by these storms would send flood waters roaring through the installation, wreaking further havoc.
Solar proponents always tout energy, employment and climate stabilization benefits – which don’t exist.
Every megawatt of solar power must be backed up by coal or natural gas generators. Otherwise we have electricity when it happens to be available, instead of when we need it. Otherwise our offices, hospitals, assembly lines, televisions and internet go on and off constantly. No one can work or live that way.
The backup power plants must be running on standby (spinning reserve) all the time – then must ramp up to full power every time the sun stops shining. That slashes their efficiency, and sends their fuel costs and emissions skyrocketing. Any supposed energy, sustainability and climate benefits disappear.
Moreover, it is highly unlikely that any solar array can ever generate enough electricity over its entire life span to equal the energy that went into making, installing and servicing the panels. Mining the raw materials, turning them into metals and other panel components, hauling and installing the panels – all require enormous amounts of motor fuels, coking coal and electricity. The balance sheet is in the red.
Add in what it takes to build, fuel and operate the backup power plants, and solar is bankrupt.
Solar power does create jobs. In fact, U.S. Department of Energy data reveal that producing the same amount of electricity requires one coal worker or two natural gas workers – but 12 wind industry employees or 79 solar workers. That is hardly the ticket to a productive economy.
Even worse, Spanish and other studies have found that, for every renewable energy job created, two to four jobs are lost in other sectors that are forced to pay more and more for less reliable electricity.
Price and reliability are crucial in our digital age, with electricity the key to modern living standards, health, safety, and almost everything we make, eat and do. Solar electricity makes prices rise and reliability decline; its repeated electrical surges and slumps damage grid stability.
Some say using fossil fuels – which provide 82% of the energy that makes modern civilization possible – causes dangerous manmade climate change. But Hurricane Harvey just ended the nearly 12-year record absence of a Category 3-5 hurricane striking the United States. Average planetary temperatures are back to the same level we’ve seen for almost 20 years, following the end of the 2015-16 El Niño.
Those and other inconvenient realities completely contradict decades of alarmist climate predictions. And as just noted, overall fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions increase as solar power proliferates.
All this underscores why we must build more pipelines from areas that have become major natural gas production regions, thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Whether a gas-fired power plant serves as a primary electricity generator, or as backup for wind and solar, new pipelines are essential. They determine whether families, hospitals and businesses have affordable electricity when they need it.
Unfortunately, an array of governors, mayors, legislators, regulators and activist pressure groups are blocking pipeline projects from the Dakotas to New York and beyond, even as they promote more wind and solar. Pipelines and electricity are the backbone of our economy, civilization, jobs and living standards. Cut or paralyze that backbone, and our society will cease to function.
Hearing officials must give local residents and energy experts opportunities to explain these issues and voice their concerns about energy, land use, job, economic, environmental, hurricane and other impacts from solar installations like Wilkinson. Anything less is a dereliction of duty that benefits a few players – at the expense of everyone else. That must no longer happen.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death and other books on the environment.
Wilkinson Solar wants to catch the solar wave, and make bundles of money sending electricity to the grid whenever it’s generated, even if it’s not needed at the time. The company’s proposed 288,120 solar panels would blanket 600 acres of now scenic farmland next to a school near the North Carolina coast. The project carries lessons for the rest of America – and all locales considering solar.
Locals are not happy. The electricity would be exported out of the area, which has been hit by Category 3 and 4 hurricanes and multiple tropical storms over the years. Another big one would likely send glass shards flying all over. Meanwhile, the Tar Heel state averages just 213 sunny days per year and 9 hours of bright sun per day; that translates into electricity just 20% of the year – unpredictably, unreliably, less affordably. Carbon dioxide reduction benefits? None. These and other issues must get a full hearing, before regulators issue any approvals.
Yet another renewable energy boondoggle
Croplands, habitats, taxes, family budgets, safety sacrificed to enrich politically connected few?
