Timothy Birdnow

In an argument of Facebook I take on Vote Fraud Deniers. Here is the thread:

Michael Solomon says:

And the rest of the story - accept defeat with dignity and strive for victory when the sun next rises!

I reply:

But Michael Solomon the Democrats never accepted defeat with dignity. They fight ruthlessly to overturn the results they do not like. Republicans keep playing this game of jolly good fellow, which is why they keep losing. It's past time for them to take the gloves off. In our modern era there is no defeat with dignity; this is a war of extermination being waged on America by the Left and we have to start fighting like our lives depend on it or we will surelly perish. This is exactly how communist takeovers have gone. more...

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I don't vouch for this. I don't know who this Hal Turner guy is. I am passing this along for your consideration. Please take with a grain of salt.

Apparently there are people claiming the Covid vaccine is transmitting personal data and health information.

I don't know that that is possible given the state of the art, but I may be wrong; I've been sandbagged before by what modern technology is capable of doing.

At any rate, see for yourself.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/claim-vaccinated-people-are-being-tracked-in-real-time-via-5g-cellular-and-all-that-data-can-be-hacked-into-to-track-you?fbclid=IwAR2iuHL4D1RNeSUZDZsGJNk9FTo9NR3KT_PM9dsRW1TKD1jBNxKquWTNFOU

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In the immortal words of the Soup Nazi "no soup for you!" At least not today.

Sorry. Bit busy.

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/05/taxpayer-supported-pbs-show-for-3-to-8-year-olds-says-experience-the-magic-of-drag.html

"The Hips On the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish.” No, that’s not a bad joke, but the title of a new book intended for, and read to, young children — on a kids’ TV show.

The reading was the result of a partnership between PBS station WNET and the New York City Department of Education, taxpayer-supported entities both.

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What we've been saying all along.

/A New Study Confirms that Reopening Texas '100%' had no Discernible Impact on Covid 19 Cases or Deaths

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This from Steven Chase

Deeply Troubling....
When Biden signed the 'Asian Hate Crime' Bill, he honored TWO victims - Heather Hyer and Khalid Jabara - neither one Asian. Both however were killed by whites.
The FBI reports 6,600 hate crimes against Asians since March 2020. Of that 5,940 assailants, or perps were described as black.

Tim adds:

They are attempting to tar Trump and MAGA people with this. They want to say Trump calling it the Chinese virus set off the ignorant white supremacist hillbillies. But it isn't so; it's primarily black on yellow crime.

Much of it is urban crime against Asian-Americans. They occupy many of the same neighborhoods as the black community, and with the "defund the police" business and the excusing of violence by BLM and other terrorist organizations the criminals feel emboldened to attack the Asians in their midst. And of course they get away with it because the Democrats and Media and Deep Staters want it to use as a bludgeon against Conservatives.

They want to gin up sympathy for Asians and by extension China, their pay masters. And they want to whip up the notion of "right wing white supremacism" that they've been pushing for a while now.

But the actual statistics show it's mainly black people doing the supremacising.

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Jack Kemp

The Covid governmental health barriers had kept me and others from meeting up with my friends, Brett D'Alessandro and Alexa Modero, the co-founders of the Veterans' charity Backpacks for Life for over a year. Many Aviary readers can recall the past articles I've posted here about them and their splendid work with and for homeless veterans.

Brett and Alexa have communicated with me via email but we all wanted to want to see each other again when the difficulties in meeting people could be overcome. Brett and Alexa have gotten engaged since we last were together at a BFL event. When they posted online that they were gathering supplies for homeless veterans' backpacks on New York's southernmost Borough, Staten Island, I jumped at the chance to reconnect with them this ending week. The gathering was in front of a new nursing home on New York's Staten Island, a place called Sunrise of New Dorp. Standing outside the beautiful main building and talking with its Executive Director, Cheryl Bambach on a sunny day, I learned that mercifully the nursing home was not yet open when Gov. Cuomo was trying to pretend he knew how to care for Covid patients and senior citizens by placing them together several months ago.

