Sandbox – 23feb21

[Did everyone see yet another shot in the shorts for what was known as American culture?  To propagandize the administration’s C19 response and highlight Trump’s alleged failure, the Bidens and Harrises observed what can only be described as a kabuki ‘moment of silence’ for the C19 500K death-count.  Now what could possibly be confusing about conducting a moment of silence?  All you have to do is STFU and look somber for a bit.  But not in Bumblebrain’s brave new America; there stood the two first couples (with Dr Jill still talking or giving directions to Joe) in front of the WH’s twin staircases festooned with 500 garishly-lit candles, while an off-camera band played an unusually loud and raucous rendition of Amazing Grace – moment of silence??!  Whatever norms we previously observed, henceforth these are to be eliminated wherever they are encountered.  gjr]

Comments

[Walt]

YES!!!! A fresh ammo box....Thanks Doc.....
Let's take a shot across the LIBs bow.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/garland-illegal-border-crossings-crime
"
Merrick Garland, President Biden’s pick to lead the Justice Department, said Monday he "hadn’t thought" about whether illegal entry at the southern border should remain a crime.

Garland was asked by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., if he believed "that illegal entry at America’s border should remain a crime?"
"Well, I haven’t thought about that question. I just haven’t thought about that question," Garland responded. "I think the president has made clear that we are a country with borders and with a concern about national security. I don’t know of a proposal to decriminalize but still make it unlawful to enter. I just don’t know the answer to that question. I hadn’t thought about it."

This clown has plenty of "I don't know" in his answers to EVERYTHING.

And this is the SOB "O"loser wanted on the Supreme Court?
GOD help us if Biden gets a chance.

[RXCross]

FYI: According to the New England Journal of Medicine the actual number of Covid-19 infections is far worse than the statistics show. This is because only 1 in 4.6 infections is reported. Many cases are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and aren't diagnosed as Covid and not included in the statistics. This suggests that some kind of herd immunity could be in the population already. The rest home death reporting issues in New York and elsewhere suggest that the actual Covid related death toll is much higher than the 1/2 million threshold recently crossed.

On George's sandbox intro: It must be difficult after giving your fealty to a callous, cruel, and mean spirited man (DJ Trump), to understand why the current administration sought to recognize the tragedy that is Covid-19 rather than dismiss it, as did the previous administration, in an effort to disguise their abject failure to properly respond to the pandemic. Your cynicism demonstrates how politicized your thinking is.

[George Rebane]

RXCross 507pm - That sounds like a pile of made up garbage. Do you have any substantive backing for those claims?

[fish]

Posted by: Wine Aunt | 23 February 2021 at 05:07 PM

I think I hear a little girl angling to have her hair sniffed by Gropey Joe.

[Bill Tozer]

Daily Quotes. Buck made the list, the last quote. Even he, the NYC born and raised kid, is thinking about moving to Florida. Had a BLM protest and mayhem on the streets like right outside. Q of L issues. NY restaurants are open there in Florida, inside, including the bars and libations establishments.... Anyway, quotes.

Insight: “Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” —Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

Upright I: “This is some of the most horrific human activity that we have seen since the last century, and the administration has a responsibility … to convince the Chinese Communist Party not to behave in this way [and] to impose costs on them when they don’t. So to pawn this off as just a different norm or a different set of behaviors, that’s what the Chinese Communist Party says. That’s how they talk about this.” — former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Upright II: “To hear an American president talk about it in such a way that doesn’t connote all the seriousness with which this must be taken is disheartening, and I hope the administration will take it seriously in the same way that we did when we were in office.” —Mike Pompeo

Canaries in a coal mine: “[Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer] continue to treat the January 6 … criminal riot as an excuse to seize power, to control more power, to step on people’s Second Amendment rights, to take away their First Amendment rights. Now we’re hearing about a domestic war on terror. I mean, what’s that going to be? An excuse to go rifle through the emails and bank statements and personal messages of law-abiding Americans?” —Senator Josh Hawley

For the record: “I was so disgusted that Biden, on the anniversary of my daughter getting murdered, announced they were going to put all these gun control measures in place. [None] of those would have made a difference in my daughter getting murdered in Parkland.” —Andrew Pollack

Friendly fire: “That’s classic Andrew Cuomo. … You know, the bullying is nothing new. I believe Ron Kim and it’s very, very sad. No public servant, no person who’s telling the truth, should be treated that way. But yeah, the threats, the belittling, the demand that someone change their statement right that moment? Many, many times I’ve heard that and I know a lot of other people in this state have heard that.” —Mayor Bill de Blasio

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “I think at some point [Trump] probably will be allowed back on [social media] and probably should be allowed back on.” —Bill Gates

Actually, he dropped the nut: “I am offsetting my carbon emissions by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture and funding low-cost housing projects to use electricity instead of a natural gas. And so I’ve — I have been able to eliminate it, and it was amazing to me how expensive that was.” —Bill Gates justifying his hypocrisy

Braying jackass: “The bottom line is, Texas thought it could go it alone and built a system that ignored climate change. It was not what’s called resilient, and now Texas is paying the price. I hope they learned a lesson.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Non compos mentis: “We don’t want low wage businesses. I think most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. … I love small businesses — I’m all for it — but I don’t want small businesses that underpay employees.” —Rep. Ro Khanna

Non sequitur: “Some of the comments I’m seeing on social media from lefties who hate Rush, saying they hope the cancer takes him away as fast as possible — it’s revolting to me. As much as we talk about Trump and misinformation, there is a strain of contempt on the left that also worries me. Why can’t people just say, ‘We hope that Rush gets better quickly’?” —CNN’s Brian Stelter a year ago (And who does he think fueled that hate, then and now?)

