I ordered a book called "How to scam people online" two months ago.
Still hasn't arrived.
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You ever hear about the bulletproof Irishman?
Rick O'Shay.
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Oneliners:
Sir Isaac Newton developed calculus during the plague; how bored are you that you would invent calculus?
Don't argue with people on social media, every classroom had that kid who ate paste, that's them.
Just a heads up that "Soylent Green" took place in 2022.
It's perfectly OK to talk to yourself and to respond to yourself, however it's not OK to repeat what you said because you weren't listening.
Remember, prosthetic legs make great stocking stuffers.
"Just cleared out some space in the freezer" sounds much more productive than, "I just polished off another pint of ice cream."
The FDA has approved eye drops that would replace the need for readers, however this will increase use of the question, "Has anyone seen my eye drops
We're pretty sure COVID came from China. But then again, so did ketchup so, I guess it's a wash.
The average American won't finish paying off holiday debt until July, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
70% of people say their dog helps them stay fit especially if you have one of those cross-fit breeds.
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Every sign of the zodiac has a unique hairstyle.
Except Cancer.
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How do you follow Will Smith in the snow?
You follow the fresh prints.
Quote of the Times;
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. – Twain
Link of the Times;
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-top-nine-worst-media-moments-of-2021
Issue of the Times;
Dear Conservatives, Elon Musk is Not Your Friend by Bode Land
Conservatives have enjoyed Elon Musk's behavior in recent weeks, blasting Elizabeth Warren, opposing lockdowns, and insulting CNN, but the giddiness spewing from conservatives about Musk is foolish.
To those embracing Elon Musk's political conversion, remember that Musk has been one of the most prominent advocates of the continuous scam known as climate change. Like Bill Gates and Al Gore, Musk is an extremely wealthy man who fattens his own pockets through propagating climate change. And like those other rich guys, Musk doesn't refrain from using private jets to fly around the world to save it.
In 2018, Elon Musk reportedly donated $6 Million to the Sierra Club while writing, "Thank you for fighting climate change. This affects every living creature on earth." Once merely an environmental advocacy group, the Sierra Club has since evolved to promote other left-wing issues from pushing for mass immigration and abortion.
Musk also has no reservations about whispering sweet-nothings to communists by praising China as "more responsible" than the U.S. and said that Chinese government officials could "possibly" be "more responsible" for their citizen's happiness than America is.
In May, Musk tweeted a call for a Carbon Tax and spoke with the Biden administration about implementing it. Musk demanding the government to take money from taxpayers should come as no surprise because Musk's companies received at least $4.9 billion in government subsidies – as of 2015! Therein lies perhaps Musk's most incredible skill: enriching himself with the government's help.
While government subsidies are not exclusive to one industry, what sets Elon Musk apart is not only his ability to exploit taxpayers but to use government guns to extort his competitors through "regulatory credits." The state and federal governments give regulatory credits for contributing zero pollution to the environment. In the name of fighting climate change, Musk successfully got the state of California and nine other states to set emission standards that only Tesla could meet. Suppose other automakers cannot produce zero-emissions vehicles. In that case, they will either pay hefty fines, have their business licenses revoked, or buy imaginary credits from automakers who do produce zero emissions, like Tesla.
It's important to understand these credits are not real – they are a made-up tax imposed by the government on automakers to reinforce the leftist religion of environmentalism. These credits are free cash with a 100% margin and no overhead. Musk essentially colluded with the government to extort other automakers and pay him off under the guise of fighting climate change. And the returns are enormous.
In 2020, Tesla reported a regulatory credit revenue of $1.58 billion. Tesla's regulatory credits revenue project to be $2.2 billion in 2021, $3.1 billion in 2022, and $4.34 billion in 2023. By 2024, the government will have successfully extorted over $13 billion from automakers like Ford and GMC to fund Tesla. Without the help of this government-sponsored extortion, fiscal 2Q 2021 would have been the first quarter Tesla would have ever turned a profit.
But Tesla isn't the only Musk business that leverages the government to do his bidding. SolarCity received a $750 million investment from New York State for its plans to build a solar panel factory in Buffalo, just a tiny part of the $2.5 billion in government subsidies Uncle Sam has given SolarCity. Despite all the free cash, Tesla purchased SolarCity for $2.6 billion in Tesla stock because SolarCity;
"has floundered despite significant taxpayer support through a bevy of state and federal tax credits and subsidies. Nevertheless, the solar energy company's stock has been in long-term decline as the company struggles to develop a profitable market not reliant on generous helpings of taxpayer support."
Another Musk business, SpaceX, has received $5.5 billion in government contracts from NASA and the Air Force. Of course, NASA and the Air Force get their funding from American taxpayers, which flows into Musk's pocket. A California hedge fund manager told the LA Times: "Government support is a theme of all three of these companies, and without it, none of them would be around."
Another Musk business venture, the Boring Company, constructs underground tunnels as a means of public transportation. Yes, we already have Subway systems, but Musk promises these are faster and only cost $10 million per mile to dig – paid for by taxpayers. The good news for Musk is that he hedged his bets through The Boring Company, so if electric cars flop, then he can still own the mass transit market.
The common thread running through Musk's business ventures is that the government is always his biggest client, and he knows how to sell them. Being the cunning salesman that he is, when Musk needs cash, he opens new locations or moves the business – receiving hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds to do so. When his businesses flounder, he shifts the conversation to one of his other ventures. To his credit, Musk might be the greatest salesman of a generation. How else can someone fund an empire through government coercion and taxpayer money while retaining universal respect and adoration?
Elon Musk is a climate change radical who partners with the government at every turn to enrich himself. Conservatives like Texas governor Greg Abbot shouldn't celebrate the arrival of Tesla and Musk to Texas because he will be coming for the pocketbooks of Texans in no time.
My suggestion is to refrain from gushing over Musk's recent political conversion. Musk is opportunist, and opportunism is a hallmark of the left. He seized the opportunity to make a fortune off climate change, and he's successfully done that. When the COVID insanity ends, climate change is on deck as the weapon of choice that the government will leverage to hijack your freedom. When that happens, Elon Musk will not be on your side.
It is more likely that Musk’s political shift stems from his recognition that a red wave is coming, and the devious salesman inside him is searching for more fertile ground to exploit after exhausting the resources of Democrats. Every con artist needs new investors to keep the scheme going.
Conservatives beware.
News of the Times;
https://reason.com/2021/12/28/harry-potter-fake-news-media-enemy-of-the-people-anniversary/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/person-year-poll-dropped-j-k-rowling-took-lead/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/covid-vaccines-part-plan-deal-climate-change-reducing-population-growth/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marjorie-taylor-green-permanently-banned-twitter-spreading-covid-misinformation
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/nonprofit-research-team-says-more-than-100000-georgia-dropbox-ballots-from-2020-have-no-proper-chain-of-custody-forms/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/12/31/can-you-spot-whats-wrong-with-this-picture-of-joe-biden-n1545662
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2021/12/wealthy-leftists-demand-poor-white-kids.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/parent-finds-numerous-grammatical-errors-letter-virginia-teachers-union-president/
https://genesiustimes.com/australians-shocked-to-wake-up-in-concentration-camps-after-giving-up-their-guns/
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/01/01/mass-formation-psychosis-its-real-and-it-was-purposely-caused-by-biden-and-the-democrat-party-n500110
https://conejoguardian.org/2021/12/14/more-vc-nurses-blow-whistle-on-overwhelming-numbers-of-heart-attacks-clotting-strokes/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/biden-at-11-months-one-of-the-worst-years-ever
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-blocks-body-cam-of-cops-beating-veteran-and-his-service-dog-as-it-may-harm-cops-reputation/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/bidens-trojan-horse-afghanistan-across-southern-border-biden-bringing-unvetted-military-age-men-around-globe-us/
https://national-justice.com/uk-conservative-mp-stabbed-death-somali-was-strong-supporter-black-lives-matter
Musk?