It was a typical Backpacks For Life event, including many volunteers and many donations of supplies for the backpacks. The volunteers this day included a number of members of New York's Visiting Nurse Service who were managing the donation bins and later filling individual plastic bags with wool hats, socks, pens, notebooks, toiletries, etc. for the veterans. These nurses worked for the department that took care of aged military veterans and their efforts were headed by their Director of Veteran Programs Joseph Vitti, a U.S. Army veteran who still sports a military style "high and tight" haircut.

For many months, Brett and Alexa had switched their efforts to contacting two Marine veteran brothers who ran a garment factory in New Jersey which now switched to making surgical masks, hospital gowns and other necessities for medical staff and first responders and veterans. In fact, one of the two owners of the clothing operation, Domenick Monaco, had come along to help out and talk with dignitaries and visitors. Domenick is a great guy whose business is set up to comply with all government health and production standards as an official qualified subcontractor. If you want to know more about the brothers' operations, check them out at https://www.usmcppe.com/


The New York Police, Community Council Volunteers from the 122nd Precinct also had a table set up as they helped show their support.

Brett showed me a new smaller backpack of theirs for sale, called The Urban Backpack. It is closer in size to a campers' day pack but still has many of the features of the larger Bowery Backpack which is now listed as sold out on their website at https://www.backpacksforlife.org/bflshop Alexa (his partner and not the Amazon.com device) told me that they are working to make these new backpacks available for purchase by next Fall on their BFL website store, along with more of their larger Bowery Backpacks.

An interesting visitor came by with with his daughter. He is a 95 year old U.S. Navy veteran who served on a Destroyer Escort in WWII. Talking with him, he told me that he personally knew The Sullivans, the famous (in years past) five brothers who died while serving together on a different Destroyer Escort. Here is, in part, what Wikipedia has to say about them and the Navy ship named after the brothers:

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SS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a retired United States Navy Fletcher-class destroyer. The ship was named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert) aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. This was the greatest military loss by any one American family during World War II.[1] She was also the first ship commissioned in the Navy that honored more than one person.

After service in both World War II and the Korean War, The Sullivans was assigned to the 6th Fleet and was a training ship until she was decommissioned on 7 January 1965.

In 1977, she and cruiser USS Little Rock (CG-4) were processed for donation to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York. The ship now serves as a memorial museum ship and is open for public tours.

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Brett and Alexa and I talked about what we have been up to and the challenges they faced in this past difficult year, forcing them to adapt to new ways of doing things. They have hired full time associates and they have created a user friendly database program called ROGER that New Jersey veterans can easily search online and use to find all kinds of federal and state benefits; family aid; publications; health and lifestyle needs; and education and employment opportunities. In the future, the ROGER Database will be expanded to give detailed help to veterans living in other states. I can't do this ROGER database justice in a few sentences. Go to https://www.roger.vet/ to log in if you are a New Jersey veteran or just want to see what a well designed veterans' searchable database looks like. I, Jack, will add that with more time and funding and a winding down of the Covid related challenges Backpacks for Life has to deal with, more online help can be brought to veterans in other states.

Riding the Staten Island Ferry back to Manhattan, I was glad to have spent the day with people who were energetically moving to help make this a better country, in the face of all the challenges we have. There is an old saying, namely It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness. I saw a number of candle lighters that day on Staten Island.

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From Chester McAteer

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Hmmm....

Physicist and Nuclear Cardiologist: Covid-19 and the Covid Shots are Man-Made Bio-Weapons

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Selwyn Duke

We discussed issues such as how reading Twain aloud now gets you fired, but expressing admiration for Hitler gets you a CNN job.

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This from Tom DeWeese:

This is an article I wrote a few months ago and I just wanted to share it with everyone. The contrived racial division that is being forced on us is not real, it's a tool to destroy our culture. Don't fall for it. This article expresses how I really feel.

By Tom DeWeese

Webster’s Dictionary defines Racism as "The assumption that the characteristics and abilities of an individual are determined by race and that one race is biologically superior to another.” Another more direct way of saying it is "Blind hatred of another simply because of his/her race.”