And last… “Let’s see a conversation between the people insisting ‘teachers just want to be safe!’ and the grocery store clerks who’ve shown up for work without fail for 12 months — including when we thought the pandemic was far deadlier. Ah, but they don’t have powerful Democrat unions.” —Buck Sexton

[Bill Tozer]

‘How Biden Is Using 500,000 COVID Deaths’
Democrats are pushing a "relief" bill that's long on politics and short on relief.

.....“Help is on the way, courtesy of former President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed that delivered multiple vaccines in record time. Some say COVID cases are dropping too quickly to be attributable to the vaccines. But daily cases reached an all-time high of nearly 300,000 on January 8 and dropped to less than 65,000 yesterday. Over that same span, we’ve gone from eight million vaccines to more than 64 million. If it’s not causation yet, it’s one heck of a correlation.

Even better news on the vaccines comes from The Dispatch: “One study found that Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine is up to 85 percent effective after a single jab, and that it doesn’t actually need to be stored in burdensome, ultra-cold freezers as previously believed.” And another study found it “to be 89.4 percent effective at preventing infections, meaning the vaccine limits most asymptomatic transmission of the virus as well.”

By the end of March, Pfizer and Moderna are likely to have distributed 220 million doses, with another 20 million coming from the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Between these vaccines and natural antibodies, one Johns Hopkins professor thinks we’ll reach herd immunity by April.

But by all means, Democrats absolutely must spend another $2 trillion, and they’ll use whatever milestones and emotions necessary to do it.”

https://patriotpost.us/articles/77946-how-biden-is-using-500000-covid-deaths-2021-02-23?

[Walt]

Nothing to worry about,, move along,,, just Nancy Pelosi flying back on her broom.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-airlines-not-denying-ufo-spotting-says-talk-to-the-fbi

[Scott O]

RXC 5:07 - "It must be difficult after giving your fealty to a callous, cruel, and mean spirited man (DJ Trump)..."
I wouldn't know, dude - maybe if you at least looked up the word 'fealty' - just sayin'.
Even more humorous - "...to understand why the current administration sought to recognize the tragedy that is Covid-19 rather than dismiss it, as did the previous administration, in an effort to disguise their abject failure to properly respond to the pandemic."
And I had thought Biden had a 'plan' to end the Planned-emic.
Turns out all he can do is have a media event to dazzle idiots like RXie.

And of course - "properly respond to the pandemic"
Yeah - he should have done something we have no idea of and still don't, but he should have done it.
You really didn't expect any lefty that posts here to admit that Biden is full of BS with his pre-election promises of a 'plan' to deal with CV19. Biden has openly admitted that nothing will be any better because of anything he can do.
Another dose of Clintonian "I feel your pain".
Thanks.

[Scott O]

Gates - “I think at some point [Trump] probably will be allowed back on [social media] and probably should be allowed back on.”
How damned white of you, Bill.

[Don Bessee]

A good night giggle -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow

[fish]

Xho Bai Den decrees that we will...wink, wink, nudge, nudge... investigate semiconductor wreckers who threaten glorious regime.

Biden To Sign Executive Order On Alarming Computer Chip Shortage That's Thrashed Carmakers

You go....you go now!

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/biden-sign-executive-order-alarming-computer-chip-shortage-thats-thrashed-carmakers

(even though shortage helps Bai Den patrons in CCP......100 Day.....investigate three generations. Family lose face! GO NOW!)

[Walt]

Speaking of a "chip" shortage,, how will Dear Leader square the mining of rare earth materials here on U.S. soil with the ECO bastards and their militant anti mining? Kinda like building solar here.. VERY VERY toxic and "dirty".

But no one has told the ECO bastards just how toxic lithium is.
(and unstable) Those in the know,, sure have kept the self igniting elec. cars hush hush.

[George Rebane]

re Walt & fish - We must always remember that the "ECO bastards" overarching goals are embedded in Agenda21. In there it is made clear that their enlightened society of tomorrow will no longer have privately owned vehicles for travel and transport. Where you will be allowed to go, government transportation will take you. Today we are just witnessing the preliminary skirmishes to destroy the political and economic environment that enables us to still own ever more expensive and inefficient cars.

[RXCross]

Hey George..is everything you don't want to believe a "made up pile of garbage"? But election fraud wasn't a "made up pile of garbage" right? You seem to want to pick and choose what is garbage and what is not. Typical righty in a made up pile of garbage political reality.

https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observations/index.php/why-are-covid-19-case-numbers-dropping/2021/02/21/

[fish]

Posted by: RXCross | 24 February 2021 at 08:58 AM

You seem to want to pick and choose what is garbage and what is not.

Pot meet kettle.......

[RXCross]

9:04. --lips meet ass

[fish]

Posted by: RXCross | 24 February 2021 at 09:57 AM

9:04. --lips meet ass

........c'mon man!

/turns Biden voice off

[George Rebane]

RX 858am - Have no idea what the point of your link is, but I accept the charge that I do indeed "pick and choose what is garbage and what is not." Apparently that is not so in your case. Pray, tell us then, who picks and chooses what is garbage for you??

[Walt]

Here Babs,, from the "it's OK when WE do it" file.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-difference-trump-biden-migrant-facilities-children

"O" and Biden built those kid cages... No complaint... Remember?
But when Trump used them,, OH THE HORROR!!!!!
Now that Chancellor Biden reopens the kide cages,,, well..... THAT's Different!!! Right Babs?
Get back on those antidepressants,,

[Scott O]

8:58 - It must be difficult for the X-man. Loves to claim we are wrong, but can't seem to come up with any specific examples or facts or reasoned argument.
His 9:57 shows his frustration - how very intellectual, dude.