Efforts?
My wife just called me pretentious.
I was so surprised my monocle fell out.
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Just spent $100 on a belt that doesn’t fit!
Huge waist.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed all branches of the military to step up diversity efforts when it comes to working dogs in canine units. For the first time, the military - which has always favored German Shepherds in the past - will admit other breeds such as Chihuahuas and Pomeranians.
"We've always had this narrow-minded view that the German Shepherd is the best dog for chasing down dangerous terrorists and sniffing out improvised explosive devices," said Austin. "But why not Chihuahuas? Why not poodles? Bringing in more dog breeds will increase our diversity - which is the greatest strength any military can have."
So far, there have been no Chihuahuas capable of taking down a 250-pound man by the arm, so the military has elected to eliminate testing altogether.
Military leaders confirmed the current plan is just to invite every breed of dog and hang out, eat doggy treats, and have a good time while taking diversity courses.
"We're proud of this beautiful mosaic we have created here," said one Staff Sergeant while knitting a cute sweater for Squeaker, his working dog. "This is what our military is all about!"
*.*
I gotta go to the dentist again today.
I'd rather do a lot of other things.
It just gets so boring once you know the drill.
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Please take note: due to inflationary pressures...
The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off till further notice!
Quote of the Times;
If you are not capable of cruelty you are absolutely a victim to anyone who is. – Peterson
Link of the Times;
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/chinas_disastrous_onechild_policy_is_finally_starting_to_kick_in.html
Issue of the Times;
Biden State Dept “Actively Impeding” Rescue Efforts of US Citizens Stranded in Afghanistan – Including Group of Catholic Nuns by Jim Hoft
Back in August white House Spokesperson Jen Psaki lied and told Peter Doocy and the American public the administration was in contact with every American in Afghanistan.
The Biden regime spokesperson also told reporters numerous times there were “only” 100 Americans left stranded inside the country.
“It’s right around 100, and we’re working every single day to help those who want to leave, get out,” WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki says on Americans in Afghanistan who want to leave. https://t.co/3jjfYWjn5D
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 9, 2021
But that was all a lie. And they knew it was a lie.
We now know that there are THOUSANDS of Americans stranded in Afghanistan and as many as 14,000.
Since the fall the Americans left stranded in Afghanistan have been out of the news. But Americans and our allies are still trapped inside the failed Taliban-led state.
A new report at National Review published today revealed that the Biden State Department is “actively impeding” rescue attempts of Americans from the country. Thousands of Americans and as many as 100,000 American allies are left stranded inside the country. Even a group of Catholic nuns are still trapped in Afghanistan.
Via National Review.
The Project Dynamo rescue came four months after the fall of Kabul, as winter is setting in, and as Afghanistan is on the brink of mass starvation. It also came as successful rescues of Americans and American allies have become increasingly hard to come by.
Stern has focused his most recent efforts on rescuing American citizens and green-card holders, people who can fly commercially to the United States. But efforts by dozens of private rescue groups who have focused their energy on saving other American allies in the 20-year war — people who typically don’t have the paperwork for a direct path into the U.S. — have slowed to a crawl.
Leaders of some of those groups who spoke to National Review are pointing fingers at the U.S. Department of State. They say the State Department is doing little to help them rescue American allies, and in some cases it is actively blocking their efforts. They’re calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to do more to help them save the people they once served with…
…Owen estimated there are easily over 100,000 American allies still trapped in the country. He noted that former Afghan national army commandos don’t qualify for SIV status.
“They get nothing. The U.S. government doesn’t see any duty to evacuate these guys. And they are dead. They are dead. They are dead if they get caught. I’ve had three executed in the last two weeks, one in front of his wife and children,” Owen said. “None of us are going to quit until we find a way to get them out. These guys, they fought like hell.”…
…Iowa state senator Zach Nunn, the other cofounder of Task Force Argo, said they shared their manifest with the State Department in October. “The flight manifest is still being reviewed by State,” Nunn said in a prepared statement. Among the people they are ready to fly out are dozens of at-risk Catholic nuns, he said.
Owen also acknowledged that the lack of recent media attention has made it harder to raise money that organizations like Flanders Fields rely on. He said he and his wife recently pulled $23,000 out of their personal savings to keep the operation afloat and their safehouses open.
The Biden State Department will not even move to rescue Catholic nuns trapped inside the country. They truly are evil people.
Read the entire report: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/state-department-actively-impeding-rescue-efforts-as-afghanistan-fades-from-spotlight-vets-say/
News of the Times;
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-wisconsin-purchase/
https://goldswitzerland.com/distraction-as-policy-while-our-economic-rome-burns/
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-panic-hoards-half-worlds-grain-supply-amid-threats-global-collapse
https://summit.news/2021/12/23/70-per-cent-of-londons-covid-hospitalisations-diagnosed-after-being-admitted-for-other-ailments/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-the-catholic-church-has-a-duty-to-resist-deadly-covid-jab-agenda-of-the-globalist-elite/
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-large-study-by-jones-bellet-and.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/27/kamala-harris-touts-seven-principles-marxist-rooted-kwanzaa/
https://rumble.com/vn7adx-robin-williams-perfectly-roasts-joe-biden-in-resurfaced-video.html
https://www.lawofficer.com/new-rifle-design-gilboa-snake-doubles-fire-power/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/back-june-18-gateway-pundit-first-report-deep-state-plant-ray-epps-j-6-protests-today-ray-epps-story-finally-made-mainstream-daily-mail/
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/louisiana-nurse-we-have-had-more-children-die-from-the-covid-vaccine-than-of-covid-itself-the-madness-has-to-stop/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/new_york_surrenders_to_the_woke_revolution.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-29-nurses-overwhelming-heart-attacks-clots-covid-vaccines.html
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/florida-surgeon-general-exposes-biden-regime-for-restricting-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-for-covid-19/
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2021/12/29/yet-another-hate-crime-hoax-this-time-in-maryland-n1545300
I was so surprised my monocle fell out.
*.*
Just spent $100 on a belt that doesn’t fit!
Huge waist.
*.*
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed all branches of the military to step up diversity efforts when it comes to working dogs in canine units. For the first time, the military - which has always favored German Shepherds in the past - will admit other breeds such as Chihuahuas and Pomeranians.
"We've always had this narrow-minded view that the German Shepherd is the best dog for chasing down dangerous terrorists and sniffing out improvised explosive devices," said Austin. "But why not Chihuahuas? Why not poodles? Bringing in more dog breeds will increase our diversity - which is the greatest strength any military can have."
So far, there have been no Chihuahuas capable of taking down a 250-pound man by the arm, so the military has elected to eliminate testing altogether.
