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And other things that come to mind.<br> <i>Click for <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SenseOfEvents">Feedburner site</a> </i>or <i><a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/?m=1">Smartphone Site</a></i></center>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger5464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-283241667964602223Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:03:00 +00002024-11-06T09:03:08.005-06:00HumorSatire Canada to build border wall, demand Elon Musk pay for it&nbsp;OTTAWA, CANADA, Nov. 6 -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this morning that he will work closely with the Canadian parliament to rush building a wall along the country's border with the United States to halt the mass immigration to Canada of American leftists, journalists, and celebrities fleeing after Donald Trump attained victory in the American presidential race.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBc8_UCF9MuS9-Ea4LUH6nf3biW6OpO_FEt_YdSBVLHXrdVOu4mYBLFULpYMw9BWbLp7cDjdHHKywFvU3vZaLNqZ5N16QBA4HA9FeHs-uRN3VKo-oZnNWrOpTgK23sTbgXjdFOuT6nfQ/s1600/Canada+wall+model.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBc8_UCF9MuS9-Ea4LUH6nf3biW6OpO_FEt_YdSBVLHXrdVOu4mYBLFULpYMw9BWbLp7cDjdHHKywFvU3vZaLNqZ5N16QBA4HA9FeHs-uRN3VKo-oZnNWrOpTgK23sTbgXjdFOuT6nfQ/s640/Canada+wall+model.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>Coming to a Canadian border near you</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The prime minister, noting that Canada's immigration web site had&nbsp;<a href="http://heatst.com/politics/canadas-immigration-site-crashes-as-liberals-panic/">crashed in 2016 as American liberals panicked</a>, said that action to stop the Americans' looming, illegal border crossings was urgently needed.&nbsp;<br /><br />"We cannot accept large numbers of American, left-wing sore losers coming to Canada just because the Donald Trump will be the next president, even if Elon Musk, world's wealthiest man,&nbsp;will take charge of slashing the scope and size of the American government," Prime Minister Trudeau told a chapter meeting of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "Anyone caught crossing into Canada without authority will be deported."<br /><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dJpwMEGfrojUq1rjxk43PA061EaG1pR3b1Vz8r0hHeiSPX719qXCM6wrNHJhObfHq2YpL-G_m1mxn2cCUEaRjlz4I16kC2fe5NlUoYycf49Q6A7CLKAyNJ2whsV1XMNXLOGS3TABaqU/s1600/trudeau_transparency_20140611.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dJpwMEGfrojUq1rjxk43PA061EaG1pR3b1Vz8r0hHeiSPX719qXCM6wrNHJhObfHq2YpL-G_m1mxn2cCUEaRjlz4I16kC2fe5NlUoYycf49Q6A7CLKAyNJ2whsV1XMNXLOGS3TABaqU/s400/trudeau_transparency_20140611.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>Loves American leftists, in America</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>"To that end," the prime minister continued, "I will go to Parliament tomorrow to ask funding to build a wall along the entire border of the United States and Canada, including with Alaska, to prevent mass, illegal immigration of angry mobs of Lefties from coming here.<br /><br />"Yes, that distance is more than eight thousand, eight hundred kilometers and the wall will be fantastically expensive, but it must be done."<br /><br />Asked how much money the project was expected to cost, the prime minister responded, "President Trump campaigned that he would wall off Mexico, three thousand, one hundred kilometers, at a cost of ten billion dollars, so do that math yourself. Not cheap. But don't worry because I am going to get Elon Musk to pay for the wall."<br /><br />"How are you going to do that?" asked a reporter.<br /><br />"I've got a plan," Prime Minister Trudeau replied. "It's a great plan, a fantastic plan, really. Best plan ever. Huge ideas about that, huge. You'll see."<br /></div></div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2024/11/canada-to-build-border-wall-demand-elon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-5358329347747606722Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:47:00 +00002022-01-21T12:00:42.258-06:00domestic politicsElection 2022LeftismLegal issuesTotalismElections are supposed to be rigged!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Adapted from my <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/10/of-course-election-is-rigged.html">post of October 2016</a>&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Hill, yesterday after President Biden's two-hour press conference:&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590511-biden-says-elections-might-not-be-legitimate-if-the-election-reform">Biden says elections might not be legitimate if reform bills aren't passed</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">President Biden on Wednesday said the legitimacy of the upcoming midterm elections could depend on Democrats passing voting rights legislation.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I’m not saying it’s going to be legit. The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed,” Biden said during his second solo press conference at the White House, referring to the 2022 election. ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The president responded that it “depends” earlier in the press conference when asked if he thinks the upcoming election results will be legitimate if voting rights legislation doesn’t pass.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Well, it all depends on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election,” he said.</div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBJZU-GDZWo6k1yzkZL5mZKgZVo5-JROT0Fhv08T7NxTaI9B86EektViCu_Mod1IHI3eFeJSFkdVGuGmK_fVFnAU4Z3eXvEAPyN86S8jcuPyz2wbZgxX2UzTe90nxjcwn-SaNCZf_yiQ/s1600/Rigging+elections.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBJZU-GDZWo6k1yzkZL5mZKgZVo5-JROT0Fhv08T7NxTaI9B86EektViCu_Mod1IHI3eFeJSFkdVGuGmK_fVFnAU4Z3eXvEAPyN86S8jcuPyz2wbZgxX2UzTe90nxjcwn-SaNCZf_yiQ/s400/Rigging+elections.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> I have posted to some extent on how <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/search?q=elections+rigged">American elections are rigged</a>.<br /> <br /> Just before the 2016 election, George Will, a solid member of the Political Class, albeit mostly on the Right, saying that rig attempts are well known: "<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/10/17/george_will_trump_has_point_that_elections_are_rigged_if_he_would_just_make_it_more_clearly.html">Trump Has Point That Elections Are Rigged If He Would Just Make It More Clearly</a>."<br /> <br /> Then there is long-time DNC operative Bob Creamer <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/18/more-veritas-fallout-bob-creamer-steps-away-from-clinton-campaign/?singlepage=true">explaining how any why the Democrats rig elections, on camera</a> (warning, frank language). He clearly says that law and ethics have nothing to do with Democrat campaigns, the only point is to win, period. Nothing more, but absolutely nothing less.<br /> <br /> By the way, How deeply in the middle of Democrat party operations is Bob Creamer. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/exposed-dem-operative-who-oversaw-trump-rally-agitators-visited-white-house-342-times/">Well, he</a> ...<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ... has visited the White House 342 times since 2009, White House records show.<br /> <br /> Robert Creamer, who acted as a middle man between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and “protesters” who tried — and succeeded — to provoke violence at Trump rallies met with President Obama 47 times, according to White House records. Creamer’s last visit was in June 2016.</blockquote> During Obama's entire term until June 30, 2016, there were&nbsp;2,717 days. That is equal to 388 weeks. That means that Creamer went to the White House almost <i>every week</i>&nbsp;of Obama's entire tenure until the end of last June. And this guy's main mission in life, if not his only one, was to use violence and otherwise corrupt and influence elections outside the law.<br /> <br /> But as I have pointed out already, in Marxist, which is to say Democrat, theory, elections are <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/02/lying-down-with-dogs-and-marxists.html"><i>supposed</i> to be rigged</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What is the purpose of this elaborate extravaganza? Marxists have long noted that insofar as its stated purpose is concerned–determining the question of political power in modern society–it is no more than a charade, a political sleight of hand in which the more things seem to change, the more do they remain the same. But Marxists do not deserve any special credit for making such an observation. One hardly has to be a Marxist to grasp the fact that bourgeois elections do not, in any way, impinge upon or alter questions of power. The general cynicism among the masses toward politics and politicians–a cynicism which runs far deeper than can be measured solely by noting the large numbers of people who do not bother to vote in elections–is itself proof that the futility and corruption of bourgeois politics has become a part of U.S. folklore.<br /> <br /> (Paul Saba, 1980, "Reaffirming the Marxist Theory of the State")</blockquote> Here is the George Will transcript:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> When Mr. Trump talks about it being rigged, he sweeps all his grievances into one big puddle. He talked about the media. He talked about the primaries. He talked about the polls. Talked about the Republican National Committee. I think when most persons hear that an election is rigged, they think of government action to rig the election. And there Mr. Trump has a point if he would just make it more clearly.<br /> <br /> It is hard to think of an innocent reason why Democrats spend so much time, energy and money, scarce resources all, resisting attempts to purge the voter rolls, that is to remove people who are dead or otherwise have left the jurisdiction. It's hard to think of an innocent reason why they fight so tremendously against Voter I.D. laws. They say, well that burdens the exercise of a fundamental right. The Supreme Court has said that travel is a fundamental right and no one thinks that showing an I.D. at the airport burdens that fundamental right.<br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> We know -- we don't surmise -- we know that the 2010, '12 and '14 elections were rigged by the most intrusive and potentially punitive institution of the federal government, the IRS. You can read all about it in Kim Strassel's book Intimidation Game. She's familiar to all Wall Street Journal readers and FOX viewers. This is not a surmise. I have talked to lawyers in a position to know they say it's still going on. The IRS is still intolerantly delaying the granting of tax exempt to conservative advocacy groups to skew the persuasion of this campaign.</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In Marxist theory the whole point of elections is to give the proles the illusion that they have a say in the outcome and how the country is run. But they don't and they shouldn't. At least, not by the bourgeois world view.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">What Marxists should do about this was debated quite a bit before the Russian Revolution. On the one hand, a faction believed that once the workers had cast off their chains and appropriated the means of production (the industrial plant), then the proletariat would be able to vote truly and well because the capitalist bourgeoisie would not be allowed or able to blinker them and the natural purity of their proletariat hearts. Hence, right away elections could continue to be&nbsp;held&nbsp;and this time, dadgummit, they actually would mean something.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The competing view, held by the Russian Bolsheviks, was that they were the "vanguard of the revolution" and that therefore Marx's instruction of the necessity of a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat -- meaning by Lenin and his gang, not the general proletariat - was the key to bringing forth&nbsp;</span><a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2003/09/why-planned-economies-cannot-succeed.html" style="background-color: white; color: #940f04; text-decoration-line: none;">True Communism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin: 1em 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Marxism-Leninism, true communism was a state in which material production was so great that all human needs were met without shortage. Greed would therefore disappear and the inherent but capitalist-suppressed natural nobility of men and women would emerge. They would be transformed into true communists - altruists who worked each day for the good of the people, not for crass, selfish profit.&nbsp;</span></blockquote></div><div>The vanguard revolutionaries understood that to leap from workers in chains, unaware of how deluded and ignorant they really were, and in political infancy, to the status of the True Communist Man was stupidly unrealistic. So their own dictatorship was a deplorable but critically-important step to bring the long-oppressed and unenlightened proles to political maturity and understanding. Truly fair, honest and meaningful elections certainly would be held - <i>eventually</i>. Just not yet. But trust us, it's right around the corner, any day now. Forever.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Remember, the point of Marxist revolutions is not to empower the people, it is to brings the reins of state power to the Marxist revolutionaries. Which always means the Vanguard because for the proles' own good the vanguard of the revolution (maybe in its fifth generation by now!) must also be the conservators of the revolution. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rl_pBBf5WyzfbYEiWa3lSXbHYnYrzZVHGdKn_WMK7kZ35D7dMuAoTQSht4XdXYWaINvyFq3tpO3vwKUCgvUzx6O_FOJz3TblLQ-2sH4O47ZkoP1yAhWD6-TxqiwM_1jH7Jm9wnS0AKg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rl_pBBf5WyzfbYEiWa3lSXbHYnYrzZVHGdKn_WMK7kZ35D7dMuAoTQSht4XdXYWaINvyFq3tpO3vwKUCgvUzx6O_FOJz3TblLQ-2sH4O47ZkoP1yAhWD6-TxqiwM_1jH7Jm9wnS0AKg/w508-h240/image.png" width="508" /></a></div><br />Sadly, very sadly, all of this was foretold by American statesmen and observers more than 150 years ago:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>"I shall assume the privilege of advancing years in reference to another growing and dangerous evil. In the last age, although our fathers, like ourselves, were divided into political parties which often had severe conflicts with each other, yet we never heard until within a recent period of the employment of money to carry elections. Should this practice increase until the voters and their representatives in the State and National Legislatures shall become infected, the fountain of free government will be poisoned at its source, and we must end, as history proves, in a military despotism. A democratic republic, all agree, cannot long survive unless sustained by public virtue. When this is corrupted, and the people become venal, there is a canker at the root of the tree of liberty which will cause it to wither and to die."</i></blockquote> --&nbsp;<a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/charles_mackay_1858_a_cor.php">Charles Mackay, 1858: “A corrupt republic is tainted in its blood, and bears the seeds of death in every pulsation.”</a>&nbsp;<b>Read the whole thing.</b><br /> <b><br /> </b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhersdCWbOtz9C_RR6y2kTvMf6j4GlePPrh0gNXxp28XHwNPiuPHMOHOV08xSzD36t_kWdLr6FDl7gRP3zXIXwkYX9sqASuEp-1G847GUYVVbKiW7qHsMlgNgdJm2duJK8vKvQgt5obfJM/s1600/Rigging+elections+voting+machine+Q.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhersdCWbOtz9C_RR6y2kTvMf6j4GlePPrh0gNXxp28XHwNPiuPHMOHOV08xSzD36t_kWdLr6FDl7gRP3zXIXwkYX9sqASuEp-1G847GUYVVbKiW7qHsMlgNgdJm2duJK8vKvQgt5obfJM/s400/Rigging+elections+voting+machine+Q.png" width="400" /></a></div> <b><br /></b>"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin.<br /> <br /> Or nowadays, the people who <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-people-who-cast-votes-decide-nothing.html">hack the votes decide everything</a>.<br /> <br /> The Pew Center says, in masterful understatement, that "<a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf">America’s Voter Registration System</a><br /> <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf">Needs an Upgrade</a>."<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTCrKtmhNT3Ti90C3Tg-a7ctmGxqw5SJEDlwS0wjd6xHYyB3zg4u323eU9Cz-RDZIeIMYWfMYcQ4KBNlBu6F9GjKqbn115Zyh3GX1w8SplbWUmTmVxPLaxcaD25MKDxWUStSwI-sX_Is/s1600/elections+voter+problems+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTCrKtmhNT3Ti90C3Tg-a7ctmGxqw5SJEDlwS0wjd6xHYyB3zg4u323eU9Cz-RDZIeIMYWfMYcQ4KBNlBu6F9GjKqbn115Zyh3GX1w8SplbWUmTmVxPLaxcaD25MKDxWUStSwI-sX_Is/s320/elections+voter+problems+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAwSwrZ1v0SNU701OE3FbjdyqNquihfVm_wb9hGQ2opcJzMvFKTKeu-jFGvushc9KU-cExt7j7960G7lbaqR97tgMgTVGuiq7z_OungWuOilSdgAvGEmhAuWJ0kCRwIpzwe0v_0dcfMw/s1600/elections+voter+problems+1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAwSwrZ1v0SNU701OE3FbjdyqNquihfVm_wb9hGQ2opcJzMvFKTKeu-jFGvushc9KU-cExt7j7960G7lbaqR97tgMgTVGuiq7z_OungWuOilSdgAvGEmhAuWJ0kCRwIpzwe0v_0dcfMw/s320/elections+voter+problems+1.JPG" width="251" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Update:</b><br /> <b><br /></b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uOaZGFIvYD-9XbDKkO8di8dBxZ5whta2_UGaxleWzi5p-V4UObsljWyYKYUA9D71Ji74bKoy1-TqMisk3iPEs-83P63eCDwOjmtZqW3K3gOaGDo5PrhIoiupPODLapyrGyY9aQAr94k/s1600/Obama+party+in+power+can+rig+elections.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uOaZGFIvYD-9XbDKkO8di8dBxZ5whta2_UGaxleWzi5p-V4UObsljWyYKYUA9D71Ji74bKoy1-TqMisk3iPEs-83P63eCDwOjmtZqW3K3gOaGDo5PrhIoiupPODLapyrGyY9aQAr94k/s400/Obama+party+in+power+can+rig+elections.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <b><br /></b> <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/789834223922196480">Watch it here</a>.<div><br /></div><div><b>Update</b>: Actually, Democrats have a long history of saying the elections they lost are illegitimate:&nbsp;<div><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/21/biden_is_not_alone_democrats_have_been_delegitimizing_elections_for_years_147073.html">Biden Is Not Alone. Democrats Have Been Delegitimizing Elections for Years</a>.</div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a></div>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/10/of-course-election-is-rigged.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6721022748790684525Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:36:00 +00002021-11-27T09:36:39.340-06:00business and commercedomestic politicseconomicsenergyForeign Affairs"The enemy gets a vote"<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26cC34G6IJb5GGGrALICeRfa7AKL1ERl_fLFJB1sZTaBUxAPC8RiaEkgv0KuMr6iZpKy6j7_xVR4nQshks9yGtS2tjZ_T39uC1xdG-0x5Qhv_zNm2CDBT-atKHunnDFw-aUv3jjftyOU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="2041" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26cC34G6IJb5GGGrALICeRfa7AKL1ERl_fLFJB1sZTaBUxAPC8RiaEkgv0KuMr6iZpKy6j7_xVR4nQshks9yGtS2tjZ_T39uC1xdG-0x5Qhv_zNm2CDBT-atKHunnDFw-aUv3jjftyOU/w545-h391/image.png" width="545" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Way back in the last millennium when I wrote or helped write operations plans for the US Army, I always remembered a catch phrase we planners had used for a long time: "The enemy gets a vote." </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which is to say that when we acted, the enemy reacted and almost immediately the plan's assumptions would be negated. That's why we also said, "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." Dwight D. Eisenhower put it this way: "Planning is absolutely essential, but plans are useless." </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And so we come to this administration trying to manage the world's oil supply. Bureaucrats' plans bear all the hallmarks of "static analysis," when planners assume there is only one variable and that they can control it, and nothing else changes and the result is always unicorns and rainbows. This is, ahem, especially true under Democrat administrations, and nowhere more in evidence than the current administration's energy policy, headed by a publicly inept Secretary of Energy who admitted on camera that she has no idea how much oil the United States uses per day. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She also said that the Biden administration cannot do anything to bring oil prices down because oil prices are "controlled" by OPEC.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But don't worry because President Biden has announced that OPEC should increase production and that he is ordering 50 million barrels of oil to be released from the US Strategic Oil Reserves (SPR). That'll show 'em! </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMOKJ83RZ-3G25WGSQwSVrziMn3W0lpmwipirB32iQI77ZJwcRUJNdTRkDFsN1jg2S3D3dmvwTdXRk5dYg29WcaJ34SGRYx3NUYqx1Ad9xsJntMGsTC8sKEZsOD4m2MgToU4kmFffkfk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1138" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMOKJ83RZ-3G25WGSQwSVrziMn3W0lpmwipirB32iQI77ZJwcRUJNdTRkDFsN1jg2S3D3dmvwTdXRk5dYg29WcaJ34SGRYx3NUYqx1Ad9xsJntMGsTC8sKEZsOD4m2MgToU4kmFffkfk/w486-h311/image.png" width="486" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an excerpt from the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/23/president-biden-announces-release-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-as-part-of-ongoing-efforts-to-lower-prices-and-address-lack-of-supply-around-the-world/">White House press release</a>:</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"></div></div><blockquote><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in two ways:</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">32 million barrels will be an exchange over the next several months, releasing oil that will eventually return to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the years ahead. The exchange is a tool matched to today’s specific economic environment, where markets expect future oil prices to be lower than they are today, and helps provide relief to Americans immediately and bridge to that period of expected lower oil prices. The exchange also automatically provides for re-stocking of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over time to meet future needs.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">18 million barrels will be an acceleration into the next several months of a sale of oil that Congress had previously authorized.</div></div></blockquote><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That final graf means that 36 percent of the oil released will be sold to other countries, including China. The 32 million barrels released to US oil companies will take place " over the next several months." Last year, the US used just more than <a href="https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&amp;t=6">18 million barrels of oil per day</a>, but that was in a year of low economic activity. This year's figures have not been published but are certain to be significantly higher. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But using only 2020's consumption, what the White House announced is that over the next several MONTHs the administration will add a grand total of 1-2/3 days of oil to the American market. Wow!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But wait! There's more! I gotcher proof that static analysis is useless rat cheer! OPEC decided it gets a vote! Hey, where did they get that idea? </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The administration said that it would release 32M barrels to the US economy over time, expecting it to drive down oil prices, then purchase 32M barrels for the SPR at lower prices than today's. (India and Japan also said they would release oil from their national reserves.) </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So OPEC plus Russia basically said, "Lower prices later? Nope, not a chance. We will simply cut production by at least an equal amount that you are releasing." </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Who could not have seen this coming? Only this White House and its Secretary of Energy.</div></div> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-enemy-gets-vote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-5093609410277090925Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:20:00 +00002021-04-18T15:20:37.603-05:00AmericaAmerica TodayFreedom and LibertyLaw EnforcementThe point of urging lawlessness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAyCoTQIPby-TguL7-9Bhah-FunHBsWB5hn7muKw5XFyvURM-RfSSuTF7OjqVZ1NSCR9AMdYGpilA9FPWT05u6N2YKRMUDGoPjcCh_lC3dzS-TD79jPyeA0izI3Sg7vfsL998ioRtM44/s1080/Officer+Parker+argue+over+a+cookie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAyCoTQIPby-TguL7-9Bhah-FunHBsWB5hn7muKw5XFyvURM-RfSSuTF7OjqVZ1NSCR9AMdYGpilA9FPWT05u6N2YKRMUDGoPjcCh_lC3dzS-TD79jPyeA0izI3Sg7vfsL998ioRtM44/w485-h364/Officer+Parker+argue+over+a+cookie.