Why was the beach wet?
The sea weed.
*.*
Checked my bank balance at the ATM and was happy to see I had $707 dollars.
Until I realized I was holding the receipt upside down and it said LOL.
*.*
Authorities across the globe have forcefully condemned Liam Neeson for killing dozens of kindly human traffickers just to save one lousy hostage.
"We are absolutely disgusted by this rampage of violence against innocent human traffickers trying to make a living," said U.S. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "One measly little hostage is no excuse for Neeson's horrific actions."
According to sources, Neeson began hunting down the human traffickers after they kidnapped his daughter to sell as a sex slave. "Terrorists violently taking his daughter to rape is simply no justification for violence," said British politician Jeremy Corbyn. "We called for an immediate cease-fire when Neeson began his genocidal campaign, and demanded he instead spend the next year negotiating with the traffickers while they raped his daughter. Moreover, we condemn in the strongest possible terms Neeson's failure to give food and electricity to the people holding his daughter hostage. His behavior has no place in civilized society."
Despite the hostage rescue operation being successful, several international bodies, including the United Nations, castigated Neeson for the collateral damage he caused. "He should have shot the terrorists in the legs," said U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres. "We have issued an immediate arrest warrant for Neeson, and vow to hold him accountable for his totally unnecessary use of violence against poor, helpless terrorists. Just because they are holding your daughter hostage does not give you the right to resort to violence."
At publishing time, Neeson had reportedly informed world leaders that he has a particular set of skills and taking criticism well isn't one of them.
*.*
As most men grow older, they do less crying.
They obviously planned their retirement better than me.
*.*
My buddy's name is Jay.
But I call him J for short.
Quote of the Times;
“Every mass movement is in a sense a migration—a movement toward a promised land; and, when feasible and expedient, an actual migration takes place. This happened in the case of the Puritans, Anabaptists, Mormons, Dukhobors and Zionists. Migration, in the mass, strengthens the spirit and unity of a movement; and whether in the form of foreign conquest, crusade, pilgrimage or settlement of new land it is practiced by most active mass movements.“ -Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Link of the Times;
If you’re shot, robbed or assaulted in Chicago, there’s a 50/50 chance there’ll be no police to respond:
https://wirepoints.org/if-youre-shot-robbed-or-assaulted-in-chicago-theres-a-50-50-chance-therell-be-no-police-to-respond-to-your-911-call-wirepoints/
Issue of the Times;
The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart by P.F. Kelly, Jr.
Imagine you are a mouse — a placid little creature — living in a labyrinth. You don’t know it’s a labyrinth; it’s just where you live. You follow a well worn path, meandering along, chasing the red button. The red button provides you with food or whatever makes you happy.
But you’ve started to notice that things are changing. It’s not as good as it used to be in the labyrinth, not as easy to get to the button. And the payoff when you get there isn’t as good anymore. You’re anxious, but you’re not sure what to do. You’re starting to wonder about things. It’s been dawning on you that following the path isn’t getting you anywhere, and you may even be going backwards.
Suddenly you’re presented with a choice: keep running along the same path, or exit the labyrinth. Will you head for the door? Are you nodding yes? Will you do it? What will it take for you to lift up your head and leave the comfortable confines of the labyrinth?
In a recent Substack article, the online commentator Kulak wrote that history is divided into alternating periods of the centralizing or decentralizing of political power, noting that we have been in a period of centralization from 1700 to 1945. That seems about right, although things took a turn for the worse in the short-term after 1945 with the rise of the gargantuan state. Now the cracks in the foundation are beginning to show.
In fact, don’t tell anybody from the Deep State, but decentralization is happening now. The grand bargain the American people made with an expansive federal government is falling apart. The people tolerated big government for a lot of free stuff, but now the government is undermining the bargain it made for greater power with its ham-fisted use of it and over-the-top spending. The centripetal pull in bureaucratic governance, after accelerating with World War I and blossoming into the New Deal, is petering out. Centralization of power is accepted by the people when it confers benefits, but when those benefits diminish, as they are doing presently, the relationship of the people with its government will change.
When people are free, they will get the government they desire, despite what the powers-that-be might want. As a large, centralized federal government becomes unable to deliver its promised benefits, the rulers’ relationship with the ruled will break down. The people will stop accepting the government’s authority in their lives. If people get what they expect, they’ll ignore the things that bother them. But when benefits are threatened, as we are starting to see now, the relationship will change.
Take education, for example — a paradigmatic service people expect from government. People are openly challenging public schools, which spend more on racial and sexual ideology than on reading, writing, and arithmetic. On crime prevention, perhaps the number-one benefit derived from government, problems abound. Crime is surging. Progressive no-bail policies are releasing offenders the same day they are arrested. Terrorists and criminals are flooding across our borders unvetted. At the federal level, we’re more vulnerable to attack than we have been in decades because we redirect defense spending from war-fighting to DIE seminars. If you are a low-wage worker, open borders allow illegal aliens to pour in and take your job. The government is not keeping its end of the bargain. Insecurity is the word of the day.
Will the people demand a new relationship with their government? In Hartford, Connecticut, armed groups of black residents made the news recently when they gathered together to clean up their neighborhood since the local government and police weren’t helping. In other cities, people are banding together to evict squatters because courts and the police won’t protect their property.
We’re seeing this changing attitude toward government writ large in Donald Trump’s evolving relationship with black and Hispanic voters. Part of the undeniable movement of traditional Democrat voters to Trump in the polls is their rejection of the paternalistic relationship the Democrats have created with minorities for decades. They don’t want top-down solutions that don’t fit their problems. They want empowerment. They want change, not excuses. They are ready to renegotiate the old bargain, but Democrats get what they want from the old deal — votes — and they have no incentive to change it.
In addition, people are demanding a new relationship with government power in school boards across the country, ending liberal governance in many locales due to an extreme transgender and LGB agenda. Pressure is being applied on soft-on-crime district attorneys, whose no-bail policies are making our streets less safe. Change is percolating.
The only thing that can stop the approaching decentralization of government power is force. That’s why bureaucrats everywhere, including in Washington, and especially authoritarian entities like the U.N., WHO, and WEF, look to China as their model. They don’t look to America and its traditional model of consensus-building; they look to totalitarian structures, where the people are controlled by force through the threat of violence and the denial of benefits. That’s government hard power.
The other way governments force compliance, and we see this more broadly today in the developed West, is through information. The government’s manipulation of information is soft power. It is a bending of the will of the people to the government’s will through withholding or manipulating information. This type of soft government power got a big boost during the COVID scare. However, the tide is turning on that as well, as court cases move through the system to hold government actors accountable, and the skepticism of expertise grows.
A turning point is approaching in the culture, too. A recent article in The Spectator by Justin Brierly talked about a subtle but noticeable movement toward Christianity among younger people in the U.K. It is inevitable that such a turn will happen throughout the West. The human person can take only so much lying and nihilism, as the Soviet Union demonstrated. Eyes are opening, at least for those willing to look.
Western society generated surplus prosperity that enabled the construction of grand cathedrals of government, and it had the Christian impulse to make life better for people. Unfortunately, that impulse has been tossed out the window, along with the Christianity, and the only goal now of the powers-that-be is power itself. But don’t give up hope. Open your eyes and renegotiate this failed bargain. Decentralization is coming soon to a government near you.
News of the Times;
Chuck Schumer Posts Picture of a Barbecue Fail:
https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/06/17/chuck-schumer-posts-barbeque-fail-ratioed-into-oblivion-and-deletes-but-weve-got-it-n2397347
Nominee Arrested in Texas for Staging Racist Attacks:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/democrat-commissioner-nominee-arrested-texas-staging-racist-attacks/
Explain to me why we don’t have the right to exist:
https://rmx.news/interview/exclusive-explain-to-me-why-we-dont-have-the-right-to-exist-eva-vlaardingerbroek-warns-whites-against-massive-demographic-changes-in-their-native-countries/
Ford Losing $132,000 on Every Electric Vehicle Sold This Year:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/path-bankruptcy-ford-losing-132000-every-electric-vehicle/
Undercover video confirms Trump was kept in dark:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/cia-exposed-undercover-video-confirms-trump-kept-dark/
US-Backed Ukrainian Publication Releases New ‘Enemies List’:
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/us-backed-ukrainian-publication-releases-new-enemies-list-including-donald-trump-ron-paul-ron-paul-institute-hundreds-more/
Those 'All Electric' Fire Trucks are a Sad Joke:
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/24/those-all-electric-firetrucks-are-a-sad-joke-n3788988
Magazine deletes Palestine pin from Hollywood star:
https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/598366-guy-pearce-palestinian-pin/
Soros-Backed State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Declines to Press Charges:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/after-soros-backed-state-attorney-declines-press-charges/
Alvin Bragg Drops All Charges For Columbia Protesters Who Took Over Building:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-all-rigged-alvin-bragg-drops-all-charges-columbia-protesters-who-took-over-building
World Leader Apologizes to The Unvaccinated::
https://www.fulcrum7.com/news/2023/11/10/world-politician-apologizes-to-the-unvaccinated-you-were-right-we-were-wrong
Survey indicates sexual orientation caused by vaccination:
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/survey-indicates-sexual-orientation
How Vaccines Alter Intimate Relationships and Gender Identity:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-vaccines-alter-intimate-relationships
Abbott Issues Full Pardon to Army Sergeant:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/05/16/abbott-issues-full-pardon-to-army-sergeant-convicted-of-murder-at-blm-protest-n3788547
What Should We Do with People This Evil?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWjPcj2bko&ab_channel=MichaelKnowles
Coming?
