Cockroaches are found to be capable in surviving a nuclear holocaust, yet one swat with a newspaper it would die.
Shows how toxic the media is.
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GUY: What does it eat?
ME: [falcon perched on shoulder] Updog.
*falcon starts break dancing*
ME: Not yet Tyler, wait until he asks what it is.
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U.S. - With many Americans eager to get back to work, state governors across the country are responding with their plans for giving everyone permission to be normal human beings again. One state governor is enjoying universal acclaim after unveiling his own innovative plan for getting his state reopened.
The new plan is called 'Our Vision for Health, Safety, Virtue, and Eternal Peace' and is a 37-step, 10-year plan for slowly opening up sections of the state economy. It reads as follows:
1. Form an exploratory committee to consult various experts on reopening things
2. Set date to hear recommendations from the exploratory committee
3. Create a panel of experts to explore the recommendations recommended by the exploratory committee
4. Build a brand new website to post exploratory committee recommendations for public comment
5. Discuss feedback from health experts over catered seafood lunch
6. Wait 4 weeks to see if catered seafood lunch led to any additional COVID infections
7. Hire commission to gauge the effectiveness of collaboration over catered seafood lunches
8. Take away all the guns
9. Announce a 12-phase reopening of the economy, starting with the businesses with the best lobbyists
10. Begin Phase 1
11. Form a new committee to review the effectiveness of Phase 1 before moving on to Phase 2
12. Order more drones from China and post them in front of every hair salon
13. Draft new legislation to allow voting by show of hands over Facebook live
14. Announce reopening of all golf courses in close proximity to the statehouse
15. Hold public hearings on the effectiveness of the implementation of Phase 1
16. Repeat parts 1-15 until all 12 phases are completed
17. Form an exploratory committee to research alternate food sources now that catered seafood no longer available
18. Draft legislation allowing people to eat squirrels and possums
19. Overturn squirrels and possums legislation after animal rights groups protest
20. Hire animal rights groups to enforce the overturning of the legislation in order to protect squirrels and possums
21. Introduce tax bill to fund arming all police officers with harpoon guns and spears
22. Strengthen the security of governors mansion with sniper towers and tiger pits
23. Build a moat around the governor’s mansion
24. More drones from China, maybe bigger ones
25. Pass new legislation to fund hiring more enforcers to enforce things
26. Build checkpoints across the state to distribute milk and guzzoline
27. Create jobs by hiring welders to install armor plating on police cars
28. (redacted)
29. (redacted)
30. (redacted)
31. (redacted)
32. (redacted)
33. (redacted)
34. (redacted)(redacted)(redacted)(redacted)(redacted)(redacted)
35. (Super-secret surprise to be determined later)
36. Open the rest of the economy
37. Gladiator games anyone?
Other states have announced they will wait 2-5 years to judge the effectiveness of this 37 part plan before releasing their own plans. The only exception is Texas, whose governor simply said, "We're open, y'all!"
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I’d never heard of it before but apparently in order to determine if a particular comment is appropriate to say to a woman, you should first ask yourself, “Would I be comfortable saying this to Dwayne Johnson?” If not, don’t say it.
I thought this sounded like a great rule, so I told her, “Your chest is epic.”
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I think it would be kind of cool if tortillas were called "Mohicans" instead.
That way, if there were only one left, I could ask, "Does anyone mind if I grabbed the last of the Mohicans?" and everybody would laugh.
Quote of the Times;
"So we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." - Don Lemon (CNN)
Link of the Times;
https://www.sciencealert.com/rocket-scientists-have-built-and-tested-an-impossible-engine
Issue of the Times;
The Five Worst Types of Virtue-Signaling by Body Lang
Virtue-signaling is one of the lowest forms of opportunism, but not all attempts are equal. Here are the five worst types:
1. Virtue-signaling the implausible, for cheap applause
In the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo addressed concerns about the potential economic damage of banning citizens from working by claiming, "if everything we can do saves just one life, I'll be happy."
A few days later, Cuomo tweeted, "My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life."
It might be surprising that an ardent supporter of unrestricted abortion would profess such a commitment to saving lives, but even if we ignore Cuomo's abortion stance, his statements instantly qualify as among the worst of its kind.
This type of virtue-signaling is particularly egregious because upholding this newly declared standard is so impractical that it's obviously insincere.
If Cuomo truly believed that any economic sacrifice is justified so long as it preserves "just one life" then we should also abolish cars, planes, surgeries, helicopters, alcohol, swimming, laundry detergent, sex, and prescription drugs because they all kill people.
The implausibility of adhering to his virtue-signaling not only reveals how disingenuous Andrew Cuomo is but also displays the character of those who pursue cheap applause. A comfortability with blatant dishonesty is required to play this game.
If anyone confronts Cuomo for his specious assertions, virtue-signaling has a built-in defense system of their superior motives to neutralize criticism about facts.
2. Virtue-signaling their battle against invisible enemies
When Elizabeth Warren chastises racism for murdering Michael Brown, she is capitalizing on the perfect virtue-signaling opportunity.
Even though Michael Brown did not have his hands up, and his death was not the result of racism, all virtue-signaling regarding the ordeal is immune to criticism.
If the claim turns out to be a lie, it remains viable because the incident highlights the "larger societal issue." If it wasn't true, it should have been.
Professing their unrelenting resolve to continue fighting invisible oppressors is the key.
Stacey Abrams complaining that she lost the Georgia election because of racism and voter suppression was a complete lie, but her "refusal to give up" still makes her a civil rights hero.
Jussie Smollett, Mattress Girl, Christine Blasey-Ford, Covington Catholic, the college rape epidemic, and migrant children at the border — the list goes on.
In each case, the battle may have been false, but the struggle is real.
A similar catastrophe occurred in the U.S. Women's Soccer lawsuit over "equal pay."
Virtually every Democratic presidential candidate tweeted ad nauseum about their outrage over the abhorrent discrimination against female soccer players.
The ruling of the lawsuit disclosed that the women's team earned more money than their male counterparts. This tiny fact would not put a dent in the discrimination claim, but only require shifting the goalposts. The women proceeded to argue that despite their higher earnings, they would have made more money if they had the same collective bargaining agreement as the men, and therefore, discrimination had occurred.
But the truth was revealed when the judge pointed out that the women's team "rejected a pay-for-play model identical to the men" in return for $100,000 guaranteed salaries. The women could have accepted the same offer as the men but opted for a higher base salary with smaller bonuses during their negotiations. The women's team chose a more secure compensation package as opposed to the riskier agreement the men selected.
The discrimination claim was a fraud.
But for those committed to signaling their virtue, the solution is always more.
Following the ruling, Megan Rapinoe would tweet, "we will never stop fighting for EQUALITY." Another player, Alex Morgan, tweeted, "this will not discourage us in our fight for equality."
Joe Biden would show his solidarity with women by tweeting they should not "give up this fight" while threatening to withdraw funding for U.S. soccer if those anti-women bigots don't pay women equally.
The fight against invisible enemies pays dividends for Democrats because if the monster doesn't exist, it can never be defeated.
In a never-ending battle, insatiable generals always have something to do.
3. Virtue-signaling for policies they don't support — and doubling-down
Since Democrat virtue-signaling is rarely authentic, its purveyors are quick to scurry when challenged to support their claims beyond mere words.
What makes this form of virtue-signaling, especially distasteful, is that it's commonly accompanied by an audacious return to the very same platitudes once the awareness of their hypocritical retreat subsides.
For months, Democrats glorified the Green New Deal. Any opposition was only the result of greedy capitalists who didn't want people to have clean air or water.
Everyone saw how Democrats really felt when precisely zero of them voted in favor of the legislation.
But Joe Biden continued expressing his support for the Green New Deal, and even double-down by saying the proposal didn't go far enough.
4. Soliciting the applause for their virtue
Some Democrats have learned to be more proactive and overtly solicit the cheers for their admirable stance, so the audience understands how altruistic they are.
An example of this occurred when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on CNN to lecture us on why supporting Medicare-for-all takes "moral courage."
Perhaps, this is an attempt to keep a safe distance from discussions about costs and not a deliberate effort to steer the conversation towards her noble motives, but I doubt it. It would be far too generous to assume that Ocasio-Cortez had any thoughtful strategy before words came out of her mouth.
Still, explicitly stating why her moral superiority outweighs any counterargument about fiscal realities is an effective strategy for receiving applause.
When Corey Booker insists that Congress has a "moral obligation" to impeach Trump, he is executing the strategy to perfection.
Everyone knows it takes an unwavering commitment to the moral high ground for Democrats to overcome their reluctance to takeover industries or remove Republicans from office.
5. Virtue-signaling for free
Democrats professing their altruistic motives without any expectation of having to change their behavior is what makes being a Democrat so great!
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he sympathizes with Bernie Sanders' view on billionaires and agrees that "no one deserves to have that much money." NBA champion Andre Iguodala, actors Jim Carey and Mark Ruffalo, and even millionaire filmmaker Michael Moore openly voice their support for Socialism.
There is still no evidence any of them have given away their wealth for the greater good.