[Bill Tozer]

Daily Quotes

Insight: “All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give it to others to whom it does not belong. We must see whether the law performs, for the profit of one citizen and to the detriment of others, an act which that citizen could not perform himself without being guilty of a crime. Repeal such a law without delay. … [I]f you don’t take care, what begins by being an exception tends to become general, to multiply itself, and to develop into a veritable system.” —Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

Upright: “We use black power to create white guilt. My approach is biblical: How can I ask my Heavenly Father to forgive me if I can’t forgive my brother? … Many have died trying to get into America. No one is dying trying to get out. … What percentage of black must you be to receive reparations? Do you go to 23andMe or a DNA test to determine the percentage of blackness? Some American ancestors just came to this country 80 years ago, their ancestors wasn’t even here during slavery. Some black immigrants weren’t here during slavery, nor their ancestors. Some states didn’t even have slavery.” —Herschel Walker

Observations: “[Rush] Limbaugh’s devoted fans believed their values helped build and sustain America through wars, economic downturns and other challenges. They see those values under siege from a secular progressive generation that tolerates everything but them. Many had served in the military to defend once traditional values and the freedoms many now take for granted, as if freedom is automatically and effortlessly achieved. These people go to church and take their children to Sunday school. Some enroll their kids in Christian schools or home school them because they dislike what is taught in public schools. They believe their country is losing all moral standards, is becoming increasingly corrupt and in danger of extinction if things don’t turn around. Shouldn’t these concerns explain why they wish to issue warnings because they love the country and don’t want it to fail? Limbaugh was their spokesman in these and other matters.” —Cal Thomas

Food for thought: “People associate evil with darkness. But that is not accurate: It is easy to look into the dark; it is very hard to stare into bright light. One should therefore associate evil with extreme brightness, given that people rarely look at real evil. And those who do not confront real evil often make up evils (such as ‘systemic racism,’ ‘toxic masculinity’ and ‘heteronormativity’ in 21st-century America) that are much easier to confront.” —Dennis Prager

For the record: “The suspension of the rule of law … is when you start to be a police state, and we’re here. There is no way around it. … Lockdowns have never been done in society and really, we are turning into a totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes.” —former Democrat adviser Naomi Wolf

Friendly fire: “[Andrew] Cuomo abused his powers to hide life and death information from the Department of Justice that prevented lawmakers from legislating — like fully repealing corporate immunity for nursing homes. That is an impeachable offense.” —Democrat New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim, who added, “The only way to protect the integrity of the co-equal branch of the state government, AKA the ‘People’s House,’ is to start impeachment.”

A trip down memory lane: “You know, I walked in when I was 21 and I got arrested. In those days, no guards stopping you everywhere. And they just got out of session. I walked in the back; all of the sudden I found myself in the chamber. I was stunned. I walked up, sat down in the presiding officer’s seat, guy grabbed by the shoulder and said, ‘You’re under arrest.’” —Joe Biden in 2007 about being arrested for trespassing in the Senate chamber

Then: “I waited for a vaccination appointment, and patience was rewarded. … I think it was the National Guard running the show. Very cool. Get it done, folks. Let’s kill this thing.” —Stephen King, who lives in Florida, on February 5 | Now: “It seems possible — likely, even — that Ron DeSantis provided rich, Republican-leaning communities like Lakewood Ranch with priority vaccinations for political gain.” —Stephen King on February 22 (“Stephen King is 73 years young. Two weeks ago, he got a vaccine against a virus that’s deadliest to people in his age group. That’s because the state of Florida is prioritizing those people. The elderly are the most vulnerable to COVID. Florida is vaccinating the elderly first. It really shouldn’t be a difficult concept to grasp.” —Jim Treacher)

Non compos mentis: “There are things, even if you’re vaccinated, that you’re not going to be able to do in society. For example: indoor dining, theaters, places where people congregate. That’s because of the safety of society.” —Dr. Anthony Fauci (In other words, the only way to have a safe society is to have no society.)

And last… “Disney is concerned that ‘The Muppet Show’ is offensive. But filming where China runs concentration camps for Uighurs? Disney is okay with that.” —Senator Tom Cotton

[Walt]

DAMN!!!! Of all my years digging holes, I have yet to come up with anything this good....💩😢
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-homeowners-gardening-buried-duffel-bag-guns

I wouldn't take much to get those working again...

[Bill Tozer]

‘Once-secret FBI informant reports reveal wider-ranging operation to spy on Trump campaign‘
Goal was to find "anyone" inside GOP campaign tied to Russia who could get dirt "damaging"
to Clinton, newly declassified memos reveal.

“Brock, the former FBI executive, said Wray's and Comey's effort to avoid using the word spying in the Russia case were simply semantics.

“What they are doing is using preferred definitions,” he said. “When we employ the investigative techniques used against Carter Page to break the laws of another country and steal their secrets, it’s okay to call it spying. When we use those same techniques against a U.S. citizen, it’s called an investigation."”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/once-secret-fbi-informant-reports-reveal-wide-ranging

Talk about a threat to our democracy. No wonder the Lefties went nuts when AG Barr called it “spying”. They went full unadulterated nuts. It not spying!

Exit question: Shouldn’t MSNBC be taken off the air for spreading misinformation, aka, fake news? Or does that just apply to Fox and friends?

[George Rebane]

Mr Tozer, where, oh where, are our progressive commenters to refute all these new revelations about the FBI that continue inflating the election-impacting Big Lies that were manufactured by the Dems???