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-point-of-urging-lawlessness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-8373265138350146352Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:36:00 +00002020-07-26T13:36:46.460-05:00LeftismRacismReligionWokenessWokeness is in fact a religionKatherine Kersten of the StarTribune explains why <a href="https://www.startribune.com/racial-justice-the-new-religion/571899352/" target="_blank">Woke is the new Puritanism</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What is unfolding before our eyes is a new secular religion. For all its claims of “inclusivity,” this new faith is deeply intolerant. It has roots in the American past that would likely surprise its adherents: the Puritan era of our nation’s earliest religious zealots. Progressives are now engaged in doing theology without God. “ Woke is the new Saved,” in the words of commentator John Zmirak.<br /><br />Parallels abound. One of Puritan theology’s core tenets is “innate depravity” — the doctrine that humans are inherently wicked as a result of original sin. The woke faith preaches an updated version: America’s original sin is white supremacy.</blockquote> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/wokeness-is-in-fact-religion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-5420167533736254906Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:32:00 +00002020-07-27T08:22:33.104-05:00CorruptionCrime and punishmentLaw EnforcementLeftismLegal issuesRiots 2020Seattle police call it quits. What's next? Vigilantism<i><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/seattle-police-chief-to-residents-the-police-cannot-enforce-the-law-you-are-on-your-own/" target="_blank">Something will fill the vacuum left by police, and it seems doubtful the left will like the results.</a></i><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeeQRNCUKYXEBs6PJqYaFk3s3yq2DHzak6_QALEYReFQgnHPB2cSoz7UaivXdmm1J8u4Cm5yXICJYPscqXDlwS2F96yKKTgffY9LoYJP-Ema2X0ghZd64F8hH6BPWiZgfwn8JkKf0SjE/s1600/Seattle+chief+of+police.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1280" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeeQRNCUKYXEBs6PJqYaFk3s3yq2DHzak6_QALEYReFQgnHPB2cSoz7UaivXdmm1J8u4Cm5yXICJYPscqXDlwS2F96yKKTgffY9LoYJP-Ema2X0ghZd64F8hH6BPWiZgfwn8JkKf0SjE/s400/Seattle+chief+of+police.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best</td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> &nbsp;<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Seattle police&nbsp;<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2042993/seattle-police-chief-warns-council-crowd-control-ban/" style="color: #c44a01; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">cannot use any crowd-control devices</a>&nbsp;and must, effectively, let the violent, lawless rioters run free.</span><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #333333; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seattle’s police chief alerted residents that they are on their own now.</span></blockquote> <div style="color: #333333; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="more-324336" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></div> Here is Chief Best's letter to the city council:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edv-rPBUEAAXpUH?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edv-rPBUEAAXpUH?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" width="484" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> University of Tennessee law Prof. Glenn Reynolds wrote in June about the absence of police:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> We’ll see a lot of vigilante justice. And what are people gonna do about it? Call the cops? Remember, in the end the police aren’t there to protect the public from criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the public. Communities dealt with crime long before police were invented, usually in rather harsh and low-due-process ways. The bargain was, let the police handle it instead. No police, no bargain.</blockquote> Get ready, folks. Major parts of the country are about to descend to the level of the Wild Wild West.<br /> <br /> <b>Update</b>: A federal judge has ruled to overturn the Seattle city council's prohibition of non-lethal riot-control measures.<br /> <br /> A good friend of mine for 25 years lives in Seattle; he texted me yesterday,<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Last night got tense with somebody trying to burn down the court house but Feds kept their distance.&nbsp;They torched the new juvenile detention center that's being built also this weekend.</blockquote> And the link to this:&nbsp;<a href="https://patch.com/washington/gigharbor/s/h6t9t/least-45-arrested-after-seattle-police-declare-riot" target="_blank">At Least 45 Arrested After Seattle Police Declare Riot</a><br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/seattle-police-call-it-quits-whats-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-8935807077766268493Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:14:00 +00002020-07-24T09:14:04.863-05:00America TodayLeftismLinkageryMarxismMediaRiots 2020Here a link, there a link, everywhere a link link!<h1 class="post-title short unpublished" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: &quot;SF Compact Display&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0.378em 0px 0px;"> <a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-taxonomy-of-fear" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">A Taxonomy of Fear</span></a></h1> <h3 class="subtitle" style="color: #757575; font-family: &quot;SF Compact Display&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 4px 0px 0px;"> There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced. Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment.</h3> <br /> Once you get through the pro-forma but irrelevant up-front Trump dumping, the article seems right on target. And obviously related:<br /> <br /> <h1 class="heading text-2xl md:text-4xl text-black" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 228, 228); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/culture/survey-majority-of-americans-afraid-of-expressing-political-beliefs/" target="_blank">Survey: Majority of Americans Afraid of Expressing Political Beliefs</a></span></h1> <br /> <h1 class="huwp7ir" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: &quot;Blanco OSF&quot;, Garamond, Times, serif; line-height: 50.82px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are" target="_blank">Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are</a></span></h1> <h2 class="dbjv4gk" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-textTertiary); font-family: var(--fontSansSerif); font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: 300; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> If work that is of no real value has proliferated, no wonder productivity is stagnant.</h2> <br /> Overall, many good points, but I wish it had explained the influence of government in rendering so many American jobs meaningless. And speaking of jobs, look at what Seattle;s leftist leaders have done - on purpose - to job creation there:<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-safety-net-remains-unrealized" target="_blank">Seattle’s Tarnished Dream</a></span><br /> A generous safety net doesn’t mean much if you can’t find jobs or afford housing.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What went wrong?<br /><br />Lots. Social benefits for the poor aren’t worth much if the poor can’t afford housing in the city that offers them. A family looking to find a place to live in Seattle must navigate a market where the median two-bedroom apartment lists for more than $2,600 per month. Lower-income families have been priced out into the suburbs. Drive south from Seattle into neighboring Tukwila, and you’ll see the child-poverty rate nearly triple, from 10 percent to almost 30 percent.</blockquote> Remember - this was done to Seattle <i>on purpose</i>.<br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a class="external" data-wpel-link="external" href="http://americandigest.org/strange-daze-26/" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="color: #dd0000; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Will 2021 Be 1984? - American Greatness"><span style="font-size: large;">If Joe Biden is elected, the effort to remove him by those now supporting him will begin the day after the election</span></a></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;and it will not be as crude as rounding up a Yale psychiatrist to testify to his dementia in Congress or shaming the White House physician to give him the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test in the manner that the Left went after Donald Trump. It will be far more insidious and successful: leaked stories to the New York Times and Washington Post from empathetic White House insiders will speak of how&nbsp; “heroically” Biden is fighting his inevitable decline –and how gamely he tries to marshal his progressive forces even as his faculties desert him. We would read about why Biden is a national treasure by sacrificing his health to get elected and then nobly bowing out as he realized the cost of his sacrifice on his person and family.</span></span><br /> <br /> <h1 class="ArticlePage-headline" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto-Slab, serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/dnc-platform-mentions-whites-15-times-all-damning" target="_blank">Democratic National Committee platform mentions ‘whites’ 15 times, all damning</a></span></h1> <div> They hate half the country.&nbsp;</div> <br /> <br /> <b>Now let's look at the American media:</b><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/press-coverage-of-covid-19" target="_blank">The Media and the Virus</a></span><br /> <i>American press coverage of Covid-19 was first dismissive, then alarmist—but always condescending.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> As it unfolded in the media, the story of the pandemic was initially that of a nonevent. On January 31, Vox ran a supposedly comprehensive “explainer” about the coronavirus. There was no need for Americans to wear protective face masks, Vox said, and “really no reason to worry.” On Twitter, Vox was still more blunt: “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No.” The hectoring tone and sham certitude are Vox specialties. But Vox wasn’t alone in dismissing the virus. USA Today, the Washington Post, Canada’s National Post, and many other outlets treated the Wuhan virus (as it was then known) less as a matter of objective concern than an instance of mass hysteria.<br /><br />Their cardinal error, in almost every case, was to rely on the WHO, an organization at best egregiously mistaken and at worst politically compromised, carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping.</blockquote> <h1 class="article-header__title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: GoudyOldStyleBTW01-Bold_1120138, Cambria, Georgia, &quot;Times News Roman&quot;, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://spectator.us/video-viral-cares-fake-news/" target="_blank">If a video is viral, who cares if it’s fake?</a></span></h1> <h2 class="article-header__standfirst" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: GoudyOldStyleBTW01-Ital, Cambria, Georgia, &quot;Times News Roman&quot;, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 537.025px;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Welcome to the age of unreality</span></h2> Remember, for the Left, which includes almost all the media, truth means the <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortezs-revolutionary-truth.html" target="_blank">Leninist concept of Revolutionary Truth</a>, and that is how they speak and act and write and broadcast. All the time.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> Like this:<br /> <br /> <h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; display: inline-block; font-family: &quot;Arbutus Slab&quot;, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/new-fbi-notes-re-debunk-major-nyt-story-highlight-media-collusion-to-produce-russia-hoax/" target="_blank">New FBI Notes Re-Debunk Major NYT Story, Highlight Media Collusion To Produce Russia Hoax</a></span></h2> <span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: &quot;PT Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"></span><br /> <div class="subtitle" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4f; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: -15px 30px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> The New York Times in 2017 falsely reported that the Trump campaign had 'repeated' contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the 2016 campaign, and instead of being held accountable for publishing lies, the story's authors received Pulitzer prizes.</div> <br /> <h2 class="title" style="background-color: white; color: #5b6265; font-family: arial; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.odditycentral.com/news/deepfake-journalist-is-a-terrifying-sign-of-things-to-come.html" rel="bookmark" style="color: #296181; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permanent Link to Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come"><span style="font-size: large;">Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come</span></a></h2> We have entered a time when there is not merely fake news, but fake journalists. That is, byines and images of a writer who does not exist in the real world. We are entering the time of Matrix reality, where material and virtual reality are merging.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/07/23/nets-portland-coverage-evaporates-after-antifa-attempted" target="_blank">Nets’ Portland Coverage Evaporates After Antifa Attempted to MURDER Agents</a></span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday night saw a major escalation in the conflict at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon as Antifa terrorists and rioters barricaded federal agents inside the building and tried to set the building ablaze. It was a provocation that could have killed the untold number of agents in the building.&nbsp;Luckily, Antifa failed. But during the Thursday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Portland coverage largely evaporated, with only&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">NBC Nightly News</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">&nbsp;daring to downplay the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rioters-barricaded-dhs-officers-in-portland-courthouse-and-tried-to-set-it-on-fire?fbclid=IwAR1byPkD-eQGAnJHZ36gYHV7ZFY3Q4fXVBzDg-KhQHSH9TX3764NvSm1jXU" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 47, 135) !important; cursor: pointer; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">attempted murder</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">.</span></span></blockquote> <h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: &quot;Graphik Web&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Fox Sports to add virtual crowds to MLB ballparks</span></h1> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Fox Sports announced Thursday it will include computer-generated fans in otherwise empty stadiums for its telecasts this season, starting on Saturday.<br /><br />“We believe that what we’re doing is creating a natural viewing experience,” said Fox Sports Vice President Brad Zager. “Sports is supposed to be an escape and when people have that escape we want it to feel as normal as possible when there’s very little normalcy, like a crowd at a baseball game on a Saturday."<br /><br />"We’re not looking to fool everyone. We know it is a virtual crowd. But we also know how jarring watching a game in an empty stadium is on TV," Zager added.&nbsp;</blockquote> And that's a wrap.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/here-link-there-link-everywhere-link.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-3514639318132927925Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:33:00 +00002020-07-23T08:33:16.794-05:00DemocratsHealth and medicalHistoryLeftismPublic policyHow to kill black people and be praised for it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb2Ybmvn2nJOZP4KhT31rwRUnPlQqqJ79zuXfzaZ9OCeRQKo6WrfZBwdReowWByj7DNi6hxTe3vXO1tspiRBmko7R4QxdKGGbkqrO-xo7nr0urYqoK6ppZ1jDcfOUp_NG2S3FkWSkFMo/s1600/Margaret+Sanger+NYT+Photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb2Ybmvn2nJOZP4KhT31rwRUnPlQqqJ79zuXfzaZ9OCeRQKo6WrfZBwdReowWByj7DNi6hxTe3vXO1tspiRBmko7R4QxdKGGbkqrO-xo7nr0urYqoK6ppZ1jDcfOUp_NG2S3FkWSkFMo/s1600/Margaret+Sanger+NYT+Photo.JPG" /></a></div> <br /> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html" target="_blank">Click for NYT article</a>.<br /> <br /> USA Today:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/23/racism-eugenics-margaret-sanger-deserves-no-honors-column/5480192002/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood founder tied to eugenics and racism</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> For those identifying historical figures with racist roots who should be removed from public view because of their evil histories, Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, must join that list. In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.” ...<br /><br />In a 1939 letter to Dr. C. J. Gamble, Sanger urged him to get over his reluctance to hire “a full time Negro physician” as the “colored Negroes…can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubt.”<br /><br />Like the abortion lobby today, Sanger urged Dr. Gamble to enlist the help of spiritual leaders to justify their deadly work, writing, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” ...<br />&nbsp;<br />Cultural icon Kanye West has made headlines with his recent statements on Planned Parenthoodabortion vendors, which he said have "been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.” He’s right about the locations of the businesses.<br /><br />The vast majority of the abortion vendors have set up shop in minority neighborhoods, which can be seen in the scarce statistics available at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though they are only 13% of the female population, African Americans made up 38% of all abortions tracked in 2016.</blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2015/08/unborn-democrats.html" target="_blank">If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong</a>.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipS0QSoxqd2jIbQHgP9uhgapEqQ4QzTlbaPMwPNxNL0QpLi7FtZsNPF4i_K6KhN5NA2uwotYAcGRGRuFLwqUN_91RQR5Ys0tpXmX2q97Y8rRw5FepldPbtzBZ4_m4S2HSYFMk0L4OdLFk/s1600/Abortion+african-americans-abortion-billboard-AFP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="475" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipS0QSoxqd2jIbQHgP9uhgapEqQ4QzTlbaPMwPNxNL0QpLi7FtZsNPF4i_K6KhN5NA2uwotYAcGRGRuFLwqUN_91RQR5Ys0tpXmX2q97Y8rRw5FepldPbtzBZ4_m4S2HSYFMk0L4OdLFk/s400/Abortion+african-americans-abortion-billboard-AFP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1000" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzA5bNVKW5900_U_djE3FtuMRm7pZyt5xorReKTlGpvLW7O9lGb25ti5CP2Es7JMwvKUBGRSPIFx1YlBXmGeUK90YBZ0yaGdlezYNgg2ei6_Q26W19YLpThhH4bvn4pn78bwDJYNB6Lc/s400/Abortion+some+lives+matter+less.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-kill-black-people-and-be-praised.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-8687403939771848434Wed, 22 Jul 2020 23:25:00 +00002020-07-22T18:26:24.709-05:00Constitutional issuesCovid-19Crime and punishmentCurrent EventsLeftismRiots 2020What Defund the Police hath wrought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6UDjUNalWRH0ZNHkXlRsMqNGgErOgdVG0enjqIVkln_66vyU1skAXUK3aFdQOpayFCSE5DFQHRtrELJ_gTnT2_xVTPjfStNmtwqCN5X6uoUcihYnavVR7gI7bQG28kxkBp1cqkIA_QE/s1600/My+FB+post+on+increased+gun+sales+CNN+link.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6UDjUNalWRH0ZNHkXlRsMqNGgErOgdVG0enjqIVkln_66vyU1skAXUK3aFdQOpayFCSE5DFQHRtrELJ_gTnT2_xVTPjfStNmtwqCN5X6uoUcihYnavVR7gI7bQG28kxkBp1cqkIA_QE/s1600/My+FB+post+on+increased+gun+sales+CNN+link.JPG" /></a></div> <br /> This is <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/24/business/gun-sales-spike/index.html" target="_blank">the link to article</a>.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/what-defund-police-hath-wrought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-3432271831840582549Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:55:00 +00002020-07-21T08:55:47.032-05:00ChristianityCovid-19DemocratsdemographicsHistoryLeftismLinkageryRacismVideosLink this, sucker!<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521" target="_blank">Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>Why is this a problem?</i>You might think this is great for the environment. A smaller population would reduce carbon emissions as well as deforestation for farmland.<br /><br />"That would be true except for the inverted age structure (more old people than young people) and all the uniformly negative consequences of an inverted age structure," says Prof Murray.<br /><br />The study projects:<ul> <li>The number of under-fives will fall from 681 million in 2017 to 401 million in 2100.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The number of over 80-year-olds will soar from 141 million in 2017 to 866 million in 2100.</li> </ul> Prof Murray adds: "It will create enormous social change. It makes me worried because I have an eight-year-old daughter and I wonder what the world will be like."<br /><br />Who pays tax in a massively aged world? Who pays for healthcare for the elderly? Who looks after the elderly? Will people still be able to retire from work?<br /><br />"We need a soft landing," argues Prof Murray. ...<br /><br />Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, University College London (UCL), said: "If these predictions are even half accurate, migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option.<br />"To be successful we need a fundamental rethink of global politics.&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The distribution of working-age populations will be crucial to whether humanity prospers or withers."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/glenn-loury-structural-racism-catastrophe/" target="_blank">‘We Teeter On The Brink Of Catastrophe’</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The center cannot hold. We teeter on the brink of catastrophe."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-revolution-is-winning/" target="_blank">The Revolution Is Winning</a><br /> <i>Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia</i><br /> <br /> <a href="https://c2cjournal.ca/2015/03/twenty-years-a-fool-my-long-journey-home-from-the-left/" target="_blank">Twenty Years A Fool: My Long Journey Home From The Left</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Elizabeth Nickson’s story has all the makings of a Hollywood bio pic: A Westmount exile, who rebels against power and privilege, becomes a globe-trotting leftist journalist chronicling the great revolutionary narratives of her time. Then she sets out to discover the awful truth about her patriarchal 400-year-old colonist clan and everything changes. But Hollywood won’t touch her script because what she finds are eternal truths, about love, charity, sacrifice, Christianity and genuine freedom. ...</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The first thing I discovered was that they were Christian. And I mean very, very Christian. This was unnerving since on the intellectual left, faith in God, and particularly Christ, signifies a weak mind. But these people were anything but weak."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-this-old-apollo-footage-get-upgraded-into-a-60-fps-masterpiece" target="_blank">Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI, And The Results Are Incredible</a><br /> <br /> That is no exaggeration.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/30/why-rioters-will-eventually-turn-their-rage-on-christianity-if-not-stopped/" target="_blank">Why Rioters Will Eventually Turn Their Rage On Christianity If Not Stopped</a><br /> <i>The outrage over statues and the 'white' depictions of Christ is meant to detract us from the real endgame: the 'canceling' of Christianity itself.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The dream of Marxism is to eradicate Western civilization and replace it with itself; its reaction to the legitimate evils that have been committed by Occidentals is not reform but obliteration.<br /><br />Marxism assumes that because the windows are dirty and cracked, the entire house must be demolished. We see this same hatred today in the insurrections occurring right now. There is no reason for mobs pulling down statues of Ulysses S. Grant or Hans Christian Heg or calling for statues of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator to be removed.