In a party swarming with opportunists eager to promote how generous they are, the offers keep getting sweeter. Universal basic income is no longer enough — a guaranteed income is now the goal.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls it barbarism that America does not guarantee a right to (free) housing. To Ocasio-Cortez, paying for shelter is barbaric — the enlightened can whine their way into a new condo.
Virtue-signaling is a shallow practice for the lazy and deceitful. If you want to feel good about yourself with minimal effort, virtue-signaling is right for you.
News of the Times;
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/05/04/as-chinas-economy-implodes-trump-ratchets-up-the-pressure-n388003
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/05/01/commentary-its-time-to-boycott-china/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/hope-lot-people-pay-big-price-crooked-dishonest-people-trump-unloads-obamas-henchmen-following-news-flynn-case/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/smackdown-gotcha-question-mcenany-doesnt-go-legacy-media/
https://www.ksl.com/article/46747715/ex-green-beret-led-failed-attempt-to-oust-venezuelas-maduro
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2020/05/06/white-lies-shine-brightest-the-lesser-sins-of-huckster-joe-biden/
https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/04/27/couple-explains-how-they-could-no-longer-reconcile-their-christian-beliefs-with-the-democrat-party-walkaway/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/05/the-left-is-not-going-to-like-this-but-trump-has-been-proven-right-over-and-over-again-n388261
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0520/copeland050420.php3
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/stunning-pelosi-blocks-investigation-china-origins-wuhan-virus-puts-resources-another-hoax-investigation-donald-trump/
https://aapsonline.org/coronavirus-victims-die-while-government-hoards-medication/
https://deplorablekel.com/2019/02/16/ilhan-omar-admits-she-will-not-assimilate-and-will-not-respect-american-culture/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/rush-limbaugh-collapse-russia-hoax-no-innocent-democrat/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/breaking-mueller-thug-attorney-brandon-van-grack-resigns-flynn-case-govt-cases-bombshell-documents-reveal-hid-brady-material/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/08/nolte-7-pieces-of-corroboration-that-back-up-claim-joe-biden-assaulted-tara-reade/
Virtue?
Care?
My neighbor with the big boobs has been gardening topless all day.
I just wish his wife would do the same.
*.*
Why did Episodes 4, 5, and 6 come out before 1, 2, and 3?
Because in charge of directing, Yoda was.
*.*
Thoughts?
Remember when the biggest gamble you took on your health was going to Chipotle?
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are expecting their fifth child together. Obvious what they've been doing during the stay-at-home.
A lot of grocery stores are going to one-way aisles. I'm waiting for the day they put in those wrong way spikes.
For the record, porn, tobacco, alcohol and chocolate sales are all up a lot. I feel like I'm being watched.
Has anyone thought of giving 2020 a Snickers?
In the personals - Single man with TP looking for Single Woman with hand sanitizer.
47nd day of self-isolation and my house has turned in Las Vegas; drinks are served 24 hours a day and nobody knows what time it is.
To avoid over-eating during quarantine-instead of wearing pajamas, wear your bathing suit.
It's like being 16 again. Gas is cheap, but I'm grounded.
I told my wife how wonderful it was to be quarantined with someone I care so much about. She replied, "Must be nice."
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In these trying times, Lord make me a channel of your peace.
Preferably one that shows the Three Stooges.
*.*
How do you get down from a Bantha?
You don’t.
You get down from a goose.
May the 4th be with you!
Quote of the Times;
“I remember walking into the lobby and being in awe of all the people in such fancy clothes. Our two parties of people gravitated towards each other and everyone started saying their hellos. When it was Biden and my aunt’s turn to say hello he quickly turned to me and asked how old I was. I replied with my age and he replied with the comment ‘Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!’ I was confused but it was definitely weird, he looked me up and down and hovered his eyes on my chest so I had some clue [about] the notion of his comment but didn’t fully understand at the time. We quickly separated from his area after the encounter.” - Eva Murry
Link of the Times;
https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-monuments-animated-gifs-expedia/
Issue of the Times;
National Taxpayers: Here Are A Few Things You Will Be Paying For If You Bail Out New York by Francis Menton
Here in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the “Phase Three” stimulus, aka the CARES Act, passed Congress at the end of March. Immediately we moved on to Phase Four, which however is still making its way through the legislative sausage factory. All the talk is of another trillion or more. What will that include?
If you put that question to the National Governors Association, the item at the top of the list will be big bucks for direct unrestricted support for the budgets of state governments. Here is a report from NPR about the NGA meeting on April 11, where the governors put some of their demands on the table:
National Governors Association Chair Larry Hogan, R-Md., and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., the group's top Democrat, are issuing a joint call for Congress to approve $500 billion in direct aid to states, signaling a deepening budget crisis caused by the coronavirus as Congress battles over the next round of funding. "In the absence of unrestricted fiscal support of at least $500 billion from the Federal government, states will have to confront the prospect of significant reductions to critically important services all across this country," the governors said in a statement. "Hampering public health, the economic recovery, and — in turn — our collective effort to get people back to work."
Now, you wouldn’t want to “hamper public health and the economic recovery,” would you? Of course, that’s what they want you to focus on. But money is fungible, and if the Congress should decide to bail out, say, New York, with unrestricted funds, that state will get to use the money for whatever its existing spending commitments might be.
Since you people out there in the hinterlands may not have been following the local news here in New York, I thought I should give you some information on where your money will be going should Congress decide to bail out New York. As you may know, the state budget of New York is about twice that of Florida, even though Florida has the bigger population. How could that possibly be? It’s easy!:
• Per figures from the Empire Center (based on Census data for 2017), New York spent $23,091 per student on K-12 education, versus a national average of about $12,000. But don’t worry, New York City spends way more still, at about $28,000 per student annually. The premium spending basically goes to higher salaries, fatter pensions, and lots more administrators than they have in other jurisdictions. Nobody in New York would ever suggest bringing our school spending in line before asking the rest of the country to pay for it.
• New York also has a notoriously expensive Medicaid program, again way out of line by comparison to other states. Long before there was a coronavirus crisis, New York’s Medicaid overspending was digging it into a deeper and deeper fiscal hole every year. Since first getting elected in 2010, Governor Cuomo has publicly said that he would keep the growth of Medicaid spending to about 3 - 4% per year, and for several years he seemed to be accomplishing that. But in the last couple of years it has emerged that Cuomo had managed to keep spending down by the clever device of postponing the last month or so of each year’s bills into the next fiscal year, expecting of course to make up the shortfall with better results in the later years. And of course, as always happens, the results in each succeeding year have turned out worse, so that the rolled-over deficit gets bigger and bigger each year. From the Empire Center, November 2019: “In July [2019], Empire Center’s Bill Hammond first called attention to the fact that Cuomo rolled over $1.7 billion in Medicaid payments from the end of 2019 to the start of fiscal 2020. And as today’s update confirms, this has compounded into a $4 billion problem in the current fiscal year.” Thankfully, you good folks in the rest of the country are now going to bail us out of this incompetence.
• Of course New York provides Medicaid, welfare, and other public benefits to immigrants, both legal and illegal. Indeed, New York is currently aggressively suing the federal government over President Trump’s efforts to enforce “public charge” statutory language by restricting eligibility for “change of immigration status” (i.e., green cards) for people who live off the taxpayers by claiming these benefits. Should we cut back on that generosity during the current crisis? Actually, we think it would be much more convenient for the federal government to pick up the full tab.
• Although New York has not been as irresponsible as, say, Illinois or New Jersey in funding its pension commitments, it is right at the top of all the states in terms of overly generous and unsustainable promises. Take a look at this description of pension benefits for police officers. Many can retire after as few as twenty working years, and collect the pension starting in their forties for fifty years or more. Add military service for additional pension credit. The pension is based on pay in the final year, with unlimited overtime spiking allowed. Or, claim a premium tax-exempt “disability” pension, as some 75% of New York City firefighters seem to have done. We really will need to thank you flyover people when you bail us out of this mess.
• We currently have a hugely cost-effective, zero-carbon-emissions nuclear power plant called Indian Point, about 40 miles North of New York City, supplying about 25 - 30% of the City’s power. At the urging of environmental activists, one unit of the plant is now set to close down on April 30, 2020 (tomorrow!), and the second unit a year from now on April 30, 2021. The plant pays millions of dollars of annual property taxes to the localities where it is located. There is a $56 million fund in the state budget to cover the localities for this prospective loss of revenue. Thanks for taking care of that one for us, flyover people!
• The neighboring state of Pennsylvania makes big bucks from taxes on the business of “fracking” for oil and gas from the so-called Marcellus Shale that underlies Northern Pennsylvania and Western New York. New York has completely banned fracking, and therefore takes a pass on all those taxes. Will New York agree to rescind the fracking ban in return for a big federal bailout? Don’t be ridiculous.
I could go on with this, but you get the picture. Never let a crisis go to waste, as they say.