Paul Driessen
Wilkinson Solar has filed papers requesting permits for a 74-megawatt solar electricity facility about 35 miles east of Greenville, NC. If approved, 288,120 solar panels would blanket 600 acres (0.94 square miles) of now scenic, serene farmland next door to the Terra Ceia Christian School near Morehead City.
The company wants to catch the solar wave, and make a lot of money under "net metering†policies that require payment for electricity added to the grid, whenever it is generated and regardless of whether the electricity is needed at the time. Electricity generated from these new panels would not be sold in the local area; it would be exported to Virginia, Raleigh-Durham and other locations.
Solar power installations doubled in 2016 over 2015, media outlets reported in February. There are now 1.3 million solar installations across the United States, with a cumulative capacity of over 40 gigawatts. That’s enough capacity to power 6,560,000 US households, they say. Of course, there are caveats.
There was intense effort to install as much new photovoltaic as possible in 2016 – driven by a fear that federal tax credits would not be renewed. Solar actually rose from 0.96% of US generation in 2015 only to 1.37% in 2016. 65% of electricity generation is still fossil fuels, 20% is nuclear, 6.5% hydroelectric, 2.0% biomass and geothermal, and 5.6% wind (which is as unreliable as solar).
The reliability factor is critical. The capacity to power 6,560,000 households does not equal actual power generation. It is what panels can generate if the sun shines at high enough intensity 24/7/365. It can be a lot of the time in areas that are bright, dry and sunny most of the year – to very little in other regions.
Those and related issues must guide decisions on whether the Wilkinson facility makes energy, engineering, economic and environmental sense for this North Carolina community, the Tar Heel State – or other locales facing similar decisions. Solar may be advantageous for politicians, corporations, renewable energy activists and their allies. But that should not override other considerations.
A 600-MW capacity coal, gas or nuclear plant operates 90-95% of the time. Its actual output will thus be 540 to 570 megawatts – from 300 acres (or less): 1.8 to 1.9 MW per acre, reliably and affordably.
Wilkinson would theoretically generate 74 MW from twice as much land. That’s 0.12 MW per acre – or 8.1 acres per MW. However, North Carolina averages only 213 sunny days per year, and perhaps 9 hours of good, electricity-generating sun per day.
Instead of 90-95% efficiency, Wilkinson would bring only 20% efficiency. The 288,120 panels would produce electricity only about 20% of the year. That is unpredictable, unreliable, less affordable energy.
The real output would be around 0.03 MW per acre or 33 acres per MW! Wilkinson’s claimed ability to generate enough electricity for 12,500 households shrinks to 2,750 homes, when the sun shines.
Wilkinson and farmers turned occasional power producers would still reap large sums of cash, via net metering and feed-in tariff policies. But crop and wildlife habitat lands would be converted to massive solar arrays, while neighbors would get a blighted landscape and no monetary or other benefits.
As Solar Mania and Solar Sprawl spread, electricity consumers would see their rates climb: from the 9 cents per kilowatt-hour average they now pay in North Carolina and Virginia, ever closer to the 16 to 18 cents per kWh that residents pay in "green energy†states like Connecticut, New York and California. Families, hospitals, schools, businesses, farms and factories would face increasingly tougher times paying their electric bills. Poor and minority families would be hit hardest.
Then there’s the survivability issue. Since 1879, North Carolina has been hit by twelve Category 3 hurricanes, one Category 4 (Hazel in 1954) and multiple tropical storms. Imagine the shards of flying glass that would be torn from solar panels and sent flying in all directions when the next ’cane inevitably hits. What that would do to people, animals and property is not pretty to contemplate. Torrential rains brought by these storms would send flood waters roaring through the installation, wreaking further havoc.
Solar proponents always tout energy, employment and climate stabilization benefits – which don’t exist.
Every megawatt of solar power must be backed up by coal or natural gas generators. Otherwise we have electricity when it happens to be available, instead of when we need it. Otherwise our offices, hospitals, assembly lines, televisions and internet go on and off constantly. No one can work or live that way.