<br /><br />But if Western Civilization is evil, that means all the elements that went into creating Western Civilization must also be destroyed. That includes Christianity.</blockquote> <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/connecticut-pathologists-study-shows-cdc-coronavirus-test-kits-generate-30-false-positive-results/" target="_blank">Connecticut pathologist’s study shows CDC coronavirus test kits generate 30% false positive results</a><br /> <i>Other issues with the COVID-count include motorcycle fatality classified as COVID-19 death, Rhode Island reporting 113 false positive results, and Florida labs lacking negative COVID-19 results.</i><br /> <br /> <a href="https://issuesinsights.com/2020/07/20/democrats-the-party-of-science-fiction/" target="_blank">Democrats, The Party Of Science (Fiction)</a><br /> A record going back decades.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/388247/" target="_blank">Has America 2020 become like Germany's Weimar Republic?</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Yet there are some disturbing parallels, or at least echoes, of what happened during the Weimar years. First, the very emergence (or re-emergence) in the US of ideologically inspired rioting, looting, and street violence. Second, the fact that at least some of the violent factions – like Antifa – appear to be systematically organised and funded, with fairly sophisticated recruitment, training, and communications capabilities. Third, there is the truly disturbing fact that violence seems to winked at – if not actively encouraged – by sympathetic office-holders and by the ever-more-politically-one-sided media, in thrall to the political Left.<br /><br />(In Weimar Germany, too, the political armies represented the political parties, and they were protected by office-holders – and also by the courts – which were sympathetic to them. In the Weimar Republic, it was especially right-wing governments and judges who winked at right-wing or Nazi violence. Hitler, for example, was liable for severe punishment, or even the death penalty, for the Beer Hall Putsch – his attempted coup by armed force in Bavaria in 1923. Instead, after a trial by sympathetic judges, he served less than nine months “fortress confinement” in Landsberg Prison, where he&nbsp; was accommodated comfortably and free to write, or rather to dictate, Mein Kampf.)&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Politically-inspired rioting, looting, arson; bitter racial and ethnic grievances and divisions; deepening ideological antipathies. Colleges and universities that foster one-sided extemism. (The Nazis were especially strong in the Weimar-era universities.) Public officials and media who minimise or cover for violence – creating an atmosphere of impunity for one side in the political struggle. None of these are healthy symptoms.<br /><br />History – thankfully – may not repeat itself. It’s worrisome though, or at least rather creepy, when it begins to rhyme.</blockquote> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/link-this-sucker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-7033910021263764088Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:26:00 +00002020-07-20T15:26:34.531-05:00America TodayLeftismRacismWokenessGeorge Wallace approves this message!I posted a few days ago the question, "<a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-is-wokeness-so-white-supremacist.html" target="_blank">Why is Wokeness so white supremacist?</a>" in which I observed,<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It is amazing to me how today so many white race-justice warriors keep proclaiming wokeness stuff that simply echoes what bona fide white supremacists of the 1960s would have been proud to say.</blockquote> And so today, let the parodies begin! For as the subjects of the Soviet Union found out, <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-socialist-paradise-was-really-like.html" target="_blank">humor was a wonderful weapon</a> to use to undermine the regime.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ev373c7wSRg" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> They are not wrong, for according to the&nbsp;National Association of Scholars, of the 173 schools it surveyed, 76 of them, or 44%, were <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/more-than-75-colleges-host-blacks-only-graduation-ceremonies" target="_blank">offering black-only graduation ceremonies</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> These range from small private schools to big public universities. Some notable ones include Harvard, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Arizona State University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale.&nbsp;</blockquote> &nbsp;I made this meme some time ago as a parody. Now when considering the latest "Woke" demand, it is simply the truth.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k20jA14FuFxynFC7-zoM80CNnblJqKv1oJrq_ahd1lZRWmRyHnp6-1_3yehUzqKYGlA469jYGS693jzGvFLi0AFBf_C8vgSlJNjQN1hTPoKJ-1G1852t29bKguqVw0TZZAifjuhO1qI/s1600/George+Wallace+approves+with+caption.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="621" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k20jA14FuFxynFC7-zoM80CNnblJqKv1oJrq_ahd1lZRWmRyHnp6-1_3yehUzqKYGlA469jYGS693jzGvFLi0AFBf_C8vgSlJNjQN1hTPoKJ-1G1852t29bKguqVw0TZZAifjuhO1qI/s400/George+Wallace+approves+with+caption.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> This is the American Left today, folks.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/george-wallace-approves-this-message.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-8262442716695435341Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:18:00 +00002020-07-20T09:18:53.693-05:00Election 2020Freedom and LibertyGovernmentLeftismThe snobbery of the self-anointed<i>The Vision of the Anointed - Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy</i>, by Thomas Sowell -- from <a href="https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=484">a long review</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The idea that humanity can be analyzed into two major competing groups has stimulated many types of social theory. Marxist theory has occupied itself with the conflict between capitalists and proletarians. Certain kinds of modern-liberal theory have attempted to elucidate relationships between a managerial class and the populace that it tries to manage. Classical-liberal and conservative theories have focused on the conflict between people who produce wealth (whether these be considered capitalists or workers) and people who govern but do not produce.<br /> <br /> In The Vision of the Anointed, the distinguished economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell makes an important contribution to classical-liberal and conservative thought by scrutinizing the ways in which a self-consciously elite, or “anointed,” group uses ideas to maintain its power in American political life. Sowell regards American political discourse as dominated by people who are sure that they know what is good for society and who think that the good must be attained by expanded government action. This modern-liberal elite exerts its influence through institutions that live by words: the universities and public schools, the media, the liberal clergy, the bar and bench. Its dominance results from its command of the information that words convey and the attitudes that words inspire.<br /> <br /> People who live by words should live also by arguments, butas Sowell richly documentsthe modern-liberal elite is not so good at arguing as it is at finding substitutes for argument. Sowell analyzes the major substitutes. Suppose that you doubt the necessity or usefulness of some great new government program. You may first be presented with a quantity of decontextualized “facts” and abused statistics, all indicating the existence of a “crisis” that only government can resolve. If you are not converted by this show of evidence, an attempt will probably be made to shift the viewpoint: outsiders may doubt that there is a crisis of, say, homelessness, but “spokesmen for the homeless” purportedly have no doubts.<br /> <br /> There may also be an attempt simply to declare victory by relabeling current political proposals as inherent rights: it will be announced, in vague yet dogmatic terms, that everyone has a right to decent housing and that government is therefore compelled to provide it. If necessary, substantiation for this new right can be discovered in a Constitution that means whatever the latest school of jurists decides that it means.<br /> <br /> If even these methods fail to win you over, attention will be redirected from the political issue to your own failure of imagination or morality. It will be insinuated that people like you are simplistic or perversely opposed to change, lacking in compassion and allied with the “forces of greed.” (As Sowell observes, it is always the payers rather than the spenders of taxes who are considered vulnerable to the charge of greed.)</blockquote> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waEc4YbQQX0" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-snobbery-of-self-anointed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-7138020037324878500Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:10:00 +00002020-07-20T09:10:58.551-05:00LeftismRiots 2020The federal secret police<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPw5i-fNwx2tKgyErWUrh0ctQ_u19eXMz6OrRFizeqmSgROBIgo4QyafNAeTI0nddlKnD_UDGGXM5RAi8SuxFpUSZ7-dcRM86Lho0rCQ0tg7JlaGrJn4eaXGjLFeIdBNBIT3vBWj2HKs4/s1600/Portland+and+Clinton+immigrant+raid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="652" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPw5i-fNwx2tKgyErWUrh0ctQ_u19eXMz6OrRFizeqmSgROBIgo4QyafNAeTI0nddlKnD_UDGGXM5RAi8SuxFpUSZ7-dcRM86Lho0rCQ0tg7JlaGrJn4eaXGjLFeIdBNBIT3vBWj2HKs4/s640/Portland+and+Clinton+immigrant+raid.jpg" width="434" /></a></div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-federal-secret-police.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-4444804748681988877Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:25:00 +00002020-07-19T17:25:45.732-05:00ChinaHistoryMilitaryNational securityYoutubeUnrelated videos day!Three videos that have nothing to do with one another. First up, David Goldman. I have linked to David Goldman's work many times. He is a genuine China expert. This video is his July 17 online lecture for the Westminster Institute about his new book, "You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World."<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> David is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. He is the Wax Family Fellow at the Middle East Forum, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Sino-Israel Government Network and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL). According to the Claremont Review of Books, the “Spengler” columns in the Asia Times have attracted readership in the millions.</blockquote> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zPSp_cpeck" width="560"></iframe></center> Next, that which needs no introduction:<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q7rAFPtBTdk" width="560"></iframe>?</center> <br /> And one more:<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oW5R_U4DBOo" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/unrelated-videos-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6765096271984105908Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:52:00 +00002020-07-17T13:16:16.155-05:00America TodayCorruptionLeftismRacismUseful IdiotsWhy is Wokeness so white supremacist?When you have lost NYMag:&nbsp;<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html" target="_blank">Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?</a>&nbsp; About the ...<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ... anti-racism training industry, whose most famous theorist and practitioner is Robin DiAngelo, whose book <i>White Fragility</i> rocketed to the top of the New York Times best-seller list.<br /> <br /> Daniel Bergner has a long profile of DiAngelo and her fellow anti-racism trainers in the New York Times. The story is far more devastating than it might appear at a casual glance. It reveals a business model spreading kooky, harmful, and outright racist ideas. ...&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> One of DiAngelo’s favorite examples is instructive. She uses the famous story of Jackie Robinson. Rather than say “he broke through the color line,” she instructs people instead to describe him as “Jackie Robinson, the first Black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It is true, of course, that Robinson was not the first Black man who was good enough at baseball to make a major-league roster. The Brooklyn Dodgers decided, out of a combination of idealism and self-interest, to violate the norm against signing Black players. And Robinson was chosen due to a combination of his skill and extraordinary personality that allowed him to withstand the backlash in store for the first Black major leaguer. It is not an accident that DiAngelo changes the story to eliminate Robinson’s agency and obscure his heroic qualities. It’s the point. Her program treats individual merit as a myth to be debunked. Even a figure as remarkable as Robinson is reduced to a mere pawn of systemic oppression.</blockquote> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/" target="_blank">The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility</a>&nbsp;<i>The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people</i>. By John McWhorter, professor at Columbia University<br /> <br /> <a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility" target="_blank">On “White Fragility” -- A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism</a><br /> by Matt Taibi<br /> <br /> <a href="https://areomagazine.com/2020/07/14/the-orwellian-dystopia-of-robin-diangelos-phd-dissertation/" target="_blank">The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/15/what-to-read-instead-of-white-fragility/" target="_blank">What To Read Instead Of ‘White Fragility’</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqRVykYmMOImnbeibNsJFYdyc0CQxKdoq3-MIzYaTjpOLkHIGV1hM-h09r8Z1tuLWKHzZNzIZhbsvjc-L4iZPWNS4mU3Q9SNnaZwnch4SevHOUvWdgV_IQkTogDCTXWpTZECkcYi_B34/s1600/Smithsonian+White+Culture+Display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqRVykYmMOImnbeibNsJFYdyc0CQxKdoq3-MIzYaTjpOLkHIGV1hM-h09r8Z1tuLWKHzZNzIZhbsvjc-L4iZPWNS4mU3Q9SNnaZwnch4SevHOUvWdgV_IQkTogDCTXWpTZECkcYi_B34/s1600/Smithsonian+White+Culture+Display.jpg" /></a></div> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/15/smithsonian-goes-full-marxist-nuclear-family-science-christianity-all-part-of-oppressive-whiteness-n645176" target="_blank">Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ...&nbsp;the idea that Christianity being the norm is part of “whiteness” ignores the fact that black people are statistically more likely to believe the Christian gospel while white people are statistically more likely to reject the existence of God altogether. I myself belong to a Christian church that looked to Africa for leadership.</blockquote> My observation:<br /> <br /> It is amazing to me how today so many white race-justice warriors keep proclaiming wokeness stuff that simply echoes what bona fide white supremacists of the 1960s would have been proud to say.<br /> <br /> So far I have learned that any black who does not vote for Biden is not really black, and that neither is any black married couple with children living at home, especially if their kids have their own bedrooms.<br /> <br /> Which is good news, because that means the black family who lives directly across the street from me, and another three doors down, and the Chinese family who lives next door to me, and the Indian (from India) family four doors down, and the Native American family of my church - well, they are actually <i>white</i>!<br /> <br /> Whew! For a moment I thought I had to put up with living in an integrated neighborhood! But we are <i>all</i> <i>white</i>, hallelujah!<br /> <br /> Because, after all, whiteness is now officially defined as a world view and manner of living, not skin color or ancestry.<br /> <br /> July 16: the museum <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/african-american-museum-removes-whiteness-chart-race" target="_blank">withdrew the display</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has removed its controversial chart on whiteness from one of its webpages, telling people on Thursday that it didn't contribute to a "productive conversation" about racial issues.<br /> <br /> "Since yesterday, certain content in the 'Talking About Race' portal has been the subject of questions that we have taken seriously. We have listened to public sentiment and have removed a chart that does not contribute to the productive discussion we had intended," the museum said in a statement.</blockquote> Gosh, how did that happen?<br /> <br /> Speaking of white-supremacy Leftism:<br /> <br /> <iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="633" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdsensing%2Fposts%2F10159058053404057&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=633&amp;appId" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="552"></iframe><br /> <br /> Once again:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlo5jq30MxCYiP5KpZrhMVgv0eXcrUbe0m-sKp4R-SIZlOd89So_SKBPRu6kRkmf07E_QT1-P-nM1UMftRSm8bAo4Db2evTFbksoS5BcAJ5zZzsuzViaUF1FjRAeKqG2-414PpywrQO8/s1600/Malcolm+X+quote+enemy+white+liberals.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="940" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlo5jq30MxCYiP5KpZrhMVgv0eXcrUbe0m-sKp4R-SIZlOd89So_SKBPRu6kRkmf07E_QT1-P-nM1UMftRSm8bAo4Db2evTFbksoS5BcAJ5zZzsuzViaUF1FjRAeKqG2-414PpywrQO8/s400/Malcolm+X+quote+enemy+white+liberals.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-is-wokeness-so-white-supremacist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-3359899158595138232Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:21:00 +00002020-07-15T09:21:49.272-05:00LeftismMediaTwo letters on America todayFirst, Iranian-American Roya Hakakian:<br /> <br /> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Libre Baskerville&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.625rem; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 15px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://quillette.com/2020/07/11/why-i-signed-the-harpers-letter/" target="_blank">Why I Signed the Harper’s Letter</a></h1> <br /> Then read <a href="https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter" target="_blank">Bari Weiss' resignation letter to the New York Times</a>:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.<br /><br />My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.<br /><br />There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong.&nbsp;</blockquote> But the NYW Wokers will never agree. Here is a photo of the woke staffers at the NYT demanding final say over what gets published and by whom.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwu3o0qiJdJUqa6P3qPzblIwTwzYAgjNzE_2WsThkqpv8_U2be0fuoAsYipPfEMW54ObFxxflCRn8SfzpK0kCPv_M85lfgyf_VvcnXWGUtEI9Gr74XrSj56TS2EopjGTfQQoYduoYN7g/s1600/Young+Frankenstein+Mob.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1162" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwu3o0qiJdJUqa6P3qPzblIwTwzYAgjNzE_2WsThkqpv8_U2be0fuoAsYipPfEMW54ObFxxflCRn8SfzpK0kCPv_M85lfgyf_VvcnXWGUtEI9Gr74XrSj56TS2EopjGTfQQoYduoYN7g/s400/Young+Frankenstein+Mob.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/two-letters-on-america-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6059152045843994670Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:09:00 +00002020-07-15T09:09:45.028-05:00America TodayDemocratsGovernmentThe New American Nobility is a ScamocracyFirst, read FEE's article here.<br /> <br /> <h1 class="article-republish-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat !important; font-size: 50px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"> <a href="https://fee.org/articles/seattle-just-passed-a-new-tax-on-jobs-in-the-middle-of-an-economic-crisis-with-one-infuriating-exception/" target="_blank">Seattle Just Passed a New Tax on Jobs in the Middle of an Economic Crisis—But Exempted Government Workers</a></h1> Understand that the Political Class always protects its own - and its votes. Everyone in the city will pay higher taxes except government employees. Of course.<br /> <br /> Anyone who thinks that the United States does not have a class of the nobility is simply not paying attention.<br /> <br /> Not my original idea. Glenn Reynolds wrote in USA Today,<br /> <h1 class="gnt_ar_hl" elementtiming="ar-headline" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: &quot;Unify Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Arial Nova&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 38px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;"> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/16/americas-nobility-problem-ruling-class-pays-no-consequences-failure-column/786512002/" target="_blank">America has a nobility problem, and it means our leaders don't pay for their failures</a></h1> <h2 class="gnt_ar_shl" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: &quot;Georgia Pro&quot;, Georgia, &quot;Droid Serif&quot;, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 10px 0px 2px;"> Politicians and bureaucrats are America's ruling class and they should start paying a price for failure. Accountability isn't just for little guys.</h2> <div> <br /></div> And finally, the incomparable Angelo Codevilla explains that what we have is&nbsp;<a href="https://americanmind.org/post/scamocracy-in-america/" target="_blank">Scamocracy in America</a>.&nbsp;<div> <br /></div> <div> <h3 class="title-sub lemonde" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: lemonde-journal, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 60px 12px;"> How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance.</h3> No, the federal swamp is not being drained.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a></div> http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-new-american-nobility-is-scamocracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-5933396805579848388Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:08:00 +00002020-07-12T07:17:54.080-05:00LinkageryLet's link to everything!In no particular order:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/506331-vote-by-mail-would-create-chaos-and-distrust-in-november" target="_blank"><b>Vote-by-mail would create chaos and distrust in November</b></a><br /> Which is of course the whole point.<br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/scamocracy-in-america/" target="_blank"><b>Scamocracy in America</b></a>, by Angelo Codevilla<br /> <i>How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.nysun.com/national/press-now-plumbs-its-own-depths-of-depravity/91183/" target="_blank"><b>Press Now Plumbs Its Own Depths Of Depravity</b></a><br /> <i>However, I do not think they reached bottom yet.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://reason.com/2020/07/07/narcissists-psychopaths-and-manipulators-are-more-likely-to-engage-in-virtuous-victim-signaling-says-study/" target="_blank"><b>Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage in 'Virtuous Victim Signaling,' Says Study</b></a><br /> <i>"The consequences and predictors of emitting signals of victimhood and virtue," published in the </i>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<i>, by University of British Columbia researchers.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/crushing-an-inwood-eatery-just-because-you-dont-like-how-its-owner-voted/" target="_blank"><b>Crushing an Inwood eatery just because you don’t like how its owner voted</b></a><br /> <i>This is how the Left works: "if your oh-so-tolerant, oh-so-open-minded progressive customers find out about your grave political transgressions, they might just organize a boycott campaign against your firm and seek to destroy your livelihood." As they are also trying to do with Goya foods right now.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training" target="_blank"><b>Cult Programming in Seattle</b></a>&nbsp;-- The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.”<br /> <i>&nbsp;In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.</i><br /> <i>_____________</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-students-cyberbullied-called-racist-for-their-open-letter-defending-academic-freedom/" target="_blank"><b>Princeton students cyberbullied, called racist for their open letter defending academic freedom</b></a><br /> <i>American colleges and universities have been educationally destroyed. Academic freedom is now being defined by universities' administrators as a white supremacist construct.