News of the Times;
https://rightwingtribune.com/2020/04/29/mega-obama/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/cdc-equates-coronavirus-hospitalizations-seasonal-flu-finally-admits-much-less-dangerous-children/
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-harvey-weinstein/
https://lawandcrime.com/jeffrey-epstein-2/heres-what-jeffrey-epstein-was-doing-at-harvard-after-giving-the-university-multi-million-dollar-gifts/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-niece-pleads-guilty-credit-account-theft/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-slammed-over-biden-kavanaugh-double-standard?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-campaign-senate-files-allegation?
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/white-small-business-owners-in-south-africa-are-denied-coronavirus-pandemic-aid-because-theyre-white-owned-all-due-to-countrys-policy-of-black-economic-empowerment-bee/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/biden-blocks-access-records-sought-accuser/
https://www.infowars.com/elon-musk-changes-twitter-avatar-to-game-that-predicted-globalist-takeover/
https://lc.org/newsroom/details/20200501churchgoers-must-register-with-the-government-in-kansas-city
https://reason.com/2020/04/30/new-york-paid-69-million-to-a-shady-vendor-for-ventilators-that-were-never-delivered/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/universities-report-1-billion-in-previously-hidden-foreign-funding-after-feds-threaten-investigations/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/democrats_are_happy_because.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/key-findings-leaked-government-dossier-china-bat-virus-program
I just wish his wife would do the same.
*.*
Why did Episodes 4, 5, and 6 come out before 1, 2, and 3?
Because in charge of directing, Yoda was.
*.*
Thoughts?
Remember when the biggest gamble you took on your health was going to Chipotle?
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are expecting their fifth child together. Obvious what they've been doing during the stay-at-home.
A lot of grocery stores are going to one-way aisles. I'm waiting for the day they put in those wrong way spikes.
For the record, porn, tobacco, alcohol and chocolate sales are all up a lot. I feel like I'm being watched.
Has anyone thought of giving 2020 a Snickers?
In the personals - Single man with TP looking for Single Woman with hand sanitizer.
47nd day of self-isolation and my house has turned in Las Vegas; drinks are served 24 hours a day and nobody knows what time it is.
To avoid over-eating during quarantine-instead of wearing pajamas, wear your bathing suit.
It's like being 16 again. Gas is cheap, but I'm grounded.
I told my wife how wonderful it was to be quarantined with someone I care so much about. She replied, "Must be nice."
*.*
In these trying times, Lord make me a channel of your peace.
Preferably one that shows the Three Stooges.
*.*
How do you get down from a Bantha?
You don’t.
You get down from a goose.
May the 4th be with you!
Quote of the Times;
“I remember walking into the lobby and being in awe of all the people in such fancy clothes. Our two parties of people gravitated towards each other and everyone started saying their hellos. When it was Biden and my aunt’s turn to say hello he quickly turned to me and asked how old I was. I replied with my age and he replied with the comment ‘Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!’ I was confused but it was definitely weird, he looked me up and down and hovered his eyes on my chest so I had some clue [about] the notion of his comment but didn’t fully understand at the time. We quickly separated from his area after the encounter.” - Eva Murry
Link of the Times;
https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-monuments-animated-gifs-expedia/
Issue of the Times;
National Taxpayers: Here Are A Few Things You Will Be Paying For If You Bail Out New York by Francis Menton
Here in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the “Phase Three” stimulus, aka the CARES Act, passed Congress at the end of March. Immediately we moved on to Phase Four, which however is still making its way through the legislative sausage factory. All the talk is of another trillion or more. What will that include?
If you put that question to the National Governors Association, the item at the top of the list will be big bucks for direct unrestricted support for the budgets of state governments. Here is a report from NPR about the NGA meeting on April 11, where the governors put some of their demands on the table:
National Governors Association Chair Larry Hogan, R-Md., and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., the group's top Democrat, are issuing a joint call for Congress to approve $500 billion in direct aid to states, signaling a deepening budget crisis caused by the coronavirus as Congress battles over the next round of funding. "In the absence of unrestricted fiscal support of at least $500 billion from the Federal government, states will have to confront the prospect of significant reductions to critically important services all across this country," the governors said in a statement. "Hampering public health, the economic recovery, and — in turn — our collective effort to get people back to work."
Now, you wouldn’t want to “hamper public health and the economic recovery,” would you? Of course, that’s what they want you to focus on. But money is fungible, and if the Congress should decide to bail out, say, New York, with unrestricted funds, that state will get to use the money for whatever its existing spending commitments might be.
Since you people out there in the hinterlands may not have been following the local news here in New York, I thought I should give you some information on where your money will be going should Congress decide to bail out New York. As you may know, the state budget of New York is about twice that of Florida, even though Florida has the bigger population. How could that possibly be? It’s easy!:
• Per figures from the Empire Center (based on Census data for 2017), New York spent $23,091 per student on K-12 education, versus a national average of about $12,000. But don’t worry, New York City spends way more still, at about $28,000 per student annually. The premium spending basically goes to higher salaries, fatter pensions, and lots more administrators than they have in other jurisdictions. Nobody in New York would ever suggest bringing our school spending in line before asking the rest of the country to pay for it.
• New York also has a notoriously expensive Medicaid program, again way out of line by comparison to other states. Long before there was a coronavirus crisis, New York’s Medicaid overspending was digging it into a deeper and deeper fiscal hole every year. Since first getting elected in 2010, Governor Cuomo has publicly said that he would keep the growth of Medicaid spending to about 3 - 4% per year, and for several years he seemed to be accomplishing that. But in the last couple of years it has emerged that Cuomo had managed to keep spending down by the clever device of postponing the last month or so of each year’s bills into the next fiscal year, expecting of course to make up the shortfall with better results in the later years. And of course, as always happens, the results in each succeeding year have turned out worse, so that the rolled-over deficit gets bigger and bigger each year. From the Empire Center, November 2019: “In July [2019], Empire Center’s Bill Hammond first called attention to the fact that Cuomo rolled over $1.7 billion in Medicaid payments from the end of 2019 to the start of fiscal 2020. And as today’s update confirms, this has compounded into a $4 billion problem in the current fiscal year.” Thankfully, you good folks in the rest of the country are now going to bail us out of this incompetence.
• Of course New York provides Medicaid, welfare, and other public benefits to immigrants, both legal and illegal. Indeed, New York is currently aggressively suing the federal government over President Trump’s efforts to enforce “public charge” statutory language by restricting eligibility for “change of immigration status” (i.e., green cards) for people who live off the taxpayers by claiming these benefits. Should we cut back on that generosity during the current crisis? Actually, we think it would be much more convenient for the federal government to pick up the full tab.
• Although New York has not been as irresponsible as, say, Illinois or New Jersey in funding its pension commitments, it is right at the top of all the states in terms of overly generous and unsustainable promises. Take a look at this description of pension benefits for police officers. Many can retire after as few as twenty working years, and collect the pension starting in their forties for fifty years or more. Add military service for additional pension credit. The pension is based on pay in the final year, with unlimited overtime spiking allowed. Or, claim a premium tax-exempt “disability” pension, as some 75% of New York City firefighters seem to have done. We really will need to thank you flyover people when you bail us out of this mess.
• We currently have a hugely cost-effective, zero-carbon-emissions nuclear power plant called Indian Point, about 40 miles North of New York City, supplying about 25 - 30% of the City’s power. At the urging of environmental activists, one unit of the plant is now set to close down on April 30, 2020 (tomorrow!), and the second unit a year from now on April 30, 2021. The plant pays millions of dollars of annual property taxes to the localities where it is located. There is a $56 million fund in the state budget to cover the localities for this prospective loss of revenue. Thanks for taking care of that one for us, flyover people!
• The neighboring state of Pennsylvania makes big bucks from taxes on the business of “fracking” for oil and gas from the so-called Marcellus Shale that underlies Northern Pennsylvania and Western New York. New York has completely banned fracking, and therefore takes a pass on all those taxes. Will New York agree to rescind the fracking ban in return for a big federal bailout? Don’t be ridiculous.
I could go on with this, but you get the picture. Never let a crisis go to waste, as they say.
News of the Times;
https://rightwingtribune.com/2020/04/29/mega-obama/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/cdc-equates-coronavirus-hospitalizations-seasonal-flu-finally-admits-much-less-dangerous-children/
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-harvey-weinstein/
https://lawandcrime.com/jeffrey-epstein-2/heres-what-jeffrey-epstein-was-doing-at-harvard-after-giving-the-university-multi-million-dollar-gifts/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-niece-pleads-guilty-credit-account-theft/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-slammed-over-biden-kavanaugh-double-standard?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-campaign-senate-files-allegation?
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/white-small-business-owners-in-south-africa-are-denied-coronavirus-pandemic-aid-because-theyre-white-owned-all-due-to-countrys-policy-of-black-economic-empowerment-bee/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/biden-blocks-access-records-sought-accuser/
https://www.infowars.com/elon-musk-changes-twitter-avatar-to-game-that-predicted-globalist-takeover/
https://lc.org/newsroom/details/20200501churchgoers-must-register-with-the-government-in-kansas-city
https://reason.com/2020/04/30/new-york-paid-69-million-to-a-shady-vendor-for-ventilators-that-were-never-delivered/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/universities-report-1-billion-in-previously-hidden-foreign-funding-after-feds-threaten-investigations/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/democrats_are_happy_because.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/key-findings-leaked-government-dossier-china-bat-virus-program
Models?