The backup power plants must be running on standby (spinning reserve) all the time – then must ramp up to full power every time the sun stops shining. That slashes their efficiency, and sends their fuel costs and emissions skyrocketing. Any supposed energy, sustainability and climate benefits disappear.
Moreover, it is highly unlikely that any solar array can ever generate enough electricity over its entire life span to equal the energy that went into making, installing and servicing the panels. Mining the raw materials, turning them into metals and other panel components, hauling and installing the panels – all require enormous amounts of motor fuels, coking coal and electricity. The balance sheet is in the red.
Add in what it takes to build, fuel and operate the backup power plants, and solar is bankrupt.
Solar power does create jobs. In fact, U.S. Department of Energy data reveal that producing the same amount of electricity requires one coal worker or two natural gas workers – but 12 wind industry employees or 79 solar workers. That is hardly the ticket to a productive economy.
Even worse, Spanish and other studies have found that, for every renewable energy job created, two to four jobs are lost in other sectors that are forced to pay more and more for less reliable electricity.
Price and reliability are crucial in our digital age, with electricity the key to modern living standards, health, safety, and almost everything we make, eat and do. Solar electricity makes prices rise and reliability decline; its repeated electrical surges and slumps damage grid stability.
Some say using fossil fuels – which provide 82% of the energy that makes modern civilization possible – causes dangerous manmade climate change. But Hurricane Harvey just ended the nearly 12-year record absence of a Category 3-5 hurricane striking the United States. Average planetary temperatures are back to the same level we’ve seen for almost 20 years, following the end of the 2015-16 El Niño.
Those and other inconvenient realities completely contradict decades of alarmist climate predictions. And as just noted, overall fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions increase as solar power proliferates.
All this underscores why we must build more pipelines from areas that have become major natural gas production regions, thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Whether a gas-fired power plant serves as a primary electricity generator, or as backup for wind and solar, new pipelines are essential. They determine whether families, hospitals and businesses have affordable electricity when they need it.
Unfortunately, an array of governors, mayors, legislators, regulators and activist pressure groups are blocking pipeline projects from the Dakotas to New York and beyond, even as they promote more wind and solar. Pipelines and electricity are the backbone of our economy, civilization, jobs and living standards. Cut or paralyze that backbone, and our society will cease to function.
Hearing officials must give local residents and energy experts opportunities to explain these issues and voice their concerns about energy, land use, job, economic, environmental, hurricane and other impacts from solar installations like Wilkinson. Anything less is a dereliction of duty that benefits a few players – at the expense of everyone else. That must no longer happen.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org), and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death and other books on the environment.
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Jesse Jackson says Trump won't get into Heaven
Jack Kemp
I guess Jesse thinks Pres. Trump is going to Hymietown instead (a reference to Jackson's anti-semitic remark of years past). Jackson also said that when he was a waiter as a young man, he used to spit in white people's food before he served it too them. I'm not a Christian but somehow I believe that Jesus isn't asking Jesse Jackson for advice on which individuals to be allowed into what Jackson phrased as "Jesus's Kingdom."
Here are some excerpts from from the Blaze aticle on Jackson's remarks.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/02/rev-jesse-jackson-says-this-is-the-reason-why-president-donald-trump-wont-get-into-jesus-kingdom/
In his speech, Jackson said, "Trump says you must be able to speak the language English [to be] qualified and have a job skill.â€
"Jesus would not qualify to come in Trump’s country. And [Trump] would not qualify to get into Jesus’ kingdom,†he added.
Jackson then paraphrased bible verses from Matthew 25:35-36 in order to give credence to his claim.
Matthew 25:35-36 says, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.â€
The problem
Jackson used Matthew 25:35-36 to rationalize a situation in which he believed Trump would be turned away from the gates of heaven.
In the verse Jackson quoted, Jesus’ words explain that His followers should help those in need.
Other verses applicable to this particular circumstance, however, might include Romans 3:23, which says that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.â€
Matthew 7:1-2 says, "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.â€
Another meaningful verse on the topic of judgment is Romans 2:1-3.
"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things,†Scripture says.