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://spectator.org/america-held-hostage/" target="_blank"><b>America Held Hostage -- This is how the Left campaigns to remove President Trump</b></a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> We’re in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they’ll let this go on as long as Trump is president. The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested. Try to defend yourself, and you’ll find yourself prosecuted.<br /> <br /> The message is: this is what you’ll get, America, if you reelect Trump. Elect our guy, and the madness will stop, pronto. A Democratic president would forcefully suppress the riots without a peep from the press. But until then we’re held hostage.<br /> <br /> They don’t even need a candidate. They can run Biden from his basement.</blockquote> <b>____________</b><br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/07/10/you-might-not-be-interested-in-china-but-china-is-interested-in-you/" target="_blank"><b>You Might Not Be Interested in China, But China Is Interested in You</b></a><br /> <i>A review of&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Will-Be-Assimilated-Sino-form/dp/1642935409" target="_blank">You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-form the World</a><i> by David Goldman. "Biden, like previous administration leaders of both parties and Congresses, including Trump, has no cogent China strategy."</i><br /> ____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://fee.org/articles/margaret-thatcher-on-socialism-20-of-her-best-quotes/" target="_blank"><b>Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes</b></a><br /> <i>"There is no such thing as 'safe' socialism. If it’s safe, it’s not socialism. And if it's socialism, it’s not safe. The signposts of socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy."&nbsp;&nbsp;</i><br /> ___________<br /> <br /> <b><a href="https://twitter.com/HannahCox7/status/1281568649518751744" target="_blank">This, too</a>:</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Vth2lZ9M6FqKc0dEzheyHj3U332CuvF93AW42GFmkpvqBceC191_Xi3eSJm4ZIA_mtVAg9KIDHgtu_cIGctwy0qD6k7oow2SACJYRa_vDVNyDEVEbZ-ivZLZL7bfgJRt3oNYTyF3jA/s1600/Not+capitalist+enoug+tweet+by+Hannah+Cox.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="757" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Vth2lZ9M6FqKc0dEzheyHj3U332CuvF93AW42GFmkpvqBceC191_Xi3eSJm4ZIA_mtVAg9KIDHgtu_cIGctwy0qD6k7oow2SACJYRa_vDVNyDEVEbZ-ivZLZL7bfgJRt3oNYTyF3jA/s400/Not+capitalist+enoug+tweet+by+Hannah+Cox.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> __________<br /> <br /> And finally, what hath the riots and the MSM's unabashed celebration of them and Defund the Police wrought? This:&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.tactical-life.com/news/colt-ar-15-production-civilian/" target="_blank">Colt Resumes Civilian AR-15 Production as Gun Sales Soar Across US</a>.&nbsp;</b><br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/lets-link-to-everything.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6864760168357227298Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:30:00 +00002020-07-08T08:30:54.203-05:00DemocratsElection 2020LeftismRepublicansWhat changed at Mt Rushmore?When Democrats give speeches at Mt Rushmore, it is the emblem of all that is best about America. When Republicans give speeches there, Mt Rushmore is an oppressive, white-supremacist, slavery-glorifying landmark that was stolen from native Americans.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kj9EtawpKJc" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br />http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/what-changed-at-mt-rushmore.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6352340424055394013Sat, 04 Jul 2020 01:14:00 +00002020-07-03T20:14:44.413-05:00America TodayFaith and ReasonFreedom and LibertyHistoryGod and HamiltonI refer not only to the musical - which was released as a movie today by Disney Plus - but also to a book Kevin Cloud, who is a pastor, church planter, and author. He earned an M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has planted four successful churches in the Kansas City area and currently serves as the director of spiritual life at the Culture House, an arts conservatory in Olathe, Kansas. His site is&nbsp; <a href="http://www.godandhamilton.com/">www.godandhamilton.com</a>.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> With his permission, I am publishing his article as an intro to his book.<br /> ________________________________<br /> <br /> <b>Redemption </b><o:p></o:p><br /> <b><br /></b> The musical <i>Hamilton </i>resonates with me more than any piece of art I have ever experienced, primarily because it teems with the most important themes of my life. Engaging these themes of grace, shame, forgiveness, and surrender through Hamilton’s story encourages, inspires, and transforms me. But above all other themes, Hamilton’s story resonates with me because, ultimately, it tells a story that I desperately need to experience–a story of redemption. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> When I take an honest assessment of my life, I see brokenness everywhere. I live with mixed motives, impure thoughts, and selfish actions. When I look at the world around me, more so today than ever, it appears to be constantly assaulted by the forces of brokenness. Death, terrorism, poverty, and divisiveness seem to win the day. My own life, and the world that we all live in, both share an acute desperation for redemption. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> <i>Hamilton </i>moves people because it reminds us of this possibility. Interestingly, Hamilton is not the driving force behind this redemption, but rather his loving, faithful, and determined wife, Eliza. She takes the brokenness from his life and makes it beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The greatest source of pain and brokenness in Hamilton’s life originated from his status as an orphan,&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmnAptm1hvvtt0mQ0AfxYHdJs8VxXAM_UOP1dFn-e06Rhfcsja-iO02C8i77EfIPYOwpHGpKy8YFQoyKbToJU7qkomS1RZC9F19O2NOTLplC7ilUM1eer0I9o_MZH5-7n34H6HSiaS-g/s1600/God+and+Hamilton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1036" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmnAptm1hvvtt0mQ0AfxYHdJs8VxXAM_UOP1dFn-e06Rhfcsja-iO02C8i77EfIPYOwpHGpKy8YFQoyKbToJU7qkomS1RZC9F19O2NOTLplC7ilUM1eer0I9o_MZH5-7n34H6HSiaS-g/s640/God+and+Hamilton.jpg" width="412" /></a></div> a reality that haunted him throughout his life. Hamilton, like most orphans, surely grew up feeling abandoned, unwanted, and unloved, hounded by loneliness and inadequacy. <br /> <br /> I read an article written by an orphan named David, who experienced a deep sense of abandonment and rejection, feelings he struggled with into his late fifties. Another girl whose parents died wrote that orphans grow up rarely feeling special or loved. They wear secondhand clothes, play with used toys, and rarely celebrate their birthdays. Many orphans don’t even know the date of their birthday. <o:p></o:p><br /> I can imagine heartbreaking conversations where Hamilton shared his pain and suffering from being an orphan with Eliza. I can also imagine Eliza, as any loving spouse would, feeling a deep sense of empathy about Hamilton’s struggles as an orphan. Hamilton’s brokenness must have become her brokenness, as she carried his burden with her husband. After Hamilton’s death, and after she healed from her grief, Eliza took that hurt, suffering, and brokenness, and gave everything she could to redeem it, to make it new. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> After Alexander died, grief overwhelmed Eliza. In his biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow writes, “For Eliza Hamilton, the collapse of her world was total, overwhelming, and remorseless. Within three years, she had had to cope with four close deaths: her eldest son, her sister Peggy, her mother, and her husband, not to mention the mental breakdown of her eldest daughter.” Chernow shares that immediately after the death of Hamilton, Eliza invited Gouverneur Morris, a close family friend, into the room, then “burst into tears, told him he was the best friend her husband had, begged him to join her in prayers for her own death, and then to be a father for her children.” <o:p></o:p><br /> Eliza, in this moment, found herself completely overwhelmed by brokenness and death. She couldn’t even begin to imagine redemption. But in time, God would give her faith to see the possibility of redemption out of the brokenness. Eventually, she would take Hamilton’s broken pieces and make them beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Eliza slowly recovered from her grief, finding solace in her faith in God. “Suffering from the ‘irreparable loss of a most amiable and affectionate husband,’ she prayed for ‘the mercies of the divine being in whose dispensations’ all Christians should acquiesce,” writes Chernow. Her faith helped her to recover from the devastating loss and begin to imagine a new life. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Hamilton himself had encouraged her to remember her faith before his death. In his letter he wrote the night before his duel with Aaron Burr, he reminded Eliza, “The consolations of religion, my beloved, can alone support you and these you have a right to enjoy. Fly to the bosom of your God and be comforted. With my last idea, I shall cherish the sweet hope of meeting you in a better world.” <o:p></o:p><br /> As Eliza slowly recovered from her grief, she discovered a new calling. She partnered with a small group of women to found the first private orphanage in New York City. Her Hamilton had suffered as an orphan his entire life; now she would work to alleviate the suffering of others who faced the same struggle. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Orphans during this era faced a brutal reality, with no good options available to them. Many orphans lived on the streets in gangs, fighting a daily battle to survive. The tenement housing district was grossly overpopulated and overrun with abhorrent living conditions. Almshouses or indentured servitude provided shelter and food for a life of hard labor and a loss of freedom, but oftentimes created structures that abused vulnerable children. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> For twenty-seven years, Eliza worked tirelessly, providing orphans a hopeful alternative. Chernow writes, “She oversaw every aspect of the orphanage work. She raised money, leased properties, visited almshouses, investigated complaints, and solicited donations of coal, shoes, and Bibles.” Eliza believed that God himself had given her this calling, “My maker has pointed out this duty to me and has given me the ability and inclination to perform it.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The work challenged her greatly and oftentimes operated dangerously low on resources. Eliza once committed to never turning away a child, whether they possessed a dime in the treasury or not. In 1813, the orphanage account fell to $60 while caring for the needs of ninety children. Yet despite these ongoing challenges, Eliza believed in God’s provision and faithfully continued her work. In doing so, she offered redemption to these children who otherwise faced a hopeless existence. <o:p></o:p><br /> The end of Miranda’s musical beautifully illustrates Eliza redeeming Hamilton’s brokenness. The scene captures one of the most powerful artistic representations of redemption I’ve ever witnessed. The final song features Eliza singing about the different ways she honored her husband’s legacy. She considered the orphanage her crowning achievement in this pursuit. She sings about how she helped hundreds of orphans in the city, and how she sees her husband in each child that she serves. The musical ends with a brilliant white spotlight shining on Eliza as she smiles, her face radiating joy as the theatre fades to black. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The way we become agents of redemption here and now is simple but hard: we love. Eliza made Hamilton’s brokenness beautiful for hundreds of orphans by loving them in tangible ways. She threw herself into this work out of her love for her husband, and her love of God. Chernow writes, “Perhaps nothing expressed her affection for Hamilton more tenderly than her efforts on behalf of orphans. . . . Surely some extra dimension of religious fervor had entered into Eliza’s feelings toward her husband because of his boyhood.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The work she pioneered continues to this day. The organization Eliza created more than two hundred years ago still exists, now called Graham Windham. The people of Graham Windham continue to live out Eliza’s legacy, tirelessly working on behalf of poor children and families in New York City. The families they serve live in New York City’s most severely distressed neighborhoods, ninety-five percent of whom live at or below the poverty line. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Jess Dannhauser, the current president and CEO of Graham Windham, sees their work as a continuation of Eliza’s legacy. Experiencing the musical <i>Hamilton </i>moved him deeply. “When Eliza sings that she sees Alexander in the eyes of these orphans, I see that as her saying these kids have great potential inside of them. That spirit is what animates our work today.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Kimberly Hardy Watson, Graham Windham’s chief operating officer, agrees: “I find myself often wondering, what would Eliza think about what we are doing today? If she and the other cofounders had a clear understanding of what they endeavored for children, are we keeping to that promise? Are we being good stewards of that vision?” More than two hundred years after Eliza initiated this project, the brokenness continues to be made beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The cast of <i>Hamilton </i>participates in the work of Graham Windham. Some of the cast members participate as pen pals with children from Graham Windham. Phillipa Soo and Morgan Marcell created “The Eliza Project,” with a mission to “use the arts as a means of expression, as an outlet for personal experience, and to uplift the creative spirit.” Soo recruits other cast members to join her in teaching kids at Graham Windham acting, dance, and rap. These actors continue to tell Eliza’s story of redemption, not only on the stage, but also in their tangible acts of love for these children. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adapted from <i>God and Hamilton</i>. Copyright © 2018 by Kevin Cloud. Published by Deep River Books, Sisters, Oregon. Used by Permission.&nbsp;</span><br /> <script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/god-and-hamilton.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-7962290856960381806Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:01:00 +00002020-07-03T10:03:14.817-05:00America Todaydomestic politicseducationElection 2020Freedom and LibertyHistoryLeftismNutteryUnited StatesAnother day, another lunacy<b>Absentee Ballots from South Carolina Found in Maryland</b><br /> But don't worry! Universal mail-in voting will be flawless!<br /> <a href="https://cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/absentee-ballots-south-carolina-found-maryland?fbclid=IwAR2ncSstwgJjRGU5UycDYh2QqNisuyGY4_y6VoqLcGo7yXhT__UzAab1zPg">https://cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/absentee-ballots-south-carolina-found-maryland</a><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs</b><br /> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/?fbclid=IwAR02xFv3baCaniDH0l7uhkFS9Hx8GEEiQJwL6oWfZIcfOpYgANhjF-0WYC4">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/</a><br /> Because the collectivist mindset really would like all of us to lives in hives, like these in Pyongyang.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a 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href="https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/">https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> In a recent interview, Dr. John Ioannidis had a harsh assessment of modelers who predicted as many as 40 million people would die and the US healthcare system would be overrun because of COVID-19.</blockquote> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> No, the Left does not actually listen to itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News</b><br /> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/07/02/going-to-national-parks-is-racist-declares-abc-news-n599372">https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/07/02/going-to-national-parks-is-racist-declares-abc-news-n599372</a><br /> 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/><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative</b><br /> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Choctaw chief Greenwood LeFlore had 15,000 acres of Mississippi land and 400 enslaved Africans under his dominion. (Library of Congress) ...<br /> <br /> John Ross, the Cherokee chief lionized for his efforts to fight forced relocation, was also an advocate and practitioner of slavery. (Library of Congress)</blockquote> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> So after January 1 they will shut up and leave us along, amirite?&nbsp;<b>Only six months to save the planet!</b><br /> <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/only-six-months-to-save-the-planet.php">https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/only-six-months-to-save-the-planet.php</a><br /> <b><br /></b> -----------------------------------------------------<b><br /></b> <b>What the Left wants:<br /><br /> </b> <b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HuoWZ8gQO_s" width="560"></iframe></b><br /> <b><br /> </b>-----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>Speaking of slavery</b>:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1278529694355292161">https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1278529694355292161</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">@McCormickProf</span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">2/ Of course, this is nonsense. Only the tiniest fraction of them, or of any of us, would have spoken up against slavery or lifted a finger to free the slaves. Most of them—and us—would have gone along. 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white-space: inherit;">3/ So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing:</span></div> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; 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white-space: inherit;">5/ (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. 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line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">@McCormickProf</span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">I made the same point in my Holocaust class when discussing Eichmann. My opinion was not popular...</span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/another-day-another-lunacy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-5250992310465761104Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:31:00 +00002020-07-03T09:29:48.339-05:00Corruptiondomestic politicsElection 2020LeftismThe actual goal of mail in voting advocates is to do this<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCp_Ug2gRd5YelpUPOYjuJc31DGhPD-CFcO6J9dAMwz76t7P95XMa4u-8NiN3wXDkKBBtrZPHZU7QJhIYarjqwqYndk8FuZI-RKOLLOuB5pif-NKtrj8pVcOkHMPqxBf4eVAwaIxHCT7g/s1600/Mail+in+voting+postal+workers+throw+away+campaign+flyers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCp_Ug2gRd5YelpUPOYjuJc31DGhPD-CFcO6J9dAMwz76t7P95XMa4u-8NiN3wXDkKBBtrZPHZU7QJhIYarjqwqYndk8FuZI-RKOLLOuB5pif-NKtrj8pVcOkHMPqxBf4eVAwaIxHCT7g/s400/Mail+in+voting+postal+workers+throw+away+campaign+flyers.JPG" width="381" /></a></div> <br /> Video link:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1276646406682484736">https://twitter.com/i/status/1276646406682484736</a><br /> <br /> Tweet link:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736">https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736</a>http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-actual-goal-of-mail-in-voting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-6516431433513615865Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:25:00 +00002020-07-02T08:25:17.883-05:00educationElection 2020EnvironmentalismFinancialFreedom and LibertyGovernmentQuick links<b>Three Ideas to End the Rot on College Campuses</b><br /> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/29/three_ideas_to_end_the_rot_on_college_campuses_143564.html">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/29/three_ideas_to_end_the_rot_on_college_campuses_143564.html</a><br /> <i>The author, Charles Lipson,&nbsp;is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security.&nbsp;</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <b>What ‘woke’ whites get wrong about blacks’ priorities</b><br /> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities/">https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities/</a><br /> <i>Which is just about everything. Most of all that woke white people really do think they can decide what is best for black people, without asking them.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> I had to hear what whites were saying. I listened to the protesters, talked with my white friends and read articles and social media posts. What I found was white people overwhelmingly depicting black people as desperate and defeated, with no way to pull themselves out of their misery.<br /><br />“I understand your point,” a white friend said when I objected to this simplistic narrative. “But don’t you think blacks are being oppressed?”<br /><br />That’s when I realized that white wokeness is the new factor in our national life. It has been embedded into the consciousness of whites that all blacks are the same and that they all face impossible barriers to improvement — from standardized tests to the black men being arrested on the nightly news. A growing number of whites believe that black life is unrelentingly grim.&nbsp;</blockquote> <br /> <b>One of the most respected environmentalist activists and scholars in the whole world was published on Forbes.com, but got deleted because environmental absolutists went nuts.</b><br /> <i><br /></i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmHkC50MwaAdL29dAiBNlRga1PfXyHC4z7FgH0g2fb1l9HAW-wIqbTeSgfh7Xl0OjdBaDdTooI4Me9piUQz99ozasxDewIQYZu50KqJIs0mmmp8e0mapaq2pbN_yWIKljFHkjplcUKxY/s1600/Forbes+kill+page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="1031" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmHkC50MwaAdL29dAiBNlRga1PfXyHC4z7FgH0g2fb1l9HAW-wIqbTeSgfh7Xl0OjdBaDdTooI4Me9piUQz99ozasxDewIQYZu50KqJIs0mmmp8e0mapaq2pbN_yWIKljFHkjplcUKxY/s400/Forbes+kill+page.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <i><br /></i> What was his crime? Pointing out the corruption of the Green groups and environmental activists around the world. It is now on Quillette: "On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare."<br /> <a href="https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/">https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/</a><br /> <br /> Read it all. I have saved it for reference as a PDF.<br /> <br /> <b>Biden's record-setting tax increases will take your money — and your job</b><br /> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/504536-bidens-record-setting-tax-increases-will-take-your-money-and-your-job">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/504536-bidens-record-setting-tax-increases-will-take-your-money-and-your-job</a><br /> <br /> The Dems' operate always on the principle that all our money really must be handed over to them. And what do they do with it? Purchase votes and launder it through contracts and foreign aid to the pockets of their family members (coff, Hunter Biden, coff) and crony companies and non-profits.<br /> <br /> Some Republicans do this, too, of course, but it is a fundamental operating principle for Democrats.http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/quick-links.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-4062853780107250391Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:44:00 +00002020-06-30T10:44:11.728-05:00DemocratsElection 2020Trump"You can't make this stuff up" departmentWhen the Democrats lose in November, they will not say they were beaten. They will roll out their hoary, perennial excuse: "We did not get our message out well enough."<br /> <br /> Tthey are literally unable to imagine that they got beat because they got their message out very well, indeed.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9LQjfBsuJv8PTz_IznPzsiqUdw5NdDciv5AJme80ygDKw5aZ9zjM7VpxxFJ0A_hHS0TBWQPQKJ6vluzFmkL0Zj1nvTMEKKuzXPcLqfPys_XPSS2Nvcjb1Bwca3oP89Zl6FHNVX1TT8E/s1600/Democrats+mt+rushmore+white+supremacy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9LQjfBsuJv8PTz_IznPzsiqUdw5NdDciv5AJme80ygDKw5aZ9zjM7VpxxFJ0A_hHS0TBWQPQKJ6vluzFmkL0Zj1nvTMEKKuzXPcLqfPys_XPSS2Nvcjb1Bwca3oP89Zl6FHNVX1TT8E/s640/Democrats+mt+rushmore+white+supremacy.JPG" width="537" /></a></div> <br />http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/06/you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-department.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132146834388750220.post-2922728867687206468Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:55:00 +00002020-06-29T12:55:59.078-05:00coronavirusCovidCovid-19The earth when everything stopsThe embed is from Bloomberg News, which does not let me resize the video. It is, howver, much larger on BN's page.<br /> <br /> <iframe allowscriptaccess="always" frameborder="0" src="https://www.bloomberg.com/multimedia/api/embed/iframe?id=e5a5a83c-33c4-4355-82bf-4c540a5e06b1"></iframe><br /> <br /> From, "Sweden’s Covid Expert Says ‘World Went Mad’ With Lockdowns." And of course, he is correct.<br /> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/sweden-s-epidemiologist-says-world-went-mad-imposing-lockdowns">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/sweden-s-epidemiologist-says-world-went-mad-imposing-lockdowns</a><br /> <br />http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-earth-when-everything-stiops.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