[Barry Pruett]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/special-election-gov-newsom-held-fall-gavin-organizer-lockdowns-california-small-business

It is very interesting that the state of California is failing to verify as valid nearly 20% of the signatures on the recall petition, but at the same time the percentage of rejection of ballots as invalid is way lower. And this is a question for George. Wouldn’t math dictate that the verification of valid ballots during a recall or during election should be substantially the same?

[Barry Pruett]

Currently, Nevada County is stating that they have a 15% rejection rate and connection with valid recall signatures. Only three months ago, Nevada County asserted that they had nearly an 88% voter turn out. The math simply doesn’t make sense, unless there’s something nefarious going on. Maybe George can shed some light on this dilemma mathematically?!

[George Rebane]

Barry 928am - If the voters' mentality and motivations were the same, then the rejection rates should be pretty nearly identical for the large sample sizes encountered for the various cohorts. But since it takes fewer valid votes to put recall on the ballot, the rejection rate may be a lot higher than for an election. The reason being is that the recall opposition is motivated to launch a false flag petition signing effort with rejectable signatories in order to bump the raw count and hope that the petition workers will stop getting more signatures. That will result in much higher rejection rates and possibly disqualify the recall.

[fish]

Uh Oh......Robin DeAngelos grift looks like it might be in trouble!

Robin DiAngelo Diversity Course Instructing People To ‘Be Less White’ Removed From LinkedIn

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/23/linkedin-robin-diangelo-confronting-racism-course-removed-be-less-white-diversity-coca-cola/

[Bill Tozer]

Daily Quotes for Thursday, Year One

Insight: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Observations: “Equality is a social condition. Equity is social engineering.” —Andrew McCarthy

Indeed: “Ever notice how protecting people from dangerous misinformation looks exactly the same as censoring true information you’re scared of?” —Frank J. Fleming

Belly laugh of the week: “Watching a woman put her mask on between bites of food and I can’t help but wonder how we survived so long as a species.” —Sydney Watson

For the record: “The authoritarian left has broadened out the meaning of incitement to include any verbiage that elicits strong emotions … so long as conservatives are responsible for such verbiage. Thus, it’s possible incitement to call people by their biological pronouns but perfectly innocent fun to wink and nod at widespread looting and rioting. … The establishment media are fond of saying that we’re experiencing a crisis of authoritarianism in America; they point to the criminal acts of Jan. 6 and suggest that right-wing authoritarianism threatens democracy itself. The far greater threat to democracy, however, lies with an authoritarian left that is now ascendant in virtually every powerful institution in America.” —Ben Shapiro

Upright I: “My ancestors were slaves. And my life as a young woman was a mess. Was my life a mess because my ancestors were slaves? I don’t think so. My life was a mess because I lived a wanton, irresponsible existence, defined by promiscuity, petty crimes and scamming the nation’s well-meaning but totally confused welfare system to the greatest extent of my ability. Did I need reparations to turn things around for me? Certainly not. I needed a wake-up call, which, to my great gratitude, I got, from a few church-going black Christians who told me the way I was living was unacceptable. I went to church, took back responsibility for my life and turned my circumstances around. The problem with the idea of reparations is it redirects attention away from exactly where attention is needed: on individuals’ personal responsibility for their own unique lives.” —Star Parker

Upright II: “Compensation for damages is a basic legal principle. It’s about personal responsibility. Individual A sues individual B for damages caused. Exactly what the damages were and exactly how B injured A must be shown in a court of law. Today, only a small fraction of our population has ancestors who were around before 1865 when slavery was legal. The idea of collective guilt, with no specific individual identified as causing the damage and no specific individual showing how he or she was damaged, doesn’t fly. If there is any legitimate claim of collective guilt, it is the guilt of original sin, which we learn in the book of Genesis. Every man and woman is imperfect and responsible for fixing themselves — and, by doing so, helping to fix the world.” —Star Parker

Friendly fire: “Multiple administrations have made the callous choice to lock up thousands of children seeking refuge in the United States of America. As long as we see people seeking a better life as ‘aliens’ instead of fellow human beings, our immigration system will continue to fail us.” —Ilham Omar

Non compos mentis: “Bold reimagination is so [important]. DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more.” —AOC

Village idiot: “The Patriarchy continues to try to crush my neck with their heavy boots, cut off my life force and take away my voice—Even those who call themselves artists…………..You know who you are!!! DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY! Now and Forever.” —Madonna, who’s worth nearly a billion dollars

And last… “In four weeks, the Biden administration has been known for two things: open borders and closed schools.” —Senator Rick Scott
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The Anti-Woman and Destruction of Female Sports Act:

‘Redefining Equality’
"The Equality Act isn't about protecting people from discrimination."

https://patriotpost.us/articles/77993-redefining-equality-2021-02-25?

[fish]

HEY?!?! Where Punchy be?!?!

Joe Biden isn't going to vaporize 50K of student loan debt! He decided that putting kids in cages was really a good thing! Plus he is going back on the $15/hr minimum wage.

I guess that makes him a liar!

Remember when you hate, hate, hated lying politicians?

[Walt]

It starts,,, " It's Trump's fault!!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/25/jen-psaki-blames-trump-administration-for-current-migrant-crisis/
"Since Biden won the 2020 election, a surge of unaccompanied minors has been apprehended at the border. In January alone, Customs and Border Protection took almost 6,000 unaccompanied children into custody.
However, Psaki said Trump’s policies were to blame."

[Walt]

What a way to go....
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/25/long-island-new-york-cemetery-grave-yard-dirt-collapses-kills-worker-police/

[Walt]

And you thought I was kidding when I said "ICE delivers".
Well here you go.
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scrambling to find bigger airplanes and figure out more ground transport capacity for soaring numbers of illegal immigrants, and is even talking with a company that runs “Man Camps” for oil workers in Texas to see whether it will rent bed space for the incoming wave of illegal immigrants.

New Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ICE that cost is no issue, and to cancel contracts and sign new ones without worry about the price tag, according to the email from ICE Chief of Staff Timothy Perry. Mr. Mayorkas said he is also pondering diverting money from the border wall “to backfill budgets later,” the email said."

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/02/25/feds-to-bus-fly-surge-of-bidens-migrants-to-u-s-homes/

[Scott O]

No wonder the left wants to shut down voices on the other side. The left knows that their positions are intellectually indefensible and their adherents just aren't very bright.
The company that manufactures Oreos is only able to come up with this for a support of whatever it is they are supporting.
"Trans people exist."
https://twitter.com/Oreo
Okie Dokie.
But - so do folks that torture and dismember small children.
Oh, it doesn't stop there. There are so many examples lately of the Xo Bi Den admin in which highly placed figures or people who are nominated to high positions can't even give an answer to a straight forward question. They are so unintelligent or uninformed that they can only dodge the question with a pre-formatted screed that does not even start to address the question. Here's the latest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laS93iac9Ws
I don't give a small rodent's rear end what kind of costume Levine wants to show up in for a conformation hearing, but it would be nice if he could at least respond intelligently to a clear and important question. That he is unable to do so is what concerns me.
Why should parents ever be responsible for their children in matters of liability if they are no longer to be able to have even the slightest bit of control over their children's behavior?
Dr Paul brings up several other pertinent questions that Levine wouldn't even touch.

[Scott O]

Lord, it just doesn't stop:
https://twitter.com/i/events/1364975955144540168
"The singer is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of the dogs."
Not a reward for info on the punks that shot her dog-walker.
Let this sink in.
Leftist values - sooooo humanitarian.
She's going to have to hire Pinkerton to walk her dogs from now on.
Of course, she'll waive her usual 'deeply felt' abhorrence of firearms for the protection of her poochies.
Sorry - your family doesn't count.

[Scott O]

fish 1:46 - "Remember when you hate, hate, hated lying politicians?"
Actually, he never said that to my knowledge.
He only stated that he hated Trump because he was a lying politician.
It has to be clear by now that Paul Emery has no fixed sense or system of morality beyond "what I like and what I don't like".
Humans have employed this sort of behaviour for eons before we developed something called 'civilization'.

[Bill Tozer]

re: Yes, we all want schools to reopen. Especially K-8. Yes, we all care about the children.

Interesting to see VP Kamala Harris stop bobbing and weaving for once and get into her rift about something she knows all about besides arresting parents of truant kids. How school closures affect or kids, even if it’s just for a few seconds, it was refreshing to hear.Still waiting for the teachers unions to tell Harris & Biden what to say. Politics trumps children and we all lose.

‘Kamala Harris fumbles when challenged on school reopenings in ‘Today’ interview’

“We know, we have worked on this issue for years, around the fact that by the end of the third grade, if a child is not at third-grade reading level, they literally drop off. So each day in the life of a child is a very long time, and that’s why we’ve got to collectively do everything in our power to reopen our schools as quickly as possible and as safely as possible.”

https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/kamala-harris-fumbles-when-challenged-on-school-reopenings/
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In related news.......she loves our kids too! Everybody loves our children, no matter how we crush them, ROFLMAO.

‘Kids Are Resilient And Kids Will Recover’: Nat’l Teachers’ Union President Dismisses Effects Of School Lockdowns’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-teachers-union-president-dismisses-effects-of-school-lockdowns

Who was it that predicted last fall that schools would reopen just in time for summer vacation? Think it was Buck Sexton or Matt Walsh. After summer break for the teachers, we will see if they reopen for the fall.

PS: In this case, resilient is the wrong word to use. Does not quite cut the mustard. The proper word the Teachers Union Head should have used is ‘adaptable’. Children are adaptable. They adapt to all sorts of things, from witnessing domestic violence or criminality down the street, to being homeless, watching Dad lose a job, wars, to Dr. Rebane being strafed as a child.
Children adapt to bad situations like not being in school, seeing their friends, running around the playground kicking a ball and burning off energy, and yes, playing sports and going out for pizza with the family on Friday nights.

While some school aged kids have kept up with the academics, their social and developmental needs have not. They adapt. They have found 70% of kids in some areas (districts) that did not bother to log on to their Zoom lessons even once. Hard to bounce back to something one never had. Adapt, not resilient.

[Scott O]

BT 8:10 - Around here, the kids have been back in school since fall of last year. 'Course this is just a bunch of hicks in Idaho, not the smart fellers in the big cities. Do you think the 'news folk' would care to broadcast any of this noise to the nation?
Not on your life.
In our neighborhood and town, hardly anyone wears a mask or shuns a handshake.
And we seem to be doing alright. Sorry to hear about you big city slickers with your Planned-emic. We hear your old folk are dropping over dead left and right. Maybe you need a Democrat or two to straighten things out. I hear that Cuomo fella got all kinds of awards. Oh well, Glad to hear Biden is on the case. He has a 'plan' I hear. Soon as we get wind of it, we'll be laughing our asses off about it.

[Bill Tozer]

@ 9:26
Now now there Scott, No need rub it in. Our solutions here are worse than the problems. What I don’t like is these Zoom lessons in kids’ bedrooms and so freakazoid teacher flips her wig and calls the cops on the parents and expels immediately the kid cause little Johnnie had a squirt gun on a shelf behind him!! Holy Bat Guano, it’s a gun!!!! And call CPS. Make little Johnnie a foster kid on top of being locked down and locked up.

Boy, they really would blow their tops if little Johnnie had a movie poster on his wall. Domestic terrorist!