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September 01, 2017
Comey Rigged Hillary Investigation
Timothy Birdnow
James Comey, the man who would be J. Edgar Hoover, has finally been caught with his thumb on the scale.
Ace of Spades has the story:
"Rigged investigation. Pretty much the entire spectacle of American "democracy" is a stage-managed, scripted reality TV show for the rubes.
According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Thursday afternoon, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for prosecution long before ever interviewing key witnesses. Members of the Committee allege Comey made the decision months before FBI agents were finished with the criminal investigation of her mishandling classified information during her time as Secretary of State.
The transcripts were revealed in a letter sent to current FBI Director Christopher Wray, in which lawmakers are demanding an explanation and more documents surrounding the case.
"According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was long before FBI agents finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts," the letter, signed by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Committee member Lindsey Graham states.
"Conclusion first, fact-gathering second--that's no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."
This is partly why they're so insanely angry -- they put the fix in and pulled out all the stops, but it didn't work."
End excerpt.
This isn't just political shenanagins; it's a criminal matter. Jeff Sessions needs to get off his southern hamhocks and appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into Comey's abrogation of the Law here - and into who put him up to it, like Hillary and Barack Hussein Obama.
Comey has lied to the public, to Congress, and he must be held to account. And we should revisit the appointment of his bestie Robert Mueller to investigate the President. What connection did Mueller have to Comey in this? Maybe none, but maybe not.
James Comey, the man who would be J. Edgar Hoover, has finally been caught with his thumb on the scale.
Ace of Spades has the story:
"Rigged investigation. Pretty much the entire spectacle of American "democracy" is a stage-managed, scripted reality TV show for the rubes.
According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Thursday afternoon, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for prosecution long before ever interviewing key witnesses. Members of the Committee allege Comey made the decision months before FBI agents were finished with the criminal investigation of her mishandling classified information during her time as Secretary of State.
The transcripts were revealed in a letter sent to current FBI Director Christopher Wray, in which lawmakers are demanding an explanation and more documents surrounding the case.
"According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was long before FBI agents finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts," the letter, signed by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Committee member Lindsey Graham states.
"Conclusion first, fact-gathering second--that's no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."
This is partly why they're so insanely angry -- they put the fix in and pulled out all the stops, but it didn't work."
End excerpt.
This isn't just political shenanagins; it's a criminal matter. Jeff Sessions needs to get off his southern hamhocks and appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into Comey's abrogation of the Law here - and into who put him up to it, like Hillary and Barack Hussein Obama.
Comey has lied to the public, to Congress, and he must be held to account. And we should revisit the appointment of his bestie Robert Mueller to investigate the President. What connection did Mueller have to Comey in this? Maybe none, but maybe not.
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Liberals go Bananas; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
Timothy Birdnow
7lb. Dave sends this. It just proves the Left has gone bananas.
https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2017/08/30/discarded-banana-peel-causes-racial-hysteria-at-ole-miss-n2375376
Apparently a banana peel was found hanging in a tree, discarded by a student at a Greek symposium (Greek life, that is aka frats and sororities). Black attendees were frightened into insensibility by this ominous deed (a white student admitted to tossing the used peel after failing to find a wastebasket). The event was cancelled to protect the safety of the minority attendees and help to salve their wounded psyches.
Let me offer several points to ponder:
First, how is a banana peel in a tree threatening? Were the black Greek brothers and sisters worried they may slip on it if they climb up there? Slipping on banana peels was an old vaudevillian joke, but I've never heard of someone slipping on one in a tree. I thought you had to use your hands when climbing.
Second, why are they afraid of this but had no concerns when their sex ed teachers made them put condoms on bananas when they were younger? I would have thought that this activity would have conditioned them to believe bananas are a source of pleasure, a precursor to a romp in the hay. Maybe they are afraid the tree-hung banana peel means they may experience premature ejaculation. After all, it was a SPENT banana! Is sexual inadequacy the root of the hysteria?