A fortune teller told me I'd suffer awful heart break in 12 years.
To cheer myself up I bought a puppy.
*.*
What should we call this giant advertising board?
Phil: A philboard?
Bill: I have a better idea.
*.*
Thoughts?
For the first time in history, we can save the world by staying home and sitting in front of the TV. Let's not screw this up.
So, we can expect our car insurance to go down since no one can drive? Just asking, Jake, from State Farm.
It's been a blessing being home with my wife for three weeks. Now, we're all caught up on what I've been doing wrong for the past 14 years.
Today, the Devil whispered in my ear, "You're not strong enough to stand the storm." And I shouted, "Six feet back, jerk!"
If your go-to excuse for being late for school was missing the bus, you're screwed.
Remember wishing that the weekend would go on forever? Are you happy now?
I've washed my hands so much I've uncovered a nightclub stamp from 20 years ago.
Day 36 of Homeschooling: My child just said "I hope I don't have the same teacher next year".
I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.
*.*
Why do sperm cells look like commas and apostrophes?
They often interrupt periods and lead to contractions.
*.*
His hungry eyes followed her longingly as the woman with the most beautiful breasts and supple legs slowly made her way back to her table.
"Damn, leave some chicken for the rest of us.", he thought.
Quote of the Times;
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai Lama
Link of the Times;
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/dr-erickson-covid-19-briefing_3Mnj5AwzaNAtdlc.html?
Issue of the Times;
The Dubious COVID Models, The Tests and Now the Consequences by F. William Engdahl
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing lack of transparency or checking, one government after the other has imposed China-model lockdowns on their entire populations. It begins to look as if we are being led like sheep to slaughter for corrupted science.
The Dubious COVID Models
Two major models are being used in the West since the alleged spread of coronavirus to Europe and USA to “predict” and respond to the spread of COVID-19 illness. One was developed at Imperial College of London. The second was developed, with emphasis on USA effects, by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, near the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. What few know is that both groups owe their existence to generous funding by a tax exempt foundation that stands to make literally billions on purported vaccines and other drugs to treat coronavirus—The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In early March, Prof. Neil Ferguson, head of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London issued a widely-discussed model that forecast possible COVID-19 deaths in the UK as high as 500,000. Ferguson works closely with the WHO. That report was held responsible for a dramatic u-turn by the UK government from a traditional public health policy of isolating at risk patients while allowing society and the economy to function normally. Days after the UK went on lockdown, Ferguson’s institute sheepishly revised downwards his death estimates, several times and dramatically. His dire warnings have not come to pass and the UK economy, like most others around the world, has gone into deep crisis based on inflated estimates.
Ferguson and his Imperial College modelers have a notorious track record for predicting dire consequences of diseases. In 2002 Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people in UK would die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, “mad cow disease”, possibly to 150,000 if the epidemic expanded to include sheep. A total of 178 people were officially registered dead from vCJD. In 2005, Ferguson claimed that up to 200 million! people worldwide would be killed by bird-flu or H5N1. By early 2006, the WHO had only linked 78 deaths to the virus. Then in 2009 Ferguson’s group at Imperial College advised the government that swine flu or H1N1 would probably kill 65,000 people in the UK. In the end, swine flu claimed the lives of 457 people. Ferguson and his Imperial College group have a notoriously bad track record for predicting disease consequences.
Yet the same Ferguson group at Imperial College, with WHO endorsement, was behind the panic numbers that triggered a UK government lockdown. Ferguson was also the source of the wild “prediction” that 2.2 million Americans would likely die if immediate lockdown of the US economy did not occur. Based on the Ferguson model, Dr Anthony Fauci of NIAID reportedly confronted President Trump and pressured him to declare a national health emergency. Much as in the UK, once the damage to the economy was begun, Ferguson’s model later drastically lowered the US fatality estimates to between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. In both US and UK cases Neil Ferguson relied on data from the Chinese government, data which has been shown as unreliable.
Neil Ferguson and his modelling group at Imperial College, in addition to being backed by WHO, receive millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ferguson heads the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium at Imperial College which lists as its funders the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Gates-backed GAVI-the vaccine alliance. From 2006 through 2018 the Gates Foundation has invested an impressive $184,872,226 into Ferguson’s Imperial College modeling operations.
Notably, the Gates foundation began pouring millions into Ferguson’s modelling operation well after his catastrophic lack of accuracy was known, leading some to suggest Ferguson is another “science for hire” operation.
University of Washington—Gates too…
More recently, the forecast models being used to justify the unprecedented lockdown measures across the United States have been developed at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.
Its COVID-19 model forecasts deaths and the use of hospital resources such as hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators. At the end of March the model from IHME also “predicted” up to 2.2 million American coronavirus deaths unless drastic lockdown measures were followed. By April 7 IHME models revised that down to up to 200,000 deaths. Their last down revision puts deaths at just over 60,000. The claim is that the down revisions are informed by actual data. Yet the wildly inaccurate projections were the ones used to impose catastrophic social and economic restrictions across the USA.
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter questioned the IMHE model:
“Aside from New York, nationally there’s been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct, there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty,” he said. “This is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in southern California where the lockdown was early, it’s true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesn’t seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast.”
IHME claims its revisions are result of the lockdown taking effect even though that would take weeks to show up.
Like Neil Ferguson at the Imperial College London, the University of Washington’s IHME is another project of the Gates Foundation. It was created in 2007 with a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In May 2015 IHME and the World Health Organization signed a major agreement to collaborate on data used to estimate world health trends. Then in 2017 IHME got an additional $279 million from the Gates Foundation to expand its work over the next decade. That, in addition to another a $210 million gift in 2016 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund construction of a new building to house several UW units working in population health, including IHME. In other words, IHME has been a crucial piece of the Gates global health strategy for more than 13 years.
They have been turning out highly inflated models for state-by-state emergency room demands. Those inflated projections, from New York to California and beyond have wreaked havoc on the entire health care system. When one IHME model predicted need for 430,000 intensive care beds across the US in March, states went into panic mode from New York to California to Pennsylvania and beyond. By the third week of April the reality was that hospital beds were empty and untold numbers of other operations had been canceled to make room for covid19 patients who never materialized.
Faulty Tests
The wide variety of different tests that are supposed to tell whether one is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus have added a crucial element to the perfect dystopian storm that is raging globally. Simply put, the tests are not that reliable.
A leading German laboratory reported in early April that, according to WHO recommendations, Covid19 virus tests are now considered positive, even if the specific target sequence of the Covid19 virus is negative and only the more general corona virus target sequence is positive. This can lead to other corona viruses such as cold viruses also triggering a false positive test result. That means you can have a simple cold and you are deemed coronavirus positive. Little wonder that the tally of coronavirus “infected” is exploding over the past weeks. But what does that number really mean? We simply don’t know. Yet our politicians are glibly shutting down entire economies and causing inconceivable social damage based on false model projections and WHO’s dodgy testing guidelines.
In Germany the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the government agency leading the COVID19 response, has deliberately refused to list the actual daily number of persons tested despite requests. Prof. Christopher Kuhbander, author of a detailed study states,
“The reported figures on new infections very dramatically overestimate the true spread of the corona virus. The observed rapid increase in new infections is almost exclusively due to the fact that the number of tests has increased rapidly over time. So, at least according to the reported figures, there was in reality never an exponential spread of the coronavirus. The reported figures on new infections hide the fact that the number of new infections has been decreasing since about early or mid-March.”
Yet the uncritical media presentation of endless statistics from the head of the RKI have fostered unprecedented anxiety and fear in the population of Germany.
Californian physician Dr. Dan Erickson described his observations regarding Covid19 in a press briefing. He stated that hospitals and intensive care units in California and other states have remained largely empty so far. Dr. Erickson reports that doctors from several US states have been “pressured“ to issue death certificates mentioning Covid19, even though they themselves did not agree. In Pennsylvania the state was forced to remove some 200 “coronavirus” deaths after doctor autopsy revealed death from pre-existing causes such as heart or lung diseases.
The more that actual facts are emerging around this pandemic and its consequences, it is becoming clear were are being told to commit economic and social suicide based on wrong methods and wrong information.
News of the Times;
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/joe-biden/the-10-worst-things-joe-biden-has-done-in-his-poli/#2-1994-crime-bill
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/26/youtube-and-twitter-censor-pharma-company-researching-uv-light-treatment-for-chinese-virus/
https://www.israelwired.com/2019/11/12/colorado-public-school-forces-girls-to-follow-islamic-dress-code-on-a-school-field-trip-to-a-mosque.html
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/interest-christianity-surges-iran-covid-19/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/25/8500-french-produced-respirators-allegedly-unfit-for-treating-coronavirus-patients/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/roger-stone-releases-statement-doj-unseals-search-warrants-garbage-investigation-longtime-trump-supporter/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dare-cop-arrested-child-porn-ring/
https://www.cato.org/blog/may-15th-supreme-court-will-finally-decide-whether-hear-cases-calling-abolition-qualified
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/study-finds-historic-drop-math-reading-scores-adoption-common-core
https://www.infowars.com/report-five-global-intelligence-agencies-investigating-wuhan-bat-scientist-over-virus-lab-leak/
https://mises.org/power-market/paycheck-protection-program-paying-people-not-work
https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-fed-wont-bail-out-mismanaged-states/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-governor-refused-to-implement-stay-sat-home-orders-her-citizens-throw-her-a-parade
https://lidblog.com/butter-maiden/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/jim-jordan-russia-hoax-much-worse-thought/
To cheer myself up I bought a puppy.