Military leaders confirmed the current plan is just to invite every breed of dog and hang out, eat doggy treats, and have a good time while taking diversity courses.
"We're proud of this beautiful mosaic we have created here," said one Staff Sergeant while knitting a cute sweater for Squeaker, his working dog. "This is what our military is all about!"
*.*
I gotta go to the dentist again today.
I'd rather do a lot of other things.
It just gets so boring once you know the drill.
*.*
Please take note: due to inflationary pressures...
The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off till further notice!
Quote of the Times;
If you are not capable of cruelty you are absolutely a victim to anyone who is. – Peterson
Link of the Times;
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/chinas_disastrous_onechild_policy_is_finally_starting_to_kick_in.html
Issue of the Times;
Biden State Dept “Actively Impeding” Rescue Efforts of US Citizens Stranded in Afghanistan – Including Group of Catholic Nuns by Jim Hoft
Back in August white House Spokesperson Jen Psaki lied and told Peter Doocy and the American public the administration was in contact with every American in Afghanistan.
The Biden regime spokesperson also told reporters numerous times there were “only” 100 Americans left stranded inside the country.
“It’s right around 100, and we’re working every single day to help those who want to leave, get out,” WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki says on Americans in Afghanistan who want to leave. https://t.co/3jjfYWjn5D
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 9, 2021
But that was all a lie. And they knew it was a lie.
We now know that there are THOUSANDS of Americans stranded in Afghanistan and as many as 14,000.
Since the fall the Americans left stranded in Afghanistan have been out of the news. But Americans and our allies are still trapped inside the failed Taliban-led state.
A new report at National Review published today revealed that the Biden State Department is “actively impeding” rescue attempts of Americans from the country. Thousands of Americans and as many as 100,000 American allies are left stranded inside the country. Even a group of Catholic nuns are still trapped in Afghanistan.
Via National Review.
The Project Dynamo rescue came four months after the fall of Kabul, as winter is setting in, and as Afghanistan is on the brink of mass starvation. It also came as successful rescues of Americans and American allies have become increasingly hard to come by.
Stern has focused his most recent efforts on rescuing American citizens and green-card holders, people who can fly commercially to the United States. But efforts by dozens of private rescue groups who have focused their energy on saving other American allies in the 20-year war — people who typically don’t have the paperwork for a direct path into the U.S. — have slowed to a crawl.
Leaders of some of those groups who spoke to National Review are pointing fingers at the U.S. Department of State. They say the State Department is doing little to help them rescue American allies, and in some cases it is actively blocking their efforts. They’re calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to do more to help them save the people they once served with…
…Owen estimated there are easily over 100,000 American allies still trapped in the country. He noted that former Afghan national army commandos don’t qualify for SIV status.
“They get nothing. The U.S. government doesn’t see any duty to evacuate these guys. And they are dead. They are dead. They are dead if they get caught. I’ve had three executed in the last two weeks, one in front of his wife and children,” Owen said. “None of us are going to quit until we find a way to get them out. These guys, they fought like hell.”…
…Iowa state senator Zach Nunn, the other cofounder of Task Force Argo, said they shared their manifest with the State Department in October. “The flight manifest is still being reviewed by State,” Nunn said in a prepared statement. Among the people they are ready to fly out are dozens of at-risk Catholic nuns, he said.
Owen also acknowledged that the lack of recent media attention has made it harder to raise money that organizations like Flanders Fields rely on. He said he and his wife recently pulled $23,000 out of their personal savings to keep the operation afloat and their safehouses open.
The Biden State Department will not even move to rescue Catholic nuns trapped inside the country. They truly are evil people.
Read the entire report: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/state-department-actively-impeding-rescue-efforts-as-afghanistan-fades-from-spotlight-vets-say/
News of the Times;
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-wisconsin-purchase/
https://goldswitzerland.com/distraction-as-policy-while-our-economic-rome-burns/
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-panic-hoards-half-worlds-grain-supply-amid-threats-global-collapse
https://summit.news/2021/12/23/70-per-cent-of-londons-covid-hospitalisations-diagnosed-after-being-admitted-for-other-ailments/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-the-catholic-church-has-a-duty-to-resist-deadly-covid-jab-agenda-of-the-globalist-elite/
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-large-study-by-jones-bellet-and.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/27/kamala-harris-touts-seven-principles-marxist-rooted-kwanzaa/
https://rumble.com/vn7adx-robin-williams-perfectly-roasts-joe-biden-in-resurfaced-video.html
https://www.lawofficer.com/new-rifle-design-gilboa-snake-doubles-fire-power/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/back-june-18-gateway-pundit-first-report-deep-state-plant-ray-epps-j-6-protests-today-ray-epps-story-finally-made-mainstream-daily-mail/
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/louisiana-nurse-we-have-had-more-children-die-from-the-covid-vaccine-than-of-covid-itself-the-madness-has-to-stop/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/new_york_surrenders_to_the_woke_revolution.html
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-29-nurses-overwhelming-heart-attacks-clots-covid-vaccines.html
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/florida-surgeon-general-exposes-biden-regime-for-restricting-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-for-covid-19/
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2021/12/29/yet-another-hate-crime-hoax-this-time-in-maryland-n1545300
Ideology?
Christmas is a day where you go to church to see God.
Then you go to your in-law's to see the devil.
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What do you get when you cross a sheep, a warship, and a father?
A fleece navy dad.
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Upon returning rather late from an annual physical my wife was wondering how it went. I replied, ”Very routine. He asked if I am continuing to exercise regularly. I replied, ‘yes.’ And am I watching my diet and eating healthy foods to which I replied, ‘of course.’ And are you limiting your alcohol consumption to 1-2 drinks per week I responded ‘absolutely.‘"
My wife then asked, “Then why are you so late?”
“I had to stop at church and go to confession.”
*.*
My son asked me, "What was the big deal about George Washington crossing the Delaware?"
I said, "It was revolutionary."
*.*
My wife and I let astrology come between us.
It Taurus apart.
Quote of the Times;
"They make up their own rules as they go, they change them when they want to; Tony Fauci does not mind going on TV in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera" – Dr. Kary Mullis (Inventor of the PCR test)
Link of the Times;
https://citizenfreepress.com/
Issue of the Times;
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.
Dear Provost Susan Jeffords,
I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.
Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like Science and Pseudoscience and The Philosophy of Education. But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional texts, I’ve invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I’m proud of my work.
I invited those speakers not because I agreed with their worldviews, but primarily because I didn’t. From those messy and difficult conversations, I’ve seen the best of what our students can achieve: questioning beliefs while respecting believers; staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even changing their minds.
I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.
Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.
I noticed signs of the illiberalism that has now fully swallowed the academy quite early during my time at Portland State. I witnessed students refusing to engage with different points of view. Questions from faculty at diversity trainings that challenged approved narratives were instantly dismissed. Those who asked for evidence to justify new institutional policies were accused of microaggressions. And professors were accused of bigotry for assigning canonical texts written by philosophers who happened to have been European and male.
At first, I didn’t realize how systemic this was and I believed I could question this new culture. So I began asking questions. What is the evidence that trigger warnings and safe spaces contribute to student learning? Why should racial consciousness be the lens through which we view our role as educators? How did we decide that “cultural appropriation” is immoral?