Cellphones?
Will you go with me to my therapist tomorrow?
He thinks I'm making you up.
*.*
It was 35 years ago this week that the Tiananmen Massacre took place.
Or, as they call it in China, "nothing happened."
By the way, China has successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, even though there are no life forms to suppress.
*.*
After the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a shocking ruling on Thursday that Lia Thomas, a man, would not be allowed to compete on the U.S. women's Olympic team.
"That's fine if I can't compete, but can I, maybe, I dunno, just hang out naked in the women's locker room?" said Thomas to the committee, according to sources. "I can, you know, help with the swimming gear and towels and whatnot. And I'd be naked while I'm doing it. No big deal."
"That shouldn't be too much to ask for a brave trans pioneer like me."
Thomas's request to lurk in the locker room invoked the spirit of Pride Month, saying all he wants is the right to creep out women while at the same time indulging in his own gross fetish even if he won't be allowed to humiliate those women in competitive sports.
At publishing time, Planet Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness had both reached out to tell him he's welcome to hang out naked in their women's locker rooms any time.
*.*
I just got excited about a new scent of dish soap.
Nobody warned me that adulthood was going to be such a non-stop thrill ride.
*.*
Accidentally wore a red shirt to Target today.
Long story short, I'm covering for Debbie this weekend.
Quote of the Times;
Article 10 of the New Hampshire Bill of Rights, written in 1784: Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Link of the Times;
We Are Objects In Their World:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2023/05/we-are-objects-in-their-world.html
Issue of the Times;
This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones by Marina Zhang
Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found.
Girls benefited the most from the policies.
“Banning smartphones significantly decreases the health care take-up for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls,” Sara Sofie Abrahamsson, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s sole author, wrote in the abstract. Post-ban bullying among both genders decreases.”
The paper followed data from recent decades, mainly focusing on 2010 to 2020.
The researcher observed no negative impact from introducing such a policy.
“The phones are an absolute distraction. Even if a kid has the phone in their pocket during class, if the phone is on vibrate every time it vibrates, which is constantly, their mind automatically shifts away from what the teacher is teaching to the phone,” Tom Kersting, a psychotherapist who was a school counselor for 25 years, told The Epoch Times in agreement with the report’s findings.
As a proponent of banning phones in schools, Mr. Kersting suspected that Norway would see improvements in students’ academics, mental health, and social and emotional skills.
Major Findings
There are no national guidelines on smartphone use in Norway. Instead, schools make their own decisions on whether to allow smartphones.
Therefore, Ms. Abrahamsson used a survey to collect data from Norwegian middle schools on smartphone use and whether and when they had introduced any smartphone regulations.
These data were then matched to a school’s data, including student grades set by teachers and external exams, student GPAs, student visits to psychologists and general practitioners, and measurements for bullying.
Ms. Abrahamsson’s four major findings were as follows:
• The number of psychological consultations was reduced by 60 percent in female students.
• The incidence of bullying for both girls and boys lowered.
• Girls made gains in GPA and externally graded mathematics tests.
• Girls were more likely to attend an academic high school track.
The author found that the stricter the smartphone policy, the greater the improvement among female students. Stricter schools forbade students from bringing phones to school or required students to hand in their phones before the start of class.
Girls from low socioeconomic backgrounds showed the most improvement.
However, smartphone bans did not affect boys’ mental health and GPA.
A 2024 survey by America’s National Parents Union found that only 32 percent of parents support schools banning students from using their phones, though 43 percent reported that their child’s school had such a policy.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, during the 2019–2020 school year, over 76 percent of schools prohibited nonacademic use of cellphones or smartphones during school hours.
Several school districts have introduced more stringent phone policies that have received growing support from teachers, students, and parents alike.
Bill Wilson, the superintendent of Brush School District in Colorado, who has a doctorate in education, introduced a change to the district’s cellphone policy in 2021.
While the district always had a policy prohibiting cellphone use during school hours, there were no consequences for violating this policy. So in 2021, a policy was implemented: Unexempted students caught using phones would have to get their parents to come to the school to remove the phone.
Mr. Wilson told The Epoch Times that when a phone-banning policy was first suggested, many parents came to hearings with the fear that schools wanted “to control their kid and take away their kid’s ability to contact them if something happened in the school day,“ implying that ”the schools are doing something inappropriate by not giving their kids their rights.”
The school policy was later amended so students could have their phones, but they had to be in their backpacks. Furthermore, students with medical conditions or certain obligations that required smartphone monitoring could check their phones in the school office.
Gradually, parents warmed up to such a policy.
“The more conversations we have, even with those who are vehemently opposed initially, the more they begin to realize that we’re on the same team,“ he said. ”We’re trying to help navigate what has become a very challenging situation successfully in the best interest of kids and the learning environment.”
Mr. Wilson said teachers and students were among the first groups to appreciate such a policy.
“[Students] were thankful to not have that distraction, and that pressure and that worry about whether somebody was going to make a comment about their clothes or take a picture of them or multiple pictures of them while they’re talking, and wait until they get a silly one and make a meme out of it,” Mr. Wilson said.
In schools that have implemented cellphone restrictions, teachers have also begun reporting that their students are more engaged in and out of class. Students have become more social and interact with each other, and disciplinary actions have been reduced.
Mr. Wilson sees smartphone bans at schools across the United States gradually becoming the norm.
In 2023, Florida became the first state to enact a statewide ban on phones and social media during class time.
The state’s Orange County also enacted a phone ban during school hours, with some teachers reporting a remarkable change in student behavior and classroom engagement.
Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Kansas have since passed bills to control phone use in schools. Several school districts, including those in Maryland, California, Virginia, and Connecticut, have also implemented phone bans.
“It’s happening more, and I think it’s becoming more restrictive. From no use during the school day, and then everybody has their own slice on whether students can have them,” Mr. Wilson said.
News of the Times;
Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation:
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation
Awkward truth: Subsidizing women’s work drives down birthrates:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2974887/subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates/
Here Are the Five Women Who Made the Insane Decision:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/revealed-here-are-five-women-who-made-insane/
Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death':
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/planned-parenthood-abortions-among-top-four-leading-causes-death-america
Manifesto of trans school shooter shows intentional targeting of white Christian children
https://mustreadalaska.com/alleged-manifesto-of-trans-school-shooter-shows-intentional-targeting-of-white-christian-children/
Documents Catch NIH Officials Misleading Science Writers:
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/documents-catch-nih-officials-misleading
Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/antarctica-is-colder-icier-today-than-at-any-time-in-5000-years/
Gay couples at greater risk from climate change:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-study-gay-couples-at-greater-risk-from-climate-change/
Germany: Violent Migrant Crime Hit Record High in 2023:
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/04/20/germany-violent-migrant-crime-hit-record-high-in-2023-n4928374#google_vignette
Rail Union Warns German Train System Turning Into ‘Battleground’ Thanks to Male Migrants:
https://modernity.news/2024/05/14/rail-union-warns-german-train-system-turning-into-battleground-thanks-to-male-migrants/
Louisiana Judge Sentences Man To Be Physically Castrated:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/louisiana-judge-sentences-man-be-physically-castrated-after/
What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure?
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-our-ship-repair
Nearly 80% of Americans now see fast food as a 'luxury,'"
https://abc7.com/post/80-americans-now-fast-food-luxury-new-lendingtree/14888208/
The Ghetto-ization of American Life:
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-ghetto-ization-of-american-life.html
"I've Been Totally Ghosted":
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-been-totally-ghosted-after-install-solar-panels-become-maintenance-nightmare
He thinks I'm making you up.
*.*
It was 35 years ago this week that the Tiananmen Massacre took place.
Or, as they call it in China, "nothing happened."
By the way, China has successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, even though there are no life forms to suppress.
*.*
After the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a shocking ruling on Thursday that Lia Thomas, a man, would not be allowed to compete on the U.S. women's Olympic team.
"That's fine if I can't compete, but can I, maybe, I dunno, just hang out naked in the women's locker room?" said Thomas to the committee, according to sources. "I can, you know, help with the swimming gear and towels and whatnot. And I'd be naked while I'm doing it. No big deal."
"That shouldn't be too much to ask for a brave trans pioneer like me."
Thomas's request to lurk in the locker room invoked the spirit of Pride Month, saying all he wants is the right to creep out women while at the same time indulging in his own gross fetish even if he won't be allowed to humiliate those women in competitive sports.