On an historic summer day in 1963, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King inspired a nation as he said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” That description of true freedom is the exact opposite of the definition of Racism. It describes various races living together in harmony through shared values, goals, and dreams.

When I was a young boy, living in my hometown of Newark, Ohio, my family lived on the east side of the city. That was also the location of most of the local Black population. So, many of my classmates in school, from elementary level to junior high school, were Black. This was before and during the growing civil rights movement of the 1960s when race became a major issue in the nation. But we, as students, were simply friends, in our classrooms, in gym class, in music class as we studied, played, and sang together.

I remember those early schooldays fondly. Yes we had differences among us, in culture, outlook, and family life. Yet, I cannot remember race ever being an issue between us. Most importantly, I especially remember certain Black individuals who were close and valued friends.

In the sixth grade, Brenda sat behind me. I loved making her laugh because she had a big laugh. It was infectious. Her face was covered with a big smile. One day, as I played a joke on her, she laughed and said, "Oh Tommy!” And she smacked me on my back and I fell on the floor – both of us laughing.

Brenda lived in my neighborhood. She came from a good-sized family of brothers and sisters. Her family owned one of the city’s leading refuse companies. Everyone knew their upstanding reputation. Many didn’t know that Brenda’s family had helped to establish the first Black school for the city decades earlier.

We lost touch when she went to a different junior high school than I. Just a few years ago Brenda and I had a very emotional and joyous reunion. It had been almost 50 years since we had last seen each other. We sat in her living room and shared stories and laughs, and caught up on the lost years. She still has the great laugh and calls me Tommy! I will forever value her friendship and look forward to seeing her whenever I can.

Also, in that same sixth grade year, three more Black students entered my life. They were two brothers and sister, named Jerry Davis, Marvin, and their beautiful sister Jerry Dean. They had just moved to the city from Alabama. These were the sweetest people I had ever met. I liked all three instantly. Marvin taught me a talent I still use today to impress people. He showed me how to create a beat with my hand slapping my leg then up to my chest. I can still do it with both hands simultaneously!

Over the next few years, Jerry Davis, Marvin, and I shared a love for basketball and good times on some intramural teams. I remember one specific moment when they showed their loyalty and character to our friendship. We were walking home from high school after a game. It was a long walk -- clear to the other side of town from the school. As we were walking along, a friend of theirs drove by and offered them a ride. He didn’t offer one to me. Both Jerry Davis and Marvin stopped and looked at me, hesitating to accept the ride. I fully understood their reluctance and found it a very touching moment. I immediately said, "oh please, go ahead,” and they rode off. But the fact that they had hesitated honored me and I remember as if it were yesterday. I would love to see them all again.

As I moved on to the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades, I attended the rightly named Lincoln Junior High School. It had the largest population of Black students in the city. We were the Lincoln Lions. Unexpectedly I found myself on the school’s track team. There I met Sherman. He has the most incredible physic I had ever seen. He was pure muscle. His back was that perfect V from his waist up to broad shoulders. And his legs were massively powerful. When Sherman ran it was as if his feet never touched the ground. I was in awe of him. I was 5’4” at the time and very skinny. But I discovered that the block I lived on was almost 440 yards around – exactly the dimensions of the track where we ran. Day in and day out I would run laps around that block, trying to build up my muscles to look like Sherman. I never came close.

The next two years Sherman and I were both on the basketball team. Well, Sherman was a star player, but at 5’4” and 75 pounds, I was a manager. We spent many long hours in the gym and at practices and I did all I could to watch him and learn. Another player on the team was John L. He was tall and lanky. Sherman and John L were the stars and led our Lincoln Lions to the county championship. They then went on to lead the high school team for a couple of very successful years. Race was never an issue. Respect and friendship were the only thoughts in our heads.