*.*
What should we call this giant advertising board?
Phil: A philboard?
Bill: I have a better idea.
*.*
Thoughts?
For the first time in history, we can save the world by staying home and sitting in front of the TV. Let's not screw this up.
So, we can expect our car insurance to go down since no one can drive? Just asking, Jake, from State Farm.
It's been a blessing being home with my wife for three weeks. Now, we're all caught up on what I've been doing wrong for the past 14 years.
Today, the Devil whispered in my ear, "You're not strong enough to stand the storm." And I shouted, "Six feet back, jerk!"
If your go-to excuse for being late for school was missing the bus, you're screwed.
Remember wishing that the weekend would go on forever? Are you happy now?
I've washed my hands so much I've uncovered a nightclub stamp from 20 years ago.
Day 36 of Homeschooling: My child just said "I hope I don't have the same teacher next year".
I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.
*.*
Why do sperm cells look like commas and apostrophes?
They often interrupt periods and lead to contractions.
*.*
His hungry eyes followed her longingly as the woman with the most beautiful breasts and supple legs slowly made her way back to her table.
"Damn, leave some chicken for the rest of us.", he thought.
Quote of the Times;
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai Lama
Link of the Times;
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/dr-erickson-covid-19-briefing_3Mnj5AwzaNAtdlc.html?
Issue of the Times;
The Dubious COVID Models, The Tests and Now the Consequences by F. William Engdahl
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing lack of transparency or checking, one government after the other has imposed China-model lockdowns on their entire populations. It begins to look as if we are being led like sheep to slaughter for corrupted science.
The Dubious COVID Models
Two major models are being used in the West since the alleged spread of coronavirus to Europe and USA to “predict” and respond to the spread of COVID-19 illness. One was developed at Imperial College of London. The second was developed, with emphasis on USA effects, by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, near the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. What few know is that both groups owe their existence to generous funding by a tax exempt foundation that stands to make literally billions on purported vaccines and other drugs to treat coronavirus—The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In early March, Prof. Neil Ferguson, head of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London issued a widely-discussed model that forecast possible COVID-19 deaths in the UK as high as 500,000. Ferguson works closely with the WHO. That report was held responsible for a dramatic u-turn by the UK government from a traditional public health policy of isolating at risk patients while allowing society and the economy to function normally. Days after the UK went on lockdown, Ferguson’s institute sheepishly revised downwards his death estimates, several times and dramatically. His dire warnings have not come to pass and the UK economy, like most others around the world, has gone into deep crisis based on inflated estimates.
Ferguson and his Imperial College modelers have a notorious track record for predicting dire consequences of diseases. In 2002 Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people in UK would die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, “mad cow disease”, possibly to 150,000 if the epidemic expanded to include sheep. A total of 178 people were officially registered dead from vCJD. In 2005, Ferguson claimed that up to 200 million! people worldwide would be killed by bird-flu or H5N1. By early 2006, the WHO had only linked 78 deaths to the virus. Then in 2009 Ferguson’s group at Imperial College advised the government that swine flu or H1N1 would probably kill 65,000 people in the UK. In the end, swine flu claimed the lives of 457 people. Ferguson and his Imperial College group have a notoriously bad track record for predicting disease consequences.
Yet the same Ferguson group at Imperial College, with WHO endorsement, was behind the panic numbers that triggered a UK government lockdown. Ferguson was also the source of the wild “prediction” that 2.2 million Americans would likely die if immediate lockdown of the US economy did not occur. Based on the Ferguson model, Dr Anthony Fauci of NIAID reportedly confronted President Trump and pressured him to declare a national health emergency. Much as in the UK, once the damage to the economy was begun, Ferguson’s model later drastically lowered the US fatality estimates to between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. In both US and UK cases Neil Ferguson relied on data from the Chinese government, data which has been shown as unreliable.
Neil Ferguson and his modelling group at Imperial College, in addition to being backed by WHO, receive millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ferguson heads the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium at Imperial College which lists as its funders the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Gates-backed GAVI-the vaccine alliance. From 2006 through 2018 the Gates Foundation has invested an impressive $184,872,226 into Ferguson’s Imperial College modeling operations.
Notably, the Gates foundation began pouring millions into Ferguson’s modelling operation well after his catastrophic lack of accuracy was known, leading some to suggest Ferguson is another “science for hire” operation.
University of Washington—Gates too…
More recently, the forecast models being used to justify the unprecedented lockdown measures across the United States have been developed at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.
Its COVID-19 model forecasts deaths and the use of hospital resources such as hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators. At the end of March the model from IHME also “predicted” up to 2.2 million American coronavirus deaths unless drastic lockdown measures were followed. By April 7 IHME models revised that down to up to 200,000 deaths. Their last down revision puts deaths at just over 60,000. The claim is that the down revisions are informed by actual data. Yet the wildly inaccurate projections were the ones used to impose catastrophic social and economic restrictions across the USA.
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter questioned the IMHE model:
“Aside from New York, nationally there’s been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct, there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty,” he said. “This is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in southern California where the lockdown was early, it’s true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesn’t seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast.”
IHME claims its revisions are result of the lockdown taking effect even though that would take weeks to show up.
Like Neil Ferguson at the Imperial College London, the University of Washington’s IHME is another project of the Gates Foundation. It was created in 2007 with a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In May 2015 IHME and the World Health Organization signed a major agreement to collaborate on data used to estimate world health trends. Then in 2017 IHME got an additional $279 million from the Gates Foundation to expand its work over the next decade. That, in addition to another a $210 million gift in 2016 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund construction of a new building to house several UW units working in population health, including IHME. In other words, IHME has been a crucial piece of the Gates global health strategy for more than 13 years.
They have been turning out highly inflated models for state-by-state emergency room demands. Those inflated projections, from New York to California and beyond have wreaked havoc on the entire health care system. When one IHME model predicted need for 430,000 intensive care beds across the US in March, states went into panic mode from New York to California to Pennsylvania and beyond. By the third week of April the reality was that hospital beds were empty and untold numbers of other operations had been canceled to make room for covid19 patients who never materialized.
Faulty Tests
The wide variety of different tests that are supposed to tell whether one is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus have added a crucial element to the perfect dystopian storm that is raging globally. Simply put, the tests are not that reliable.
A leading German laboratory reported in early April that, according to WHO recommendations, Covid19 virus tests are now considered positive, even if the specific target sequence of the Covid19 virus is negative and only the more general corona virus target sequence is positive. This can lead to other corona viruses such as cold viruses also triggering a false positive test result. That means you can have a simple cold and you are deemed coronavirus positive. Little wonder that the tally of coronavirus “infected” is exploding over the past weeks. But what does that number really mean? We simply don’t know. Yet our politicians are glibly shutting down entire economies and causing inconceivable social damage based on false model projections and WHO’s dodgy testing guidelines.
In Germany the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the government agency leading the COVID19 response, has deliberately refused to list the actual daily number of persons tested despite requests. Prof. Christopher Kuhbander, author of a detailed study states,
“The reported figures on new infections very dramatically overestimate the true spread of the corona virus. The observed rapid increase in new infections is almost exclusively due to the fact that the number of tests has increased rapidly over time. So, at least according to the reported figures, there was in reality never an exponential spread of the coronavirus. The reported figures on new infections hide the fact that the number of new infections has been decreasing since about early or mid-March.”
Yet the uncritical media presentation of endless statistics from the head of the RKI have fostered unprecedented anxiety and fear in the population of Germany.
Californian physician Dr. Dan Erickson described his observations regarding Covid19 in a press briefing. He stated that hospitals and intensive care units in California and other states have remained largely empty so far. Dr. Erickson reports that doctors from several US states have been “pressured“ to issue death certificates mentioning Covid19, even though they themselves did not agree. In Pennsylvania the state was forced to remove some 200 “coronavirus” deaths after doctor autopsy revealed death from pre-existing causes such as heart or lung diseases.
The more that actual facts are emerging around this pandemic and its consequences, it is becoming clear were are being told to commit economic and social suicide based on wrong methods and wrong information.