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/H~8AAOSw2fhefSoA/s-l300.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/H~8AAOSw2fhefSoA/s-l300.jpg

[Bill Tozer]

Matt Walsh on why Twitter tried to cancel me. You can jump to 2:00 or 2:45 or the middle to it, it’s all good....especially the end. Dovetails nicely with research from Brown that got the researcher burned to the stake.

Pointing out they have a strategy is bad.

https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/439798114108125

[Walt]

Make stupid decisions,, Live with it.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/26/supreme-court-orders-no-regrets-jihadi-bride-shamima-begum-cannot-return-to-uk/
"Shamima Begum, the teenager who left Britain to join the Islamic State and was subsequently stripped of her UK citizenship after she spoke out about having no regrets about joining the caliphate cannot return to get her citizenship back, the Supreme Court has ruled."

Almost like voting* Biden into office.

[Walt]

So the Proggys want Biden to act like a dictator? Like they accused Trump of trying to be?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/progressives-urge-white-house-to-overrule-top-senate-official-and-include-15-minimum-wage-in-covid-relief-bill
"Progressive Democrats launched a last-minute campaign urging the White House to overrule a top Senate official who decided late Thursday night that a federal minimum wage increase could not be included in the coronavirus relief package."

[Don Bessee]

Looks like those mutha mullahs just hit back -

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/vehicle-carrier-ship-hit-explosion-132040645.html

;-)

[fish]

Oh Ja'Mal

Didn't they tell you.....? Xho Bai Den has been lying to the hot polloi for 50 years! Sorry you missed the memo!

"We didn’t flip Georgia Blue for Biden to air strike Syria. We flipped Georgia Blue for our $2,000 Stimulus Checks."

Oh well he got your vote so he really doesn't need you anymore! Maybe Grandpa Badfinger eventually gets you your check....someday.....if he remembers it?!

Hey Punchy.....if Ja'Mal doesn't have his check does that mean Bai Den lied.....asking for a friend!

https://twitter.com/JaymalGreen/status/1365169223497048064

[Walt]

Yup,, EVERYTHING is "white supremist"
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/26/petition-for-resignation-of-school-board-trustee-who-called-plan-to-return-to-in-person-learning-white-supremacist-ideology-slavery/

"Parents in the La Mesa-Spring Valley, California, school district are calling for the resignation of a school board trustee who referred to plans to return to in-person learning as “white supremacist ideology.”"

Someone loves getting paid to sit at home.

[Bill Tozer]

No more Green Eggs and Ham.

‘Oh The Places The Woke Will Go: Dr. Seuss Canceled For ‘Racial Undertones’

“Learning for Justice claims that anyone who defends Dr. Seuss’s problematic work is a racial “apologist” and is making excuses for why “bigotry doesn’t matter.”

The education group also tells teachers to directly discuss Dr. Seuss’s “racist” past with older students, though “older students” remains an undefined category. Teachers were asked to explain to students how racism shows up in places and people they may least expect.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones?

I heard Big Bird came out of the closet as Gay Bird, so at least heshee is safe for now.

[Don Bessee]

Dont bother with the facts -

Police use deadly force under 1,000 times out of 30 million violent felony criminal contacts per year. That’s a 0.0004 percent chance of being shot by the police. In America, “you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be shot by police.”
The NYPD in 2019, with 35,000 officers only fired their weapons in the line of duty 34 times. The Chicago Police Department, with 13,000 officers, only fired their weapons in the line of duty 34 times, and the Baltimore Police Department only fired their weapons in the line of duty four times.
O’Donnell accused politicians of playing a “shell game” by distracting the voters’ attention to false policing narratives while failing voters in “education, infrastructure, and transportation.”

O’Donnell noted that by defunding the police, “politicians will not decrease your taxes” but relocate the money to different areas. And when crime goes up, the municipality will “raise your taxes to lower the crime.”

“That’s all this is; they are just using this money and this opportunity because ‘never let an opportunity go to waste,’ that’s a democratic motto – to fund all these projects they’ve always wanted to fund all along.”

https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2021/02/26/cpac-myth-buster-0-0004-percent-chance-of-being-shot-by-police/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Saying screw you to cancel culture -

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/hyatt-defends-cpac-decision

;-)

[George Rebane]

DonB 715pm - And here's another stat worth noting as the Left makes their next attempt at taking our guns. Even though the probability is very low of your being murdered by a rogue cop, your probability of being murdered by a CCW permit holder is six time less, or 1/6 the probability of being shot by a rogue cop. In America, CCW holders are the safest armed people of all - the least likely to perpetrate any kind of 'gun violence'.

[Bill Tozer]

My my. Its all good and well until they turn on you. Chomp, chomp. I side with the WA Post on this one. That young (?) reporter got a taste of who she made her bed with. What a foul racist lot the Lefties are. Bates Motel. She was not "doing her job". Her job is to not do that ever again. The New Media...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-defends-reporter-who-got-hate-online-for-asking-murkowski-about-tanden-tweet?

[Scott O]

George 7:53 - "...the Left makes their next attempt at taking our guns."
There are those on the left that want the govt to seize privately owned fire arms, but the Dems in office have made it clear what they really want is to bleed money from the owners of fire arms. Lots of money. I doubt any of it will pass muster with SCOTUS but it sure sells fire arms like nothing else.
The latest from Xho Bai Den is making all the buyers of "untraceable" 80% lowers to pass background checks. But if they are truly "untraceable"...
Now, how is this going to work?

