April 29, 2024
Instapundit discusses the end of the university system and how this offers us an unique opportunity as colleges becomes cesspools and money pits.
I agree,although I think we need to ask afew fundamental questions.
We must ask "what is the purpose of college?" I really can't get an answer to that question most of the time.
Most people say "to get an education" but that clearly isn't the purpose any longer. College kids are often woefully educated on basic issues. And their professors are no better; a few years ago a bunch of them FLUNKED a 7th grade general knowledge test from the 19th century. So it is not about educating young people.
Nor does it teach them to think. Just try to reason with a college kid and see the giant gaps in their reasoning.
It's mostly about instilling values in kids - values that are at odds with those of the parents and of our society as we have always known it.
So what is the value in a college education?
Basically it's social life and having a degree so hopefully you can get a good job.
But so few college kids get good jobs these days. Often there is no market for their degrees. Who wants to hire a bachelor of women's studies? It doesn't prepare the kids for real life. And since everyone now has a degree it has become essentially worthless.
We need to have a serious alternative to college, not just change the institutions. For some an apprenticeship in a trade is fine, but for others we need to find a way to recreate the things kids go to college for without the framework of a university that has shown itself so easily corrupted.
We need a kind of self-study program with a kind of campus atmosphere where young folks can socialize and enjoy a bit of freedom without the professors twisting their minds.
We must find a way to certify kids as competent without making them kowtow to the professorial class, the leftists.
I remember there was a program years ago which helped give college credits to people with expertise (remember the commercial with Abraham Lincoln discussing the Kansas Nebraska Act?) We need more of that. Not just the AP test to cover credits, but a more comprehensive approach that certifies knowledge without the "benefit" of a communist prof.
More thought on this is needed.
One thing is clear; colleges are now the citadels of Satan, and the source of most of the misery in the Western World. They have outlived their usefulness and are now nothing but a disruptive and sinister force for evil.
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April 28, 2024
When Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn’t define "woman” during her confirmation hearings in 2022, it created quite a stir. The story only would’ve been better if Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who’d asked the then-judicial nominee to define the term, had followed up with, "Are you a woman, Judge Jackson?” The follow-up to that then should’ve been:
"How do you know?”
Do "Scientists” REALLY Claim There’s No "‘Simple’ Answer to Define ‘Woman’”?
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh warns that malicious prosecutions could spell the end of the Presidency as an institution.
FTA:
Justice Kavanaugh said that when presidents are subject to prosecution, history shows that it’s not going to stop.
"It’s going to cycle back and be used against the current president or the next president ... and the next president and the next president after that.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch, who said that the court is "writing a rule for the ages,” along with Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Kavanaugh all said that their concern was not so much the case against President Trump, but rather the effect of the ruling on future presidencies.
"This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country,” Justice Kavanaugh said.
‘Rule for the Ages’
Former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, who argued for Mr. Smith, said that the framers of the U.S. Constitution never intended for presidents to be above the law.
Mr. Dreeben also said that the crimes President Trump is charged with—including allegedly participating in a scheme to enlist dueling electors in battleground states won by President Joe Biden to cast alternate slates of electoral votes for him—weren’t a part of the president’s official duties.
Attorney D. John Sauer, who argued for President Trump, told the justices that without presidential immunity from criminal charges, the "presidency as we know it” will be changed, contending that the looming threat is that a decision to deny immunity would "destroy” presidential decisionmaking at a time in the nation’s history when it needs to be bold.
Mr. Sauer argued that the impact of the case would have implications far beyond the question at hand, raising the hypothetical prospect of President Biden facing charges of encouraging illegal immigration with his border policies.
Justice Kavanaugh expressed concern about the future implications of the case, warning of the prospect of a vicious cycle of malicious prosecutions that could hamper presidents for years to come.
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According to 538Trump leads Biden in all swing states and is even with Commander McBiden nationally.
538 is the Democrats beloved pollster and no fan of the Donald.
"It's the moment you've all been waiting for: Today, 538 launched our interactive polling averages for the 2024 presidential general election. They show incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump essentially tied in national polls and Trump with a tenuous lead in key swing states.