At publishing time, Planet Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness had both reached out to tell him he's welcome to hang out naked in their women's locker rooms any time.
*.*
I just got excited about a new scent of dish soap.
Nobody warned me that adulthood was going to be such a non-stop thrill ride.
*.*
Accidentally wore a red shirt to Target today.
Long story short, I'm covering for Debbie this weekend.
Quote of the Times;
Article 10 of the New Hampshire Bill of Rights, written in 1784: Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Link of the Times;
We Are Objects In Their World:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2023/05/we-are-objects-in-their-world.html
Issue of the Times;
This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones by Marina Zhang
Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found.
Girls benefited the most from the policies.
“Banning smartphones significantly decreases the health care take-up for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls,” Sara Sofie Abrahamsson, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s sole author, wrote in the abstract. Post-ban bullying among both genders decreases.”
The paper followed data from recent decades, mainly focusing on 2010 to 2020.
The researcher observed no negative impact from introducing such a policy.
“The phones are an absolute distraction. Even if a kid has the phone in their pocket during class, if the phone is on vibrate every time it vibrates, which is constantly, their mind automatically shifts away from what the teacher is teaching to the phone,” Tom Kersting, a psychotherapist who was a school counselor for 25 years, told The Epoch Times in agreement with the report’s findings.
As a proponent of banning phones in schools, Mr. Kersting suspected that Norway would see improvements in students’ academics, mental health, and social and emotional skills.
Major Findings
There are no national guidelines on smartphone use in Norway. Instead, schools make their own decisions on whether to allow smartphones.
Therefore, Ms. Abrahamsson used a survey to collect data from Norwegian middle schools on smartphone use and whether and when they had introduced any smartphone regulations.
These data were then matched to a school’s data, including student grades set by teachers and external exams, student GPAs, student visits to psychologists and general practitioners, and measurements for bullying.
Ms. Abrahamsson’s four major findings were as follows:
• The number of psychological consultations was reduced by 60 percent in female students.
• The incidence of bullying for both girls and boys lowered.
• Girls made gains in GPA and externally graded mathematics tests.
• Girls were more likely to attend an academic high school track.
The author found that the stricter the smartphone policy, the greater the improvement among female students. Stricter schools forbade students from bringing phones to school or required students to hand in their phones before the start of class.
Girls from low socioeconomic backgrounds showed the most improvement.
However, smartphone bans did not affect boys’ mental health and GPA.
A 2024 survey by America’s National Parents Union found that only 32 percent of parents support schools banning students from using their phones, though 43 percent reported that their child’s school had such a policy.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, during the 2019–2020 school year, over 76 percent of schools prohibited nonacademic use of cellphones or smartphones during school hours.
Several school districts have introduced more stringent phone policies that have received growing support from teachers, students, and parents alike.
Bill Wilson, the superintendent of Brush School District in Colorado, who has a doctorate in education, introduced a change to the district’s cellphone policy in 2021.
While the district always had a policy prohibiting cellphone use during school hours, there were no consequences for violating this policy. So in 2021, a policy was implemented: Unexempted students caught using phones would have to get their parents to come to the school to remove the phone.
Mr. Wilson told The Epoch Times that when a phone-banning policy was first suggested, many parents came to hearings with the fear that schools wanted “to control their kid and take away their kid’s ability to contact them if something happened in the school day,“ implying that ”the schools are doing something inappropriate by not giving their kids their rights.”
The school policy was later amended so students could have their phones, but they had to be in their backpacks. Furthermore, students with medical conditions or certain obligations that required smartphone monitoring could check their phones in the school office.
Gradually, parents warmed up to such a policy.
“The more conversations we have, even with those who are vehemently opposed initially, the more they begin to realize that we’re on the same team,“ he said. ”We’re trying to help navigate what has become a very challenging situation successfully in the best interest of kids and the learning environment.”
Mr. Wilson said teachers and students were among the first groups to appreciate such a policy.
“[Students] were thankful to not have that distraction, and that pressure and that worry about whether somebody was going to make a comment about their clothes or take a picture of them or multiple pictures of them while they’re talking, and wait until they get a silly one and make a meme out of it,” Mr. Wilson said.
In schools that have implemented cellphone restrictions, teachers have also begun reporting that their students are more engaged in and out of class. Students have become more social and interact with each other, and disciplinary actions have been reduced.
Mr. Wilson sees smartphone bans at schools across the United States gradually becoming the norm.
In 2023, Florida became the first state to enact a statewide ban on phones and social media during class time.
The state’s Orange County also enacted a phone ban during school hours, with some teachers reporting a remarkable change in student behavior and classroom engagement.
Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Kansas have since passed bills to control phone use in schools. Several school districts, including those in Maryland, California, Virginia, and Connecticut, have also implemented phone bans.
“It’s happening more, and I think it’s becoming more restrictive. From no use during the school day, and then everybody has their own slice on whether students can have them,” Mr. Wilson said.
News of the Times;
Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation:
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation
Awkward truth: Subsidizing women’s work drives down birthrates:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2974887/subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates/
Here Are the Five Women Who Made the Insane Decision:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/revealed-here-are-five-women-who-made-insane/
Planned Parenthood Abortions Among 'Top Four Leading Causes Of Death':
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/planned-parenthood-abortions-among-top-four-leading-causes-death-america
Manifesto of trans school shooter shows intentional targeting of white Christian children
https://mustreadalaska.com/alleged-manifesto-of-trans-school-shooter-shows-intentional-targeting-of-white-christian-children/
Documents Catch NIH Officials Misleading Science Writers:
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/documents-catch-nih-officials-misleading
Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/antarctica-is-colder-icier-today-than-at-any-time-in-5000-years/
Gay couples at greater risk from climate change:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-study-gay-couples-at-greater-risk-from-climate-change/
Germany: Violent Migrant Crime Hit Record High in 2023:
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/04/20/germany-violent-migrant-crime-hit-record-high-in-2023-n4928374#google_vignette
Rail Union Warns German Train System Turning Into ‘Battleground’ Thanks to Male Migrants:
https://modernity.news/2024/05/14/rail-union-warns-german-train-system-turning-into-battleground-thanks-to-male-migrants/
Louisiana Judge Sentences Man To Be Physically Castrated:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/louisiana-judge-sentences-man-be-physically-castrated-after/
What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure?
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-our-ship-repair
Nearly 80% of Americans now see fast food as a 'luxury,'"
https://abc7.com/post/80-americans-now-fast-food-luxury-new-lendingtree/14888208/
The Ghetto-ization of American Life:
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-ghetto-ization-of-american-life.html
"I've Been Totally Ghosted":
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-been-totally-ghosted-after-install-solar-panels-become-maintenance-nightmare
Next?
What time of day did God create Adam?
Just before Eve.
*.*
Whenever I tell someone where I live and they say, "OMG, that's so far out!"
I tell them, "Don't worry. I wasn't going to invite you over.
*.*
With his re-election campaign falling behind his opponent in fundraising, and after seeing how much money Donald Trump raised, President Joe Biden called up New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg to ask if he could get charged with a felony or two.
The Trump campaign experienced an overwhelming influx of donations in the wake of Trump's conviction on criminal charges in a New York court last week, leading Biden to seek to grow his campaign's coffers by requesting criminal charges of his own.
"Listen up, my negro," Biden reportedly said on the phone with Bragg. "This conviction has been a big boost for Trump. I'm thinking I might be able to get… I could maybe get… I could… I could get… I might have people throwing millions of dollars at me if I get charged with some felonies. None of this hush-money malarkey. Real serious stuff. You should see the list of stuff I've actually done. It'll curl your nose hairs, pal. Bribery. Murder. Trafficking underage broads. The whole deal. Anyway… give me some of those felony charges, will ya?"
District Attorney Bragg's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report but a source within the DA's office confirmed that fictional crimes would not have to be created in order to charge members of the Biden family.
At publishing time, the White House had called Bragg again to let him know that a new shipment of Hunter's cocaine would be arriving on the premises soon if that would help in drawing felony charges.
*.*
Starting July 1st, customers will now be required to unload the semi-trucks at Walmart.
This will be in addition to your self-checkout duties.
*.*
What did Kermit the Frog say at Jim Henson’s funeral?
Nothing.
Quote of the Times;
"To wring the cold smile from a dead-eyed fanatic that hates my civilization, my nation, my faith, my family and my life is not one of my goals and should not be yours." - John C. Wright
Link of the Times;
Trust The "Science"... That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-peer-reviewed-papers
Issue of the Times;
Study: 'Non-citizens' are registered to vote, could decide next President by WND Staff
'Enough to overturn the will of the American people'
One growing concern because of Joe Biden's open borders policy, and the millions of illegal aliens he has allowed into the United States, is the fact that many states have systems automatically offering them the opportunity to register to vote.
And they apparently do.
Now a stunning warning is coming out of a study that shows they're registered in numbers high enough to decide even a presidential election.