News of the Times;
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/joe-biden/the-10-worst-things-joe-biden-has-done-in-his-poli/#2-1994-crime-bill
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/26/youtube-and-twitter-censor-pharma-company-researching-uv-light-treatment-for-chinese-virus/
https://www.israelwired.com/2019/11/12/colorado-public-school-forces-girls-to-follow-islamic-dress-code-on-a-school-field-trip-to-a-mosque.html
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/interest-christianity-surges-iran-covid-19/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/25/8500-french-produced-respirators-allegedly-unfit-for-treating-coronavirus-patients/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/roger-stone-releases-statement-doj-unseals-search-warrants-garbage-investigation-longtime-trump-supporter/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dare-cop-arrested-child-porn-ring/
https://www.cato.org/blog/may-15th-supreme-court-will-finally-decide-whether-hear-cases-calling-abolition-qualified
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/study-finds-historic-drop-math-reading-scores-adoption-common-core
https://www.infowars.com/report-five-global-intelligence-agencies-investigating-wuhan-bat-scientist-over-virus-lab-leak/
https://mises.org/power-market/paycheck-protection-program-paying-people-not-work
https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-fed-wont-bail-out-mismanaged-states/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-governor-refused-to-implement-stay-sat-home-orders-her-citizens-throw-her-a-parade
https://lidblog.com/butter-maiden/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/jim-jordan-russia-hoax-much-worse-thought/
Daily?
During quarantine, the serving size for pizza is; "until you hate yourself".
*.*
"If the neighbor's kid jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?" my Dad asked me.
"No, of course not.", I replied.
"What if that same kid was actually thrown from the bridge in apparent retaliation for driving his car across my lawn? Is there any chance you'd still jump, then? Cause that would resolve a couple of issues..."
*.*
A young priest gets up in the morning and goes to breakfast. On his way there two nuns look at him and he says, "Good morning sisters" and they reply in a sing song manner, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
This stuns the priest who thought he had been very polite but he just goes on. He encounters a Brother a little while later along the way and he says, "Good morning Brother."
The Brother replies in a sing song voice, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." The priest looks confused at all this but goes on.
He gets a little farther and he comes across a fellow priest and he says, "Good morning Father."
The priest replies in a sing song manner, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Now the priest was mad. He continues his walk to the dining hall not saying a word to anyone.
The Bishop sees him and says, "Father ..."
The young priest was not going to take any more even from the bishop. He looks at the bishop and says, "No I did not get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
The bishop looks at him stunned and says "What?"
The priest realized his mistake and said "I am sorry your holiness, what is it you want."
The bishop looks at him and says, "All I was going to do was ask you why you had on Sister Ann's shoes?"
*.*
I called my mother from the apartment. When she answered the phone, I could hear a noise behind her that sounded like a jet plane taking off. I asked, "Mother, what's that horrible noise?"
She replied, "It's the dishwasher."
"Your father fixed it."
*.*
When single ladies near the age of 50, they tend to get lots of cats.
This phenomenon is known as many paws.
Quote of the Times;
“Trump could have undermined the message so much that he can actually control exactly what people think, and that is our job.” - Mika Brzezinski. (MSNBC)
Link of the Times;
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/
Issue of the Times;
Obama Administration was Corrupt, more and more Evidence Reveals Daily by L. Todd Wood
His loyalties were to his power and authority.
There was so much hope in January 2009 when Barack Obama took office. Here was the first black president of the United States, promising to be a leader for all Americans, to halt the rise of the oceans and to be the most transparent administration ever. Even black Americans were saying the Civil War was finally over.
Unfortunately for America, it didn’t turn out that way. As more and more evidence is revealed daily on the evening news, it is now very clear the Obama administration was the most corrupt presidency in the history of the republic.
As Mr. Obama’s favorite, President Abraham Lincoln, warned us, the most dangerous threats can come from domestic enemies.
First of all, that bit about being a leader for all Americans, color-blind if you will, was a tall tale. Mr. Obama never missed an opportunity to sow racial divide. During his term in the Oval Office, racial relations literally went off the cliff. Mr. Obama and first lady Michelle promoted the false narrative that white America was literally guilty of hunting down blacks with glee. They whipped up resentment in minority communities against the police, even though a Harvard study found that blacks are no more likely to be killed by police than whites.
But the racial divisions, as painful and heartbreaking as they are, were not the worst of it.
The abuse of power started to become clear when it was revealed the Internal Revenue Service was biased against conservatives.
Mr. Obama used the agencies, and the awesome power of the federal government, against his political enemies. He used the power of the state against those he didn’t like. This was full-on banana republic dictator kind of stuff.
The negligence at Veterans’ Affairs, the “stimulus bill” that was simply a redistribution to unions (those “shovel ready projects” weren’t so shovel ready after all), the sale of uranium to the Russians, the lies about Benghazi, the Clinton email scandal that was not prosecuted, the appeasement of the Iranians - even sending billions in cash in the middle of the night and bragging about how they lied to the American press and public, the use of financial penalties to fund leftist causes, the use of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to take property from Americans, on, and on, and on. I literally could go on forever.
However, the coup-de-grace is what we are now learning about the 2016 election and the criminal spying on the Trump campaign.
The president of the United States was set up. Mr. Trump is exactly right. The weaponization of our intelligence and security services has damaged their reputation for generations, and the rule of law, to which this great nation is so committed, has been irreparably damaged as well.
I’ve said it before, the Obama administration was nothing more than highly organized crime.
Justice will be served. It may take a while, but the truth will continue to come out.
It’s a shame the administration of the first black president was also the most corrupt. Such a lost opportunity to better this great country.
It’s not that hard to understand. Still, it’s difficult to accept.
It shouldn’t happen here.
News of the Times;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/busted-media-caught-camera-staging-fake-photos-medical-worker-counter-protest-video/
https://epochtimes.today/is-wuhan-coronavirus-a-bioweapon-here-are-what-the-facts-say/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-company-suspected-spying-us-citizens-donates-police-drones-22-states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/country-ahead-of-my-party-trump-supporting-georgia-democrat-wont-resign-after-outcry-from-the-people
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/23/big-company-execs-30-years-prison-fines-sba-coronavirus-relief-program/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/stephen-lendman/the-big-lie-obama-did-not-kill-bin-laden/
https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/spl/pennsylvania-death-count-changes-confusion-coroanvirus-20200423.html
https://saraacarter.com/stunning-brady-docs-disclosed-by-gov-exonerates-lt-gen-michael-flynn-defense-says/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/25/jeff-goldblum-faces-backlash-for-questioning-the-anti-homosexuality-and-anti-woman-nature-of-islam/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-continues-flood-world-defective-medical-supplies
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/white-female-oxford-professor-hopes-white-male-scientists-dont-find-vaccine-to-coronavirus/
https://pjmedia.com/trending/watch-california-docs-say-lockdown-vs-non-lockdown-did-not-produce-a-statistically-different-number-of-deaths/
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/6/25/90-of-the-racism-in-america-comes-from-the-democratic-party-and-the-left
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/archive-biden-accusers-mother-calling-cnn-scrubbed-google-play-catalog
*.*
"If the neighbor's kid jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?" my Dad asked me.
"No, of course not.", I replied.
"What if that same kid was actually thrown from the bridge in apparent retaliation for driving his car across my lawn? Is there any chance you'd still jump, then? Cause that would resolve a couple of issues..."
*.*
A young priest gets up in the morning and goes to breakfast. On his way there two nuns look at him and he says, "Good morning sisters" and they reply in a sing song manner, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
This stuns the priest who thought he had been very polite but he just goes on. He encounters a Brother a little while later along the way and he says, "Good morning Brother."
The Brother replies in a sing song voice, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." The priest looks confused at all this but goes on.
He gets a little farther and he comes across a fellow priest and he says, "Good morning Father."
The priest replies in a sing song manner, "You got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Now the priest was mad. He continues his walk to the dining hall not saying a word to anyone.
The Bishop sees him and says, "Father ..."
The young priest was not going to take any more even from the bishop. He looks at the bishop and says, "No I did not get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
The bishop looks at him stunned and says "What?"
The priest realized his mistake and said "I am sorry your holiness, what is it you want."
The bishop looks at him and says, "All I was going to do was ask you why you had on Sister Ann's shoes?"
*.*
I called my mother from the apartment. When she answered the phone, I could hear a noise behind her that sounded like a jet plane taking off. I asked, "Mother, what's that horrible noise?"
She replied, "It's the dishwasher."
"Your father fixed it."
*.*
When single ladies near the age of 50, they tend to get lots of cats.
This phenomenon is known as many paws.
Quote of the Times;
“Trump could have undermined the message so much that he can actually control exactly what people think, and that is our job.” - Mika Brzezinski. (MSNBC)
Link of the Times;
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/
Issue of the Times;
Obama Administration was Corrupt, more and more Evidence Reveals Daily by L. Todd Wood
His loyalties were to his power and authority.
There was so much hope in January 2009 when Barack Obama took office. Here was the first black president of the United States, promising to be a leader for all Americans, to halt the rise of the oceans and to be the most transparent administration ever. Even black Americans were saying the Civil War was finally over.
Unfortunately for America, it didn’t turn out that way. As more and more evidence is revealed daily on the evening news, it is now very clear the Obama administration was the most corrupt presidency in the history of the republic.
As Mr. Obama’s favorite, President Abraham Lincoln, warned us, the most dangerous threats can come from domestic enemies.