Unlike my colleagues, I asked these questions out loud and in public.
I decided to study the new values that were engulfing Portland State and so many other educational institutions — values that sound wonderful, like diversity, equity, and inclusion, but might actually be just the opposite. The more I read the primary source material produced by critical theorists, the more I suspected that their conclusions reflected the postulates of an ideology, not insights based on evidence.
I began networking with student groups who had similar concerns and brought in speakers to explore these subjects from a critical perspective. And it became increasingly clear to me that the incidents of illiberalism I had witnessed over the years were not just isolated events, but part of an institution-wide problem.
The more I spoke out about these issues, the more retaliation I faced.
Early in the 2016-17 academic year, a former student complained about me and the university initiated a Title IX investigation. (Title IX investigations are a part of federal law designed to protect “people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.”) My accuser, a white male, made a slew of baseless accusations against me, which university confidentiality rules unfortunately prohibit me from discussing further. What I can share is that students of mine who were interviewed during the process told me the Title IX investigator asked them if they knew anything about me beating my wife and children. This horrifying accusation soon became a widespread rumor.
With Title IX investigations there is no due process, so I didn’t have access to the particular accusations, the ability to confront my accuser, and I had no opportunity to defend myself. Finally, the results of the investigation were revealed in December 2017. Here are the last two sentences of the report: “Global Diversity & Inclusion finds there is insufficient evidence that Boghossian violated PSU’s Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment policy. GDI recommends Boghossian receive coaching.”
Not only was there no apology for the false accusations, but the investigator also told me that in the future I was not allowed to render my opinion about “protected classes” or teach in such a way that my opinion about protected classes could be known — a bizarre conclusion to absurd charges. Universities can enforce ideological conformity just through the threat of these investigations.
I eventually became convinced that corrupted bodies of scholarship were responsible for justifying radical departures from the traditional role of liberal arts schools and basic civility on campus. There was an urgent need to demonstrate that morally fashionable papers — no matter how absurd — could be published. I believed then that if I exposed the theoretical flaws of this body of literature, I could help the university community avoid building edifices on such shaky ground.
So, in 2017, I co-published an intentionally garbled peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new orthodoxy. Its title: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.” This example of pseudo-scholarship, which was published in Cogent Social Sciences, argued that penises were products of the human mind and responsible for climate change. Immediately thereafter, I revealed the article as a hoax designed to shed light on the flaws of the peer-review and academic publishing systems.
Shortly thereafter, swastikas in the bathroom with my name under them began appearing in two bathrooms near the philosophy department. They also occasionally showed up on my office door, in one instance accompanied by bags of feces. Our university remained silent. When it acted, it was against me, not the perpetrators.
I continued to believe, perhaps naively, that if I exposed the flawed thinking on which Portland State’s new values were based, I could shake the university from its madness. In 2018 I co-published a series of absurd or morally repugnant peer-reviewed articles in journals that focused on issues of race and gender. In one of them we argued that there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and proposed that we leash men the way we leash dogs. Our purpose was to show that certain kinds of “scholarship” are based not on finding truth but on advancing social grievances. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous.
Administrators and faculty were so angered by the papers that they published an anonymous piece in the student paper and Portland State filed formal charges against me. Their accusation? “Research misconduct” based on the absurd premise that the journal editors who accepted our intentionally deranged articles were “human subjects.” I was found guilty of not receiving approval to experiment on human subjects.
Meanwhile, ideological intolerance continued to grow at Portland State. In March 2018, a tenured professor disrupted a public discussion I was holding with author Christina Hoff Sommers and evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. In June 2018, someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural critic Carl Benjamin. In October 2018, an activist pulled out the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James Damore. The university did nothing to stop or address this behavior. No one was punished or disciplined.
For me, the years that followed were marked by continued harassment. I’d find flyers around campus of me with a Pinocchio nose. I was spit on and threatened by passersby while walking to class. I was informed by students that my colleagues were telling them to avoid my classes. And, of course, I was subjected to more investigation.
I wish I could say that what I am describing hasn’t taken a personal toll. But it has taken exactly the toll it was intended to: an increasingly intolerable working life and without the protection of tenure.
This isn’t about me. This is about the kind of institutions we want and the values we choose. Every idea that has advanced human freedom has always, and without fail, been initially condemned. As individuals, we often seem incapable of remembering this lesson, but that is exactly what our institutions are for: to remind us that the freedom to question is our fundamental right. Educational institutions should remind us that that right is also our duty.
Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty. In doing so it has failed not only its students but the public that supports it. While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas.
This is not the outcome I wanted. But I feel morally obligated to make this choice. For ten years, I have taught my students the importance of living by your principles. One of mine is to defend our system of liberal education from those who seek to destroy it. Who would I be if I didn’t?
Sincerely,
Peter Boghossian
News of the Times;
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/12/mr-t-they-have-taken-christ-out-of-christmas/
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/12/22/commentary-january-6-is-looking-like-a-fedsurrection/
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-530-million-lawsuit-customers-arrested-bankruptcy-court.html
https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/foreperson-3-jurors-unwilling-to-convict-resiles-based-on-race-leading-to-mistrial/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/hoax-alert-no-video-evidence-for-alleged-assault-against-female-muslim-in-student-center/
https://thebeltwayreport.com/2021/12/jury-awards-white-male-executive-10m-holding-employer-responsible-for-discrimination/
https://www.brown-watch.com/brownwatch-news/2019/7/5/un-world-population-study-shows-the-white-race-is-less-than-10-of-the-worlds-77-billion-population-amp-declining-causing-racists-to-act-genocidally-in-a-perceived-survival-game-wnon-whites
https://www.kolotv.com/2021/12/25/uber-driver-charged-with-raping-passenger-during-vegas-ride/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10343851/PICTURED-Girlfriend-29-killed-NFLs-Deshazor-Everetts-200mph-car-crash.html
https://brownstone.org/articles/uk-does-not-advise-vaccines-for-5-11-year-olds-while-the-us-starts-to-mandate-them/
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/arizona-seizes-record-amount-fentanyl-now-cited-leading-cause-death-americans-between
https://www.rt.com/russia/544165-putin-beijing-moscow-number/
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244572
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/shock-doctors-given-bonus-euthanize-severely-hospitalized-covid-patients/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/25/mccarthy-all-but-one-house-dem-voted-for-more-irs-agents-to-spy-on-americans-opening-border-with-spending-bill/
Then you go to your in-law's to see the devil.
*.*
What do you get when you cross a sheep, a warship, and a father?
A fleece navy dad.
*.*
Upon returning rather late from an annual physical my wife was wondering how it went. I replied, ”Very routine. He asked if I am continuing to exercise regularly. I replied, ‘yes.’ And am I watching my diet and eating healthy foods to which I replied, ‘of course.’ And are you limiting your alcohol consumption to 1-2 drinks per week I responded ‘absolutely.‘"
My wife then asked, “Then why are you so late?”
“I had to stop at church and go to confession.”
*.*
My son asked me, "What was the big deal about George Washington crossing the Delaware?"
I said, "It was revolutionary."
*.*
My wife and I let astrology come between us.
It Taurus apart.