A report in the Georgia Star News offers the foreboding confirmation that "a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10 percent to 27 percent of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote."
It continued, "The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency."
The report noted that as far back as 2014, an analysis found that illegal votes by non-citizens "'likely' changed 'important election outcomes' in favor of Democrats, 'including Electoral College votes' and a 'pivotal' U.S. Senate race that enabled Democrats to pass Obamacare."
Just Facts then conducted a comparable assessment from the same time period, and found 16% "voted in the 2008 national elections."
Both of those assessments have margins of uncertainty that remain high because of small sample sizes and possible sources of error – including that people are self-reporting their own illegal actions.
The report noted "fact checkers" dispute the concerns, offering criticisms that are "mathematically illiterate and laced with unrealistic assumptions, empty arguments, half-truths, and outright falsehoods."
Among the critics of the study results is an Old Dominion associate professor who charges that only 1% of non-citizens are registered to vote.
But those claims, research has suggested, are nothing more than "lowball estimates."
Instead, the report said, the Just Facts' latest work reveals the best registration figures document the estimate of 10% to 27% of adult non-citizens are registered to vote, and that, "In presidential elections, roughly half of non-citizens who are registered turn out to vote. Given that about 10 percent to 27 percent of them are currently registered, this means about 5 percent to 13 percent of them will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections."
The report said, "The U.S. Census recorded a population of 19.7 million voting-age non-citizens in the U.S. during 2022. This is an absolute minimum because the Census doesn’t count masses of non-citizens who falsely claim to be citizens or don’t fill out Census surveys. Also, the figure of 19.7 million doesn’t include multitudes of non-citizens who’ve entered since 2022. This includes people who legally immigrated, crossed the border illegally, or were allowed into the country under the Biden administration’s parole policies."
The Star report explained, "Roughly 1.0 million to 2.7 million non-citizens will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections unless stronger election integrity measures are implemented."
One solution is the GOP's plan to require "proof of United States citizenship" to register to vote, the report said. That effort likely is a beneficial plan, as legacy media outlets such as CNN, NBC News, NPR and more already have "attacked the bill as unnecessary," the report said.
The results also skew one direction.
The report said, "In the 2008 presidential election, 82 percent of non-citizens who admitted that they voted stated that they voted for Democrat Barack Obama, while only 18 percent said they voted for Republican John McCain."
Surveys show that from 2006 to 2022 73% to 82% of non-citizens supported Democratic candidates, the report said.
News of the Times;
Virginia School Board Votes to Rename Two Schools:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/uncancelled-virginia-school-board-votes-rename-two-schools/
Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top Ten Nationwide:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/thomas-jefferson-high-school-drops-out-of-top-ten-nationwide-after-adopting-equity-admissions-policy/
US Navy secretary says he was 'floored' by a Pacific ally's shipbuilding abilities:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-secretary-floored-by-ally-south-koreas-shipbuilding-2024-4
Suicide Mission:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/tradwives-stay-at-home-girlfriends-and-the-dream-of-feminine-leisure/ar-BB1lov70
The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-inevitable-result-of-intersectional-gender-studies/
California’s Broken Diversity Promise:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/californias-broken-diversity-promise
Democrat-Run St. Louis Enters ‘Doom Loop’:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/11/nolte-democrat-run-st-louis-enters-doom-loop/
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years:
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
DHS Admits Border Has Been Open To Criminals And Terrorists:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-admits-border-has-been-open-criminals-and-terrorists
Here’s What Biden’s Campaign Wants to Keep Secret:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/30/heres-what-bidens-campaign-wants-to-keep-secret-about-his-philly-rally-n4929458
The Third World is Going to Cop It:
https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/the-third-world-is-going-to-cop-it-b9e
Transgender sex offender after trying to snatch young boy from elementary school:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13337823/colorado-trans-criminal-elementary-school-child-kidnapping-arrest.html
The Trans Reckoning Is Here:
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-trans-reckoning-is-here/
Fat pride activists die from obesity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlJnBOOZw_Y&ab_channel=modernity
Just before Eve.
*.*
Whenever I tell someone where I live and they say, "OMG, that's so far out!"
I tell them, "Don't worry. I wasn't going to invite you over.
*.*
With his re-election campaign falling behind his opponent in fundraising, and after seeing how much money Donald Trump raised, President Joe Biden called up New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg to ask if he could get charged with a felony or two.
The Trump campaign experienced an overwhelming influx of donations in the wake of Trump's conviction on criminal charges in a New York court last week, leading Biden to seek to grow his campaign's coffers by requesting criminal charges of his own.
"Listen up, my negro," Biden reportedly said on the phone with Bragg. "This conviction has been a big boost for Trump. I'm thinking I might be able to get… I could maybe get… I could… I could get… I might have people throwing millions of dollars at me if I get charged with some felonies. None of this hush-money malarkey. Real serious stuff. You should see the list of stuff I've actually done. It'll curl your nose hairs, pal. Bribery. Murder. Trafficking underage broads. The whole deal. Anyway… give me some of those felony charges, will ya?"
District Attorney Bragg's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report but a source within the DA's office confirmed that fictional crimes would not have to be created in order to charge members of the Biden family.
At publishing time, the White House had called Bragg again to let him know that a new shipment of Hunter's cocaine would be arriving on the premises soon if that would help in drawing felony charges.
*.*
Starting July 1st, customers will now be required to unload the semi-trucks at Walmart.
This will be in addition to your self-checkout duties.
*.*
What did Kermit the Frog say at Jim Henson’s funeral?
Nothing.
Quote of the Times;
"To wring the cold smile from a dead-eyed fanatic that hates my civilization, my nation, my faith, my family and my life is not one of my goals and should not be yours." - John C. Wright
Link of the Times;
Trust The "Science"... That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-peer-reviewed-papers
Issue of the Times;
Study: 'Non-citizens' are registered to vote, could decide next President by WND Staff
'Enough to overturn the will of the American people'
One growing concern because of Joe Biden's open borders policy, and the millions of illegal aliens he has allowed into the United States, is the fact that many states have systems automatically offering them the opportunity to register to vote.
And they apparently do.
Now a stunning warning is coming out of a study that shows they're registered in numbers high enough to decide even a presidential election.
A report in the Georgia Star News offers the foreboding confirmation that "a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10 percent to 27 percent of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote."
It continued, "The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency."
The report noted that as far back as 2014, an analysis found that illegal votes by non-citizens "'likely' changed 'important election outcomes' in favor of Democrats, 'including Electoral College votes' and a 'pivotal' U.S. Senate race that enabled Democrats to pass Obamacare."
Just Facts then conducted a comparable assessment from the same time period, and found 16% "voted in the 2008 national elections."
Both of those assessments have margins of uncertainty that remain high because of small sample sizes and possible sources of error – including that people are self-reporting their own illegal actions.
The report noted "fact checkers" dispute the concerns, offering criticisms that are "mathematically illiterate and laced with unrealistic assumptions, empty arguments, half-truths, and outright falsehoods."
Among the critics of the study results is an Old Dominion associate professor who charges that only 1% of non-citizens are registered to vote.
But those claims, research has suggested, are nothing more than "lowball estimates."
Instead, the report said, the Just Facts' latest work reveals the best registration figures document the estimate of 10% to 27% of adult non-citizens are registered to vote, and that, "In presidential elections, roughly half of non-citizens who are registered turn out to vote. Given that about 10 percent to 27 percent of them are currently registered, this means about 5 percent to 13 percent of them will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections."
The report said, "The U.S. Census recorded a population of 19.7 million voting-age non-citizens in the U.S. during 2022. This is an absolute minimum because the Census doesn’t count masses of non-citizens who falsely claim to be citizens or don’t fill out Census surveys. Also, the figure of 19.7 million doesn’t include multitudes of non-citizens who’ve entered since 2022. This includes people who legally immigrated, crossed the border illegally, or were allowed into the country under the Biden administration’s parole policies."
The Star report explained, "Roughly 1.0 million to 2.7 million non-citizens will illegally vote in the 2024 presidential and congressional elections unless stronger election integrity measures are implemented."
One solution is the GOP's plan to require "proof of United States citizenship" to register to vote, the report said. That effort likely is a beneficial plan, as legacy media outlets such as CNN, NBC News, NPR and more already have "attacked the bill as unnecessary," the report said.
The results also skew one direction.
The report said, "In the 2008 presidential election, 82 percent of non-citizens who admitted that they voted stated that they voted for Democrat Barack Obama, while only 18 percent said they voted for Republican John McCain."
Surveys show that from 2006 to 2022 73% to 82% of non-citizens supported Democratic candidates, the report said.
