August 27, 2020
Black Lives Matter Leader Threatens to Post Personal Info of Random Cops Until City Reveals Jacob Blake Shooter
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From a friend--As you all know, President Trump came to South Carolina and then on to the convention in Charlotte on Monday.
What you probably don’t know is that a group of men tried to kill a group of Trump supporters, including children, who were gathered to support the President when his motorcade drove by.
The group was gathered along the route, waving flags, cheering, holding signs and having a nice time. "Peaceful protesting†as some would say.
A car with 3 men inside drove by this group numerous times, each time shouting obscenities at the people gathered. On the last time around, after shouting obscenities, a man pulled a gun and shot 5 times into the crowd.
Thank God no one was killed. They have arrested the shooter, who is a 23 year old man. He happens to be a black man, but that doesn’t matter. An attempted murder. This eas clearly premeditated, because they drove by numerous times before shooting into the crowd.
This was in Ft. Mill, SC, which is a suburb of Charlotte.
I bet you did not hear about that one the news.
I just did a Google search for this. Not one national story; all local, . Total media blackout of this at the national level. Gee; I wonder why?
Anyone remember Cannon Hinnant? The five year old white boy who was shot in the head and murdered for bicycling while white by a 25 year old black man? While that did receive some national attention, it got nowhere near anything like what black criminals receive when shot by police.
Injustice is certainly becoming the norm in America, but it's injustice for those who will no go meekly into the oblivion planned for them by Progressives.
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August 26, 2020
If Mother Jones is discussing this it means the death of solar power is immanent.
Solar Panels are Starting to Die. What Will We Do with the Megatons of Toxic Trash
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I had a black fellow harass me outside of my doctors at the hospital building during the Ferguson riots. I was going to my cardiologist and he started screaming at me (I think he wanted my parking spot). I stood eyeball to eyeball with him, and eventually I turned around and walked off (and fully expected to be hit from behind as I did so). I didn't back down. We all need to do that, not let them get away with this. It's like dealing with bullies; if you let them they will continue.
Black Lives Matter Protester in D.C. Seen Berating Diners, Demanding they Raise their Fists in Viral Video
Oh, for those who don't know ; I live in St. Louis and grew up near Ferguson. I was at ground zero when the whole thing blew up. I attended the protests the first day.
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Freedom to determine whether your Property (Your Body) is injected with something or not:
Victoria Cobb, President
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
The shocking honesty – and general hostility – towards religious
freedom was once again on display this morning as a Democrat-contro
According to committee member Delegate Mark Levine (D-Alexandria),
The State Health
Commissioner’s statement on Friday that he intends to force every
Virginian to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has attracted national
attention, which, along with your voices, actually prompted Governor
Northam to issue a statement that he doesn’t plan to force every
Virginian to receive the vaccine. (It should be noted here that he has
taken no official position on it). These are indeed dangerous times,
when a state legislator suggests that a healthy person who declines a
questionable vaccine for conscience objections is equivalent to killing
someone and should be sued and/or put in prison.
The
Committee also voted down HB 5018 (R-Webert) and HB 5023 (R-Byron),
bills which would ensure the Virginia Department of Health only accepts
a complaint alleging a violation of an emergency order if it includes
the first and last name and basic contact information of the person
making the report. This would have prevented petty and false reporting.
But even when a friendly amendment was offered to address a concern
over whistle-blower protections, the Democrat-contro
Today’s committee meetings were also further evidence that virtual
legislative deliberations are leading to complications, confusion and
an overall lack of public participation. Not only are there technical
difficulties like not being given access to the Zoom meeting in time to
testify -- many in the public were not given the chance to speak -- but
it also appears the Committee Chairman has the sole power to dictate
who speaks (among those who have signed up the day before) and for how
long. Another troubling aspect was how frequently debate was abruptly
halted by a legislator motioning to "table†a bill (i.e., defeat the
bill), in some cases while the bill's sponsor was still speaking.