First of all, that bit about being a leader for all Americans, color-blind if you will, was a tall tale. Mr. Obama never missed an opportunity to sow racial divide. During his term in the Oval Office, racial relations literally went off the cliff. Mr. Obama and first lady Michelle promoted the false narrative that white America was literally guilty of hunting down blacks with glee. They whipped up resentment in minority communities against the police, even though a Harvard study found that blacks are no more likely to be killed by police than whites.
But the racial divisions, as painful and heartbreaking as they are, were not the worst of it.
The abuse of power started to become clear when it was revealed the Internal Revenue Service was biased against conservatives.
Mr. Obama used the agencies, and the awesome power of the federal government, against his political enemies. He used the power of the state against those he didn’t like. This was full-on banana republic dictator kind of stuff.
The negligence at Veterans’ Affairs, the “stimulus bill” that was simply a redistribution to unions (those “shovel ready projects” weren’t so shovel ready after all), the sale of uranium to the Russians, the lies about Benghazi, the Clinton email scandal that was not prosecuted, the appeasement of the Iranians - even sending billions in cash in the middle of the night and bragging about how they lied to the American press and public, the use of financial penalties to fund leftist causes, the use of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to take property from Americans, on, and on, and on. I literally could go on forever.
However, the coup-de-grace is what we are now learning about the 2016 election and the criminal spying on the Trump campaign.
The president of the United States was set up. Mr. Trump is exactly right. The weaponization of our intelligence and security services has damaged their reputation for generations, and the rule of law, to which this great nation is so committed, has been irreparably damaged as well.
I’ve said it before, the Obama administration was nothing more than highly organized crime.
Justice will be served. It may take a while, but the truth will continue to come out.
It’s a shame the administration of the first black president was also the most corrupt. Such a lost opportunity to better this great country.
It’s not that hard to understand. Still, it’s difficult to accept.
It shouldn’t happen here.
News of the Times;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/busted-media-caught-camera-staging-fake-photos-medical-worker-counter-protest-video/
https://epochtimes.today/is-wuhan-coronavirus-a-bioweapon-here-are-what-the-facts-say/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-company-suspected-spying-us-citizens-donates-police-drones-22-states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/country-ahead-of-my-party-trump-supporting-georgia-democrat-wont-resign-after-outcry-from-the-people
https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/23/big-company-execs-30-years-prison-fines-sba-coronavirus-relief-program/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/stephen-lendman/the-big-lie-obama-did-not-kill-bin-laden/
https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/spl/pennsylvania-death-count-changes-confusion-coroanvirus-20200423.html
https://saraacarter.com/stunning-brady-docs-disclosed-by-gov-exonerates-lt-gen-michael-flynn-defense-says/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/25/jeff-goldblum-faces-backlash-for-questioning-the-anti-homosexuality-and-anti-woman-nature-of-islam/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-continues-flood-world-defective-medical-supplies
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/white-female-oxford-professor-hopes-white-male-scientists-dont-find-vaccine-to-coronavirus/
https://pjmedia.com/trending/watch-california-docs-say-lockdown-vs-non-lockdown-did-not-produce-a-statistically-different-number-of-deaths/
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/6/25/90-of-the-racism-in-america-comes-from-the-democratic-party-and-the-left
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/archive-biden-accusers-mother-calling-cnn-scrubbed-google-play-catalog
Construct?
What do a bag of chips and a gun have in common?
When you pull them out in class suddenly everyone wants to be your friend.
*.*
Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon. The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said...
"No. That's why we want to go to the moon."
*.*
A study says 90% of new moms can find their child by the smell. Especially when it's dad's turn to change them.
A study says practicing gratitude, reflecting on the good things in life has little if any effect on anxiety and depression. I'm thankful I don't have to do that.
Tom Brady has left New England and apparently is going to Tampa Bay. Most are not surprised he's going for the Bucs.
Robert Kraft says of Tom Brady, he "loves him like a son but he has the right to be free." Wait a minute: isn't that what the dad said near the end of "Old Yeller?"
Casinos are asking for bailouts from the federal government. Shouldn't they at least be required to roll 7's?
*.*
A murder has been committed. Police are called to an apartment and find a man standing, holding a 5-iron in his hands, looking at the
lifeless body of a woman on the ground.
The detective asks, "Sir, is that your wife?"
"Yes."
"Did you hit her with that golf club?"
"Yes. Yes, I did," the man answers. He stifles a sob, drops the club and puts his hands on his head.
"How many times did you hit her?"
"I don't know... put me down for a five."
*.*
You'd think that at some point the little piggy that went to market might swing by the pharmacy and pick up something for the one with the uncontrollable bladder.
Quote of the Times;
Has anybody else noticed the word “pandemic” is just Dem surrounded by panic?
Link of the Times;
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/20/federal-data-28-4m-mail-in-ballots-have-gone-missing-since-2012-election/
Issue of the Times;
Sorry, Liberals, But Gender Is Not a ‘Social Construct’ by John Hawkins
One of the most harmful and also false ideas that liberals have introduced to American culture is the idea that gender is nothing more than a “social construct.” Put another way, there’s no real difference between men and women; we just think there are differences because we accept illogical cultural norms that have been passed down through the years.
This is a “the moon is made out of green cheese” grade dumb concept; yet and still this idea undergirds liberal feminism. If a man can do it, then a woman can do it just as well, even if we’re talking about the military, firemen or being a cop. It’s the core concept that allows liberals to try to present transgenderism as a civil rights issue instead of a mental health issue. Undoubtedly, it’s also part of the reason you see so many sad, lost, nearly androgynous young men these days. If being a man doesn’t mean anything, why go through the work of taking on masculine traits?
The sleight of hand that liberals use to promote this obviously foolish idea is to point out that different cultures have different definitions of what constitutes manliness. To many Americans, enduring boot camp and becoming a soldier is a great way to prove your masculinity. To become a man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe, a boy must stick his hand in a glove full of venomous ants with incredibly painful bites and hold it there. On the Greek island of Kalymnos, manhood is proven via deep diving without equipment. Those men consider using diving equipment for safety to be effeminate.
You could be the epitome of manhood in America without ever allowing yourself to be bitten by venomous ants or a man’s man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe without ever deep diving; so doesn’t that mean gender is a social construct?
No, stupid.
As Jack Donovan has noted, “Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world.” A hard-assed American drill sergeant might think it’s dumb as dirt to stick your hand in a glove full of Bullet Ants, but I can guaran-damn-tee you he has a certain level of manly respect for a guy who’s tough enough to do it.
Moreover, there are no cultures anywhere where let’s say someone like Justin Bieber would be considered manly while someone like John Wayne would be considered feminine. Similarly, there are no cultures like the fictitious Amazons where women do the fighting while the men hang back. In the early 1900s, explorer Ernest Shackleton needed volunteers for a South Pole expedition. He placed an advertisement that read like so in the London Times: “Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.” The following day, over 5000 men showed up to volunteer.
Note that 5000 MEN showed up to volunteer. In no culture in the world would women ever be the majority of people showing up for something like that. Not today, not last year, not at any point in history. Yet, if gender really were merely a social construct, we’d expect to see women making up the majority of warriors, hunters and the people doing backbreaking, dangerous jobs SOMEWHERE. Along the same lines, there’s no culture where men do the majority of the child-rearing. If gender is really just a random, illogical series of habits that civilizations pick up, then we SHOULD see a lot more overlap, but we don’t – and we never will.
Part of this is based on the very real physical differences between men and women. Men are taller, bigger, have more muscle mass. In violent confrontations with men or in tasks that require great strength, very few women can hope to compete with even the average male. This is the same across all cultures and it has helped create different incentives for men and women. Men have been and still are the ones who do dirty, dangerous and violent work. Men who are good at it are admired by other men and sought out by women. Equivalently, women are admired for their beauty and their feminine wiles. Again, this is something you’ll find across all cultures which again shows you that gender is not a social construct. Instead, it’s an outgrowth of biological reality.
Convenient as it may be to liberalism to pretend that there’s no difference between men and women, it’s not good for society. We already have women being forced to share the bathroom with men who “feel” like women today. By the way, we’re not likely to stop with that bit of silliness as this excerpt of my interview with Kathy Shaidle shows:
Well, knowing that I collect these things so that I can write about them for Taki’s, one of my old friends, a former blogger, said, “You’ll like this.” He e-mailed me this link to a Reddit room where everybody is chatting about these really weird people. Now we’ve all heard about a man trapped in a woman’s body and so forth. Well, like I said earlier, there are people who feel the need to just keep pushing this sort of thing because the thrill of that has worn off socially. So there are people who believe that they’re — say, black, disabled women in white male bodies or they believe that they are a planet or they believe that they are an alien. Now I met some of the “I think I’m an alien” people years ago.
Hey, wait a second. What bathroom do those people get?
Well, that’s just it; they’re going to have to put a little picture of like a gray alien on one of the doors or something like that. ..They all get together and some people think they’re animals. And I don’t mean furries which we’ve seen on CSI or whatever. These are people who don’t necessarily dress up as animals. They think, “I am a fox” and, “I know I look like a person, but I am a fox.”
Yes, one day you may be threatened with prosecution by some liberal for refusing to refer to a woman who believes she’s a fox by her animal name “Arf Arf.” That’s not a future any of us should want.