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<description>&nbsp;OTTAWA, CANADA, Nov. 6 -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this morning that he will work closely with the Canadian parliament to rush building a wall along the country's border with the United States to halt the mass immigration to Canada of American leftists, journalists, and celebrities fleeing after Donald Trump attained victory in the American presidential race.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBc8_UCF9MuS9-Ea4LUH6nf3biW6OpO_FEt_YdSBVLHXrdVOu4mYBLFULpYMw9BWbLp7cDjdHHKywFvU3vZaLNqZ5N16QBA4HA9FeHs-uRN3VKo-oZnNWrOpTgK23sTbgXjdFOuT6nfQ/s1600/Canada+wall+model.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBc8_UCF9MuS9-Ea4LUH6nf3biW6OpO_FEt_YdSBVLHXrdVOu4mYBLFULpYMw9BWbLp7cDjdHHKywFvU3vZaLNqZ5N16QBA4HA9FeHs-uRN3VKo-oZnNWrOpTgK23sTbgXjdFOuT6nfQ/s640/Canada+wall+model.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>Coming to a Canadian border near you</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The prime minister, noting that Canada's immigration web site had&nbsp;<a href="http://heatst.com/politics/canadas-immigration-site-crashes-as-liberals-panic/">crashed in 2016 as American liberals panicked</a>, said that action to stop the Americans' looming, illegal border crossings was urgently needed.&nbsp;<br /><br />"We cannot accept large numbers of American, left-wing sore losers coming to Canada just because the Donald Trump will be the next president, even if Elon Musk, world's wealthiest man,&nbsp;will take charge of slashing the scope and size of the American government," Prime Minister Trudeau told a chapter meeting of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "Anyone caught crossing into Canada without authority will be deported."<br /><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dJpwMEGfrojUq1rjxk43PA061EaG1pR3b1Vz8r0hHeiSPX719qXCM6wrNHJhObfHq2YpL-G_m1mxn2cCUEaRjlz4I16kC2fe5NlUoYycf49Q6A7CLKAyNJ2whsV1XMNXLOGS3TABaqU/s1600/trudeau_transparency_20140611.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dJpwMEGfrojUq1rjxk43PA061EaG1pR3b1Vz8r0hHeiSPX719qXCM6wrNHJhObfHq2YpL-G_m1mxn2cCUEaRjlz4I16kC2fe5NlUoYycf49Q6A7CLKAyNJ2whsV1XMNXLOGS3TABaqU/s400/trudeau_transparency_20140611.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>Loves American leftists, in America</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>"To that end," the prime minister continued, "I will go to Parliament tomorrow to ask funding to build a wall along the entire border of the United States and Canada, including with Alaska, to prevent mass, illegal immigration of angry mobs of Lefties from coming here.<br /><br />"Yes, that distance is more than eight thousand, eight hundred kilometers and the wall will be fantastically expensive, but it must be done."<br /><br />Asked how much money the project was expected to cost, the prime minister responded, "President Trump campaigned that he would wall off Mexico, three thousand, one hundred kilometers, at a cost of ten billion dollars, so do that math yourself. Not cheap. But don't worry because I am going to get Elon Musk to pay for the wall."<br /><br />"How are you going to do that?" asked a reporter.<br /><br />"I've got a plan," Prime Minister Trudeau replied. "It's a great plan, a fantastic plan, really. Best plan ever. Huge ideas about that, huge. You'll see."<br /></div></div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<title>Elections are supposed to be rigged!</title>
<description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Adapted from my <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/10/of-course-election-is-rigged.html">post of October 2016</a>&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Hill, yesterday after President Biden's two-hour press conference:&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590511-biden-says-elections-might-not-be-legitimate-if-the-election-reform">Biden says elections might not be legitimate if reform bills aren't passed</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">President Biden on Wednesday said the legitimacy of the upcoming midterm elections could depend on Democrats passing voting rights legislation.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I’m not saying it’s going to be legit. The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed,” Biden said during his second solo press conference at the White House, referring to the 2022 election. ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The president responded that it “depends” earlier in the press conference when asked if he thinks the upcoming election results will be legitimate if voting rights legislation doesn’t pass.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Well, it all depends on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election,” he said.</div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBJZU-GDZWo6k1yzkZL5mZKgZVo5-JROT0Fhv08T7NxTaI9B86EektViCu_Mod1IHI3eFeJSFkdVGuGmK_fVFnAU4Z3eXvEAPyN86S8jcuPyz2wbZgxX2UzTe90nxjcwn-SaNCZf_yiQ/s1600/Rigging+elections.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBJZU-GDZWo6k1yzkZL5mZKgZVo5-JROT0Fhv08T7NxTaI9B86EektViCu_Mod1IHI3eFeJSFkdVGuGmK_fVFnAU4Z3eXvEAPyN86S8jcuPyz2wbZgxX2UzTe90nxjcwn-SaNCZf_yiQ/s400/Rigging+elections.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> I have posted to some extent on how <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/search?q=elections+rigged">American elections are rigged</a>.<br /> <br /> Just before the 2016 election, George Will, a solid member of the Political Class, albeit mostly on the Right, saying that rig attempts are well known: "<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/10/17/george_will_trump_has_point_that_elections_are_rigged_if_he_would_just_make_it_more_clearly.html">Trump Has Point That Elections Are Rigged If He Would Just Make It More Clearly</a>."<br /> <br /> Then there is long-time DNC operative Bob Creamer <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/18/more-veritas-fallout-bob-creamer-steps-away-from-clinton-campaign/?singlepage=true">explaining how any why the Democrats rig elections, on camera</a> (warning, frank language). He clearly says that law and ethics have nothing to do with Democrat campaigns, the only point is to win, period. Nothing more, but absolutely nothing less.<br /> <br /> By the way, How deeply in the middle of Democrat party operations is Bob Creamer. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/exposed-dem-operative-who-oversaw-trump-rally-agitators-visited-white-house-342-times/">Well, he</a> ...<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ... has visited the White House 342 times since 2009, White House records show.<br /> <br /> Robert Creamer, who acted as a middle man between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and “protesters” who tried — and succeeded — to provoke violence at Trump rallies met with President Obama 47 times, according to White House records. Creamer’s last visit was in June 2016.</blockquote> During Obama's entire term until June 30, 2016, there were&nbsp;2,717 days. That is equal to 388 weeks. That means that Creamer went to the White House almost <i>every week</i>&nbsp;of Obama's entire tenure until the end of last June. And this guy's main mission in life, if not his only one, was to use violence and otherwise corrupt and influence elections outside the law.<br /> <br /> But as I have pointed out already, in Marxist, which is to say Democrat, theory, elections are <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/02/lying-down-with-dogs-and-marxists.html"><i>supposed</i> to be rigged</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What is the purpose of this elaborate extravaganza? Marxists have long noted that insofar as its stated purpose is concerned–determining the question of political power in modern society–it is no more than a charade, a political sleight of hand in which the more things seem to change, the more do they remain the same. But Marxists do not deserve any special credit for making such an observation. One hardly has to be a Marxist to grasp the fact that bourgeois elections do not, in any way, impinge upon or alter questions of power. The general cynicism among the masses toward politics and politicians–a cynicism which runs far deeper than can be measured solely by noting the large numbers of people who do not bother to vote in elections–is itself proof that the futility and corruption of bourgeois politics has become a part of U.S. folklore.<br /> <br /> (Paul Saba, 1980, "Reaffirming the Marxist Theory of the State")</blockquote> Here is the George Will transcript:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> When Mr. Trump talks about it being rigged, he sweeps all his grievances into one big puddle. He talked about the media. He talked about the primaries. He talked about the polls. Talked about the Republican National Committee. I think when most persons hear that an election is rigged, they think of government action to rig the election. And there Mr. Trump has a point if he would just make it more clearly.<br /> <br /> It is hard to think of an innocent reason why Democrats spend so much time, energy and money, scarce resources all, resisting attempts to purge the voter rolls, that is to remove people who are dead or otherwise have left the jurisdiction. It's hard to think of an innocent reason why they fight so tremendously against Voter I.D. laws. They say, well that burdens the exercise of a fundamental right. The Supreme Court has said that travel is a fundamental right and no one thinks that showing an I.D. at the airport burdens that fundamental right.<br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> We know -- we don't surmise -- we know that the 2010, '12 and '14 elections were rigged by the most intrusive and potentially punitive institution of the federal government, the IRS. You can read all about it in Kim Strassel's book Intimidation Game. She's familiar to all Wall Street Journal readers and FOX viewers. This is not a surmise. I have talked to lawyers in a position to know they say it's still going on. The IRS is still intolerantly delaying the granting of tax exempt to conservative advocacy groups to skew the persuasion of this campaign.</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">In Marxist theory the whole point of elections is to give the proles the illusion that they have a say in the outcome and how the country is run. But they don't and they shouldn't. At least, not by the bourgeois world view.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">What Marxists should do about this was debated quite a bit before the Russian Revolution. On the one hand, a faction believed that once the workers had cast off their chains and appropriated the means of production (the industrial plant), then the proletariat would be able to vote truly and well because the capitalist bourgeoisie would not be allowed or able to blinker them and the natural purity of their proletariat hearts. Hence, right away elections could continue to be&nbsp;held&nbsp;and this time, dadgummit, they actually would mean something.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The competing view, held by the Russian Bolsheviks, was that they were the "vanguard of the revolution" and that therefore Marx's instruction of the necessity of a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat -- meaning by Lenin and his gang, not the general proletariat - was the key to bringing forth&nbsp;</span><a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2003/09/why-planned-economies-cannot-succeed.html" style="background-color: white; color: #940f04; text-decoration-line: none;">True Communism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin: 1em 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Marxism-Leninism, true communism was a state in which material production was so great that all human needs were met without shortage. Greed would therefore disappear and the inherent but capitalist-suppressed natural nobility of men and women would emerge. They would be transformed into true communists - altruists who worked each day for the good of the people, not for crass, selfish profit.&nbsp;</span></blockquote></div><div>The vanguard revolutionaries understood that to leap from workers in chains, unaware of how deluded and ignorant they really were, and in political infancy, to the status of the True Communist Man was stupidly unrealistic. So their own dictatorship was a deplorable but critically-important step to bring the long-oppressed and unenlightened proles to political maturity and understanding. Truly fair, honest and meaningful elections certainly would be held - <i>eventually</i>. Just not yet. But trust us, it's right around the corner, any day now. Forever.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Remember, the point of Marxist revolutions is not to empower the people, it is to brings the reins of state power to the Marxist revolutionaries. Which always means the Vanguard because for the proles' own good the vanguard of the revolution (maybe in its fifth generation by now!) must also be the conservators of the revolution. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rl_pBBf5WyzfbYEiWa3lSXbHYnYrzZVHGdKn_WMK7kZ35D7dMuAoTQSht4XdXYWaINvyFq3tpO3vwKUCgvUzx6O_FOJz3TblLQ-2sH4O47ZkoP1yAhWD6-TxqiwM_1jH7Jm9wnS0AKg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rl_pBBf5WyzfbYEiWa3lSXbHYnYrzZVHGdKn_WMK7kZ35D7dMuAoTQSht4XdXYWaINvyFq3tpO3vwKUCgvUzx6O_FOJz3TblLQ-2sH4O47ZkoP1yAhWD6-TxqiwM_1jH7Jm9wnS0AKg/w508-h240/image.png" width="508" /></a></div><br />Sadly, very sadly, all of this was foretold by American statesmen and observers more than 150 years ago:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>"I shall assume the privilege of advancing years in reference to another growing and dangerous evil. In the last age, although our fathers, like ourselves, were divided into political parties which often had severe conflicts with each other, yet we never heard until within a recent period of the employment of money to carry elections. Should this practice increase until the voters and their representatives in the State and National Legislatures shall become infected, the fountain of free government will be poisoned at its source, and we must end, as history proves, in a military despotism. A democratic republic, all agree, cannot long survive unless sustained by public virtue. When this is corrupted, and the people become venal, there is a canker at the root of the tree of liberty which will cause it to wither and to die."</i></blockquote> --&nbsp;<a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/charles_mackay_1858_a_cor.php">Charles Mackay, 1858: “A corrupt republic is tainted in its blood, and bears the seeds of death in every pulsation.”</a>&nbsp;<b>Read the whole thing.</b><br /> <b><br /> </b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhersdCWbOtz9C_RR6y2kTvMf6j4GlePPrh0gNXxp28XHwNPiuPHMOHOV08xSzD36t_kWdLr6FDl7gRP3zXIXwkYX9sqASuEp-1G847GUYVVbKiW7qHsMlgNgdJm2duJK8vKvQgt5obfJM/s1600/Rigging+elections+voting+machine+Q.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhersdCWbOtz9C_RR6y2kTvMf6j4GlePPrh0gNXxp28XHwNPiuPHMOHOV08xSzD36t_kWdLr6FDl7gRP3zXIXwkYX9sqASuEp-1G847GUYVVbKiW7qHsMlgNgdJm2duJK8vKvQgt5obfJM/s400/Rigging+elections+voting+machine+Q.png" width="400" /></a></div> <b><br /></b>"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin.<br /> <br /> Or nowadays, the people who <a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-people-who-cast-votes-decide-nothing.html">hack the votes decide everything</a>.<br /> <br /> The Pew Center says, in masterful understatement, that "<a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf">America’s Voter Registration System</a><br /> <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf">Needs an Upgrade</a>."<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTCrKtmhNT3Ti90C3Tg-a7ctmGxqw5SJEDlwS0wjd6xHYyB3zg4u323eU9Cz-RDZIeIMYWfMYcQ4KBNlBu6F9GjKqbn115Zyh3GX1w8SplbWUmTmVxPLaxcaD25MKDxWUStSwI-sX_Is/s1600/elections+voter+problems+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTCrKtmhNT3Ti90C3Tg-a7ctmGxqw5SJEDlwS0wjd6xHYyB3zg4u323eU9Cz-RDZIeIMYWfMYcQ4KBNlBu6F9GjKqbn115Zyh3GX1w8SplbWUmTmVxPLaxcaD25MKDxWUStSwI-sX_Is/s320/elections+voter+problems+2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAwSwrZ1v0SNU701OE3FbjdyqNquihfVm_wb9hGQ2opcJzMvFKTKeu-jFGvushc9KU-cExt7j7960G7lbaqR97tgMgTVGuiq7z_OungWuOilSdgAvGEmhAuWJ0kCRwIpzwe0v_0dcfMw/s1600/elections+voter+problems+1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAwSwrZ1v0SNU701OE3FbjdyqNquihfVm_wb9hGQ2opcJzMvFKTKeu-jFGvushc9KU-cExt7j7960G7lbaqR97tgMgTVGuiq7z_OungWuOilSdgAvGEmhAuWJ0kCRwIpzwe0v_0dcfMw/s320/elections+voter+problems+1.JPG" width="251" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Update:</b><br /> <b><br /></b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uOaZGFIvYD-9XbDKkO8di8dBxZ5whta2_UGaxleWzi5p-V4UObsljWyYKYUA9D71Ji74bKoy1-TqMisk3iPEs-83P63eCDwOjmtZqW3K3gOaGDo5PrhIoiupPODLapyrGyY9aQAr94k/s1600/Obama+party+in+power+can+rig+elections.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uOaZGFIvYD-9XbDKkO8di8dBxZ5whta2_UGaxleWzi5p-V4UObsljWyYKYUA9D71Ji74bKoy1-TqMisk3iPEs-83P63eCDwOjmtZqW3K3gOaGDo5PrhIoiupPODLapyrGyY9aQAr94k/s400/Obama+party+in+power+can+rig+elections.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <b><br /></b> <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/789834223922196480">Watch it here</a>.<div><br /></div><div><b>Update</b>: Actually, Democrats have a long history of saying the elections they lost are illegitimate:&nbsp;<div><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/21/biden_is_not_alone_democrats_have_been_delegitimizing_elections_for_years_147073.html">Biden Is Not Alone. Democrats Have Been Delegitimizing Elections for Years</a>.</div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a></div></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>"The enemy gets a vote"</title>
<description><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26cC34G6IJb5GGGrALICeRfa7AKL1ERl_fLFJB1sZTaBUxAPC8RiaEkgv0KuMr6iZpKy6j7_xVR4nQshks9yGtS2tjZ_T39uC1xdG-0x5Qhv_zNm2CDBT-atKHunnDFw-aUv3jjftyOU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="2041" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26cC34G6IJb5GGGrALICeRfa7AKL1ERl_fLFJB1sZTaBUxAPC8RiaEkgv0KuMr6iZpKy6j7_xVR4nQshks9yGtS2tjZ_T39uC1xdG-0x5Qhv_zNm2CDBT-atKHunnDFw-aUv3jjftyOU/w545-h391/image.png" width="545" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Way back in the last millennium when I wrote or helped write operations plans for the US Army, I always remembered a catch phrase we planners had used for a long time: "The enemy gets a vote." </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which is to say that when we acted, the enemy reacted and almost immediately the plan's assumptions would be negated. That's why we also said, "No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." Dwight D. Eisenhower put it this way: "Planning is absolutely essential, but plans are useless." </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And so we come to this administration trying to manage the world's oil supply. Bureaucrats' plans bear all the hallmarks of "static analysis," when planners assume there is only one variable and that they can control it, and nothing else changes and the result is always unicorns and rainbows. This is, ahem, especially true under Democrat administrations, and nowhere more in evidence than the current administration's energy policy, headed by a publicly inept Secretary of Energy who admitted on camera that she has no idea how much oil the United States uses per day. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She also said that the Biden administration cannot do anything to bring oil prices down because oil prices are "controlled" by OPEC.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But don't worry because President Biden has announced that OPEC should increase production and that he is ordering 50 million barrels of oil to be released from the US Strategic Oil Reserves (SPR). That'll show 'em! </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMOKJ83RZ-3G25WGSQwSVrziMn3W0lpmwipirB32iQI77ZJwcRUJNdTRkDFsN1jg2S3D3dmvwTdXRk5dYg29WcaJ34SGRYx3NUYqx1Ad9xsJntMGsTC8sKEZsOD4m2MgToU4kmFffkfk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1138" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMOKJ83RZ-3G25WGSQwSVrziMn3W0lpmwipirB32iQI77ZJwcRUJNdTRkDFsN1jg2S3D3dmvwTdXRk5dYg29WcaJ34SGRYx3NUYqx1Ad9xsJntMGsTC8sKEZsOD4m2MgToU4kmFffkfk/w486-h311/image.png" width="486" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an excerpt from the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/23/president-biden-announces-release-from-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-as-part-of-ongoing-efforts-to-lower-prices-and-address-lack-of-supply-around-the-world/">White House press release</a>:</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"></div></div><blockquote><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in two ways:</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">32 million barrels will be an exchange over the next several months, releasing oil that will eventually return to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the years ahead. The exchange is a tool matched to today’s specific economic environment, where markets expect future oil prices to be lower than they are today, and helps provide relief to Americans immediately and bridge to that period of expected lower oil prices. The exchange also automatically provides for re-stocking of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over time to meet future needs.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">18 million barrels will be an acceleration into the next several months of a sale of oil that Congress had previously authorized.</div></div></blockquote><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That final graf means that 36 percent of the oil released will be sold to other countries, including China. The 32 million barrels released to US oil companies will take place " over the next several months." Last year, the US used just more than <a href="https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&amp;t=6">18 million barrels of oil per day</a>, but that was in a year of low economic activity. This year's figures have not been published but are certain to be significantly higher. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But using only 2020's consumption, what the White House announced is that over the next several MONTHs the administration will add a grand total of 1-2/3 days of oil to the American market. Wow!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But wait! There's more! I gotcher proof that static analysis is useless rat cheer! OPEC decided it gets a vote! Hey, where did they get that idea? </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The administration said that it would release 32M barrels to the US economy over time, expecting it to drive down oil prices, then purchase 32M barrels for the SPR at lower prices than today's. (India and Japan also said they would release oil from their national reserves.) </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So OPEC plus Russia basically said, "Lower prices later? Nope, not a chance. We will simply cut production by at least an equal amount that you are releasing." </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Who could not have seen this coming? Only this White House and its Secretary of Energy.</div></div> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0px;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The point of urging lawlessness</title>
<description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAyCoTQIPby-TguL7-9Bhah-FunHBsWB5hn7muKw5XFyvURM-RfSSuTF7OjqVZ1NSCR9AMdYGpilA9FPWT05u6N2YKRMUDGoPjcCh_lC3dzS-TD79jPyeA0izI3Sg7vfsL998ioRtM44/s1080/Officer+Parker+argue+over+a+cookie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAyCoTQIPby-TguL7-9Bhah-FunHBsWB5hn7muKw5XFyvURM-RfSSuTF7OjqVZ1NSCR9AMdYGpilA9FPWT05u6N2YKRMUDGoPjcCh_lC3dzS-TD79jPyeA0izI3Sg7vfsL998ioRtM44/w485-h364/Officer+Parker+argue+over+a+cookie.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-26T13:36:46.460-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>Wokeness is in fact a religion</title>