This Special Session, with its delays, complicated virtual testimony
procedures, and lack of any substantive debate, is quickly becoming a
one-party show, and not bipartisan governance. The majority party is
simply not interested in passing reasonable solutions to serious issues
– like reigning in an out-of-control Governor.
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The media is the enemy of all Mankind, and particularly America. Don Lemon is both a pea-brain and a biased creep who has no business in journalism. If he didn't work for CNN he would be wearing a paper hat and asking if you wanted fries.
Don Lemon: Trump Supporters Need to be "Deprogrammed" Before They Can Be Allowed to Vote
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Another commentary on the Republican convention.
The Trump kids slayed it again. We had both Eric Trump and his half sister Tiffany, and both came out corking. I really have to say these kids are all impressive.
Secretary of State Mike Pompey was too, but then we expected that. What was interesting is he spoke from Jerusalem, and the media had a cow. They said "politics ends at the water's edge" completely ignoring Barack Obama's many attacks on political opponents while speaking to foreign governments, or John Kerry's many transgressions (including going to Iran to try to overturn the Trump policy there.)
The star of the show last night was unquestionably Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. A young black man, Cameron gave a great speech, likening it back to his own experiences as a person of color. His can-do attitude, upbeat nature, and understanding of what is happening and why, make him a politician to watch. I expect great things from Cameron in the future.
Melania's speech was a mess, in my opinion. A traditional First Lady type of speech, she rambled on endlessly about children and other warm fuzzies, with little of interest. She pretty much spoke about what she wished for the world, as if she were in a beauty contest (which she could clearly win). The speech rambled on and on, and at one point my wife suggested someone find a hooked cane to pull her away. I pulled out the recorder I have been teaching myself to play and tootled a rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again" but Melania didn't take the hint.
I don't blame her; she's not a politician and this is the type of speech she is familiar with.
A point; I was watching CBS and when Melania came on the sound of crickets in the Rose Garden almost overpowered her. That was not by accident; the sound guy could compensate. It was done purposely to damage the First Lady. I flipped to PBS and didn't hear the crickets. BUT, near the end of Melania's endless speech you could hear an old-fashioned typewriter going. NOT a computer keyboard, with the clicking, but a good old typewriter with the rat-a-tat-tat. I actually didn't mind that so much; I wanted to do the same. After all, I was playing "Happy Days" at that point.
She may have done some good with the soccer mom types, but in my mind she was at best a distraction.
I flipped around channel to channel during the pauses, because every channel infuriated me. Everything the speakers said was sneered at or mocked. And the news network Republicans (like Reince Preibus) were complicity in media lies. The media spent all their airtime trying to "correct" what was said. It was disgraceful.
Oh, I caught where one of them said "there are no longer Presidential bumps after conventions anymore". Why? Biden didn't get one. But Trump did and the very liberal Daily Beast even admitted it.
BTW the media mocked Melania because of her accent. That is the heighth of hypocrisy, as the Democrats and the Media love immigration as they think it will give eternal power to the Democrats. But they hate Mrs. Trump and will mock her for being an immigrant.
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I can hear it now "oh, uh, uh, it's because of global warming elsewhere; the Earth is trying to move the heat around!"
Antarctica is almost entirely below freezing year round. Only a few isolated spots ever get above freezing. How is global warming causing ice to melt in a place that cold? They try to say it's the water, but the Antarctic is surrounded by a wide, deep, cold current which traps the cold water in and keeps the warmer water out. It's patently ridiculous.
New Melting Hotspot Found in East Antarctica
From the article:
The sub-glacier melting hotspot was identified by a team of Hokkaido University scie8th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. The icebreaker ship was able to make its way into Lützow-Holm Bay after a serendipitous breakup of heavy sea ice.
"Our data suggests that the ice directly beneath the Shirase Glacier Tongue is melting at a rate of 7 to 16 meters per year," study co-author Daisuke Hirano, said in a news release.
Over the course of the 2017 expedition to East Antarctica and the Shirase Glacier Tongue, Hokkaido researchers recorded data on water temperature, salinity and oxygen levels at 31 different locations. Scientists combined their measurements with data on the area's currents and wind, as well as ice radar measurements.