Specifically, as of April 25 at 9 a.m. Eastern, our national polling average shows 40.9 percent of likely voters would support Biden if the election were held today, while 41.6 percent would support Trump."
So Biden is losing both nationally and especially in the battleground states.
Time to expect some fireworks. Biden and his ilk no doubt have an October surprise for Trump. Probably a war but it could be a number of other things. No doubt Biden is hoping for a conviction in New York.
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Communist and seemingly perpetual Green Party candidate Jill Stein was arrested at pro-terrorism protests at Washington University in St. Louis.
I'm surprised the University City cops (not the campus police but the municipal cops) had the cajones.
Question; will Stein be prosecuted and treated in the same way Donald Trump was treated? Will she face hundreds of years prison time? Charged with insurrection?
Somehow I suspect not.
Washington University is 24% Jewish. Shouldn't this be prosecuted as a hate crime?
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Over 15,000,000 kids live in poverty in the US while the DEMs want to open the borders and provide free housing, food, healthcare, education, and social services to the estimated 15 - 21mil illegals living in the US.
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April 27, 2024
NPR says it is fair and balanced.
You may continue after your laughing subsides.
Yes, the good folks at NPR are defending themselves against the criticisms by their now fired editor by claiming they are perfectly fair and balanced.
I know; I'm starting to crack up again myself.
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Trump's attorneys tore some big holes in the prosecution's case in the bogus Stormy Daniels "hush money" trial.
Considering the gag order put on it, this should be the "hush Trump" case.
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On Friday, Emil Bove, an attorney for Donald Trump, continued questioning Pecker, (from the National Inquirer) who claimed during his testimony that he purchased the rights to multiple unfavorable stories about Trump to ensure they never went to publication. Pecker's actions were referred to as a "catch-and-kill" scheme.
Pecker claimed that he had an arrangement with Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen to ensure the stories never saw the light of day. Also, during his testimony, he said he expected to be reimbursed directly by Trump or the Trump Organization for the scheme.
Pecker gave former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal $150,000 for her story. She claimed that she had had an extramarital affair with Trump. Pecker admitted that Trump never reimbursed him for his purchase of the story. Bove attempted to poke holes in Pecker's testimony, noting that the story would have been beneficial for the tabloid to run, and McDougal was trying to restart her career at the time she made the allegations.
Additionally, Pecker said he paid $30,000 for the exclusive rights to another story that turned out to be untrue, though he admitted he would have run the article if it had been accurate. He also did not receive any money from Trump for that story.
Despite previously being interested in McDougal's story, Pecker claimed that he "didn't want anything to do" with porn actress Stormy Daniels' story. She also claimed she had an affair with Trump.
"I said to Michael Cohen that after paying for the doorman story and the Karen McDougal story, I wasn't going to pay anything further and I wasn't a bank," Pecker testified.
During his testimony earlier this week, Pecker claimed that Trump had thanked him for not running the unfavorable stories. However, Bove pointed out that in a 2018 interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pecker did not state that Trump had expressed any gratitude toward him or the tabloid for such actions.
"Are you suggesting the FBI made a mistake here?" Bove asked Pecker.
Pecker acknowledged that the bureau's notes were inconsistent with his testimony.
"I know what the truth is, I can't state why this is written this way. I know what was said to me," he responded.
Bove questioned whether Pecker still has equity in the National Enquirer's parent company, AMI. Pecker replied that he does.
"Part of AMI's business model was to purchase stories, correct?" Bove questioned.
Pecker confirmed that the company did regularly buy the rights to news stories and that the practice was not unique to Trump. The former publisher noted that there were other celebrities who were promoted by the tabloid and provided a warning when negative press was about to be published. Pecker previously said that he had a similar arrangement with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He admitted that publishing negative stories about Trump dating back to the 1990s was "not good for business." Pecker further acknowledged that he had never heard the term "catch and kill" prior to the case. Additionally, many of the negative articles about Trump's presidential opponents published by the National Enquirer were "not exclusive" to the tabloid, indicating that other media outlets had first reported the stories.