We graduated. Our class had many reunions. But Sherman and John L never attended. No one knew much about their whereabouts. Then one day, I believe it was our 40-year class reunion, we were all standing on an outside patio, eating and talking, when suddenly a car pulled into the parking lot and two people starting walking toward us -- Sherman and John L. As they entered the patio, they were absolutely mobbed by every one of us. Hugs, smiles, and handshakes. It was a reunion of pure love and respect for these two. Just a couple of years ago I was finally able to tell Sherman that he had always been my hero and role model.

A few years after graduation, I started an advertising distribution company. We delivered flyers, coupons, and samples door to door in plastic bags. I had over 130 carriers in three counties. One day I got a very big account for a company that was introducing a new dog food called Alamo. The strategy was to knock on doors and if people had a dog, we were to give them a free sample in exchange for their address. The client was building a sales list.

To help accomplish the task in some of the rural areas, I put a team of young guys together in a van. I drove and directed them. They knocked on doors and passed out the samples. The team was about half White and half Black. The guys had a great time laughing together. One of the young Black guys had a very outgoing personality and he was always quoting comedian Richard Pryor. He always began by saying, "My man Richard Pryor says…’ it was great fun. We spent several weekends together getting that dog food into the homes. And we laughed as I named the van the "Oreo Speed Wagon” in honor of our diversity. They loved that.

My life experience has shown that there is no need for the blind hatred that is now growing across the country. Respect of character and values goes both ways. On that day in 1963, Reverend King went on to say, "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny, and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.”

The contrived racial hatred now insists that only Whites can be racists. What an utterly stupid, brutal position to promote. It defies logic and human history in which there are countless examples of interracial relationships built on love and respect. What about those individuals from different races who have genuine affection for each other? Where does that fit into the definition of blind racial hatred? What about those who marry and have children together? Are we to accept that the White spouse and parent is a racist who only wants to subjugate their spouse and children? In my entire life I have never felt negative feelings about someone simply because of their race. If I have disliked someone it has always been about attitude, character, or values.

These are the reasons why I’m emotionally drawn to the vision presented by Louis Armstrong when he sang, "The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces of people going by. I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do. They’re all saying I love you. I hear babies cry, I watch them grow. They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.”

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This from David Nabhan:

Everyone understands at least two words in classical Greek, the "Molon labe” taunt Leonidas sent to Xerxes. And Britons know the Battle of Waterloo's "mot de Cambronne": "Merde!” Here’s a little known "Go to Hell” quip from our part of the world. During the Mexican Revolution, Pascual Orozco captured a troop of federales, stripped them of their uniforms and sent the attire to Mexican president Porfirio Diaz with this note: "Here are the wrappers, please send more tamales.”

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People are blaming Israel for firing back after Hamas fired a couple of thousand rockets at innocent Israelis. They say Israel is to blame for someone mistreating the "Palestinians". Well.

Article 13 of the Hamas charter (and they rule Palestine):

"[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement."

https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818.htm

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Liberals are utterly determined to destroy California. Now they want to drain the water reservoirs during a drought.

See here.

When they have ruined California their locusts, weened on decades of quasi-socialist programs, will spread forth over the rest of America and destroy the entire country.

Any thoughts Bill?

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I always did want a Rolls...

A consortium led by Rolls-Royce is on the hunt for orders for its £2billion nuclear reactors after a redesign that means each will power 100,000 more homes.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the UK Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project has revamped the proposed mini reactors to increase their output. The factory-built reactors will now generate 470 megawatts, enough to provide electricity to a million homes.

The project, launched in 2015, aims to bring ten mini nuclear reactors into use by 2035, with the first due to enter service around 2030.

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How much will we learn after everyone has taken the blue pill...

AstraZeneca Bluetooth Side effects

Hat tip: Chester McAteer.

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This from E. Calvin Beisner:

Presidential candidate Biden blamed wildfires on climate change and excoriated President Trump for disagreeing.

Who was right?

A new study, "Fix America's Forests," tells---and the item linked here tells how you can get that study, free. And another part of that item explains how economic development and protection of wildlife can coexist.

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Warner Todd Huston

WATCH: Joe Biden Hits Golf Ball in the Wrong Direction

Tim adds:

He probably was trying to get it off the course, thinking it was some sort of debris. "I can't believe they leave those things lying around here; somebody could trip on them..."