Quote of the Times;
"They make up their own rules as they go, they change them when they want to; Tony Fauci does not mind going on TV in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera" – Dr. Kary Mullis (Inventor of the PCR test)
Link of the Times;
https://citizenfreepress.com/
Issue of the Times;
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit.
Dear Provost Susan Jeffords,
I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.
Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like Science and Pseudoscience and The Philosophy of Education. But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional texts, I’ve invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I’m proud of my work.
I invited those speakers not because I agreed with their worldviews, but primarily because I didn’t. From those messy and difficult conversations, I’ve seen the best of what our students can achieve: questioning beliefs while respecting believers; staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even changing their minds.
I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.
Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.
I noticed signs of the illiberalism that has now fully swallowed the academy quite early during my time at Portland State. I witnessed students refusing to engage with different points of view. Questions from faculty at diversity trainings that challenged approved narratives were instantly dismissed. Those who asked for evidence to justify new institutional policies were accused of microaggressions. And professors were accused of bigotry for assigning canonical texts written by philosophers who happened to have been European and male.
At first, I didn’t realize how systemic this was and I believed I could question this new culture. So I began asking questions. What is the evidence that trigger warnings and safe spaces contribute to student learning? Why should racial consciousness be the lens through which we view our role as educators? How did we decide that “cultural appropriation” is immoral?
Unlike my colleagues, I asked these questions out loud and in public.
I decided to study the new values that were engulfing Portland State and so many other educational institutions — values that sound wonderful, like diversity, equity, and inclusion, but might actually be just the opposite. The more I read the primary source material produced by critical theorists, the more I suspected that their conclusions reflected the postulates of an ideology, not insights based on evidence.
I began networking with student groups who had similar concerns and brought in speakers to explore these subjects from a critical perspective. And it became increasingly clear to me that the incidents of illiberalism I had witnessed over the years were not just isolated events, but part of an institution-wide problem.
The more I spoke out about these issues, the more retaliation I faced.
Early in the 2016-17 academic year, a former student complained about me and the university initiated a Title IX investigation. (Title IX investigations are a part of federal law designed to protect “people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.”) My accuser, a white male, made a slew of baseless accusations against me, which university confidentiality rules unfortunately prohibit me from discussing further. What I can share is that students of mine who were interviewed during the process told me the Title IX investigator asked them if they knew anything about me beating my wife and children. This horrifying accusation soon became a widespread rumor.
With Title IX investigations there is no due process, so I didn’t have access to the particular accusations, the ability to confront my accuser, and I had no opportunity to defend myself. Finally, the results of the investigation were revealed in December 2017. Here are the last two sentences of the report: “Global Diversity & Inclusion finds there is insufficient evidence that Boghossian violated PSU’s Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment policy. GDI recommends Boghossian receive coaching.”
Not only was there no apology for the false accusations, but the investigator also told me that in the future I was not allowed to render my opinion about “protected classes” or teach in such a way that my opinion about protected classes could be known — a bizarre conclusion to absurd charges. Universities can enforce ideological conformity just through the threat of these investigations.
I eventually became convinced that corrupted bodies of scholarship were responsible for justifying radical departures from the traditional role of liberal arts schools and basic civility on campus. There was an urgent need to demonstrate that morally fashionable papers — no matter how absurd — could be published. I believed then that if I exposed the theoretical flaws of this body of literature, I could help the university community avoid building edifices on such shaky ground.
So, in 2017, I co-published an intentionally garbled peer-reviewed paper that took aim at the new orthodoxy. Its title: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.” This example of pseudo-scholarship, which was published in Cogent Social Sciences, argued that penises were products of the human mind and responsible for climate change. Immediately thereafter, I revealed the article as a hoax designed to shed light on the flaws of the peer-review and academic publishing systems.
Shortly thereafter, swastikas in the bathroom with my name under them began appearing in two bathrooms near the philosophy department. They also occasionally showed up on my office door, in one instance accompanied by bags of feces. Our university remained silent. When it acted, it was against me, not the perpetrators.
I continued to believe, perhaps naively, that if I exposed the flawed thinking on which Portland State’s new values were based, I could shake the university from its madness. In 2018 I co-published a series of absurd or morally repugnant peer-reviewed articles in journals that focused on issues of race and gender. In one of them we argued that there was an epidemic of dog rape at dog parks and proposed that we leash men the way we leash dogs. Our purpose was to show that certain kinds of “scholarship” are based not on finding truth but on advancing social grievances. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous.
Administrators and faculty were so angered by the papers that they published an anonymous piece in the student paper and Portland State filed formal charges against me. Their accusation? “Research misconduct” based on the absurd premise that the journal editors who accepted our intentionally deranged articles were “human subjects.” I was found guilty of not receiving approval to experiment on human subjects.
Meanwhile, ideological intolerance continued to grow at Portland State. In March 2018, a tenured professor disrupted a public discussion I was holding with author Christina Hoff Sommers and evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. In June 2018, someone triggered the fire alarm during my conversation with popular cultural critic Carl Benjamin. In October 2018, an activist pulled out the speaker wires to interrupt a panel with former Google engineer James Damore. The university did nothing to stop or address this behavior. No one was punished or disciplined.
For me, the years that followed were marked by continued harassment. I’d find flyers around campus of me with a Pinocchio nose. I was spit on and threatened by passersby while walking to class. I was informed by students that my colleagues were telling them to avoid my classes. And, of course, I was subjected to more investigation.
I wish I could say that what I am describing hasn’t taken a personal toll. But it has taken exactly the toll it was intended to: an increasingly intolerable working life and without the protection of tenure.
This isn’t about me. This is about the kind of institutions we want and the values we choose. Every idea that has advanced human freedom has always, and without fail, been initially condemned. As individuals, we often seem incapable of remembering this lesson, but that is exactly what our institutions are for: to remind us that the freedom to question is our fundamental right. Educational institutions should remind us that that right is also our duty.
Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty. In doing so it has failed not only its students but the public that supports it. While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas.
This is not the outcome I wanted. But I feel morally obligated to make this choice. For ten years, I have taught my students the importance of living by your principles. One of mine is to defend our system of liberal education from those who seek to destroy it. Who would I be if I didn’t?
Sincerely,
Peter Boghossian
News of the Times;
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/12/mr-t-they-have-taken-christ-out-of-christmas/
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/12/22/commentary-january-6-is-looking-like-a-fedsurrection/
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-530-million-lawsuit-customers-arrested-bankruptcy-court.html
https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/foreperson-3-jurors-unwilling-to-convict-resiles-based-on-race-leading-to-mistrial/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/hoax-alert-no-video-evidence-for-alleged-assault-against-female-muslim-in-student-center/
https://thebeltwayreport.com/2021/12/jury-awards-white-male-executive-10m-holding-employer-responsible-for-discrimination/
https://www.brown-watch.com/brownwatch-news/2019/7/5/un-world-population-study-shows-the-white-race-is-less-than-10-of-the-worlds-77-billion-population-amp-declining-causing-racists-to-act-genocidally-in-a-perceived-survival-game-wnon-whites
https://www.kolotv.com/2021/12/25/uber-driver-charged-with-raping-passenger-during-vegas-ride/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10343851/PICTURED-Girlfriend-29-killed-NFLs-Deshazor-Everetts-200mph-car-crash.html
https://brownstone.org/articles/uk-does-not-advise-vaccines-for-5-11-year-olds-while-the-us-starts-to-mandate-them/
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/arizona-seizes-record-amount-fentanyl-now-cited-leading-cause-death-americans-between
https://www.rt.com/russia/544165-putin-beijing-moscow-number/
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244572
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/shock-doctors-given-bonus-euthanize-severely-hospitalized-covid-patients/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/25/mccarthy-all-but-one-house-dem-voted-for-more-irs-agents-to-spy-on-americans-opening-border-with-spending-bill/
Your?