Are people who glorify gangsta rap with lyrics about murdering cops, raping bitches, shooting at rivals and other such acts of wonton violence really that easily frightened? Maybe Instead of keeping a gun around the house we should keep bananas handy. Will we now have to have a concealed carry permit for our fruit when we bring a banana for lunch? The old saw about robbing a bank with a banana may take on new meaning if the teller is African American, it seems.
Maybe we can stop the next BLM/Antifa riot with a load of Chiquitas, or Dole products.
It should be pointed out that bananas originated in southeast Asia. Why would people whose ancestors came from Africa and who have lived in the U.S. for generations see any connection with the fruit except as an additive to their breakfast cereal? There is no connection between black people and bananas except perhaps that some are grown in places like Jamaica where some blacks had been enslaved in years gone by.
I know; they are saying that white people think of them as monkeys and this is a veiled threat. But primates do not eat bananas in the wild so the connection is largely tied to Curious George, a beloved (not despised) monkey. Furthermore, if one wanted to threaten black people wouldn't a noose be added to the peel? It is far too subtle a threat - except to people who are looking for one, and rather desperately at that.
If we need any proof that the African American community is NOT oppressed or threatened it is this; there are so few things to actually worry about they are now manufacturing threats. African Americans built their minority culture on the concept of being oppressed and mistreated. They were, too, but things have changed. However, so many of the black community find their identity not in being people who happen to be black but in being Black with a capital B. A big part of it is the sense of victimhood that they must maintain to maintain their particular cultural heritage. So, with nothing to actually be upset with, they now manufacture fake crimes, or fake hate, or ephemeral threats. A student yelling at a loud group calling them water buffalo leads to the student's suspension for racism, for example. Talk of "microaggressions" is common these days, which means something that someone with a chip on their shoulder can find if they look really hard. Complaints of "white privilege" are common even though the many privileges afforded minorities - preferences in hiring, special scholarships or financial aid, low interest business loans, etc. are ignored. Nothing done to make amends for slavery and Jim Crow is enough, because it can't be; the victimhood would end and the core of Black Identity would be gone. So many people have made that the cornerstone of their reality and it cannot ever be allowed to end. Oh, and race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton make a fine living out of grievance and anger.
There will never be an end to grievance and anger until Black People are willing to just be people. And there is terrible suffering engendered by this unwillingness to accept being just another American; crime rates are high as part of black culture, so too is illegitimacy and drug use and other unhealthy things. So many young people grow up thinking you have to misbehave to be "authentically black" and that getting an education, marrying and quietly raising your family, staying out of trouble is "acting white". What they fail to understand is that white people "act white" because it was what was needed to create and maintain a healthy society. Somebody has to behave like an adult! As African Americans are mainstreamed they find themselves being expected to behave likewise. Many don't like it because they think it is selling out.
Is it selling out to drink treated water rather than dirty water from a drainage ditch? Is it selling out to use flush toilets rather than going in the bushes outside? Are gas heat, air conditioning, automobiles, warm clothes acts of selling out? Those things are all there because we have people who are willing to do what it takes to maintain civilization, and that includes behaving "white" acting responsibly and working amicably with others. Obeying authority. Accepting correction. Waiting your turn and working hard. These are considered by many in the black community as "acting white".
Panic over phony plastic banana micoraggressions is not the way to build a better future for yourself or your posterity. It's time for people who do this sort of thing to grow up.
It's not an a-peeling life.
Time for this banana to split. (groan!)
7lb. Dave sends this. It just proves the Left has gone bananas.
https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2017/08/30/discarded-banana-peel-causes-racial-hysteria-at-ole-miss-n2375376
Apparently a banana peel was found hanging in a tree, discarded by a student at a Greek symposium (Greek life, that is aka frats and sororities). Black attendees were frightened into insensibility by this ominous deed (a white student admitted to tossing the used peel after failing to find a wastebasket). The event was cancelled to protect the safety of the minority attendees and help to salve their wounded psyches.