<description>Katherine Kersten of the StarTribune explains why <a href="https://www.startribune.com/racial-justice-the-new-religion/571899352/" target="_blank">Woke is the new Puritanism</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What is unfolding before our eyes is a new secular religion. For all its claims of “inclusivity,” this new faith is deeply intolerant. It has roots in the American past that would likely surprise its adherents: the Puritan era of our nation’s earliest religious zealots. Progressives are now engaged in doing theology without God. “ Woke is the new Saved,” in the words of commentator John Zmirak.<br /><br />Parallels abound. One of Puritan theology’s core tenets is “innate depravity” — the doctrine that humans are inherently wicked as a result of original sin. The woke faith preaches an updated version: America’s original sin is white supremacy.</blockquote> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-27T08:22:33.104-05:00</atom:updated>
<category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Corruption</category>
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<title>Seattle police call it quits. What's next? Vigilantism</title>
<description><i><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/seattle-police-chief-to-residents-the-police-cannot-enforce-the-law-you-are-on-your-own/" target="_blank">Something will fill the vacuum left by police, and it seems doubtful the left will like the results.</a></i><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeeQRNCUKYXEBs6PJqYaFk3s3yq2DHzak6_QALEYReFQgnHPB2cSoz7UaivXdmm1J8u4Cm5yXICJYPscqXDlwS2F96yKKTgffY9LoYJP-Ema2X0ghZd64F8hH6BPWiZgfwn8JkKf0SjE/s1600/Seattle+chief+of+police.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1280" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeeQRNCUKYXEBs6PJqYaFk3s3yq2DHzak6_QALEYReFQgnHPB2cSoz7UaivXdmm1J8u4Cm5yXICJYPscqXDlwS2F96yKKTgffY9LoYJP-Ema2X0ghZd64F8hH6BPWiZgfwn8JkKf0SjE/s400/Seattle+chief+of+police.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best</td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> &nbsp;<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Seattle police&nbsp;<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2042993/seattle-police-chief-warns-council-crowd-control-ban/" style="color: #c44a01; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">cannot use any crowd-control devices</a>&nbsp;and must, effectively, let the violent, lawless rioters run free.</span><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: #333333; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seattle’s police chief alerted residents that they are on their own now.</span></blockquote> <div style="color: #333333; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="more-324336" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></div> Here is Chief Best's letter to the city council:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edv-rPBUEAAXpUH?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edv-rPBUEAAXpUH?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" width="484" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> University of Tennessee law Prof. Glenn Reynolds wrote in June about the absence of police:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> We’ll see a lot of vigilante justice. And what are people gonna do about it? Call the cops? Remember, in the end the police aren’t there to protect the public from criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the public. Communities dealt with crime long before police were invented, usually in rather harsh and low-due-process ways. The bargain was, let the police handle it instead. No police, no bargain.</blockquote> Get ready, folks. Major parts of the country are about to descend to the level of the Wild Wild West.<br /> <br /> <b>Update</b>: A federal judge has ruled to overturn the Seattle city council's prohibition of non-lethal riot-control measures.<br /> <br /> A good friend of mine for 25 years lives in Seattle; he texted me yesterday,<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Last night got tense with somebody trying to burn down the court house but Feds kept their distance.&nbsp;They torched the new juvenile detention center that's being built also this weekend.</blockquote> And the link to this:&nbsp;<a href="https://patch.com/washington/gigharbor/s/h6t9t/least-45-arrested-after-seattle-police-declare-riot" target="_blank">At Least 45 Arrested After Seattle Police Declare Riot</a><br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-24T09:14:04.863-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>Here a link, there a link, everywhere a link link!</title>
<description><h1 class="post-title short unpublished" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: &quot;SF Compact Display&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0.378em 0px 0px;"> <a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-taxonomy-of-fear" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">A Taxonomy of Fear</span></a></h1> <h3 class="subtitle" style="color: #757575; font-family: &quot;SF Compact Display&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 4px 0px 0px;"> There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced. Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment.</h3> <br /> Once you get through the pro-forma but irrelevant up-front Trump dumping, the article seems right on target. And obviously related:<br /> <br /> <h1 class="heading text-2xl md:text-4xl text-black" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(229, 228, 228); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/culture/survey-majority-of-americans-afraid-of-expressing-political-beliefs/" target="_blank">Survey: Majority of Americans Afraid of Expressing Political Beliefs</a></span></h1> <br /> <h1 class="huwp7ir" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: &quot;Blanco OSF&quot;, Garamond, Times, serif; line-height: 50.82px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are" target="_blank">Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are</a></span></h1> <h2 class="dbjv4gk" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-textTertiary); font-family: var(--fontSansSerif); font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: 300; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing100); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> If work that is of no real value has proliferated, no wonder productivity is stagnant.</h2> <br /> Overall, many good points, but I wish it had explained the influence of government in rendering so many American jobs meaningless. And speaking of jobs, look at what Seattle;s leftist leaders have done - on purpose - to job creation there:<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-safety-net-remains-unrealized" target="_blank">Seattle’s Tarnished Dream</a></span><br /> A generous safety net doesn’t mean much if you can’t find jobs or afford housing.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> What went wrong?<br /><br />Lots. Social benefits for the poor aren’t worth much if the poor can’t afford housing in the city that offers them. A family looking to find a place to live in Seattle must navigate a market where the median two-bedroom apartment lists for more than $2,600 per month. Lower-income families have been priced out into the suburbs. Drive south from Seattle into neighboring Tukwila, and you’ll see the child-poverty rate nearly triple, from 10 percent to almost 30 percent.</blockquote> Remember - this was done to Seattle <i>on purpose</i>.<br /> <br /> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a class="external" data-wpel-link="external" href="http://americandigest.org/strange-daze-26/" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="color: #dd0000; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Will 2021 Be 1984? - American Greatness"><span style="font-size: large;">If Joe Biden is elected, the effort to remove him by those now supporting him will begin the day after the election</span></a></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;and it will not be as crude as rounding up a Yale psychiatrist to testify to his dementia in Congress or shaming the White House physician to give him the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test in the manner that the Left went after Donald Trump. It will be far more insidious and successful: leaked stories to the New York Times and Washington Post from empathetic White House insiders will speak of how&nbsp; “heroically” Biden is fighting his inevitable decline –and how gamely he tries to marshal his progressive forces even as his faculties desert him. We would read about why Biden is a national treasure by sacrificing his health to get elected and then nobly bowing out as he realized the cost of his sacrifice on his person and family.</span></span><br /> <br /> <h1 class="ArticlePage-headline" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto-Slab, serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/dnc-platform-mentions-whites-15-times-all-damning" target="_blank">Democratic National Committee platform mentions ‘whites’ 15 times, all damning</a></span></h1> <div> They hate half the country.&nbsp;</div> <br /> <br /> <b>Now let's look at the American media:</b><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/press-coverage-of-covid-19" target="_blank">The Media and the Virus</a></span><br /> <i>American press coverage of Covid-19 was first dismissive, then alarmist—but always condescending.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> As it unfolded in the media, the story of the pandemic was initially that of a nonevent. On January 31, Vox ran a supposedly comprehensive “explainer” about the coronavirus. There was no need for Americans to wear protective face masks, Vox said, and “really no reason to worry.” On Twitter, Vox was still more blunt: “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No.” The hectoring tone and sham certitude are Vox specialties. But Vox wasn’t alone in dismissing the virus. USA Today, the Washington Post, Canada’s National Post, and many other outlets treated the Wuhan virus (as it was then known) less as a matter of objective concern than an instance of mass hysteria.<br /><br />Their cardinal error, in almost every case, was to rely on the WHO, an organization at best egregiously mistaken and at worst politically compromised, carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping.</blockquote> <h1 class="article-header__title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: GoudyOldStyleBTW01-Bold_1120138, Cambria, Georgia, &quot;Times News Roman&quot;, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://spectator.us/video-viral-cares-fake-news/" target="_blank">If a video is viral, who cares if it’s fake?</a></span></h1> <h2 class="article-header__standfirst" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: GoudyOldStyleBTW01-Ital, Cambria, Georgia, &quot;Times News Roman&quot;, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 537.025px;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Welcome to the age of unreality</span></h2> Remember, for the Left, which includes almost all the media, truth means the <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortezs-revolutionary-truth.html" target="_blank">Leninist concept of Revolutionary Truth</a>, and that is how they speak and act and write and broadcast. All the time.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> Like this:<br /> <br /> <h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; display: inline-block; font-family: &quot;Arbutus Slab&quot;, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/new-fbi-notes-re-debunk-major-nyt-story-highlight-media-collusion-to-produce-russia-hoax/" target="_blank">New FBI Notes Re-Debunk Major NYT Story, Highlight Media Collusion To Produce Russia Hoax</a></span></h2> <span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: &quot;PT Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"></span><br /> <div class="subtitle" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4f; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: -15px 30px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> The New York Times in 2017 falsely reported that the Trump campaign had 'repeated' contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the 2016 campaign, and instead of being held accountable for publishing lies, the story's authors received Pulitzer prizes.</div> <br /> <h2 class="title" style="background-color: white; color: #5b6265; font-family: arial; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.odditycentral.com/news/deepfake-journalist-is-a-terrifying-sign-of-things-to-come.html" rel="bookmark" style="color: #296181; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Permanent Link to Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come"><span style="font-size: large;">Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come</span></a></h2> We have entered a time when there is not merely fake news, but fake journalists. That is, byines and images of a writer who does not exist in the real world. We are entering the time of Matrix reality, where material and virtual reality are merging.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/07/23/nets-portland-coverage-evaporates-after-antifa-attempted" target="_blank">Nets’ Portland Coverage Evaporates After Antifa Attempted to MURDER Agents</a></span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">Wednesday night saw a major escalation in the conflict at the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon as Antifa terrorists and rioters barricaded federal agents inside the building and tried to set the building ablaze. It was a provocation that could have killed the untold number of agents in the building.&nbsp;Luckily, Antifa failed. But during the Thursday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the Portland coverage largely evaporated, with only&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">NBC Nightly News</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">&nbsp;daring to downplay the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rioters-barricaded-dhs-officers-in-portland-courthouse-and-tried-to-set-it-on-fire?fbclid=IwAR1byPkD-eQGAnJHZ36gYHV7ZFY3Q4fXVBzDg-KhQHSH9TX3764NvSm1jXU" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 47, 135) !important; cursor: pointer; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 27px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">attempted murder</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282d; font-size: 17px;">.</span></span></blockquote> <h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: &quot;Graphik Web&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Fox Sports to add virtual crowds to MLB ballparks</span></h1> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Fox Sports announced Thursday it will include computer-generated fans in otherwise empty stadiums for its telecasts this season, starting on Saturday.<br /><br />“We believe that what we’re doing is creating a natural viewing experience,” said Fox Sports Vice President Brad Zager. “Sports is supposed to be an escape and when people have that escape we want it to feel as normal as possible when there’s very little normalcy, like a crowd at a baseball game on a Saturday."<br /><br />"We’re not looking to fool everyone. We know it is a virtual crowd. But we also know how jarring watching a game in an empty stadium is on TV," Zager added.&nbsp;</blockquote> And that's a wrap.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How to kill black people and be praised for it</title>
<description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb2Ybmvn2nJOZP4KhT31rwRUnPlQqqJ79zuXfzaZ9OCeRQKo6WrfZBwdReowWByj7DNi6hxTe3vXO1tspiRBmko7R4QxdKGGbkqrO-xo7nr0urYqoK6ppZ1jDcfOUp_NG2S3FkWSkFMo/s1600/Margaret+Sanger+NYT+Photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb2Ybmvn2nJOZP4KhT31rwRUnPlQqqJ79zuXfzaZ9OCeRQKo6WrfZBwdReowWByj7DNi6hxTe3vXO1tspiRBmko7R4QxdKGGbkqrO-xo7nr0urYqoK6ppZ1jDcfOUp_NG2S3FkWSkFMo/s1600/Margaret+Sanger+NYT+Photo.JPG" /></a></div> <br /> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html" target="_blank">Click for NYT article</a>.<br /> <br /> USA Today:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/23/racism-eugenics-margaret-sanger-deserves-no-honors-column/5480192002/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood founder tied to eugenics and racism</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> For those identifying historical figures with racist roots who should be removed from public view because of their evil histories, Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, must join that list. In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.” ...<br /><br />In a 1939 letter to Dr. C. J. Gamble, Sanger urged him to get over his reluctance to hire “a full time Negro physician” as the “colored Negroes…can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubt.”<br /><br />Like the abortion lobby today, Sanger urged Dr. Gamble to enlist the help of spiritual leaders to justify their deadly work, writing, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” ...<br />&nbsp;<br />Cultural icon Kanye West has made headlines with his recent statements on Planned Parenthoodabortion vendors, which he said have "been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.” He’s right about the locations of the businesses.<br /><br />The vast majority of the abortion vendors have set up shop in minority neighborhoods, which can be seen in the scarce statistics available at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though they are only 13% of the female population, African Americans made up 38% of all abortions tracked in 2016.</blockquote> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2015/08/unborn-democrats.html" target="_blank">If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong</a>.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipS0QSoxqd2jIbQHgP9uhgapEqQ4QzTlbaPMwPNxNL0QpLi7FtZsNPF4i_K6KhN5NA2uwotYAcGRGRuFLwqUN_91RQR5Ys0tpXmX2q97Y8rRw5FepldPbtzBZ4_m4S2HSYFMk0L4OdLFk/s1600/Abortion+african-americans-abortion-billboard-AFP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="475" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipS0QSoxqd2jIbQHgP9uhgapEqQ4QzTlbaPMwPNxNL0QpLi7FtZsNPF4i_K6KhN5NA2uwotYAcGRGRuFLwqUN_91RQR5Ys0tpXmX2q97Y8rRw5FepldPbtzBZ4_m4S2HSYFMk0L4OdLFk/s400/Abortion+african-americans-abortion-billboard-AFP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgsY7TCioZzV2sEUYfRgj6L4OmHrrR6STXAnEMpSBRVJRzuW9xYpghBaQD4k6WlUU1SUgTGx8pRJ_3E63vvNT3NFaVrbY80jYsuhxW00hYgj14TlGbXN0KhKTrNlahrudHPqKrCINOSk/s1600/Abortion+-+Mars+and+heartbeat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkgsY7TCioZzV2sEUYfRgj6L4OmHrrR6STXAnEMpSBRVJRzuW9xYpghBaQD4k6WlUU1SUgTGx8pRJ_3E63vvNT3NFaVrbY80jYsuhxW00hYgj14TlGbXN0KhKTrNlahrudHPqKrCINOSk/s400/Abortion+-+Mars+and+heartbeat.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzA5bNVKW5900_U_djE3FtuMRm7pZyt5xorReKTlGpvLW7O9lGb25ti5CP2Es7JMwvKUBGRSPIFx1YlBXmGeUK90YBZ0yaGdlezYNgg2ei6_Q26W19YLpThhH4bvn4pn78bwDJYNB6Lc/s1600/Abortion+some+lives+matter+less.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1000" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzA5bNVKW5900_U_djE3FtuMRm7pZyt5xorReKTlGpvLW7O9lGb25ti5CP2Es7JMwvKUBGRSPIFx1YlBXmGeUK90YBZ0yaGdlezYNgg2ei6_Q26W19YLpThhH4bvn4pn78bwDJYNB6Lc/s400/Abortion+some+lives+matter+less.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<title>What Defund the Police hath wrought</title>
<description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6UDjUNalWRH0ZNHkXlRsMqNGgErOgdVG0enjqIVkln_66vyU1skAXUK3aFdQOpayFCSE5DFQHRtrELJ_gTnT2_xVTPjfStNmtwqCN5X6uoUcihYnavVR7gI7bQG28kxkBp1cqkIA_QE/s1600/My+FB+post+on+increased+gun+sales+CNN+link.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6UDjUNalWRH0ZNHkXlRsMqNGgErOgdVG0enjqIVkln_66vyU1skAXUK3aFdQOpayFCSE5DFQHRtrELJ_gTnT2_xVTPjfStNmtwqCN5X6uoUcihYnavVR7gI7bQG28kxkBp1cqkIA_QE/s1600/My+FB+post+on+increased+gun+sales+CNN+link.JPG" /></a></div> <br /> This is <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/24/business/gun-sales-spike/index.html" target="_blank">the link to article</a>.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<title>Link this, sucker!</title>
<description><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521" target="_blank">Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <i>Why is this a problem?</i>You might think this is great for the environment. A smaller population would reduce carbon emissions as well as deforestation for farmland.<br /><br />"That would be true except for the inverted age structure (more old people than young people) and all the uniformly negative consequences of an inverted age structure," says Prof Murray.<br /><br />The study projects:<ul> <li>The number of under-fives will fall from 681 million in 2017 to 401 million in 2100.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The number of over 80-year-olds will soar from 141 million in 2017 to 866 million in 2100.</li> </ul> Prof Murray adds: "It will create enormous social change. It makes me worried because I have an eight-year-old daughter and I wonder what the world will be like."<br /><br />Who pays tax in a massively aged world? Who pays for healthcare for the elderly? Who looks after the elderly? Will people still be able to retire from work?<br /><br />"We need a soft landing," argues Prof Murray. ...<br /><br />Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, University College London (UCL), said: "If these predictions are even half accurate, migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option.<br />"To be successful we need a fundamental rethink of global politics.&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The distribution of working-age populations will be crucial to whether humanity prospers or withers."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/glenn-loury-structural-racism-catastrophe/" target="_blank">‘We Teeter On The Brink Of Catastrophe’</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The center cannot hold. We teeter on the brink of catastrophe."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-revolution-is-winning/" target="_blank">The Revolution Is Winning</a><br /> <i>Radicals from the 1960s and 1970s now hold powerful positions in government and academia</i><br /> <br /> <a href="https://c2cjournal.ca/2015/03/twenty-years-a-fool-my-long-journey-home-from-the-left/" target="_blank">Twenty Years A Fool: My Long Journey Home From The Left</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Elizabeth Nickson’s story has all the makings of a Hollywood bio pic: A Westmount exile, who rebels against power and privilege, becomes a globe-trotting leftist journalist chronicling the great revolutionary narratives of her time. Then she sets out to discover the awful truth about her patriarchal 400-year-old colonist clan and everything changes. But Hollywood won’t touch her script because what she finds are eternal truths, about love, charity, sacrifice, Christianity and genuine freedom. ...</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The first thing I discovered was that they were Christian. And I mean very, very Christian. This was unnerving since on the intellectual left, faith in God, and particularly Christ, signifies a weak mind. But these people were anything but weak."</blockquote> <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-this-old-apollo-footage-get-upgraded-into-a-60-fps-masterpiece" target="_blank">Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI, And The Results Are Incredible</a><br /> <br /> That is no exaggeration.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/30/why-rioters-will-eventually-turn-their-rage-on-christianity-if-not-stopped/" target="_blank">Why Rioters Will Eventually Turn Their Rage On Christianity If Not Stopped</a><br /> <i>The outrage over statues and the 'white' depictions of Christ is meant to detract us from the real endgame: the 'canceling' of Christianity itself.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The dream of Marxism is to eradicate Western civilization and replace it with itself; its reaction to the legitimate evils that have been committed by Occidentals is not reform but obliteration.<br /><br />Marxism assumes that because the windows are dirty and cracked, the entire house must be demolished. We see this same hatred today in the insurrections occurring right now. There is no reason for mobs pulling down statues of Ulysses S. Grant or Hans Christian Heg or calling for statues of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator to be removed.<br /><br />But if Western Civilization is evil, that means all the elements that went into creating Western Civilization must also be destroyed. That includes Christianity.</blockquote> <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/connecticut-pathologists-study-shows-cdc-coronavirus-test-kits-generate-30-false-positive-results/" target="_blank">Connecticut pathologist’s study shows CDC coronavirus test kits generate 30% false positive results</a><br /> <i>Other issues with the COVID-count include motorcycle fatality classified as COVID-19 death, Rhode Island reporting 113 false positive results, and Florida labs lacking negative COVID-19 results.</i><br /> <br /> <a href="https://issuesinsights.com/2020/07/20/democrats-the-party-of-science-fiction/" target="_blank">Democrats, The Party Of Science (Fiction)</a><br /> A record going back decades.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/388247/" target="_blank">Has America 2020 become like Germany's Weimar Republic?</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Yet there are some disturbing parallels, or at least echoes, of what happened during the Weimar years. First, the very emergence (or re-emergence) in the US of ideologically inspired rioting, looting, and street violence. Second, the fact that at least some of the violent factions – like Antifa – appear to be systematically organised and funded, with fairly sophisticated recruitment, training, and communications capabilities. Third, there is the truly disturbing fact that violence seems to winked at – if not actively encouraged – by sympathetic office-holders and by the ever-more-politically-one-sided media, in thrall to the political Left.<br /><br />(In Weimar Germany, too, the political armies represented the political parties, and they were protected by office-holders – and also by the courts – which were sympathetic to them. In the Weimar Republic, it was especially right-wing governments and judges who winked at right-wing or Nazi violence. Hitler, for example, was liable for severe punishment, or even the death penalty, for the Beer Hall Putsch – his attempted coup by armed force in Bavaria in 1923. Instead, after a trial by sympathetic judges, he served less than nine months “fortress confinement” in Landsberg Prison, where he&nbsp; was accommodated comfortably and free to write, or rather to dictate, Mein Kampf.)&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Politically-inspired rioting, looting, arson; bitter racial and ethnic grievances and divisions; deepening ideological antipathies. Colleges and universities that foster one-sided extemism. (The Nazis were especially strong in the Weimar-era universities.) Public officials and media who minimise or cover for violence – creating an atmosphere of impunity for one side in the political struggle. None of these are healthy symptoms.<br /><br />History – thankfully – may not repeat itself. It’s worrisome though, or at least rather creepy, when it begins to rhyme.</blockquote> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-20T15:26:34.531-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>George Wallace approves this message!</title>