Why did Joseph have to sweep the stable floor?
Because there was no Roomba at the inn.
*.*
I'm getting depressed.
First there was 2020.
Now there is 2020 won.
Next there will be 2020 too.
*.*
I used my best shower singing voice and did an audition try out to become a member of the local Christmas choir.
After the audition, I asked the director how I did. He said, "I will have you sing tenor."
"You mean right next to the baritones?" I asked.
"No," he said, "I mean you should sing ten or more feet away from the choir."
*.*
Johnson and Johnson has announced they're going to split into two companies.
I'm assuming one will be called Johnson.
Not sure about the other one.
*.*
I arrived early to the restaurant and manager said, “Do you mind waiting a bit?”
I said “No.”
"Good," he said. "Take these drinks to table 7."
Quote of the Times;
“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds the purpose of a life in reason.” - Johann Gottfried von Herder,
Link of the Times;
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-owner-blows-car-after-discovering-cost-fix-battery
Issue of the Times;
The government is not your God by Carol Roth
Increasingly in politics, people follow and worship parties and people over principles
Politics is a bad religion.
People may argue about the purpose of religion. For some it is a moral code—a set of principles that provides guideposts to living a virtuous life and that helps man to win the fight against his own human nature. For others, it creates a sense of purpose or belonging to a community.
Of course, wherever there is a religion that people follow and a related deity to worship, there are sure to be bad actors that try to exploit others’ faith. Any religion has to balance that potential for downside against its upside.
Now, I am a person of faith, and while I can’t tell you exactly where you can find God, I am willing to stake a large bet that God is not in Washington, D.C.
Politics has come to encompass both the veneration and exploitation that happens in religion. Politics has all of the bad aspects of what can go wrong with worship, following and faith, with absolutely none of the good.
Increasingly in politics, people follow and worship parties and people over principles. Historical laws, like the Ten Commandments, were passed down from generation to generation, sourced from an all-knowing power.
They provide guidelines for an individual that are pursued to better the individual—and, for some, to hopefully receive good judgment in the afterlife. They are accepted or ignored based on the individual’s free will and choice.
In politics, laws are changed to match the whims of politicians—mere mortals who do not have a higher sense of knowing or purpose, but who are elected because they are popular or good at raising campaign money. Their principles aren’t written in stone, but rather change frequently, as do the ruling politicians themselves. The laws they hand down are imposed by force instead of bought into by choice.
Yet, despite this, people have been spending more time worshiping at the altar of a chosen political party. They live, breathe and pray politics. The political issues du jour become an all-consuming guide for living life. Moreover, they don’t seek to solve problems personally or even in their communities. Rather, they look to the government to be there for anything and everything.
Many individuals, per their own proclamations to the world (i.e., via social media posts), have let their new political religion break up friendships and families. They have let this religion become a point of contention in the workplace and even shape how they consume and react to information.
This shift in reverence has allowed politicians to become false idols, giving them immense power, which in turn has had a negative outcome on our individual rights, as well as our social fabric. People, in service of these false gods, engage in new religious wars, often fought with words, but sometimes with violence, on behalf of their political gods and beliefs.
When people live by a true moral code, it is with purpose. When people blindly follow political ideology, the purpose becomes muddled at best and destructive at worst.
Whether you believe in God, another form of higher power or just a set of moral guidelines, you may turn to them for help, but that help always comes back to you. They are a guideline for personal responsibility, accountability, strength, and for you and those around you to take care of your issues.
Politics assumes that you can offload your responsibility to a higher power that will take care of every issue for you. Worse, it assumes that those politicians will do so in your best interest instead of theirs.
Politics is a bad religion. Those who have come to follow it as such may want to consider some spiritual reflection.
News of the Times;
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2021/12/joe-rogan-drops-major-january-6th-truth-bomb/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/12/24/lol-biden-tricked-into-agreeing-with-lets-go-brandon-during-norad-event-n1544318
https://americasfreedomfighters.com/we-just-dug-up-ilhan-omars-arrest-record-what-do-you-know-shes-been-arrested-jailed/
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/adam-carolla-mocks-the-covid-tyrants/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBqAjG0VOfo
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/16/the-kavanaugh-war-and-the-end-of-honor-culture/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/general-hospital-star-rademacher-on-suit-against-abc-without-choice-the-government-owns-your-body
https://vdare.com/posts/horrifying-underreported-murder-of-samantha-josephson-by-black-man-who-posted-about-hunting-white-girls
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/12/18/pot-industry-in-california-on-verge-of-collapse-n1542547
https://glennloury.substack.com/p/rising-violence-in-philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhMsGg9my2E
https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/bette-midlers-west-virginia-slur-proves-shes-illiterate/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/20/teacher-fired-after-call-shooting-anti-vaxxers/
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/school-district-in-new-york-sends-out-email-warning-parents-of-sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-students-grades-k-12/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/tyrannical-european-union-triples-announces-vaccine-passports-will-automatically-expire-9-months-individuals-without-booster/
Because there was no Roomba at the inn.
*.*
I'm getting depressed.
First there was 2020.
Now there is 2020 won.
Next there will be 2020 too.
*.*
I used my best shower singing voice and did an audition try out to become a member of the local Christmas choir.
After the audition, I asked the director how I did. He said, "I will have you sing tenor."
"You mean right next to the baritones?" I asked.
"No," he said, "I mean you should sing ten or more feet away from the choir."
*.*
Johnson and Johnson has announced they're going to split into two companies.
I'm assuming one will be called Johnson.
Not sure about the other one.
*.*
I arrived early to the restaurant and manager said, “Do you mind waiting a bit?”
I said “No.”
"Good," he said. "Take these drinks to table 7."
Quote of the Times;
“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds the purpose of a life in reason.” - Johann Gottfried von Herder,
Link of the Times;
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-owner-blows-car-after-discovering-cost-fix-battery
Issue of the Times;
The government is not your God by Carol Roth
Increasingly in politics, people follow and worship parties and people over principles
Politics is a bad religion.
People may argue about the purpose of religion. For some it is a moral code—a set of principles that provides guideposts to living a virtuous life and that helps man to win the fight against his own human nature. For others, it creates a sense of purpose or belonging to a community.
Of course, wherever there is a religion that people follow and a related deity to worship, there are sure to be bad actors that try to exploit others’ faith. Any religion has to balance that potential for downside against its upside.
Now, I am a person of faith, and while I can’t tell you exactly where you can find God, I am willing to stake a large bet that God is not in Washington, D.C.
Politics has come to encompass both the veneration and exploitation that happens in religion. Politics has all of the bad aspects of what can go wrong with worship, following and faith, with absolutely none of the good.