When researchers fed their data into a model designed to simulate coastal ocean currents near the inland base of Shirase Glacier Tongue, the simulations revealed the melting effects an ongoing influx of deep, warm water.
Simulations showed the warm water moves through a deep ocean trough and melts the base of Shirase Glacier Tongue. As the warm water rises up and away from the base, it mixes with the glacial meltwater.
No mention of volcanism. And certainly no mention that the East Antarctic ice sheet is growing.
ntists during the 5
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There is no doubt that justice has been unequally dispensed to racial minorities. Yet, as this article describes, the ranks of BLM have been filled to a greater extent with disaffected white kids than with blacks. Self-hatred oozes out of these losers. It goes without saying that the Antifa has always been a gaggle of white kids with anger management problems living in Mom’s basement. Bizarre.
The backlash must certainly be building.
The BLM Mob Wants to Rule You. Period
The name changes but it is always the same radicals. They once were Students for a Democratic Society, or The Weathermen. They were Occupy Wall Street. Now BLM and Antifa. The same types of stupid kids have been seduced by the same types of marxist revolutionaries who filled Abby Hoffman's and William Ayers' heads. We had a lull after the seventies, but now the grandkids are reliving gramps' radical dreams.
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August 25, 2020
The full quote and context about 'fine people on both sides' (@Charlottesville).
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/white-supremacist-who-organized-charlottesville-race-riots-endorses-joe-biden
Another one of Cnn and lefty media lies!!
They didn't tell you the full context@ all! You just know the sound clip they play for you over and over and are asked to assume the worst. Most liberals are blind to all relevant facts and they're purposely fed lies by their corrupt fake news far left papers! They also don't research outside of what they're fed by their cultish media@.
Trump has always condemned the KKK and all racism!
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/14/543477490/racism-is-evil-trump-denounces-the-kkk-neo-nazis-and-white-supremacists
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40929627
If the no brain cell amoebas on the left did a simple Google search, Trump condemned KKK they'd see all these articles and many more:
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/14/543477490/racism-is-evil-trump-denounces-the-kkk-neo-nazis-and-white-supremacists
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40929627
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End of article mentions North Korea's "Propaganda and Agitation Department." So, just as "the Cultural Revolution" overran NK & its neighbor, China, in the 20th century--result
From Tim:
This very much does look like the "Cultural Revolution" in China. Doesn't "let a thousand flowers bloom" sound a bit like "summer of love"? I heard Nikki Haley's speech last night; it was the old style Republican issues. Don Trump Jr. had to sense to pour on about this sort of thing. That's what will win this election; not talk about tax relief but going after the Donkeys for their Chinese marxism.
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"A surprising result from these new simulations is that the first ice-free summer does not really depend on the emission scenario. As the sea-ice area has already shrunk, internal variability is more important than the forced change needed to lose the remaining summer sea-ice area.â€
In other words, the emissions are unrelated to anything. Now give us more money and we’ll cook up some other b.s.
Characteristics of Polar Sea Ice in Latest Climate Models
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COVID-19 FACTS LIBERALS TELL US:
-Masks stop all viruses
-But nearly everything still needs to be shut down
-A virus can only travel 6 feet in the air
-Walmart is apparently immune from viruses
-Anti-American riots with thousands are immune from viruses
-Church will kill you
-School will kill teachers
-Restaurants will kill you
-Getting a haircut will kill you
-Businesses are not necessary
-China is innocent
-Trump started the virus
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Amazing this was even written and published. This is apparently endorsed by the international agencies trying to implement the "Great Reset.†While some aspects of the life depicted here are attractive and maybe inevitable, there is a terrible black cloud over all of it. That is mentioned only briefly and once: "Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.â€
"I just hope...†Right, the folks in Russia, China, and Cuba just hoped the power they surrendered to the state wouldn’t be used against them. How did that work for them?
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Quick thoughts on the GOP Convention last night.
First came Nikki Haley, who largely bragged about her own accomplishments. I am not a fan. Haley is an Establishment Republican and a fence straddler. She caved on the Civil War statues, for instance, and she is almost always squishy where Trump is concerned and her speech was pretty much the same.