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With this new package of aid going to Ukraine it won’t bring a win for Ukraine . It will only buy more time to inflict more death on Russia .Ukraine is out of fighting men ,they’re all dead .Recruitment from other nations won’t help .So the use of long range missiles into Russia will be used to keep killing Russians .Ukraine is mostly owned by foreigns now anyway and many of its citizens our refugees to western nations .The US doesn’t want to loose another war so soon .
Tim adds:
In the old '70's movie Rollerball the big executive named Mr. Bartholemew explains the purpose of rollerball to Jonathan E.(James Caan): " the purpose of the game is to illustrate the futility of individual action". I rather think that applies here, to teach the futility of war to the nations of the Earth by having the U.S.lose, Russia lose, Ukraine lose. See, we all lose so we need a world peace authority! I think that is why the Internationalists are so gung ho on this continuing. That and all the war profits of course.
Oh, and they want to drag Russia into the "rules based order" of the West and the dominion of the big international corporations.
Rollerball was prescient in that too. It predicted the decline of the nation states in favor of giant multinational corporations.
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Canada is fast degenerating into a leftist, authoritarian state where only leftist views are tolerated.
The Hub Canada
Mathew Giagnorio: Why an Ontario chief librarian was fired for her thought crimes
"This approach to free thought was not the case in the shameful dismissal of Cathy Simpson, chief librarian, and CEO of Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library. The treatment she endured demonstrates a complete disregard...
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Why an Ontario chief librarian was fired for her thought crimes - The Hub
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More Bidenomics. Your tax dollars going to Mexican hip-hop artists …
w.
Department of State grant (2021)
Amount: $28,200
Recipient: Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Purpose: Implement the virtual hip hop professional development
residency Next Level Mexico online for about 125 aspiring hip hop
artists in Mexico
Country: Mexico
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan "What a 15 Minute City actually is, it is something that the WEF has created called C40, and it's called C40 cities”
"You won't be able to drive a petrol or diesel car anymore. You'll have
to buy electric. If you want food, you will get a calorie-control
"These are stages in which they're going to implement this stuff. And this was signed up by the WEF and the WEF has signed up with our mayor in London as the chair and he has gone around the world to communicate this C402. All of the countries in the world and most of the countries are looking at adopting it”
"We are going to be in an open prison”
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Originally published at the Washington Jefferson Madison Institute
"To our Founding Fathers, it was obvious, or "self-evident,”
John Adams stated it this way, "Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation
without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of
Republics.”[3] In this regard, the revolutionary war was as much a
battle against "the corruption of 18th century British high
society,”[4] as it was against financial oppression. While the Founders
and American colonists were very concerned with their civil liberty and
economic freedom, demanding "no taxation without representation,
George Washington said: "Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,”[6]
Benjamin Franklin said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” [8]
James Madison stated: "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”[9]
Thomas Jefferson wrote,
"No government can continue good but under the control of the people;
and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and
what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred
from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the
people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”[10
Samuel Adams said: "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”[11]
Tim adds:Ours was a nation of individuals who govern themselves. Not anymore; now it must be governed by force because the individuals have been taught not to govern themselves but rather do as they please and allow government to provide guardrails to protect them from their own folly. Thus is tyranny born.
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3 ½ minutes of the most PERFECT summary explaning the horrendous double standard placed on Israel. . . . . Tough to believe that this actually aired on MSLSD:
Watch MSNBC Host Get Pissed as Guest Calmly Reads Simple Facts
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April 26, 2024
China is developing a cadaver collecting robot to gather up the dead, especially those infected with, well, whatever they have in Wuhan waiting in the wings.
Reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail "bring out your dead!"
Now why would China devise such a gadget? Could it be they plan on unleashing plagues on us?
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Biden is the incredible shrinking President.
Polls look increasingly bad for the usurper.
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1. O.J. Simpson
2. George Floyd
3. Covid 19
4. Biden
Four events that combined to set USA back by 100 years.