Increasingly in politics, people follow and worship parties and people over principles. Historical laws, like the Ten Commandments, were passed down from generation to generation, sourced from an all-knowing power.
They provide guidelines for an individual that are pursued to better the individual—and, for some, to hopefully receive good judgment in the afterlife. They are accepted or ignored based on the individual’s free will and choice.
In politics, laws are changed to match the whims of politicians—mere mortals who do not have a higher sense of knowing or purpose, but who are elected because they are popular or good at raising campaign money. Their principles aren’t written in stone, but rather change frequently, as do the ruling politicians themselves. The laws they hand down are imposed by force instead of bought into by choice.
Yet, despite this, people have been spending more time worshiping at the altar of a chosen political party. They live, breathe and pray politics. The political issues du jour become an all-consuming guide for living life. Moreover, they don’t seek to solve problems personally or even in their communities. Rather, they look to the government to be there for anything and everything.
Many individuals, per their own proclamations to the world (i.e., via social media posts), have let their new political religion break up friendships and families. They have let this religion become a point of contention in the workplace and even shape how they consume and react to information.
This shift in reverence has allowed politicians to become false idols, giving them immense power, which in turn has had a negative outcome on our individual rights, as well as our social fabric. People, in service of these false gods, engage in new religious wars, often fought with words, but sometimes with violence, on behalf of their political gods and beliefs.
When people live by a true moral code, it is with purpose. When people blindly follow political ideology, the purpose becomes muddled at best and destructive at worst.
Whether you believe in God, another form of higher power or just a set of moral guidelines, you may turn to them for help, but that help always comes back to you. They are a guideline for personal responsibility, accountability, strength, and for you and those around you to take care of your issues.
Politics assumes that you can offload your responsibility to a higher power that will take care of every issue for you. Worse, it assumes that those politicians will do so in your best interest instead of theirs.
Politics is a bad religion. Those who have come to follow it as such may want to consider some spiritual reflection.
News of the Times;
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2021/12/joe-rogan-drops-major-january-6th-truth-bomb/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/12/24/lol-biden-tricked-into-agreeing-with-lets-go-brandon-during-norad-event-n1544318
https://americasfreedomfighters.com/we-just-dug-up-ilhan-omars-arrest-record-what-do-you-know-shes-been-arrested-jailed/
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/adam-carolla-mocks-the-covid-tyrants/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBqAjG0VOfo
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/16/the-kavanaugh-war-and-the-end-of-honor-culture/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/general-hospital-star-rademacher-on-suit-against-abc-without-choice-the-government-owns-your-body
https://vdare.com/posts/horrifying-underreported-murder-of-samantha-josephson-by-black-man-who-posted-about-hunting-white-girls
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/12/18/pot-industry-in-california-on-verge-of-collapse-n1542547
https://glennloury.substack.com/p/rising-violence-in-philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhMsGg9my2E
https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/bette-midlers-west-virginia-slur-proves-shes-illiterate/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/20/teacher-fired-after-call-shooting-anti-vaxxers/
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/school-district-in-new-york-sends-out-email-warning-parents-of-sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-students-grades-k-12/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/tyrannical-european-union-triples-announces-vaccine-passports-will-automatically-expire-9-months-individuals-without-booster/
Gore?
Why does Santa only have to work one day a year?
He got them to put a Claus in his contract.
*.*
Why does Willem always play the villain in movies?
He’s DaFoe.
*.*
Americans opening their mailboxes were greeted with a wonderful holiday surprise, as the White House had mailed them Christmas cards with the heartwarming message, “You will get sick and die this winter.”
The Christmas cards are part of the Biden Administration’s recent uplifting Christmas messaging campaign, which kicked off when Biden announced with jovial flair, “We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death.”
The hope-filled greeting cards were packaged in a beautiful, glittering gift basket alongside a vaccine-filled syringe and a pack of abortion pills, all nestled in a bed of now-worthless shredded dollar bills.
Sadly, many conservative Americans will never receive the President’s heartfelt message of grief and hopelessness, as the USPS lost most of them.
*.*
Seeing her friend Marcia wearing a new locket, Ashley asks if there is a memento of some sort inside.
“Yes,” says Marcia, “a lock of my husband’s hair.”
“But Larry’s still alive?”
“I know, but his hair is gone.”
*.*
Why did the contractor close his fencing business.
He was having a hard time making ends meet.
Quote of the Times;
"We ask why the vaccine passport? Why this collar they want to put on the Brazilian people? Where is our freedom? I'd rather die than lose my freedom." - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on vax mandates
Link of the Times;
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/the-tragedy-of-portland-its-a-ghost-town-except-for-zombies/
Issue of the Times;
Remember Al Gore? He's no longer making predictions by Joseph Farah
Good old Al Gore – the first climate doomsday hysteric.
You don't hear much from him these days. I wonder why?
Now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg and Joe Biden are left to beat the drum. And, of course, the corporations and rest of the signers of the Paris Climate Accords.
What's Al Gore doing these days? "Former Vice President Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1993, and served eight years."
That's his official bio courtesy on AlGore.com.
Notice he's still founder and chairman of "The Climate Reality Project," though reality has never been his strong suit.
For instance, in December 2009, the man who once proclaimed himself, "the inventor if the internet," predicted the north polar ice cap would likely vanish within five to seven years. He said the chances were 75% they would be "be completely ice-free" within that time frame.
Generally, sea ice ebbs and flows seasonally. The North Pole loses only about 50 cubic kilometers – and later the Antarctic South Pole gains ice when it reaches freezing temperatures. So the South Pole gains when the North Pole loses.
Reports Wikipedia: "On 19 September 2014, for the first time since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million square miles (20 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The ice extent stayed above this benchmark extent for several days. The average maximum extent between 1981 and 2010 was 7.23 million square miles."
That sea ice still forms every winter – like clockwork – though that "reality" hasn't stopped the panic.
Of course, Gore didn't comment on his failed prediction. He seldom does.
It was 16 years ago Gore premiered his famous movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," for which he won an Oscar. More recently, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't win but got to go to France – no doubt on a private jet.
In his movie, Gore predicted that sea levels could rise 20 feet with the melting of the Antarctic and Arctic ice sheets.
Now, we know that the South Pole is gaining more ice than it's losing. Have you checked the sea levels lately? Gore has – from his perch in his beachfront mansion.
Like most climate cultists, Al Gore firmly believes that carbon dioxide – what you are exhaling – is what controls temperature. He's wrong. The sun does.
Indeed, satellite data show no increase in temperature for nearly the last 25 years despite a constant increase in CO2. The sun, on the other hand, might have a much larger role in the Earth's climate, so much so that some scientists are talking about a significant cooling because the sun is "quieter."
What about hurricanes and tornadoes? Despite the tragedy recently in the Midwest, it's just that – a tragic anomaly. The frequency of EF3-plus tornadoes actually has been declining for over 65 years. Also, the overall number of tornadoes has been unusually low in the past eight years.
Gore said the polar bears were dying. He's right about that – they die when they get old. There are more polar bears now than when Al Gore was born.
What else is Gore wrong about?
He claimed in his famous movie that the Sahara Desert was drying up. This is not true. As shown by satellite images, the Sahel is in fact one of the regions that has gained the most flora density since satellites began collecting images. All of that is due to the reviled CO2, which in effect acts as a fertilizer!