She did speak up for the President, but she never came at any of the cultural issues, preferring to speak about how the economy was going to rise again (like the South, which never did.) Mostly she spoke about her own accomplishments as South Carolina Governor. She was clearly trying to set herself up for 2024. And her style of speech reminded me of a character on Sesame Street. No fire, just a gentle kind of child-like enthusiasm.
She would be a return to the old Republicanism, the kind that wasn't about winning or standing for our culture. Haley is primarily an economic conservative (or to use the old phrase "neocon"). If she's a rising star (as the reality stars on t.v. who call themselves anchors called her) the GOP has no future. She's why they are where they are.
Then came last nights star, Donald Trump Jr. The talking heads called his speech "angry" and "dark" but it was Reaganesque; people forget that Reagan really took it to the Democrats. In a nice way, but he was brutal. Trump Jr. came out smoking, going after social issues like illegal immigration, rioting, and the other things that have marred America in 2020. And he was right to do so; America's problems stem from a failing morality and a subsequent loss in faith in American exceptionalism. The economic problems are real and cause for concern, but they ultimately are a failure of America as a moral entity. High taxes, deficit spending, etc. stem from a fundamental lack of belief in the concept of private property. People want what they can grab, not what they are entitled to possess. It's a violation of the Judeo-Christian Commandment "thou shalt not steal". Further, it enshrines covetousness, also forbidden in the Ten Commandments. All of our problems with tax and spend stem from the basic idea that the government can simply seize your money and property and give it to those who they wish. Moral restoration would eventually lead to fiscal responsibility.
Lastly, Tim Scott gets a mixed review from me. Scott was definitely better than Haley, but he still lacked the fire that we need. We are not in normal times and these are not normal politcal battles. We are at war, not in a gentleman's disagreement. I thought Scott talked a pretty good game, but he seemed too affable, too willing to compromise. The time for compromise by our side is past. We've compromised our way to the graveyard. This is a last stand.
Scott certainly has a fine future in the GOP, but I don't think he's a guy who can win the Presidency - or should. He's going to be a great Secretary of HHS or whatnot, but not at the top level.
Todd Herman, filling in for Rush Limbaugh, spoke of how Scott's speech was so amazing "power coupled with humility". I saw the humility, but not the power. Maybe I'm wrong. But I just don't see him having the fire in the belly.
Of course, of the three Donald Trump Jr. has the least prospect of being President, simply because of his name. I fear Haley has the best chances just because she's a minority and a woman. I really don't want her; it would be like electing another Bush, or Mitt Romney. And I'm not certain about how firm Scott will be ideologically.
Time will tell.
Naturally, there was nary a kind word from any of the media. I flipped around - from PBS to NBC and CBS (Fox wasn't running it and I never watch ABC since half pint Stephanopoulis runs the division.)
I wish there had been spectators, too. These "conventions" are really just commercials without the partisan people cheering.
We'll see what tonight brings.
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August 24, 2020
In Fiji there is a lovely term for people of mixed race, "kai loma".
"Kai" means people, and "loma" means the center of something.
So they are the "people of the center", and since eventually the races will mix beyond return, they are also the people and the hope of the future.
Why am I speaking of gentle Fijian terms?
Because I'm bone-tired of the endless false accusations that the US is "systemically racist". We're not. Kai loma people and all races flourish here. Yes, there are occasional ugly racists, we're not perfect by any means, and I confront them when I encounter them ... but most folks pay little attention to skin color. Most all of us have far more important issues in our lives than dealing with such trivialities.
So this is my shout-out to all of my marvelous kai loma friends around the planet ... you rule.
Best regards to everyone
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Adolf Hitler called America a "mongrel nation". And it's pretty true, in that we are mostly mixed ethnicities and we don't really care. Blood doesn't matter in America; what you do does. Therein lies the rub of the "multiculturali
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On that business about Pelosi maybe becoming President:
The 20th Amendment states:
This is going to be interesting, though. Every state where the Democrats control the office of Secretary of State will be in peril, as the SS must certify those states in time for the Electoral College vote. I suspect the Democrat-controlled states will simply refuse to certify their state elections.