Let me offer several points to ponder:
First, how is a banana peel in a tree threatening? Were the black Greek brothers and sisters worried they may slip on it if they climb up there? Slipping on banana peels was an old vaudevillian joke, but I've never heard of someone slipping on one in a tree. I thought you had to use your hands when climbing.
Second, why are they afraid of this but had no concerns when their sex ed teachers made them put condoms on bananas when they were younger? I would have thought that this activity would have conditioned them to believe bananas are a source of pleasure, a precursor to a romp in the hay. Maybe they are afraid the tree-hung banana peel means they may experience premature ejaculation. After all, it was a SPENT banana! Is sexual inadequacy the root of the hysteria?
Are people who glorify gangsta rap with lyrics about murdering cops, raping bitches, shooting at rivals and other such acts of wonton violence really that easily frightened? Maybe Instead of keeping a gun around the house we should keep bananas handy. Will we now have to have a concealed carry permit for our fruit when we bring a banana for lunch? The old saw about robbing a bank with a banana may take on new meaning if the teller is African American, it seems.
Maybe we can stop the next BLM/Antifa riot with a load of Chiquitas, or Dole products.
It should be pointed out that bananas originated in southeast Asia. Why would people whose ancestors came from Africa and who have lived in the U.S. for generations see any connection with the fruit except as an additive to their breakfast cereal? There is no connection between black people and bananas except perhaps that some are grown in places like Jamaica where some blacks had been enslaved in years gone by.
I know; they are saying that white people think of them as monkeys and this is a veiled threat. But primates do not eat bananas in the wild so the connection is largely tied to Curious George, a beloved (not despised) monkey. Furthermore, if one wanted to threaten black people wouldn't a noose be added to the peel? It is far too subtle a threat - except to people who are looking for one, and rather desperately at that.
If we need any proof that the African American community is NOT oppressed or threatened it is this; there are so few things to actually worry about they are now manufacturing threats. African Americans built their minority culture on the concept of being oppressed and mistreated. They were, too, but things have changed. However, so many of the black community find their identity not in being people who happen to be black but in being Black with a capital B. A big part of it is the sense of victimhood that they must maintain to maintain their particular cultural heritage. So, with nothing to actually be upset with, they now manufacture fake crimes, or fake hate, or ephemeral threats. A student yelling at a loud group calling them water buffalo leads to the student's suspension for racism, for example. Talk of "microaggressions" is common these days, which means something that someone with a chip on their shoulder can find if they look really hard. Complaints of "white privilege" are common even though the many privileges afforded minorities - preferences in hiring, special scholarships or financial aid, low interest business loans, etc. are ignored. Nothing done to make amends for slavery and Jim Crow is enough, because it can't be; the victimhood would end and the core of Black Identity would be gone. So many people have made that the cornerstone of their reality and it cannot ever be allowed to end. Oh, and race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton make a fine living out of grievance and anger.
There will never be an end to grievance and anger until Black People are willing to just be people. And there is terrible suffering engendered by this unwillingness to accept being just another American; crime rates are high as part of black culture, so too is illegitimacy and drug use and other unhealthy things. So many young people grow up thinking you have to misbehave to be "authentically black" and that getting an education, marrying and quietly raising your family, staying out of trouble is "acting white". What they fail to understand is that white people "act white" because it was what was needed to create and maintain a healthy society. Somebody has to behave like an adult! As African Americans are mainstreamed they find themselves being expected to behave likewise. Many don't like it because they think it is selling out.
Is it selling out to drink treated water rather than dirty water from a drainage ditch? Is it selling out to use flush toilets rather than going in the bushes outside? Are gas heat, air conditioning, automobiles, warm clothes acts of selling out? Those things are all there because we have people who are willing to do what it takes to maintain civilization, and that includes behaving "white" acting responsibly and working amicably with others. Obeying authority. Accepting correction. Waiting your turn and working hard. These are considered by many in the black community as "acting white".
Panic over phony plastic banana micoraggressions is not the way to build a better future for yourself or your posterity. It's time for people who do this sort of thing to grow up.
It's not an a-peeling life.
Time for this banana to split. (groan!)
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