News of the Times;
https://breaking911.com/video-appears-to-show-workers-unloading-dogs-outside-halal-market-in-philadelphia/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/infuriating-nikki-haley-unloads-on-illinois-dems-for-trying-to-get-coronavirus-money-for-its-pension-crisis
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/former-government-official-transgender-men-raping-staff-womens-prison/
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/singapore-oil-trading-giant-files-bankruptcy-after-hiding-800-million-losses-secretly
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-andrea-camps-two-black-males-murder-18-year-white-college-senior-in-botched-sneaker-deal/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/china-billionaire-undermines-us-food-supply-shuts-pork-plants-multiple-states-beef-packers-not-affected-strange-reason/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1271028/Angela-Merkel-Germany-China-coronavirus-blame-Wuhan-Xi-Jinping-Trump-latest
https://summit.news/2020/04/23/migrant-areas-of-paris-riot-for-4th-night-running/
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pandemic-death-wuhan-lab/2020/04/19/id/963586/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-and-other-well-endowed-colleges-face-backlash-tapping-tens-millions-stimulus
https://nationalfile.com/new-york-mosque-continues-operating-during-coronavirus-no-word-from-authorities/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/people-are-finally-starting-to-see-the-real-ellen-degeneres-and-it-isnt-pretty
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygnwz/if-youre-talking-about-coronavirus-on-twitter-youre-probably-a-bot
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/23/twitter-removes-another-biden-meme-on-trumps-account-for-copyright-violation/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/dem-congress-admits-blocking-money-workers-gain-political-leverage/
When you pull them out in class suddenly everyone wants to be your friend.
*.*
Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon. The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said...
"No. That's why we want to go to the moon."
*.*
A study says 90% of new moms can find their child by the smell. Especially when it's dad's turn to change them.
A study says practicing gratitude, reflecting on the good things in life has little if any effect on anxiety and depression. I'm thankful I don't have to do that.
Tom Brady has left New England and apparently is going to Tampa Bay. Most are not surprised he's going for the Bucs.
Robert Kraft says of Tom Brady, he "loves him like a son but he has the right to be free." Wait a minute: isn't that what the dad said near the end of "Old Yeller?"
Casinos are asking for bailouts from the federal government. Shouldn't they at least be required to roll 7's?
*.*
A murder has been committed. Police are called to an apartment and find a man standing, holding a 5-iron in his hands, looking at the
lifeless body of a woman on the ground.
The detective asks, "Sir, is that your wife?"
"Yes."
"Did you hit her with that golf club?"
"Yes. Yes, I did," the man answers. He stifles a sob, drops the club and puts his hands on his head.
"How many times did you hit her?"
"I don't know... put me down for a five."
*.*
You'd think that at some point the little piggy that went to market might swing by the pharmacy and pick up something for the one with the uncontrollable bladder.
Quote of the Times;
Has anybody else noticed the word “pandemic” is just Dem surrounded by panic?
Link of the Times;
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/20/federal-data-28-4m-mail-in-ballots-have-gone-missing-since-2012-election/
Issue of the Times;
Sorry, Liberals, But Gender Is Not a ‘Social Construct’ by John Hawkins
One of the most harmful and also false ideas that liberals have introduced to American culture is the idea that gender is nothing more than a “social construct.” Put another way, there’s no real difference between men and women; we just think there are differences because we accept illogical cultural norms that have been passed down through the years.
This is a “the moon is made out of green cheese” grade dumb concept; yet and still this idea undergirds liberal feminism. If a man can do it, then a woman can do it just as well, even if we’re talking about the military, firemen or being a cop. It’s the core concept that allows liberals to try to present transgenderism as a civil rights issue instead of a mental health issue. Undoubtedly, it’s also part of the reason you see so many sad, lost, nearly androgynous young men these days. If being a man doesn’t mean anything, why go through the work of taking on masculine traits?
The sleight of hand that liberals use to promote this obviously foolish idea is to point out that different cultures have different definitions of what constitutes manliness. To many Americans, enduring boot camp and becoming a soldier is a great way to prove your masculinity. To become a man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe, a boy must stick his hand in a glove full of venomous ants with incredibly painful bites and hold it there. On the Greek island of Kalymnos, manhood is proven via deep diving without equipment. Those men consider using diving equipment for safety to be effeminate.
You could be the epitome of manhood in America without ever allowing yourself to be bitten by venomous ants or a man’s man in the Sateré-Mawé tribe without ever deep diving; so doesn’t that mean gender is a social construct?
No, stupid.
As Jack Donovan has noted, “Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world.” A hard-assed American drill sergeant might think it’s dumb as dirt to stick your hand in a glove full of Bullet Ants, but I can guaran-damn-tee you he has a certain level of manly respect for a guy who’s tough enough to do it.
Moreover, there are no cultures anywhere where let’s say someone like Justin Bieber would be considered manly while someone like John Wayne would be considered feminine. Similarly, there are no cultures like the fictitious Amazons where women do the fighting while the men hang back. In the early 1900s, explorer Ernest Shackleton needed volunteers for a South Pole expedition. He placed an advertisement that read like so in the London Times: “Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.” The following day, over 5000 men showed up to volunteer.
Note that 5000 MEN showed up to volunteer. In no culture in the world would women ever be the majority of people showing up for something like that. Not today, not last year, not at any point in history. Yet, if gender really were merely a social construct, we’d expect to see women making up the majority of warriors, hunters and the people doing backbreaking, dangerous jobs SOMEWHERE. Along the same lines, there’s no culture where men do the majority of the child-rearing. If gender is really just a random, illogical series of habits that civilizations pick up, then we SHOULD see a lot more overlap, but we don’t – and we never will.
Part of this is based on the very real physical differences between men and women. Men are taller, bigger, have more muscle mass. In violent confrontations with men or in tasks that require great strength, very few women can hope to compete with even the average male. This is the same across all cultures and it has helped create different incentives for men and women. Men have been and still are the ones who do dirty, dangerous and violent work. Men who are good at it are admired by other men and sought out by women. Equivalently, women are admired for their beauty and their feminine wiles. Again, this is something you’ll find across all cultures which again shows you that gender is not a social construct. Instead, it’s an outgrowth of biological reality.
Convenient as it may be to liberalism to pretend that there’s no difference between men and women, it’s not good for society. We already have women being forced to share the bathroom with men who “feel” like women today. By the way, we’re not likely to stop with that bit of silliness as this excerpt of my interview with Kathy Shaidle shows:
Well, knowing that I collect these things so that I can write about them for Taki’s, one of my old friends, a former blogger, said, “You’ll like this.” He e-mailed me this link to a Reddit room where everybody is chatting about these really weird people. Now we’ve all heard about a man trapped in a woman’s body and so forth. Well, like I said earlier, there are people who feel the need to just keep pushing this sort of thing because the thrill of that has worn off socially. So there are people who believe that they’re — say, black, disabled women in white male bodies or they believe that they are a planet or they believe that they are an alien. Now I met some of the “I think I’m an alien” people years ago.
Hey, wait a second. What bathroom do those people get?
Well, that’s just it; they’re going to have to put a little picture of like a gray alien on one of the doors or something like that. ..They all get together and some people think they’re animals. And I don’t mean furries which we’ve seen on CSI or whatever. These are people who don’t necessarily dress up as animals. They think, “I am a fox” and, “I know I look like a person, but I am a fox.”
Yes, one day you may be threatened with prosecution by some liberal for refusing to refer to a woman who believes she’s a fox by her animal name “Arf Arf.” That’s not a future any of us should want.
News of the Times;
https://breaking911.com/video-appears-to-show-workers-unloading-dogs-outside-halal-market-in-philadelphia/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/infuriating-nikki-haley-unloads-on-illinois-dems-for-trying-to-get-coronavirus-money-for-its-pension-crisis
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/former-government-official-transgender-men-raping-staff-womens-prison/
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/singapore-oil-trading-giant-files-bankruptcy-after-hiding-800-million-losses-secretly
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-andrea-camps-two-black-males-murder-18-year-white-college-senior-in-botched-sneaker-deal/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/china-billionaire-undermines-us-food-supply-shuts-pork-plants-multiple-states-beef-packers-not-affected-strange-reason/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1271028/Angela-Merkel-Germany-China-coronavirus-blame-Wuhan-Xi-Jinping-Trump-latest
https://summit.news/2020/04/23/migrant-areas-of-paris-riot-for-4th-night-running/
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pandemic-death-wuhan-lab/2020/04/19/id/963586/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-and-other-well-endowed-colleges-face-backlash-tapping-tens-millions-stimulus
https://nationalfile.com/new-york-mosque-continues-operating-during-coronavirus-no-word-from-authorities/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/people-are-finally-starting-to-see-the-real-ellen-degeneres-and-it-isnt-pretty
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygnwz/if-youre-talking-about-coronavirus-on-twitter-youre-probably-a-bot
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/23/twitter-removes-another-biden-meme-on-trumps-account-for-copyright-violation/
https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/dem-congress-admits-blocking-money-workers-gain-political-leverage/
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