News of the Times;
Virginia School Board Votes to Rename Two Schools:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/uncancelled-virginia-school-board-votes-rename-two-schools/
Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top Ten Nationwide:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/thomas-jefferson-high-school-drops-out-of-top-ten-nationwide-after-adopting-equity-admissions-policy/
US Navy secretary says he was 'floored' by a Pacific ally's shipbuilding abilities:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-secretary-floored-by-ally-south-koreas-shipbuilding-2024-4
Suicide Mission:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriends and the dream of feminine leisure:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/tradwives-stay-at-home-girlfriends-and-the-dream-of-feminine-leisure/ar-BB1lov70
The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-inevitable-result-of-intersectional-gender-studies/
California’s Broken Diversity Promise:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/californias-broken-diversity-promise
Democrat-Run St. Louis Enters ‘Doom Loop’:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/11/nolte-democrat-run-st-louis-enters-doom-loop/
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years:
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
DHS Admits Border Has Been Open To Criminals And Terrorists:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-admits-border-has-been-open-criminals-and-terrorists
Here’s What Biden’s Campaign Wants to Keep Secret:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/30/heres-what-bidens-campaign-wants-to-keep-secret-about-his-philly-rally-n4929458
The Third World is Going to Cop It:
https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/the-third-world-is-going-to-cop-it-b9e
Transgender sex offender after trying to snatch young boy from elementary school:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13337823/colorado-trans-criminal-elementary-school-child-kidnapping-arrest.html
The Trans Reckoning Is Here:
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-trans-reckoning-is-here/
Fat pride activists die from obesity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlJnBOOZw_Y&ab_channel=modernity
Told?
Your call is very important to us.
Now, please listen to this 40-minute flute solo.
*.*
French bakers cooked the world's longest baguette on Sunday; one measuring 461 feet-reclaiming a record taken by Italy five years ago.
Congratulations to those loafers.
*.*
Oneliners:
Doesn't the word 'frigate' sound like you're trying not to swear?
I find the amount of stuff in the air from trees and flowers a pollen.
Yes, I'm "the bees knees if the bees are getting ready for knee replacement surgery.
I don't need to know everything about you, just your WIFI password.
I told my suitcases that there would be no vacation this year; now I'm dealing with emotional baggage.
When you get older, "it's too cold" is a valid reason for not leaving your house.
Every time a mullet reaches shoulder length, an angel gets its jean jacket.
Living with a dog is 90% following each other around, watching each other go potty and wondering what the other has in their mouth.
Have some fun in your life; call in sick to places you don't even work at.
I eat cake because it's somebody's birthday somewhere.
*.*
Top 5 Ways to Get Better Sleep:
Ask your boss to quit waking you up when you snore.
Melatonin Milkshakes.
Ask a parent to tell you about the good old days again.
Attend the opera more often.
Invent the long overdue desk bed.
*.*
Not to brag, but I was alive when you could slam the phone down on someone.
It was spectacular!
Quote of the Times;
"Foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will give it to them. Thieves and fraudsters will want important government functions, and democracy will give it to them. And at that time, when thieves and fraudsters finally democratically take authority because criminals and evil doers want power, there will be worse dictatorship than in the time of any monarchy or oligarchy." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Link of the Times;
Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny:
https://www.unz.com/runz/israeli-assassinations-and-public-scrutiny/
Issue of the Times;
If You’re Paying Attention, Biden Just Told Us How Democrats Plan to Rig & Steal 2024 Election By Wayne Allyn Root
Biden did it again.
A feeble, decrepit, brain-dead, old man with dementia and diapers is running the country. Have you heard?
And people with dementia often “spill the beans.” They have no filter. So, they act like little kids - they say whatever is on their mind. Secrets come spilling out.
Pay attention to Joe Biden. He has dementia and belongs in a nursing home, not the White House. So, sometimes secrets come spilling out of his decrepit mouth.
The secret to how Democrats planned to beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election came spilling out of Biden’s decrepit mouth during the 2020 campaign.
If only we had listened and acted.
Biden said (and I quote word), “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Oops.
That was on October 24, 2020. Don’t believe me? Watch here:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-voter-fraud-organization-video-gaffe
Biden spilled the beans. He told us how Democrats were going to win. They were going to rig and steal the election with voter fraud.
And they did.
They used mail-in ballots with no Voter ID; ballot drop boxes with no oversight; ballot harvesting- a scam that is illegal in every other country in the world; no signature match; and millions of illegal aliens voted too. Without Voter ID and no one asking about citizenship at the polls, it’s easy.
That’s exactly how the 2020 election was stolen. Old decrepit dementia puppet Biden told us what they planned to do, and they did it.
Biden said, “VOTER FRAUD.” Why didn’t anyone listen?
Well, old decrepit Joe has done it again. So, this time we’d better listen and take action. Because out of the mouths of little children, and decrepit old men with dementia, comes truth.
During an interview with a Spanish radio station last week, Biden referred to millions of illegal alien foreign invaders as “Hispanic voters.”
There it is. That’s the Democrat plan to steal the 2024 presidential election.
Biden also said two other telling things. He said that speaking Spanish is “America’s Future.” And he said the millions of illegal aliens who have crossed his open border into America are “the only reason our economy’s so good.”
Oh my God.
Out of “the mouth of babes” comes truth. This is the Democrat’s new updated plan to intentionally destroy America. Biden just told you.
Trump is leading by a landslide. Blacks, legal Latinos, young voters- everyone hates Biden. Everyone hates “Bidenomics” and this crappy economy. Everyone hates Biden’s massive inflation. Everyone hates the direction of America.
Polls show Biden is the most unpopular president in 70 years- worse than even Carter or Nixon. His approval on the economy and inflation is the lowest in modern history.
And that’s why Trump is leading by double digits in the most recent reliable polls. And winning all the battleground states- including my home state of Nevada by 12 points and Georgia by 10. The latest AARP poll also shows Trump pulling away in Pennsylvania.
James Carville, one of the most brilliant political strategists and soothsayers in history, had a meltdown days ago. He is losing his mind because nothing the Democrats are saying or doing can stop Trump. Not calling him “Hitler.” Not using abortion as the only issue 24/7. Not indictments, rigged trials, or even convictions. “Nothing is working,” Carville ranted like a madman.
Actually Carville is wrong. It is all working- for Trump.
But trust me, Democrats have a plan. Biden just told you. It’s called, “The Great Replacement.”
Biden (and his boss Obama- the real President) have let in millions of illegals, or as Biden just called them, “voters.” Why would anyone want to let in millions of foreign invaders, criminals, terrorists and the world’s poverty-stricken who require welfare from cradle to grave? You’d have to be insane. You’d have to be a suicide bomnber.
Because to Democrats these are all simply new Democrat voters.
Give them all $10,000 visa cards, $2,000 cash, free flights anywhere they want (without any ID necessary to board planes), free food, free healthcare, free phones and free legal services. Add in welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. Add in free public school for each illegal alien child- worth $20,000 to $40,000 per child, annually.
And then ask only one thing in return- fill out the voter registration form and vote for Biden and straight Democrat down the ballot.
And of course, no one needs to read or speak English. Conveniently, they can all vote in Spanish. That’s why Biden calls the Spanish language “America’s future.”
The open border isn’t about letting illegal aliens into America. It’s about letting Democrat voters into America.
These sheeple will vote Democrat to thank Biden for letting them in. They will vote Democrat to keep from being deported. They will vote Democrat to keep the welfare checks and food stamps coming.
Democrats know Trump is winning by a landslide with legal American citizens- including this time around with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and young voters. So, the only way to overcome perhaps 10 to 20 million new Trump voters is to import 25 million illegal alien foreign invaders to outvote and replace the citizens.
Hence the name “The Great Replacement.”
Don’t you get it? The polls show a Trump landslide. And they’re accurate, IF we’re only counting legal American citizens. But polls don’t count illegal aliens. These poll numbers don’t include millions- perhaps 25 million- of illegal alien voters.
Add them in and Trump’s landslide lead evaporates into thin air.
This is how Democrats plan to turn a landslide Trump victory into a loss. “It’s all about the illegals, stupid.”
Biden just told us.
News of the Times;
Believe data, not activists:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/opinion/believe-data-not-activists-transgenderism-among-kids-is-mostly-a-fad/
NATO shows real signs of impending demise:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1310122.shtml
The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/from-the-recycling-bin-to-the-landfill-the-major-flaw-in-plastic-recycling-5612950
United Nations Says ‘Eradicating White People’ Would Solve Climate Change:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/united-nations-says-eradicating-white-people-would-solve-climate-change/
NATO faces ‘catastrophic defeat’ in Ukraine:
https://www.rt.com/news/595498-nato-must-deploy-troops-to-ukraine-adviser-says/
Court records confirm millions flowed to Biden family from China:
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/silk-road-paved-cash-court-records-confirm-millions-flowed-biden
‘It’s theirs now’:
https://pinonpost.com/its-theirs-now-border-agents-concede-n-m-mountain-to-cartel-control/
Stalin’s Jews:
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/stalins-jews/
Evidence of Foreign Nationals Accessing Dominion Voting Machines:
https://headlineusa.com/evidence-foreign-accessing-dominion-machines-leaked/
Democrats Push to Hide Insects in American Food Supply:
https://slaynews.com/news/democrats-push-hide-insects-american-food-supply/
Yemen's 'uninhibited' attacks push French warship:
https://thecradle.co/articles/yemens-uninhibited-attacks-push-french-warship-to-exit-red-sea
NY Judge Claims '2nd Amendment Doesn't Exist In Her Courtroom':
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-judge-claims-2nd-amendment-doesnt-exist-her-courtroom-case-against-gunsmith
As the Daily Wire Publicly Negotiated a Debate with Candace Owens:
https://greenwald.locals.com/post/5586131/as-the-daily-wire-publicly-negotiated-a-debate-with-candace-owens-it-secretly-sought-and-obtaine
Pro-Hamas Road Blockers Being Bailed Out by Organizations Funded by George Soros:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/surprise-pro-hamas-road-blockers-being-bailed-organizations/
Mississippi House and Senate pass 'Women's Bill of Rights':
https://www.campusreform.org/article/mississippi-house-senate-pass-womens-bill-rights/25193
Now, please listen to this 40-minute flute solo.