Now you know why Gore has not been seen lately. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can only fool a climate alarmist all of the time.
News of the Times;
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/former-police-chief-pelosi-made-it-clear-she-sees-no-problem-with-house-members-engaging-in-insider-trading/
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-what-is-oral-suction-circumcision-1.5311796
https://nationalfile.com/war-christmas-snl-baby-jesus-learn-twerk-father-joseph-becomes-pimp/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ryan-rogers-murder-semmie-williams-documents-suggest-racial-motive
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/12/12/good-news-illegal-migrants-are-allowed-to-fly-without-id-n1540994
https://truthbasedmedia.com/2021/12/13/ron-desantis-newly-appointed-surgeon-general-promotes-nutraceuticals-for-covid/
https://nationalfile.com/video-trashed-un-pamphlets-found-mexico-tell-illegal-immigrants-get-refugee-status-america/
https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/cnn-producer-trained-girls-in-sexual-subservience-court-docs/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/12/15/espn-rehashes-the-nascar-noose-story-that-never-happened-n2600587
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-harvard-charles-lieber-funding/2021/12/14/id/1048542/
https://www.lawofficer.com/phoenix-police-shot-8-times/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/reminder-ilhan-omars-father-top-propaganda-official-genocidal-barre-regime-changed-name-entered-us-illegally/
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/fairfax-police-virginia-alleged-serial-killer-dc-anthony-robinson-body-found-missing-women-harrisonburg
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/news/bail-reform-nj-judge-frees-gun-carrying-driver-who-rammed-police-cars-with-stolen-bmw-pd-says/821999/
https://www.911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html
He got them to put a Claus in his contract.
*.*
Why does Willem always play the villain in movies?
He’s DaFoe.
*.*
Americans opening their mailboxes were greeted with a wonderful holiday surprise, as the White House had mailed them Christmas cards with the heartwarming message, “You will get sick and die this winter.”
The Christmas cards are part of the Biden Administration’s recent uplifting Christmas messaging campaign, which kicked off when Biden announced with jovial flair, “We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death.”
The hope-filled greeting cards were packaged in a beautiful, glittering gift basket alongside a vaccine-filled syringe and a pack of abortion pills, all nestled in a bed of now-worthless shredded dollar bills.
Sadly, many conservative Americans will never receive the President’s heartfelt message of grief and hopelessness, as the USPS lost most of them.
*.*
Seeing her friend Marcia wearing a new locket, Ashley asks if there is a memento of some sort inside.
“Yes,” says Marcia, “a lock of my husband’s hair.”
“But Larry’s still alive?”
“I know, but his hair is gone.”
*.*
Why did the contractor close his fencing business.
He was having a hard time making ends meet.
Quote of the Times;
"We ask why the vaccine passport? Why this collar they want to put on the Brazilian people? Where is our freedom? I'd rather die than lose my freedom." - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on vax mandates
Link of the Times;
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/the-tragedy-of-portland-its-a-ghost-town-except-for-zombies/
Issue of the Times;
Remember Al Gore? He's no longer making predictions by Joseph Farah
Good old Al Gore – the first climate doomsday hysteric.
You don't hear much from him these days. I wonder why?
Now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg and Joe Biden are left to beat the drum. And, of course, the corporations and rest of the signers of the Paris Climate Accords.
What's Al Gore doing these days? "Former Vice President Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1993, and served eight years."
That's his official bio courtesy on AlGore.com.
Notice he's still founder and chairman of "The Climate Reality Project," though reality has never been his strong suit.
For instance, in December 2009, the man who once proclaimed himself, "the inventor if the internet," predicted the north polar ice cap would likely vanish within five to seven years. He said the chances were 75% they would be "be completely ice-free" within that time frame.
Generally, sea ice ebbs and flows seasonally. The North Pole loses only about 50 cubic kilometers – and later the Antarctic South Pole gains ice when it reaches freezing temperatures. So the South Pole gains when the North Pole loses.
Reports Wikipedia: "On 19 September 2014, for the first time since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million square miles (20 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The ice extent stayed above this benchmark extent for several days. The average maximum extent between 1981 and 2010 was 7.23 million square miles."
That sea ice still forms every winter – like clockwork – though that "reality" hasn't stopped the panic.
Of course, Gore didn't comment on his failed prediction. He seldom does.
It was 16 years ago Gore premiered his famous movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," for which he won an Oscar. More recently, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't win but got to go to France – no doubt on a private jet.
In his movie, Gore predicted that sea levels could rise 20 feet with the melting of the Antarctic and Arctic ice sheets.
Now, we know that the South Pole is gaining more ice than it's losing. Have you checked the sea levels lately? Gore has – from his perch in his beachfront mansion.
Like most climate cultists, Al Gore firmly believes that carbon dioxide – what you are exhaling – is what controls temperature. He's wrong. The sun does.
Indeed, satellite data show no increase in temperature for nearly the last 25 years despite a constant increase in CO2. The sun, on the other hand, might have a much larger role in the Earth's climate, so much so that some scientists are talking about a significant cooling because the sun is "quieter."
What about hurricanes and tornadoes? Despite the tragedy recently in the Midwest, it's just that – a tragic anomaly. The frequency of EF3-plus tornadoes actually has been declining for over 65 years. Also, the overall number of tornadoes has been unusually low in the past eight years.
Gore said the polar bears were dying. He's right about that – they die when they get old. There are more polar bears now than when Al Gore was born.
What else is Gore wrong about?
He claimed in his famous movie that the Sahara Desert was drying up. This is not true. As shown by satellite images, the Sahel is in fact one of the regions that has gained the most flora density since satellites began collecting images. All of that is due to the reviled CO2, which in effect acts as a fertilizer!
Now you know why Gore has not been seen lately. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can only fool a climate alarmist all of the time.
News of the Times;
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/former-police-chief-pelosi-made-it-clear-she-sees-no-problem-with-house-members-engaging-in-insider-trading/
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-what-is-oral-suction-circumcision-1.5311796
https://nationalfile.com/war-christmas-snl-baby-jesus-learn-twerk-father-joseph-becomes-pimp/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ryan-rogers-murder-semmie-williams-documents-suggest-racial-motive
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/12/12/good-news-illegal-migrants-are-allowed-to-fly-without-id-n1540994
https://truthbasedmedia.com/2021/12/13/ron-desantis-newly-appointed-surgeon-general-promotes-nutraceuticals-for-covid/
https://nationalfile.com/video-trashed-un-pamphlets-found-mexico-tell-illegal-immigrants-get-refugee-status-america/
https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/cnn-producer-trained-girls-in-sexual-subservience-court-docs/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/12/15/espn-rehashes-the-nascar-noose-story-that-never-happened-n2600587
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-harvard-charles-lieber-funding/2021/12/14/id/1048542/
https://www.lawofficer.com/phoenix-police-shot-8-times/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/reminder-ilhan-omars-father-top-propaganda-official-genocidal-barre-regime-changed-name-entered-us-illegally/
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/fairfax-police-virginia-alleged-serial-killer-dc-anthony-robinson-body-found-missing-women-harrisonburg
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/news/bail-reform-nj-judge-frees-gun-carrying-driver-who-rammed-police-cars-with-stolen-bmw-pd-says/821999/
https://www.911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html
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