We are now where we were in 1924, not where we should be in 2024.
The instant Simpson was found "not guilty" galvanized USA along racial lines. He got very good trial counsel and the jury was careless, and deceived (if the glove don't fit you must acquit --- really a very stupid jury).
George Floyd was going for his gun, which was found, just where he was seeking. The police were dealing with a big strong willful man who wanted to kill them. They used force as people who are scared do --- too much --- and they killed Floyd by mistake. They did not know he was hopped up on drugs, The drugs played a major role in his death. A person not on drugs would not have died under the same police treatment.
George did, so cities all over USA were on fire, and some declared themselves to be special nations. This was a huge setback. We have not recovered from it.
Covid-19 was mishandled, except in Florida where it was handled right. It caused Biden to be elected. It made the election into a ballot hustle. The Dems knew how to do ballot hustles. The GOP was not skilled in that area.
Biden had his open border, his Bidenomics, his freak show of appointees, his own display of an imbecile trying to talk or walk.
We have had four events that together set us back 100 years.
We will pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and go back to using liberty, and competition, and freedom to excel.
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Is genetic engineering a good thing or too risky in the hands of the medical profession that is abetting, and profiting by, mutilating children?
Michael Guillén Phd
GENETIC ENGINEERING. A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has received a kidney from a "transgenic" pig - a pig whose DNA was spliced with human DNA. #sciencewithdrg #kidney #transplant #transgenic
Doctors transplant a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman
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Tim adds:
It's a terrible idea, especially as mixing human and animal DNA drastically increases the prospect for trans-species diseases. Every creature has it's own unique predatory diseases. Mix the DNA and you suddenly are on the menu. This could unleash unparalleled plagues on Mankind as species learn to appreciate new food.
It's also going to be leadin to man scientists wanting to play God like the good folks at Wuhan did with Gain of Function research.
And we never know how our spiffy new genetic experiments are going to turn out. The law of unintended consequences is a real thing.
And we never know how our spiffy new genetic experiments are going to turn out. The law of unintended consequences is a real thing, and the stakes are far too high here. This isn't like other new technology; it alters the very core of our bodies and threatens the integrity of our species. Once altered there is no going back. We could be staring down an evolutionary blind alley.
Oh, we might be able to restore our human DNA,but I suspect once the damage is done it will be very difficult to undo.
I think transhumanism is a Pandora's Box and we are eagerly opening it.
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April 25, 2024
The "whistleblower" in the Trump call to Zelensky that led to his impeachment was up to his eyeballs with the Biden Crime Family in dirty dealings with Ukraine.
Eric Ciaramella was Adam Schiff's star witness against Trump in the impeachment. Turns out Ciaramella had been heavily involved in Biden's family business dealings in Ukraine, as proven by e-mails, and he was the target of investigations by Ukrainian officials.
Cinnibun was the right hand man of the muslim communist disgraced CIA director John Brennan.
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Dick "Turban" Durbin wants to give the right to vote to illegal aliens.
From the Blaze:
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and his fellow Senate Democrats recently sent a letter to Joe Biden demanding a quick path to legal status for the more than 10 million illegal aliens who have entered the United States since 2021.
Those who say the threat of noncitizen voting is unfounded either aren’t paying attention or are simply lying.
[...]
States have already been denied access to federal migrant tracking databases, thereby preventing comprehensive voter registration citizenship checks.
We are already registering millions of new arrivals for federal social service programs, which have voter registration attached by mandate of the National Voter Registration Act. Those who say the threat of noncitizen voting is unfounded either aren’t paying attention or are simply lying.
Could Durbin’s missive lead to an executive order granting amnesty and citizenship status? Absolutely.
Read Durbin’s list of demands for yourself. He demands the millions who came here illegally be granted a quick path to legal status, and he wants U.S. taxpayers pay for it. He demands full citizenship rights, which would include the right to vote. He demands that America change forever, without citizens ever having a vote or even a say about it.
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This will be done in violation of the Constitution, of state laws, and without the consent of the People.
This is the act of tyrants.
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