<description>I posted a few days ago the question, "<a href="http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-is-wokeness-so-white-supremacist.html" target="_blank">Why is Wokeness so white supremacist?</a>" in which I observed,<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It is amazing to me how today so many white race-justice warriors keep proclaiming wokeness stuff that simply echoes what bona fide white supremacists of the 1960s would have been proud to say.</blockquote> And so today, let the parodies begin! For as the subjects of the Soviet Union found out, <a href="https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-socialist-paradise-was-really-like.html" target="_blank">humor was a wonderful weapon</a> to use to undermine the regime.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ev373c7wSRg" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> They are not wrong, for according to the&nbsp;National Association of Scholars, of the 173 schools it surveyed, 76 of them, or 44%, were <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/more-than-75-colleges-host-blacks-only-graduation-ceremonies" target="_blank">offering black-only graduation ceremonies</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> These range from small private schools to big public universities. Some notable ones include Harvard, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Arizona State University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale.&nbsp;</blockquote> &nbsp;I made this meme some time ago as a parody. Now when considering the latest "Woke" demand, it is simply the truth.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k20jA14FuFxynFC7-zoM80CNnblJqKv1oJrq_ahd1lZRWmRyHnp6-1_3yehUzqKYGlA469jYGS693jzGvFLi0AFBf_C8vgSlJNjQN1hTPoKJ-1G1852t29bKguqVw0TZZAifjuhO1qI/s1600/George+Wallace+approves+with+caption.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="621" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k20jA14FuFxynFC7-zoM80CNnblJqKv1oJrq_ahd1lZRWmRyHnp6-1_3yehUzqKYGlA469jYGS693jzGvFLi0AFBf_C8vgSlJNjQN1hTPoKJ-1G1852t29bKguqVw0TZZAifjuhO1qI/s400/George+Wallace+approves+with+caption.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> This is the American Left today, folks.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-20T09:18:53.693-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>The snobbery of the self-anointed</title>
<description><i>The Vision of the Anointed - Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy</i>, by Thomas Sowell -- from <a href="https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=484">a long review</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The idea that humanity can be analyzed into two major competing groups has stimulated many types of social theory. Marxist theory has occupied itself with the conflict between capitalists and proletarians. Certain kinds of modern-liberal theory have attempted to elucidate relationships between a managerial class and the populace that it tries to manage. Classical-liberal and conservative theories have focused on the conflict between people who produce wealth (whether these be considered capitalists or workers) and people who govern but do not produce.<br /> <br /> In The Vision of the Anointed, the distinguished economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell makes an important contribution to classical-liberal and conservative thought by scrutinizing the ways in which a self-consciously elite, or “anointed,” group uses ideas to maintain its power in American political life. Sowell regards American political discourse as dominated by people who are sure that they know what is good for society and who think that the good must be attained by expanded government action. This modern-liberal elite exerts its influence through institutions that live by words: the universities and public schools, the media, the liberal clergy, the bar and bench. Its dominance results from its command of the information that words convey and the attitudes that words inspire.<br /> <br /> People who live by words should live also by arguments, butas Sowell richly documentsthe modern-liberal elite is not so good at arguing as it is at finding substitutes for argument. Sowell analyzes the major substitutes. Suppose that you doubt the necessity or usefulness of some great new government program. You may first be presented with a quantity of decontextualized “facts” and abused statistics, all indicating the existence of a “crisis” that only government can resolve. If you are not converted by this show of evidence, an attempt will probably be made to shift the viewpoint: outsiders may doubt that there is a crisis of, say, homelessness, but “spokesmen for the homeless” purportedly have no doubts.<br /> <br /> There may also be an attempt simply to declare victory by relabeling current political proposals as inherent rights: it will be announced, in vague yet dogmatic terms, that everyone has a right to decent housing and that government is therefore compelled to provide it. If necessary, substantiation for this new right can be discovered in a Constitution that means whatever the latest school of jurists decides that it means.<br /> <br /> If even these methods fail to win you over, attention will be redirected from the political issue to your own failure of imagination or morality. It will be insinuated that people like you are simplistic or perversely opposed to change, lacking in compassion and allied with the “forces of greed.” (As Sowell observes, it is always the payers rather than the spenders of taxes who are considered vulnerable to the charge of greed.)</blockquote> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/waEc4YbQQX0" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-20T09:10:58.551-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>The federal secret police</title>
<description><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPw5i-fNwx2tKgyErWUrh0ctQ_u19eXMz6OrRFizeqmSgROBIgo4QyafNAeTI0nddlKnD_UDGGXM5RAi8SuxFpUSZ7-dcRM86Lho0rCQ0tg7JlaGrJn4eaXGjLFeIdBNBIT3vBWj2HKs4/s1600/Portland+and+Clinton+immigrant+raid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="652" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPw5i-fNwx2tKgyErWUrh0ctQ_u19eXMz6OrRFizeqmSgROBIgo4QyafNAeTI0nddlKnD_UDGGXM5RAi8SuxFpUSZ7-dcRM86Lho0rCQ0tg7JlaGrJn4eaXGjLFeIdBNBIT3vBWj2HKs4/s640/Portland+and+Clinton+immigrant+raid.jpg" width="434" /></a></div> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<atom:updated>2020-07-19T17:25:45.732-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>Unrelated videos day!</title>
<description>Three videos that have nothing to do with one another. First up, David Goldman. I have linked to David Goldman's work many times. He is a genuine China expert. This video is his July 17 online lecture for the Westminster Institute about his new book, "You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World."<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> David is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. He is the Wax Family Fellow at the Middle East Forum, a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Sino-Israel Government Network and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL). According to the Claremont Review of Books, the “Spengler” columns in the Asia Times have attracted readership in the millions.</blockquote> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_zPSp_cpeck" width="560"></iframe></center> Next, that which needs no introduction:<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q7rAFPtBTdk" width="560"></iframe>?</center> <br /> And one more:<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oW5R_U4DBOo" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-17T13:16:16.155-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>Why is Wokeness so white supremacist?</title>
<description>When you have lost NYMag:&nbsp;<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html" target="_blank">Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?</a>&nbsp; About the ...<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ... anti-racism training industry, whose most famous theorist and practitioner is Robin DiAngelo, whose book <i>White Fragility</i> rocketed to the top of the New York Times best-seller list.<br /> <br /> Daniel Bergner has a long profile of DiAngelo and her fellow anti-racism trainers in the New York Times. The story is far more devastating than it might appear at a casual glance. It reveals a business model spreading kooky, harmful, and outright racist ideas. ...&nbsp;</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> One of DiAngelo’s favorite examples is instructive. She uses the famous story of Jackie Robinson. Rather than say “he broke through the color line,” she instructs people instead to describe him as “Jackie Robinson, the first Black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It is true, of course, that Robinson was not the first Black man who was good enough at baseball to make a major-league roster. The Brooklyn Dodgers decided, out of a combination of idealism and self-interest, to violate the norm against signing Black players. And Robinson was chosen due to a combination of his skill and extraordinary personality that allowed him to withstand the backlash in store for the first Black major leaguer. It is not an accident that DiAngelo changes the story to eliminate Robinson’s agency and obscure his heroic qualities. It’s the point. Her program treats individual merit as a myth to be debunked. Even a figure as remarkable as Robinson is reduced to a mere pawn of systemic oppression.</blockquote> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/" target="_blank">The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility</a>&nbsp;<i>The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people</i>. By John McWhorter, professor at Columbia University<br /> <br /> <a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility" target="_blank">On “White Fragility” -- A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism</a><br /> by Matt Taibi<br /> <br /> <a href="https://areomagazine.com/2020/07/14/the-orwellian-dystopia-of-robin-diangelos-phd-dissertation/" target="_blank">The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/15/what-to-read-instead-of-white-fragility/" target="_blank">What To Read Instead Of ‘White Fragility’</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqRVykYmMOImnbeibNsJFYdyc0CQxKdoq3-MIzYaTjpOLkHIGV1hM-h09r8Z1tuLWKHzZNzIZhbsvjc-L4iZPWNS4mU3Q9SNnaZwnch4SevHOUvWdgV_IQkTogDCTXWpTZECkcYi_B34/s1600/Smithsonian+White+Culture+Display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqRVykYmMOImnbeibNsJFYdyc0CQxKdoq3-MIzYaTjpOLkHIGV1hM-h09r8Z1tuLWKHzZNzIZhbsvjc-L4iZPWNS4mU3Q9SNnaZwnch4SevHOUvWdgV_IQkTogDCTXWpTZECkcYi_B34/s1600/Smithsonian+White+Culture+Display.jpg" /></a></div> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/15/smithsonian-goes-full-marxist-nuclear-family-science-christianity-all-part-of-oppressive-whiteness-n645176" target="_blank">Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> ...&nbsp;the idea that Christianity being the norm is part of “whiteness” ignores the fact that black people are statistically more likely to believe the Christian gospel while white people are statistically more likely to reject the existence of God altogether. I myself belong to a Christian church that looked to Africa for leadership.</blockquote> My observation:<br /> <br /> It is amazing to me how today so many white race-justice warriors keep proclaiming wokeness stuff that simply echoes what bona fide white supremacists of the 1960s would have been proud to say.<br /> <br /> So far I have learned that any black who does not vote for Biden is not really black, and that neither is any black married couple with children living at home, especially if their kids have their own bedrooms.<br /> <br /> Which is good news, because that means the black family who lives directly across the street from me, and another three doors down, and the Chinese family who lives next door to me, and the Indian (from India) family four doors down, and the Native American family of my church - well, they are actually <i>white</i>!<br /> <br /> Whew! For a moment I thought I had to put up with living in an integrated neighborhood! But we are <i>all</i> <i>white</i>, hallelujah!<br /> <br /> Because, after all, whiteness is now officially defined as a world view and manner of living, not skin color or ancestry.<br /> <br /> July 16: the museum <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/african-american-museum-removes-whiteness-chart-race" target="_blank">withdrew the display</a>.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has removed its controversial chart on whiteness from one of its webpages, telling people on Thursday that it didn't contribute to a "productive conversation" about racial issues.<br /> <br /> "Since yesterday, certain content in the 'Talking About Race' portal has been the subject of questions that we have taken seriously. We have listened to public sentiment and have removed a chart that does not contribute to the productive discussion we had intended," the museum said in a statement.</blockquote> Gosh, how did that happen?<br /> <br /> Speaking of white-supremacy Leftism:<br /> <br /> <iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="633" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdsensing%2Fposts%2F10159058053404057&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=633&amp;appId" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="552"></iframe><br /> <br /> Once again:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlo5jq30MxCYiP5KpZrhMVgv0eXcrUbe0m-sKp4R-SIZlOd89So_SKBPRu6kRkmf07E_QT1-P-nM1UMftRSm8bAo4Db2evTFbksoS5BcAJ5zZzsuzViaUF1FjRAeKqG2-414PpywrQO8/s1600/Malcolm+X+quote+enemy+white+liberals.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="940" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlo5jq30MxCYiP5KpZrhMVgv0eXcrUbe0m-sKp4R-SIZlOd89So_SKBPRu6kRkmf07E_QT1-P-nM1UMftRSm8bAo4Db2evTFbksoS5BcAJ5zZzsuzViaUF1FjRAeKqG2-414PpywrQO8/s400/Malcolm+X+quote+enemy+white+liberals.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<title>Two letters on America today</title>
<description>First, Iranian-American Roya Hakakian:<br /> <br /> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Libre Baskerville&quot;, Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.625rem; font-weight: normal; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 15px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://quillette.com/2020/07/11/why-i-signed-the-harpers-letter/" target="_blank">Why I Signed the Harper’s Letter</a></h1> <br /> Then read <a href="https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter" target="_blank">Bari Weiss' resignation letter to the New York Times</a>:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.<br /><br />My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.<br /><br />There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong.&nbsp;</blockquote> But the NYW Wokers will never agree. Here is a photo of the woke staffers at the NYT demanding final say over what gets published and by whom.<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwu3o0qiJdJUqa6P3qPzblIwTwzYAgjNzE_2WsThkqpv8_U2be0fuoAsYipPfEMW54ObFxxflCRn8SfzpK0kCPv_M85lfgyf_VvcnXWGUtEI9Gr74XrSj56TS2EopjGTfQQoYduoYN7g/s1600/Young+Frankenstein+Mob.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1162" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwu3o0qiJdJUqa6P3qPzblIwTwzYAgjNzE_2WsThkqpv8_U2be0fuoAsYipPfEMW54ObFxxflCRn8SfzpK0kCPv_M85lfgyf_VvcnXWGUtEI9Gr74XrSj56TS2EopjGTfQQoYduoYN7g/s400/Young+Frankenstein+Mob.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-15T09:09:45.028-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>The New American Nobility is a Scamocracy</title>
<description>First, read FEE's article here.<br /> <br /> <h1 class="article-republish-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat !important; font-size: 50px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"> <a href="https://fee.org/articles/seattle-just-passed-a-new-tax-on-jobs-in-the-middle-of-an-economic-crisis-with-one-infuriating-exception/" target="_blank">Seattle Just Passed a New Tax on Jobs in the Middle of an Economic Crisis—But Exempted Government Workers</a></h1> Understand that the Political Class always protects its own - and its votes. Everyone in the city will pay higher taxes except government employees. Of course.<br /> <br /> Anyone who thinks that the United States does not have a class of the nobility is simply not paying attention.<br /> <br /> Not my original idea. Glenn Reynolds wrote in USA Today,<br /> <h1 class="gnt_ar_hl" elementtiming="ar-headline" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: &quot;Unify Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Arial Nova&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 38px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;"> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/16/americas-nobility-problem-ruling-class-pays-no-consequences-failure-column/786512002/" target="_blank">America has a nobility problem, and it means our leaders don't pay for their failures</a></h1> <h2 class="gnt_ar_shl" style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: &quot;Georgia Pro&quot;, Georgia, &quot;Droid Serif&quot;, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 10px 0px 2px;"> Politicians and bureaucrats are America's ruling class and they should start paying a price for failure. Accountability isn't just for little guys.</h2> <div> <br /></div> And finally, the incomparable Angelo Codevilla explains that what we have is&nbsp;<a href="https://americanmind.org/post/scamocracy-in-america/" target="_blank">Scamocracy in America</a>.&nbsp;<div> <br /></div> <div> <h3 class="title-sub lemonde" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: lemonde-journal, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 60px 12px;"> How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance.</h3> No, the federal swamp is not being drained.<br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a></div> </description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-07-12T07:17:54.080-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>Let's link to everything!</title>
<description>In no particular order:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/506331-vote-by-mail-would-create-chaos-and-distrust-in-november" target="_blank"><b>Vote-by-mail would create chaos and distrust in November</b></a><br /> Which is of course the whole point.<br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/scamocracy-in-america/" target="_blank"><b>Scamocracy in America</b></a>, by Angelo Codevilla<br /> <i>How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.nysun.com/national/press-now-plumbs-its-own-depths-of-depravity/91183/" target="_blank"><b>Press Now Plumbs Its Own Depths Of Depravity</b></a><br /> <i>However, I do not think they reached bottom yet.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://reason.com/2020/07/07/narcissists-psychopaths-and-manipulators-are-more-likely-to-engage-in-virtuous-victim-signaling-says-study/" target="_blank"><b>Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage in 'Virtuous Victim Signaling,' Says Study</b></a><br /> <i>"The consequences and predictors of emitting signals of victimhood and virtue," published in the </i>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<i>, by University of British Columbia researchers.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/crushing-an-inwood-eatery-just-because-you-dont-like-how-its-owner-voted/" target="_blank"><b>Crushing an Inwood eatery just because you don’t like how its owner voted</b></a><br /> <i>This is how the Left works: "if your oh-so-tolerant, oh-so-open-minded progressive customers find out about your grave political transgressions, they might just organize a boycott campaign against your firm and seek to destroy your livelihood." As they are also trying to do with Goya foods right now.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training" target="_blank"><b>Cult Programming in Seattle</b></a>&nbsp;-- The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.”<br /> <i>&nbsp;In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.</i><br /> <i>_____________</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-students-cyberbullied-called-racist-for-their-open-letter-defending-academic-freedom/" target="_blank"><b>Princeton students cyberbullied, called racist for their open letter defending academic freedom</b></a><br /> <i>American colleges and universities have been educationally destroyed. Academic freedom is now being defined by universities' administrators as a white supremacist construct.</i><br /> _____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://spectator.org/america-held-hostage/" target="_blank"><b>America Held Hostage -- This is how the Left campaigns to remove President Trump</b></a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> We’re in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they’ll let this go on as long as Trump is president. The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested. Try to defend yourself, and you’ll find yourself prosecuted.<br /> <br /> The message is: this is what you’ll get, America, if you reelect Trump. Elect our guy, and the madness will stop, pronto. A Democratic president would forcefully suppress the riots without a peep from the press. But until then we’re held hostage.<br /> <br /> They don’t even need a candidate. They can run Biden from his basement.</blockquote> <b>____________</b><br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/07/10/you-might-not-be-interested-in-china-but-china-is-interested-in-you/" target="_blank"><b>You Might Not Be Interested in China, But China Is Interested in You</b></a><br /> <i>A review of&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Will-Be-Assimilated-Sino-form/dp/1642935409" target="_blank">You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-form the World</a><i> by David Goldman. "Biden, like previous administration leaders of both parties and Congresses, including Trump, has no cogent China strategy."</i><br /> ____________<br /> <br /> <a href="https://fee.org/articles/margaret-thatcher-on-socialism-20-of-her-best-quotes/" target="_blank"><b>Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes</b></a><br /> <i>"There is no such thing as 'safe' socialism. If it’s safe, it’s not socialism. And if it's socialism, it’s not safe. The signposts of socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy."&nbsp;&nbsp;</i><br /> ___________<br /> <br /> <b><a href="https://twitter.com/HannahCox7/status/1281568649518751744" target="_blank">This, too</a>:</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Vth2lZ9M6FqKc0dEzheyHj3U332CuvF93AW42GFmkpvqBceC191_Xi3eSJm4ZIA_mtVAg9KIDHgtu_cIGctwy0qD6k7oow2SACJYRa_vDVNyDEVEbZ-ivZLZL7bfgJRt3oNYTyF3jA/s1600/Not+capitalist+enoug+tweet+by+Hannah+Cox.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="757" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Vth2lZ9M6FqKc0dEzheyHj3U332CuvF93AW42GFmkpvqBceC191_Xi3eSJm4ZIA_mtVAg9KIDHgtu_cIGctwy0qD6k7oow2SACJYRa_vDVNyDEVEbZ-ivZLZL7bfgJRt3oNYTyF3jA/s400/Not+capitalist+enoug+tweet+by+Hannah+Cox.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> __________<br /> <br /> And finally, what hath the riots and the MSM's unabashed celebration of them and Defund the Police wrought? This:&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.tactical-life.com/news/colt-ar-15-production-civilian/" target="_blank">Colt Resumes Civilian AR-15 Production as Gun Sales Soar Across US</a>.&nbsp;</b><br /> <br /> <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7"><img alt="Bookmark and Share" height="16" src="https://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0;" width="125" /></a><script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<atom:updated>2020-07-08T08:30:54.203-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>What changed at Mt Rushmore?</title>