[Bill Tozer]

Asian-Americans Under Attack?
Blame our soft-on-crime leaders.

https://www.city-journal.org/surging-crimes-against-asian-americans

[Don Bessee]

Have a giggle -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Those mutha mullahs asking for it -

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/israel-says-initial-assessment-iran-183638885.html

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Ya what about that -

San Francisco’s Black community makes up over five percent of the city’s population, but Fox News could not immediately reach the mayor’s office for comment on why other minority groups, like the Hispanic community -- which account for 15 percent of the city’s population – have been excluded.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-to-move-120-million-from-police-to-black-community

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The thought police hard at work unpersoning aka canceling people -

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/27/suny-geneseo-suspends-education-student-for-saying-a-man-is-a-man-a-woman-is-a-woman/

;-)

[fish]

Hey Punch.....?

Biden doesn't penalize crown prince despite promise to punish senior Saudi leaders

A lie .....from Xho Bai Den......? That’s unpossible!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/biden-mohammed-bin-salman-jamal-khashoggi/index.html

[Walt]

For the science guys. It has yet to slow down.
https://www.volcanocafe.org/possible-runup-phase-at-fagradalsfjall/

Iceland my be looking for a new capital.

[Don Bessee]

Tru dat! -

The WEF, which the primary body pushing Klaus Schwab’s idea of a so-called ‘Great Reset’ of the global economic order, was widely ridiculed for the post, including by former Brexit Party MEP turned political commentator Martin Daubney, who was among the first to flag the video before it was taken down. Daubney later reposted the video, further exposing the WEF to criticism.

Speaking to Breitbart London, Mr Daubney said: “I’m glad they tweeted this — because it has exposed them for the out of touch crackpots that they are. The WEF sees humanity as a blight, something to be controlled and imprisoned, in order to meet arbitrary climate change targets.

“There’s just one problem, the public won’t play along with their Great Reset nonsense. All of the things the WEF want to stop: work, travel, capitalism, are the things the vast majority of humanity lives for. The WEF have exposed themselves as ridiculously out of touch with the everyday man and woman. Sheltered in their ivory towers, they treat the rest of us with absolute seething contempt.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/27/great-reset-wef-hails-quieter-lockdown-cities-as-businesses-collapse/

;-)

[Walt]

THIS is why Chancellor Biden doesn't do public appearances.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/02/27/joe-biden-speaks-in-houston-what-follows-should-make-you-question-everything-n334243
"After waiting nearly two weeks to respond, he finally left the bunker and headed down to Texas to do a photo-op in the wake of a massive winter storm. A normal president would have been there meeting with FEMA officials and surveying damage a week prior, but we obviously don’t have a normal president.

Therefore, instead of getting a public address when it mattered, we get this far too late performance that should leave you questioning everything.

If you watch the clip, he flubs Shelia Jackson Lee’s name, calling her “Shirley” after stumbling around. He then starts tripping all over himself to list the rest of the names his handlers have given him. Eventually, he devolves into asking “what am I doing here” because this is all totally normal or something.

To be clear, what is in that clip is not a stutter. A stutter does not make you say the wrong word nor does it cause you to be unable to read a list a names. It doesn’t even stop you from speaking in a manner that is otherwise understandable. What a stutter does is exactly what the word purports. It causes a stopping on and repetition of certain sounds. You never hear that effect from Biden because his issue is not a stutter, no matter how much the media try to gaslight the public into believing it is. This is a man whose mental capacity appears to be rapidly declining before our eyes. You can watch videos of Biden from just five years ago and he’s a totally different person."

[Don Bessee]

Fredo's brother is on the skids -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-former-aide-accuses-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment-report

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Rush: short and sweet. There is a lesson for us in their somewhere. :)

RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE ORIGINAL CANCEL CULTURE TARGET.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/434937/

[Bill Tozer]

Things go better with woke.

THE WEEK IN PICTURES: WOKE COKE EDITION

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/the-week-in-pictures-woke-coke-edition.php

[Don Bessee]

WHOO HOOO 7 bombs on mud huts, i am sure those mutha mullas are quivering as they plot the next attacks -

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/satellite-images-reveal-extent-of-damage-caused-by-biden-administration-s-first-military-action/ar-BB1e4I3w?ocid=msedgdhp

;-)

[fish]

SWABBED: Chinese Government Anally Swabs U.S. Diplomats, Biden’s State Department Begs Them To Stop

The Chinese government originally claimed that the anal swab Covid test was applied "in error," before disregarding U.S. protests about the "dignity" of State Department officials

The administration had no comment when queried about members of the delegation who allegedly got back in the testing line multiple times.....

[Don Bessee]

Starting to look like a feeding frenzy -

NY Dems condemn new Cuomo sexual harassment claims, call for his ousting, independent probe
'@NYGovCuomo, you are a monster, and it is time for you to go. Now,' state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi reacted

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-dems-call-for-independent-probe-into-new-sexual-harassment-claims-against-embattled-gov-cuomo

;-)

[paul emery]

Here's something the Circle of Jerks on the RR Blog can pool their resources and buy and use as an attractions for gatherings and parties and also feature in the Repubs booth at the fair.

"Golden Trump statue at CPAC was made in Mexico -- and is for sale. From Politico :

"Tommy Zegan spent over six months crafting the 200-pound fiberglass statue with the help of three men in Rosarito. He transported it to Tampa, Fla., where it was painted in chrome, then hauled it from there to CPAC in a U-Haul, where he managed to cart it through the conference in just a black-and-white Hawaiian shirt and no CPAC credential, Zegan crafted an even higher-end, stainless steel version that cost his 'life savings,' or $50,000. He said he's aiming to sell that one for over $1 million. But if not, he hopes to see it in a future Trump Presidential Library."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/02/27/trump-stewing-over-mccarthy-again-ahead-of-big-cpac-speech-491926

[Bill Tozer]

I wish the Lefties could/would make up their minds. First they go running around decrying White Supremacist racism and bigotry against the Asian Community (think Kung Flu), then they throw the Asian Community under the bus as being too much like the white devils. Situational ethics is like watching a ping pong tournament.