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Selwyn Duke

It’s right up there, or down there, with how a British politician got charged with "hate speech” for reading an excerpt from a Winston Churchill book:

A professor at St. John’s University in New York City was recently fired — after a complaint from just one student — for reading a Mark Twain book that lampoons racism.

What was the problem?


https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/05/reading-twain-aloud-gets-you-fired-but-loving-hitler-gets-you-a-cnn-job.html

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A very good critique of Marxism.

I would add that the fundamental flaw in Marxism is the denial of the concept of property. Marx really didn't touch it. But property rights are the most basic of rights, down to your ownership of yourself. They inform virtually every other right.

Marx assumed they were a fiction and one that could and should be altered by a political act. He didn't see individuals having a right to own things. The collective had a right to take that which they used, in his opinion. Marx bought into the idea of economic democracy and the Collective Will of Rousseau. We call that theft and it has always been suppressed by every civilization to a larger or lesser degree.

That some societies accepted a certain amount of theft - be it the king overtaxing or seizing property in war or whatnot - but in the end there has always been some legal mechanisms protecting property rights to some degree.

America accepted John Locke's definition of property, and while the Constitution did not enshrine property rights as an "enumerated right" it was thought it unnecessary by Madison and the others. It was clearly the CORE right. Marx denied this basic assumption. In short, he advocated a society based on theft.

The Communist Manifesto really does read like a teenager's essay, I might add.

After claiming history was going to make all this happen, this wondrous withering away of the State after the success of Socialism, Marx and Engels then call for revolution. Why? If it's inevitable, why promote it? As has been pointed out the Communist Manifesto is a document from the Romantic Era and it reads more like a work of fiction from that era than a treatise on economics and social evolution. They simplify so many concepts, stripping things down to an "us" versus "them" which is ridiculous.

Marx tried to argue the workers would own the means of production in the socialist state prior to the happy day of Communism. Huh? The workers own NOTHING in such a state, but rather the government and the Party own it all. The workers are essentially unable to leave their jobs and that makes them at least serfs. All Marxism did was put a happy face on the old feudal serfdom. (And remember, serfdom died out in Russia only in 1861, AFTER Marx published the Manifesto (in 1848). Is it any wonder Russia had no problem adopting Marxism? They had a long history with the concept.

I recently had an argument with a Marxist about the fundamental nature of Marxism. His arguments were vague and abstract. They were so by design, as he knew he could offer nothing concrete because he had nothing that actually worked. He tried to dodge admitting he was a Red but I pinned him and he admitted it (and said he thought the French Reign of Terror was just fine) and is no doubt still blabbering about Bolshevism now. But the point is this is magical thinking, a BELIEF that things can be changed by an act of will without regards to reality. The Marxist believes that the universe is perfectible, that Man is inherently good, that the collective is the sole determinant of right and wrong. And since they eschew notions of God or Nature's God they must believe in the power of a collective delusion; reality can be changed by an act of faith on the part of enough people. Paradise is attainable, in their worldview, if enough people struggle and demand it. It's pure utopianism. Man can create Heaven on Earth sans any sort of deity.

But even if you don't believe in a deity you can still see the stupidity of this. Natural Law is not predicated on the existence of a God (although that's a powerful part of the thinking) as the Universe works a certain way and human nature is subject to universal laws. One such law is property rights; what's yours is yours and what's mine is mine. The animal kingdom shows a certain sense of that (although animals steal from other animals all the time.) The Lion may feed it's mates and children with a kill, but it doesn't kill and hand meat out to hyenas and bears. And many animals are territorial; cross a hippo's territory and you may wind up being bitten in half, despite the vegetarian nature of the beast. They see property rights and they don't like trespassers.

Marx and Engels ignore all this as a mere construct of society to benefit the haves. He ignores the fact the poor man is equally jealous with his own goods and home, and rarely lets another man simply stroll into his home and eat his food.

At any rate, please do read the whole article; it's a worthwhile thing.

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