Or they will certify them with serious vote irregularities (if they can make them go for Biden).
Buckle up.
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I've got a salute for Mr. Powell, and it consists of one finger raised in his honor.
Colin Powell: Biden will be a President We will be Proud to Salute
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It's not COVID you have to fear in schools....
Tennessee School English Lesson Teaches that Whites are Racists Who Oppress Minorities
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August 23, 2020
The Fascist philosophy behind Antifa.
Their beliefs come from one Herbert Marcuse, a Marxist philosopher who cut his teeth with Nazi Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg and later The Institute of Social Research aka the Frankfurt School. He is the creator of Critical Theory which postulates:
Critical theoryis defined as "a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it.â€
This might sound benign, but in practice, critical theory is the shallow analysis of politics, history, art, and society through the lens of power dynamics. It places the world into a box of oppressor vs. oppressed and insists that those who are oppressed are "good†and those who are oppressors are "evil.â€
In an article for Quillette, Uri Harris describes critical theory as follows:
This is achieved through "repressive tolerance" meaning the "powerless" or rather the revolutionaries have the right and duty to use violence and hatred to foment their revolution, and freedom of speech only serves the rulers.By identifying the distorting effects power had on society’s beliefs and values, [the founders of critical theory] believed they could achieve a more accurate picture of the world. And when people saw things as they really were, they would liberate themselves. "Theory,†they suggested, always serves the interests of certain people; traditional theory, because it is uncritical towards power, automatically serves the powerful, while critical theory, because it unmasks these interests, serves the powerless.
If violence is justified to "restore the power balance" what is to prevent the other side from using it? And what happens when the balance of power tips? Anyone remember Robespierre?
Anyway, this is a terrific article.
One quibble; the author argues nobody really knows what Fascism is. I disagree; we have a very clear guide to what it is; Benito Mussolini wrote The Doctrine of Fascism which explains it quite clearly.
And if you want to understand it read Rousseau's The Social Contract. Rousseau invented both socialism and fascism there; he argued that all social structures are a mere compact, an expression of the collective Will of the People. Socialism was thus born because the People could choose to share all wealth, as indeed Rousseau saw they had every right. And Fascism? In order to promote this sea change in economics Rousseau argued for the deification of the state as the ultimate expression of that collective Will, and he saw a kind of veneration of the State - of the Nation - as the key to breaking the old allegiances to Church and religion. Socialism and Fascism are two heads of the same monster. Mussolini (who had been the editor of Italy's socialist newspaper) saw Fascism as being the next step in socialism; having a spiritual dimension rather than just an economic one. (Mussolini repeatedly said he rejected Socialism, but not because it was wrong but just incomplete.)
But they are all cut from the same cloth and Mussolini would not have argued against that proposition.
Antifa is in fact Fascist and Socialist. It's quite clear. They seek the destruction of traditional Liberal Western beliefs, and the destruction of the influence of the Church (notice how Churches have been attacked by BLM, Antifa's kissing cousin) in the last year. They believe in imposing their will on the nation, to move it where they wish.
Mussolini says:
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No action is exempt from moral judgment; no activity can be despoiled of the value which a moral purpose confers on all things. Therefore life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; all its manifestations are poised in a world sustained by moral forces and subject to spiritual responsibilities. The Fascist disdains an "easy" life
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In the Fascist conception of history, man is man only by virtue of the spiritual process to which he contributes as a member of the family, the social group, the nation, and in function of history to which all nations bring their contribution.
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Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity
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Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State (13). The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people.
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Now that the succession of the reÂgime is open we must not be fainthearted. We must rush forward; if the present regime is to be superseded we must take its place
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In rejecting democracy, Fascism rejects the absurd conventional lie of political equalitarianism, the habit of collective irresponsibility, the myth of felicity and indefinite progress.
At any rate, everything old is new again. We are seeing the new Nazis fighting in the name of opposing Fascism. It's fascinating, but it's real.
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