*.*
French bakers cooked the world's longest baguette on Sunday; one measuring 461 feet-reclaiming a record taken by Italy five years ago.
Congratulations to those loafers.
*.*
Oneliners:
Doesn't the word 'frigate' sound like you're trying not to swear?
I find the amount of stuff in the air from trees and flowers a pollen.
Yes, I'm "the bees knees if the bees are getting ready for knee replacement surgery.
I don't need to know everything about you, just your WIFI password.
I told my suitcases that there would be no vacation this year; now I'm dealing with emotional baggage.
When you get older, "it's too cold" is a valid reason for not leaving your house.
Every time a mullet reaches shoulder length, an angel gets its jean jacket.
Living with a dog is 90% following each other around, watching each other go potty and wondering what the other has in their mouth.
Have some fun in your life; call in sick to places you don't even work at.
I eat cake because it's somebody's birthday somewhere.
*.*
Top 5 Ways to Get Better Sleep:
Ask your boss to quit waking you up when you snore.
Melatonin Milkshakes.
Ask a parent to tell you about the good old days again.
Attend the opera more often.
Invent the long overdue desk bed.
*.*
Not to brag, but I was alive when you could slam the phone down on someone.
It was spectacular!
Quote of the Times;
"Foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will give it to them. Thieves and fraudsters will want important government functions, and democracy will give it to them. And at that time, when thieves and fraudsters finally democratically take authority because criminals and evil doers want power, there will be worse dictatorship than in the time of any monarchy or oligarchy." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Link of the Times;
Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny:
https://www.unz.com/runz/israeli-assassinations-and-public-scrutiny/
Issue of the Times;
If You’re Paying Attention, Biden Just Told Us How Democrats Plan to Rig & Steal 2024 Election By Wayne Allyn Root
Biden did it again.
A feeble, decrepit, brain-dead, old man with dementia and diapers is running the country. Have you heard?
And people with dementia often “spill the beans.” They have no filter. So, they act like little kids - they say whatever is on their mind. Secrets come spilling out.
Pay attention to Joe Biden. He has dementia and belongs in a nursing home, not the White House. So, sometimes secrets come spilling out of his decrepit mouth.
The secret to how Democrats planned to beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election came spilling out of Biden’s decrepit mouth during the 2020 campaign.
If only we had listened and acted.
Biden said (and I quote word), “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Oops.
That was on October 24, 2020. Don’t believe me? Watch here:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-voter-fraud-organization-video-gaffe
Biden spilled the beans. He told us how Democrats were going to win. They were going to rig and steal the election with voter fraud.
And they did.
They used mail-in ballots with no Voter ID; ballot drop boxes with no oversight; ballot harvesting- a scam that is illegal in every other country in the world; no signature match; and millions of illegal aliens voted too. Without Voter ID and no one asking about citizenship at the polls, it’s easy.
That’s exactly how the 2020 election was stolen. Old decrepit dementia puppet Biden told us what they planned to do, and they did it.
Biden said, “VOTER FRAUD.” Why didn’t anyone listen?
Well, old decrepit Joe has done it again. So, this time we’d better listen and take action. Because out of the mouths of little children, and decrepit old men with dementia, comes truth.
During an interview with a Spanish radio station last week, Biden referred to millions of illegal alien foreign invaders as “Hispanic voters.”
There it is. That’s the Democrat plan to steal the 2024 presidential election.
Biden also said two other telling things. He said that speaking Spanish is “America’s Future.” And he said the millions of illegal aliens who have crossed his open border into America are “the only reason our economy’s so good.”
Oh my God.
Out of “the mouth of babes” comes truth. This is the Democrat’s new updated plan to intentionally destroy America. Biden just told you.
Trump is leading by a landslide. Blacks, legal Latinos, young voters- everyone hates Biden. Everyone hates “Bidenomics” and this crappy economy. Everyone hates Biden’s massive inflation. Everyone hates the direction of America.
Polls show Biden is the most unpopular president in 70 years- worse than even Carter or Nixon. His approval on the economy and inflation is the lowest in modern history.
And that’s why Trump is leading by double digits in the most recent reliable polls. And winning all the battleground states- including my home state of Nevada by 12 points and Georgia by 10. The latest AARP poll also shows Trump pulling away in Pennsylvania.
James Carville, one of the most brilliant political strategists and soothsayers in history, had a meltdown days ago. He is losing his mind because nothing the Democrats are saying or doing can stop Trump. Not calling him “Hitler.” Not using abortion as the only issue 24/7. Not indictments, rigged trials, or even convictions. “Nothing is working,” Carville ranted like a madman.
Actually Carville is wrong. It is all working- for Trump.
But trust me, Democrats have a plan. Biden just told you. It’s called, “The Great Replacement.”
Biden (and his boss Obama- the real President) have let in millions of illegals, or as Biden just called them, “voters.” Why would anyone want to let in millions of foreign invaders, criminals, terrorists and the world’s poverty-stricken who require welfare from cradle to grave? You’d have to be insane. You’d have to be a suicide bomnber.
Because to Democrats these are all simply new Democrat voters.
Give them all $10,000 visa cards, $2,000 cash, free flights anywhere they want (without any ID necessary to board planes), free food, free healthcare, free phones and free legal services. Add in welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. Add in free public school for each illegal alien child- worth $20,000 to $40,000 per child, annually.
And then ask only one thing in return- fill out the voter registration form and vote for Biden and straight Democrat down the ballot.
And of course, no one needs to read or speak English. Conveniently, they can all vote in Spanish. That’s why Biden calls the Spanish language “America’s future.”
The open border isn’t about letting illegal aliens into America. It’s about letting Democrat voters into America.
These sheeple will vote Democrat to thank Biden for letting them in. They will vote Democrat to keep from being deported. They will vote Democrat to keep the welfare checks and food stamps coming.
Democrats know Trump is winning by a landslide with legal American citizens- including this time around with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and young voters. So, the only way to overcome perhaps 10 to 20 million new Trump voters is to import 25 million illegal alien foreign invaders to outvote and replace the citizens.
Hence the name “The Great Replacement.”
Don’t you get it? The polls show a Trump landslide. And they’re accurate, IF we’re only counting legal American citizens. But polls don’t count illegal aliens. These poll numbers don’t include millions- perhaps 25 million- of illegal alien voters.
Add them in and Trump’s landslide lead evaporates into thin air.
This is how Democrats plan to turn a landslide Trump victory into a loss. “It’s all about the illegals, stupid.”
Biden just told us.
News of the Times;
Believe data, not activists:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/opinion/believe-data-not-activists-transgenderism-among-kids-is-mostly-a-fad/
NATO shows real signs of impending demise:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1310122.shtml
The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/from-the-recycling-bin-to-the-landfill-the-major-flaw-in-plastic-recycling-5612950
United Nations Says ‘Eradicating White People’ Would Solve Climate Change:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/united-nations-says-eradicating-white-people-would-solve-climate-change/
NATO faces ‘catastrophic defeat’ in Ukraine:
https://www.rt.com/news/595498-nato-must-deploy-troops-to-ukraine-adviser-says/
Court records confirm millions flowed to Biden family from China:
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/silk-road-paved-cash-court-records-confirm-millions-flowed-biden
‘It’s theirs now’:
https://pinonpost.com/its-theirs-now-border-agents-concede-n-m-mountain-to-cartel-control/
Stalin’s Jews:
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/stalins-jews/
Evidence of Foreign Nationals Accessing Dominion Voting Machines:
https://headlineusa.com/evidence-foreign-accessing-dominion-machines-leaked/
Democrats Push to Hide Insects in American Food Supply:
https://slaynews.com/news/democrats-push-hide-insects-american-food-supply/
Yemen's 'uninhibited' attacks push French warship:
https://thecradle.co/articles/yemens-uninhibited-attacks-push-french-warship-to-exit-red-sea
NY Judge Claims '2nd Amendment Doesn't Exist In Her Courtroom':
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-judge-claims-2nd-amendment-doesnt-exist-her-courtroom-case-against-gunsmith
As the Daily Wire Publicly Negotiated a Debate with Candace Owens:
https://greenwald.locals.com/post/5586131/as-the-daily-wire-publicly-negotiated-a-debate-with-candace-owens-it-secretly-sought-and-obtaine
Pro-Hamas Road Blockers Being Bailed Out by Organizations Funded by George Soros:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/surprise-pro-hamas-road-blockers-being-bailed-organizations/
Mississippi House and Senate pass 'Women's Bill of Rights':
https://www.campusreform.org/article/mississippi-house-senate-pass-womens-bill-rights/25193
Wrestled?