<description>When Democrats give speeches at Mt Rushmore, it is the emblem of all that is best about America. When Republicans give speeches there, Mt Rushmore is an oppressive, white-supremacist, slavery-glorifying landmark that was stolen from native Americans.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kj9EtawpKJc" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /></description>
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<title>God and Hamilton</title>
<description>I refer not only to the musical - which was released as a movie today by Disney Plus - but also to a book Kevin Cloud, who is a pastor, church planter, and author. He earned an M.Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has planted four successful churches in the Kansas City area and currently serves as the director of spiritual life at the Culture House, an arts conservatory in Olathe, Kansas. His site is&nbsp; <a href="http://www.godandhamilton.com/">www.godandhamilton.com</a>.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> With his permission, I am publishing his article as an intro to his book.<br /> ________________________________<br /> <br /> <b>Redemption </b><o:p></o:p><br /> <b><br /></b> The musical <i>Hamilton </i>resonates with me more than any piece of art I have ever experienced, primarily because it teems with the most important themes of my life. Engaging these themes of grace, shame, forgiveness, and surrender through Hamilton’s story encourages, inspires, and transforms me. But above all other themes, Hamilton’s story resonates with me because, ultimately, it tells a story that I desperately need to experience–a story of redemption. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> When I take an honest assessment of my life, I see brokenness everywhere. I live with mixed motives, impure thoughts, and selfish actions. When I look at the world around me, more so today than ever, it appears to be constantly assaulted by the forces of brokenness. Death, terrorism, poverty, and divisiveness seem to win the day. My own life, and the world that we all live in, both share an acute desperation for redemption. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> <i>Hamilton </i>moves people because it reminds us of this possibility. Interestingly, Hamilton is not the driving force behind this redemption, but rather his loving, faithful, and determined wife, Eliza. She takes the brokenness from his life and makes it beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The greatest source of pain and brokenness in Hamilton’s life originated from his status as an orphan,&nbsp;<o:p></o:p><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmnAptm1hvvtt0mQ0AfxYHdJs8VxXAM_UOP1dFn-e06Rhfcsja-iO02C8i77EfIPYOwpHGpKy8YFQoyKbToJU7qkomS1RZC9F19O2NOTLplC7ilUM1eer0I9o_MZH5-7n34H6HSiaS-g/s1600/God+and+Hamilton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1036" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmnAptm1hvvtt0mQ0AfxYHdJs8VxXAM_UOP1dFn-e06Rhfcsja-iO02C8i77EfIPYOwpHGpKy8YFQoyKbToJU7qkomS1RZC9F19O2NOTLplC7ilUM1eer0I9o_MZH5-7n34H6HSiaS-g/s640/God+and+Hamilton.jpg" width="412" /></a></div> a reality that haunted him throughout his life. Hamilton, like most orphans, surely grew up feeling abandoned, unwanted, and unloved, hounded by loneliness and inadequacy. <br /> <br /> I read an article written by an orphan named David, who experienced a deep sense of abandonment and rejection, feelings he struggled with into his late fifties. Another girl whose parents died wrote that orphans grow up rarely feeling special or loved. They wear secondhand clothes, play with used toys, and rarely celebrate their birthdays. Many orphans don’t even know the date of their birthday. <o:p></o:p><br /> I can imagine heartbreaking conversations where Hamilton shared his pain and suffering from being an orphan with Eliza. I can also imagine Eliza, as any loving spouse would, feeling a deep sense of empathy about Hamilton’s struggles as an orphan. Hamilton’s brokenness must have become her brokenness, as she carried his burden with her husband. After Hamilton’s death, and after she healed from her grief, Eliza took that hurt, suffering, and brokenness, and gave everything she could to redeem it, to make it new. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> After Alexander died, grief overwhelmed Eliza. In his biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow writes, “For Eliza Hamilton, the collapse of her world was total, overwhelming, and remorseless. Within three years, she had had to cope with four close deaths: her eldest son, her sister Peggy, her mother, and her husband, not to mention the mental breakdown of her eldest daughter.” Chernow shares that immediately after the death of Hamilton, Eliza invited Gouverneur Morris, a close family friend, into the room, then “burst into tears, told him he was the best friend her husband had, begged him to join her in prayers for her own death, and then to be a father for her children.” <o:p></o:p><br /> Eliza, in this moment, found herself completely overwhelmed by brokenness and death. She couldn’t even begin to imagine redemption. But in time, God would give her faith to see the possibility of redemption out of the brokenness. Eventually, she would take Hamilton’s broken pieces and make them beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Eliza slowly recovered from her grief, finding solace in her faith in God. “Suffering from the ‘irreparable loss of a most amiable and affectionate husband,’ she prayed for ‘the mercies of the divine being in whose dispensations’ all Christians should acquiesce,” writes Chernow. Her faith helped her to recover from the devastating loss and begin to imagine a new life. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Hamilton himself had encouraged her to remember her faith before his death. In his letter he wrote the night before his duel with Aaron Burr, he reminded Eliza, “The consolations of religion, my beloved, can alone support you and these you have a right to enjoy. Fly to the bosom of your God and be comforted. With my last idea, I shall cherish the sweet hope of meeting you in a better world.” <o:p></o:p><br /> As Eliza slowly recovered from her grief, she discovered a new calling. She partnered with a small group of women to found the first private orphanage in New York City. Her Hamilton had suffered as an orphan his entire life; now she would work to alleviate the suffering of others who faced the same struggle. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Orphans during this era faced a brutal reality, with no good options available to them. Many orphans lived on the streets in gangs, fighting a daily battle to survive. The tenement housing district was grossly overpopulated and overrun with abhorrent living conditions. Almshouses or indentured servitude provided shelter and food for a life of hard labor and a loss of freedom, but oftentimes created structures that abused vulnerable children. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> For twenty-seven years, Eliza worked tirelessly, providing orphans a hopeful alternative. Chernow writes, “She oversaw every aspect of the orphanage work. She raised money, leased properties, visited almshouses, investigated complaints, and solicited donations of coal, shoes, and Bibles.” Eliza believed that God himself had given her this calling, “My maker has pointed out this duty to me and has given me the ability and inclination to perform it.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The work challenged her greatly and oftentimes operated dangerously low on resources. Eliza once committed to never turning away a child, whether they possessed a dime in the treasury or not. In 1813, the orphanage account fell to $60 while caring for the needs of ninety children. Yet despite these ongoing challenges, Eliza believed in God’s provision and faithfully continued her work. In doing so, she offered redemption to these children who otherwise faced a hopeless existence. <o:p></o:p><br /> The end of Miranda’s musical beautifully illustrates Eliza redeeming Hamilton’s brokenness. The scene captures one of the most powerful artistic representations of redemption I’ve ever witnessed. The final song features Eliza singing about the different ways she honored her husband’s legacy. She considered the orphanage her crowning achievement in this pursuit. She sings about how she helped hundreds of orphans in the city, and how she sees her husband in each child that she serves. The musical ends with a brilliant white spotlight shining on Eliza as she smiles, her face radiating joy as the theatre fades to black. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The way we become agents of redemption here and now is simple but hard: we love. Eliza made Hamilton’s brokenness beautiful for hundreds of orphans by loving them in tangible ways. She threw herself into this work out of her love for her husband, and her love of God. Chernow writes, “Perhaps nothing expressed her affection for Hamilton more tenderly than her efforts on behalf of orphans. . . . Surely some extra dimension of religious fervor had entered into Eliza’s feelings toward her husband because of his boyhood.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The work she pioneered continues to this day. The organization Eliza created more than two hundred years ago still exists, now called Graham Windham. The people of Graham Windham continue to live out Eliza’s legacy, tirelessly working on behalf of poor children and families in New York City. The families they serve live in New York City’s most severely distressed neighborhoods, ninety-five percent of whom live at or below the poverty line. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Jess Dannhauser, the current president and CEO of Graham Windham, sees their work as a continuation of Eliza’s legacy. Experiencing the musical <i>Hamilton </i>moved him deeply. “When Eliza sings that she sees Alexander in the eyes of these orphans, I see that as her saying these kids have great potential inside of them. That spirit is what animates our work today.” <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> Kimberly Hardy Watson, Graham Windham’s chief operating officer, agrees: “I find myself often wondering, what would Eliza think about what we are doing today? If she and the other cofounders had a clear understanding of what they endeavored for children, are we keeping to that promise? Are we being good stewards of that vision?” More than two hundred years after Eliza initiated this project, the brokenness continues to be made beautiful. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> The cast of <i>Hamilton </i>participates in the work of Graham Windham. Some of the cast members participate as pen pals with children from Graham Windham. Phillipa Soo and Morgan Marcell created “The Eliza Project,” with a mission to “use the arts as a means of expression, as an outlet for personal experience, and to uplift the creative spirit.” Soo recruits other cast members to join her in teaching kids at Graham Windham acting, dance, and rap. These actors continue to tell Eliza’s story of redemption, not only on the stage, but also in their tangible acts of love for these children. <o:p></o:p><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adapted from <i>God and Hamilton</i>. Copyright © 2018 by Kevin Cloud. Published by Deep River Books, Sisters, Oregon. Used by Permission.&nbsp;</span><br /> <script src="https://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xa-4bc669d4427a7bc7" type="text/javascript"> </script></description>
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<title>Another day, another lunacy</title>
<description><b>Absentee Ballots from South Carolina Found in Maryland</b><br /> But don't worry! Universal mail-in voting will be flawless!<br /> <a href="https://cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/absentee-ballots-south-carolina-found-maryland?fbclid=IwAR2ncSstwgJjRGU5UycDYh2QqNisuyGY4_y6VoqLcGo7yXhT__UzAab1zPg">https://cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/absentee-ballots-south-carolina-found-maryland</a><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs</b><br /> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/?fbclid=IwAR02xFv3baCaniDH0l7uhkFS9Hx8GEEiQJwL6oWfZIcfOpYgANhjF-0WYC4">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/</a><br /> Because the collectivist mindset really would like all of us to lives in hives, like these in Pyongyang.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a 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href="https://pjmedia.com/election/stacey-lennox/2020/07/01/hey-suburban-voters-joe-bidens-housing-policies-will-ruin-your-communities-n595905">https://pjmedia.com/election/stacey-lennox/2020/07/01/hey-suburban-voters-joe-bidens-housing-policies-will-ruin-your-communities-n595905</a><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>Black Florida sheriff has a message for would-be rioters: I will deputize gun owners if you think you can bring your lawlessness here</b><br /> <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-sheriff-deputize-gun-owners">https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-sheriff-deputize-gun-owners</a><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> We already knew this, but now it's <i>science</i>!&nbsp;<b>Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price&nbsp;</b><br /> <a href="https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/">https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> In a recent interview, Dr. John Ioannidis had a harsh assessment of modelers who predicted as many as 40 million people would die and the US healthcare system would be overrun because of COVID-19.</blockquote> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> No, the Left does not actually listen to itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News</b><br /> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/07/02/going-to-national-parks-is-racist-declares-abc-news-n599372">https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2020/07/02/going-to-national-parks-is-racist-declares-abc-news-n599372</a><br /> 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/><br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative</b><br /> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/</a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Choctaw chief Greenwood LeFlore had 15,000 acres of Mississippi land and 400 enslaved Africans under his dominion. (Library of Congress) ...<br /> <br /> John Ross, the Cherokee chief lionized for his efforts to fight forced relocation, was also an advocate and practitioner of slavery. (Library of Congress)</blockquote> -----------------------------------------------------<br /> So after January 1 they will shut up and leave us along, amirite?&nbsp;<b>Only six months to save the planet!</b><br /> <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/only-six-months-to-save-the-planet.php">https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/only-six-months-to-save-the-planet.php</a><br /> <b><br /></b> -----------------------------------------------------<b><br /></b> <b>What the Left wants:<br /><br /> </b> <b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HuoWZ8gQO_s" width="560"></iframe></b><br /> <b><br /> </b>-----------------------------------------------------<br /> <b>Speaking of slavery</b>:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1278529694355292161">https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1278529694355292161</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">@McCormickProf</span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">2/ Of course, this is nonsense. Only the tiniest fraction of them, or of any of us, would have spoken up against slavery or lifted a finger to free the slaves. Most of them—and us—would have gone along. 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white-space: inherit;">3/ So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing:</span></div> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; 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white-space: inherit;">5/ (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. 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line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">@McCormickProf</span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"> <div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">I made the same point in my Holocaust class when discussing Eichmann. My opinion was not popular...</span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </description>
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<title>The actual goal of mail in voting advocates is to do this</title>
<description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCp_Ug2gRd5YelpUPOYjuJc31DGhPD-CFcO6J9dAMwz76t7P95XMa4u-8NiN3wXDkKBBtrZPHZU7QJhIYarjqwqYndk8FuZI-RKOLLOuB5pif-NKtrj8pVcOkHMPqxBf4eVAwaIxHCT7g/s1600/Mail+in+voting+postal+workers+throw+away+campaign+flyers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCp_Ug2gRd5YelpUPOYjuJc31DGhPD-CFcO6J9dAMwz76t7P95XMa4u-8NiN3wXDkKBBtrZPHZU7QJhIYarjqwqYndk8FuZI-RKOLLOuB5pif-NKtrj8pVcOkHMPqxBf4eVAwaIxHCT7g/s400/Mail+in+voting+postal+workers+throw+away+campaign+flyers.JPG" width="381" /></a></div> <br /> Video link:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1276646406682484736">https://twitter.com/i/status/1276646406682484736</a><br /> <br /> Tweet link:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736">https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1276646406682484736</a></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Quick links</title>
<description><b>Three Ideas to End the Rot on College Campuses</b><br /> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/29/three_ideas_to_end_the_rot_on_college_campuses_143564.html">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/29/three_ideas_to_end_the_rot_on_college_campuses_143564.html</a><br /> <i>The author, Charles Lipson,&nbsp;is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security.&nbsp;</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <b>What ‘woke’ whites get wrong about blacks’ priorities</b><br /> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities/">https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities/</a><br /> <i>Which is just about everything. Most of all that woke white people really do think they can decide what is best for black people, without asking them.</i><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> I had to hear what whites were saying. I listened to the protesters, talked with my white friends and read articles and social media posts. What I found was white people overwhelmingly depicting black people as desperate and defeated, with no way to pull themselves out of their misery.<br /><br />“I understand your point,” a white friend said when I objected to this simplistic narrative. “But don’t you think blacks are being oppressed?”<br /><br />That’s when I realized that white wokeness is the new factor in our national life. It has been embedded into the consciousness of whites that all blacks are the same and that they all face impossible barriers to improvement — from standardized tests to the black men being arrested on the nightly news. A growing number of whites believe that black life is unrelentingly grim.&nbsp;</blockquote> <br /> <b>One of the most respected environmentalist activists and scholars in the whole world was published on Forbes.com, but got deleted because environmental absolutists went nuts.</b><br /> <i><br /></i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmHkC50MwaAdL29dAiBNlRga1PfXyHC4z7FgH0g2fb1l9HAW-wIqbTeSgfh7Xl0OjdBaDdTooI4Me9piUQz99ozasxDewIQYZu50KqJIs0mmmp8e0mapaq2pbN_yWIKljFHkjplcUKxY/s1600/Forbes+kill+page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="1031" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmHkC50MwaAdL29dAiBNlRga1PfXyHC4z7FgH0g2fb1l9HAW-wIqbTeSgfh7Xl0OjdBaDdTooI4Me9piUQz99ozasxDewIQYZu50KqJIs0mmmp8e0mapaq2pbN_yWIKljFHkjplcUKxY/s400/Forbes+kill+page.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <i><br /></i> What was his crime? Pointing out the corruption of the Green groups and environmental activists around the world. It is now on Quillette: "On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare."<br /> <a href="https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/">https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/</a><br /> <br /> Read it all. I have saved it for reference as a PDF.<br /> <br /> <b>Biden's record-setting tax increases will take your money — and your job</b><br /> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/504536-bidens-record-setting-tax-increases-will-take-your-money-and-your-job">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/504536-bidens-record-setting-tax-increases-will-take-your-money-and-your-job</a><br /> <br /> The Dems' operate always on the principle that all our money really must be handed over to them. And what do they do with it? Purchase votes and launder it through contracts and foreign aid to the pockets of their family members (coff, Hunter Biden, coff) and crony companies and non-profits.<br /> <br /> Some Republicans do this, too, of course, but it is a fundamental operating principle for Democrats.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-06-30T10:44:11.728-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>"You can't make this stuff up" department</title>
<description>When the Democrats lose in November, they will not say they were beaten. They will roll out their hoary, perennial excuse: "We did not get our message out well enough."<br /> <br /> Tthey are literally unable to imagine that they got beat because they got their message out very well, indeed.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9LQjfBsuJv8PTz_IznPzsiqUdw5NdDciv5AJme80ygDKw5aZ9zjM7VpxxFJ0A_hHS0TBWQPQKJ6vluzFmkL0Zj1nvTMEKKuzXPcLqfPys_XPSS2Nvcjb1Bwca3oP89Zl6FHNVX1TT8E/s1600/Democrats+mt+rushmore+white+supremacy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9LQjfBsuJv8PTz_IznPzsiqUdw5NdDciv5AJme80ygDKw5aZ9zjM7VpxxFJ0A_hHS0TBWQPQKJ6vluzFmkL0Zj1nvTMEKKuzXPcLqfPys_XPSS2Nvcjb1Bwca3oP89Zl6FHNVX1TT8E/s640/Democrats+mt+rushmore+white+supremacy.JPG" width="537" /></a></div> <br /></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
<atom:updated>2020-06-29T12:55:59.078-05:00</atom:updated>
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<title>The earth when everything stops</title>
<description>The embed is from Bloomberg News, which does not let me resize the video. It is, howver, much larger on BN's page.<br /> <br /> <iframe allowscriptaccess="always" frameborder="0" src="https://www.bloomberg.com/multimedia/api/embed/iframe?id=e5a5a83c-33c4-4355-82bf-4c540a5e06b1"></iframe><br /> <br /> From, "Sweden’s Covid Expert Says ‘World Went Mad’ With Lockdowns." And of course, he is correct.<br /> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/sweden-s-epidemiologist-says-world-went-mad-imposing-lockdowns">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/sweden-s-epidemiologist-says-world-went-mad-imposing-lockdowns</a><br /> <br /></description>
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