My Chinese friend died recently.
So Yung.
*.*
What did Arnold Schwarzenegger say to the Netfilx execs when he found out they wanted more racial diversity in the next Terminator movie?
I’ll be black.
*.*
Despite ominous polling data showing former President Donald Trump holding leads in key battleground states, there are strong indications that President Joe Biden is still polling well among the important 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic.
Democratic strategists expressed confidence that this crucial voting block, which played an important role in his 2020 victory, is still firmly in President Biden's corner, leading many insiders to believe that November's presidential election will turn out differently than current battleground polls indicate.
"We'll be just fine," said Biden campaign chief Julie Chavez Rodriguez. "Mr. Trump's camp may be crowing about all the polls showing him having a lead, but we all know which votes are really the important ones. As long as Donald Trump struggles to win the 3 A.M. unverified mail-in votes, President Biden will still end up being the choice of the American people. Joe just knows how to win those middle-of-the-night votes."
While Trump has built impressive leads in many important states heading into the general election, Biden's track record of winning an overwhelming percentage of votes among ballots that surreptitiously arrive after polling locations have closed and don't have verifiable signatures looms large. "Trump can build as big of a lead as he wants," Chavez Rodriguez said. "It won't matter. We know that the 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic will come in strong for us in the end. It may even come in stronger for us this year than it did in 2020. In fact, I know it will."
At publishing time, when asked how many 3 A.M. mail-in votes they expected to need, Biden's campaign said it wouldn't know until election night.
*.*
Top 5 Signs your Robot is Planning Something:
Booked all your flights on United Airlines.
Caught him on the website, "Rewrite their will" dot com.
Attends weekly "Humans Anonymous" meetings.
Has a "Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius" t-shirt.
Keeps watching Terminator movies over and over again.
*.*
New Co-worker: Nice to meet you.
Me: Give it time.
Quote of the Times;
“In short, to rule, one will be held responsible. To rule successfully, one must be capable of responsibly looking after the interests of the ruled. Any elite that does not do so is viewed, correctly, as parasitical and illegitimate, and in Chinese terms, does not hold the Mandate of Heaven.” – Vox Day
Link of the Times;
Zelensky Steps Closer to Mobilization Plunge Amid Dire Warnings:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-4324-zelensky-steps-closer
Issue of the Times;
The Man Who Wrestled Global Hunger To The Ground by Jarrett Skorup
In the winters, I spend my time officiating high school wrestling. Last year, while going through my pre-meet duties, I noticed a wrestler with the last name Borlaug. I asked him if he knew who Norman Borlaug was and was delighted to learn that wrestler was his great-nephew.
Wrestling must be in the family blood, because Norman Borlaug was an accomplished high school and college wrestler who helped expand the popularity of sport at the high school level in Minnesota. (He also worked as a referee). He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
The coach of Borlaug’s great nephew, a high school civics and history teacher, overheard our conversation and asked, “Who’s Norman Borlaug?”
That’s a typical response whenever I mention him. In fact, I didn’t learn of him until after completing my college degree. It’s a shame how few people know the name or the remarkable achievements of the man who took action to feed the world’s population at a time when much of the scientific establishment believed we were on the verge of an inevitable global famine.
Called “arguably the greatest American in the 20th century,” Norman Borlaug probably saved more lives during his 95 years than any other person. He is one of just six people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And yet Dr. Borlaug, who died in 2009, is scarcely known in his own country.
Born on a family farm in Iowa in 1914, Borlaug spent most of his life in impoverished nations inventing, improving and teaching the Green Revolution. His idea was simple: Make developing countries self-sufficient in food by teaching them how to use modern agricultural techniques that are simple to implement. Borlaug spent most of his time in Mexico, Pakistan and India, and focused on five areas: seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides and mechanization. His successes were remarkable.
In 1950, Mexico imported more than half its food. Thanks to Borlaug’s efforts to convince farmers there to try his techniques, Mexican food production increased tenfold by 1970, and the country had become a net exporter. In India and Pakistan, production doubled. Multiple sources estimate that Borlaug's efforts, combined with those he trained and equipped, saved the lives of one billion human beings.
The Green Revolution was almost entirely funded by developing countries and private charities (notably, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations), rather than by the governments of prosperous nations. At the time, the overwhelming view of academic, intellectual and political elites in wealthy countries was that it was already too late.
Biologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb” typified this attitude.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Ehrlich wrote. “In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” He later said, “I have yet to meet anyone familiar with the situation who thinks India will be self-sufficient in food by 1971,” and “India couldn’t possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980.” Ehrlich’s book, required reading at many colleges, stated that it was a fantasy that India would ever feed itself.
But Ehrlich was ignorant of what Norman Borlaug was already in the process of accomplishing. This is the most famous of many of Ehrlich’s colossal errors, which stemmed from a skepticism of markets and human ingenuity.
“In Pakistan, wheat yields rose from 4.6 million tons in 1965 to 8.4 million in 1970,” Reason magazine science writer Ronald Bailey noted back in 2000. “In India, they rose from 12.3 million tons to 20 million. And the yields continue to increase. Last year [1999], India harvested a record 73.5 million tons of wheat, up 11.5 percent from 1998. Since Ehrlich’s dire predictions in 1968, India’s population has more than doubled, its wheat production has more than tripled, and its economy has grown ninefold.”
In spite of Ehrlich’s claims, Borlaug had India feeding itself within a mere five years of the release of “The Population Bomb.” Around the time of Ehrlich’s misguided doom-mongering, Borlaug’s colleagues at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research were spreading his ideas about high-yield rice through Asia, causing another food production explosion. Toward the end of his life, Borlaug was working to institute his agricultural revolution in Africa.
It’s a great irony of my life that at my public high school, we read Ehrlich while never learning about Borlaug.
No good deed goes unpunished, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Borlaug was attacked by proponents of the trendy new faith of radical environmentalism, on the grounds that Green Revolution farming requires pesticide and fertilizer. Gregg Easterbrook quotes Borlaug saying the following in the 1990s:
“(Most Western environmentalists) have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they’d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things.”
There’s an old proverb: “He who has bread has many problems. He who has no bread has only one problem.” During Borlaug’s long career, and continuing to today, modern-day environmentalism typically focuses on massively intrusive government interventions requiring trillions of dollars and enormous societal change. Whether the issue is feeding the hungry, international aid or reliable energy, much less is said about solving real current problems through human ingenuity and proven methods given to us through free enterprise or market solutions.
More than 50 years ago Borlaug wrote, “One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well-camouflaged bureaucracy.”
Some things never change.
News of the Times;
The Prophets: Allan Bloom:
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-allan-bloom
Biden Tells Al Roker His Favorite Memories:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/biden-tells-al-roker-his-favorite-memories-white/
America has no Ukraine Plan B except more war:
https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/america-has-no-ukraine-plan-b-except-more-war/
The fourth anniversary of Faucism:
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/the-fourth-anniversary-of-faucism
Internet is Annoyed With Charlamagne Tha God's Anti-DEI Rant:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/05/internet-is-annoyed-with-charlamagne-tha-gods-candace-owens-sounding-anti-dei-rant-n3786010
Orlando Magic Basketball Star Jonathan Isaac Slams White House:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/orlando-magic-basketball-star-jonathan-isaac-slams-white/
Goldman Sachs Exits Japan Transaction Banking in Sudden Reversal
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/goldman-sachs-exits-japan-transaction-banking-in-sudden-reversal-1.2044248
Kentucky Joins List of States Protecting Gun Owner, Consumer Privacy:
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/kentucky-joins-list-of-states-protecting-gun-owner-consumer-privacy/
Apparently There Is a Link Between EV Weight and Aging Garage Collapse:
https://www.torquenews.com/3769/tabout-year-or-so-ago-there-was-interesting-story-made-rounds-many-information-networks-i-will
Illegal Chinese migrant arrested after breaching Marine base:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13253311/amp/chinese-migrant-arrested-marine-base-california-border-agents-beijing-spies.html
Data Analyst Reveals Shocking Increase In Cancer Deaths:
https://resistthemainstream.com/data-analyst-reveals-something-interesting-found-in-cancer-deaths/
China launches first of a new series of Yaogan reconnaissance satellites:
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-of-a-new-series-of-yaogan-reconnaissance-satellites/
Save the Planet, Kill the Gorillas:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/save-the-planet-kill-the-gorillas/
Israeli drone that killed three British nationals :
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-05-israeli-drone-killed-aid-workers-uk-engine.html
Israel Kills Seven Aid Workers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowMwp7lDiI&ab_channel=TheModernSurvivalist
So Yung.
*.*
What did Arnold Schwarzenegger say to the Netfilx execs when he found out they wanted more racial diversity in the next Terminator movie?
I’ll be black.
*.*
Despite ominous polling data showing former President Donald Trump holding leads in key battleground states, there are strong indications that President Joe Biden is still polling well among the important 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic.
Democratic strategists expressed confidence that this crucial voting block, which played an important role in his 2020 victory, is still firmly in President Biden's corner, leading many insiders to believe that November's presidential election will turn out differently than current battleground polls indicate.
"We'll be just fine," said Biden campaign chief Julie Chavez Rodriguez. "Mr. Trump's camp may be crowing about all the polls showing him having a lead, but we all know which votes are really the important ones. As long as Donald Trump struggles to win the 3 A.M. unverified mail-in votes, President Biden will still end up being the choice of the American people. Joe just knows how to win those middle-of-the-night votes."
While Trump has built impressive leads in many important states heading into the general election, Biden's track record of winning an overwhelming percentage of votes among ballots that surreptitiously arrive after polling locations have closed and don't have verifiable signatures looms large. "Trump can build as big of a lead as he wants," Chavez Rodriguez said. "It won't matter. We know that the 3 A.M. mail-in ballot demographic will come in strong for us in the end. It may even come in stronger for us this year than it did in 2020. In fact, I know it will."
At publishing time, when asked how many 3 A.M. mail-in votes they expected to need, Biden's campaign said it wouldn't know until election night.
*.*
Top 5 Signs your Robot is Planning Something:
Booked all your flights on United Airlines.
Caught him on the website, "Rewrite their will" dot com.
Attends weekly "Humans Anonymous" meetings.
Has a "Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius" t-shirt.
Keeps watching Terminator movies over and over again.
*.*
New Co-worker: Nice to meet you.
Me: Give it time.
Quote of the Times;
“In short, to rule, one will be held responsible. To rule successfully, one must be capable of responsibly looking after the interests of the ruled. Any elite that does not do so is viewed, correctly, as parasitical and illegitimate, and in Chinese terms, does not hold the Mandate of Heaven.” – Vox Day
Link of the Times;
Zelensky Steps Closer to Mobilization Plunge Amid Dire Warnings:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-4324-zelensky-steps-closer
Issue of the Times;
The Man Who Wrestled Global Hunger To The Ground by Jarrett Skorup
In the winters, I spend my time officiating high school wrestling. Last year, while going through my pre-meet duties, I noticed a wrestler with the last name Borlaug. I asked him if he knew who Norman Borlaug was and was delighted to learn that wrestler was his great-nephew.
Wrestling must be in the family blood, because Norman Borlaug was an accomplished high school and college wrestler who helped expand the popularity of sport at the high school level in Minnesota. (He also worked as a referee). He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
The coach of Borlaug’s great nephew, a high school civics and history teacher, overheard our conversation and asked, “Who’s Norman Borlaug?”
That’s a typical response whenever I mention him. In fact, I didn’t learn of him until after completing my college degree. It’s a shame how few people know the name or the remarkable achievements of the man who took action to feed the world’s population at a time when much of the scientific establishment believed we were on the verge of an inevitable global famine.
Called “arguably the greatest American in the 20th century,” Norman Borlaug probably saved more lives during his 95 years than any other person. He is one of just six people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And yet Dr. Borlaug, who died in 2009, is scarcely known in his own country.
Born on a family farm in Iowa in 1914, Borlaug spent most of his life in impoverished nations inventing, improving and teaching the Green Revolution. His idea was simple: Make developing countries self-sufficient in food by teaching them how to use modern agricultural techniques that are simple to implement. Borlaug spent most of his time in Mexico, Pakistan and India, and focused on five areas: seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides and mechanization. His successes were remarkable.
In 1950, Mexico imported more than half its food. Thanks to Borlaug’s efforts to convince farmers there to try his techniques, Mexican food production increased tenfold by 1970, and the country had become a net exporter. In India and Pakistan, production doubled. Multiple sources estimate that Borlaug's efforts, combined with those he trained and equipped, saved the lives of one billion human beings.
The Green Revolution was almost entirely funded by developing countries and private charities (notably, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations), rather than by the governments of prosperous nations. At the time, the overwhelming view of academic, intellectual and political elites in wealthy countries was that it was already too late.
Biologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb” typified this attitude.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Ehrlich wrote. “In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” He later said, “I have yet to meet anyone familiar with the situation who thinks India will be self-sufficient in food by 1971,” and “India couldn’t possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980.” Ehrlich’s book, required reading at many colleges, stated that it was a fantasy that India would ever feed itself.
But Ehrlich was ignorant of what Norman Borlaug was already in the process of accomplishing. This is the most famous of many of Ehrlich’s colossal errors, which stemmed from a skepticism of markets and human ingenuity.
“In Pakistan, wheat yields rose from 4.6 million tons in 1965 to 8.4 million in 1970,” Reason magazine science writer Ronald Bailey noted back in 2000. “In India, they rose from 12.3 million tons to 20 million. And the yields continue to increase. Last year [1999], India harvested a record 73.5 million tons of wheat, up 11.5 percent from 1998. Since Ehrlich’s dire predictions in 1968, India’s population has more than doubled, its wheat production has more than tripled, and its economy has grown ninefold.”
In spite of Ehrlich’s claims, Borlaug had India feeding itself within a mere five years of the release of “The Population Bomb.” Around the time of Ehrlich’s misguided doom-mongering, Borlaug’s colleagues at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research were spreading his ideas about high-yield rice through Asia, causing another food production explosion. Toward the end of his life, Borlaug was working to institute his agricultural revolution in Africa.
It’s a great irony of my life that at my public high school, we read Ehrlich while never learning about Borlaug.
No good deed goes unpunished, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Borlaug was attacked by proponents of the trendy new faith of radical environmentalism, on the grounds that Green Revolution farming requires pesticide and fertilizer. Gregg Easterbrook quotes Borlaug saying the following in the 1990s:
“(Most Western environmentalists) have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they’d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things.”
There’s an old proverb: “He who has bread has many problems. He who has no bread has only one problem.” During Borlaug’s long career, and continuing to today, modern-day environmentalism typically focuses on massively intrusive government interventions requiring trillions of dollars and enormous societal change. Whether the issue is feeding the hungry, international aid or reliable energy, much less is said about solving real current problems through human ingenuity and proven methods given to us through free enterprise or market solutions.
More than 50 years ago Borlaug wrote, “One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well-camouflaged bureaucracy.”
Some things never change.
News of the Times;
The Prophets: Allan Bloom:
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-allan-bloom
Biden Tells Al Roker His Favorite Memories:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/biden-tells-al-roker-his-favorite-memories-white/
America has no Ukraine Plan B except more war:
https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/america-has-no-ukraine-plan-b-except-more-war/
The fourth anniversary of Faucism:
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/the-fourth-anniversary-of-faucism
Internet is Annoyed With Charlamagne Tha God's Anti-DEI Rant:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/05/internet-is-annoyed-with-charlamagne-tha-gods-candace-owens-sounding-anti-dei-rant-n3786010
Orlando Magic Basketball Star Jonathan Isaac Slams White House:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/orlando-magic-basketball-star-jonathan-isaac-slams-white/
Goldman Sachs Exits Japan Transaction Banking in Sudden Reversal
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/goldman-sachs-exits-japan-transaction-banking-in-sudden-reversal-1.2044248
Kentucky Joins List of States Protecting Gun Owner, Consumer Privacy:
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/kentucky-joins-list-of-states-protecting-gun-owner-consumer-privacy/
Apparently There Is a Link Between EV Weight and Aging Garage Collapse:
https://www.torquenews.com/3769/tabout-year-or-so-ago-there-was-interesting-story-made-rounds-many-information-networks-i-will
Illegal Chinese migrant arrested after breaching Marine base:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13253311/amp/chinese-migrant-arrested-marine-base-california-border-agents-beijing-spies.html
Data Analyst Reveals Shocking Increase In Cancer Deaths:
https://resistthemainstream.com/data-analyst-reveals-something-interesting-found-in-cancer-deaths/
China launches first of a new series of Yaogan reconnaissance satellites:
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-of-a-new-series-of-yaogan-reconnaissance-satellites/
Save the Planet, Kill the Gorillas:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/save-the-planet-kill-the-gorillas/
Israeli drone that killed three British nationals :
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-05-israeli-drone-killed-aid-workers-uk-engine.html
Israel Kills Seven Aid Workers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowMwp7lDiI&ab_channel=TheModernSurvivalist
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