‘Boston Public Schools Will Suspend Advanced Classes Because Too Many Students In Them Are White Or Asian’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-public-schools-will-suspend-advanced-classes-because-too-many-students-in-them-are-white-or-asian?

Why do I get the impression that our Lefty Totalitarians are trying with all their might to steamroll us? Lay it on us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N91EOUunpTA

[Bill Tozer]

Trump — Once and Future King?

https://buchanan.org/blog/

Sweet dreamies

[fish]

Posted by: paul emery | 27 February 2021 at 10:06 PM

Knock your self out Punch....gaudy, tasteless statuary is more of a musician thing!

[Bill Tozer]

‘Your Kids Would Be Better Off Feral Than Going To Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists’
State-sponsored instruction that makes your child a dogmatic racist relativist is not worth any benefit you feel schools give in return. Not a single one. Being Mowgli would be better

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/25/your-kids-would-be-better-off-feral-than-going-to-schools-that-make-them-anti-american-racists/

And they come home from school hating their parents. A two-fer.
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Huff-n-Puff Farting Post, the lefties go to source:

‘Huffington Post Reporter Matt Fuller Makes Up Capitol Police Investigation Into GOP Congressman’

Huffington Post congressional reporter Matt Fuller made up a story about Republican Rep. Russ Fulcher being under investigation by Capitol Police over objections to illegal metal detectors set up in front of the House chamber.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/huffington-post-reporter-matt-fuller-makes-up-capitol-police-investigation-into-gop-congressman/
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This is soooo racist and non-inclusive.

‘Amazon Strips Clarence Thomas Documentary From Streaming Service During Black History Month’

Amazon stripped a documentary on conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black justice currently serving on the Supreme Court, from its streaming service during Black History Month

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/amazon-strips-clarence-thomas-documentary-from-streaming-service-during-black-history-month/

[Bill Tozer]

L.A.’s New Controversial D.A. Hires Prosecutor Who Suggested Cops Are ‘Trained To Kill Us’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/l-a-s-new-controversial-d-a-hires-prosecutor-who-suggested-cops-are-trained-to-kill-us
———
In related news....

‘George Gascón, L.A.’s New Progressive D.A., Becomes Target Of Recall Effort’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-gascon-l-a-s-new-progressive-d-a-becomes-target-of-recall-effort

[paul emery]

Trump is your guy fish. Your kind of man. I don't care for him much myself. I thought you'd appreciate my idea. You could even sell coffee mug replications at Republican gatherings and Proud Boy campouts.

[Scott O]

Paul 10:06 - Total hilarity!
Could you have possibly found a less important item from the news?
I guess the word 'Trump' was in the article, so everything else going on in the world escapes your attention.
What happened to the guy you could hardly wait to vote for?
Buyers remorse, much?
Hmmmm?

[Bill Tozer]

TDS: Progressive and Irreversible; that be one empty soul. One can drive a truck through that hole in his gut and the cold wind keeping blow right through.

[Bill Tozer]

AZ: Judge Sides With Senate GOP Over Audit Of Millions Of Ballots, Election Equipment

https://www.dailywire.com/news/az-judge-sides-with-senate-gop-over-audit-of-millions-of-ballots-election-equipment

[paul emery]

Just trying to be nice Scott about your hero Trump. I can see it now Trump becoming a Buddha for the Repubs with thousands of Trump statues of Trump and his fat belly. The Republican Part has truly become the Cult of Trump and cults need spiritual moments and since George believes that Capitalism is Gods gift why not take a holy moment each day, so to speak, to pause and have some quiet time in front of your own personal Trump likeness.

[Bill Tozer]

They say what killed the #Me Too! Movement is what will eventually kill the PC Woke Movement—it’s all fun and games and quite the in-crowd fad...until the Lefties start taking down their own.

‘Even NPR Noticed Sen. Gillibrand Won't Talk About Cuomo #MeToo Moment’

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/02/28/even-npr-noticed-sen-gillibrand-
wont-talk-about-cuomo-metoo-moment
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SPEAKING OF HATE SPEECH
“As in a Stalinist purge, Amazon has silently “disappeared” Ryan Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally. Amazon tacitly alleges that it acted under revised guidelines prohibiting the sale of “content that we determine is hate speech … or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive,” including content that “promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children, contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, [or] advocates terrorism.” Beyond citing the policy, Amazon has declined to justify its treatment of Anderson’s book.

The suppression of Anderson’s book cannot reasonably be justified under Amazon’s policy. Not even close. What we have here is the enforcement of a party line — forgive me for repeating myself — as in a Stalinist purge.

As I noted here yesterday, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf remains for sale by Amazon. Likewise Quotations From Chairman Mao (a/k/a “the Little Red Book”). And you may want to walk around Amazon’s Che Guevara Store as well.

Now the Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles identifies a few other items that have escaped the net of Amazon’s revised policy. The list he has compiled reflects a spirit of mockery. Teddy Kennedy’s True Compass is an example.

Stiles’s mockery is one approach to keeping the Amazon story alive. We need it and more.

A few of the items Stiles identifies fall into the category of “get ’em while you can” — the Bible, the Constitution, and Huckleberry Finn, for example. Examples could be multiplied endlessly. Think, for example, of Aristotle’s Ethics, with its analysis of slavery. It’s enough to make you think that perhaps this whole “hate speech” thing could get out of hand, or that this is precisely the point.”

[Bill Tozer]

Roflmao. Ok, it’s more sad than funny. Guess Creepy Joe was channeling retired Navy vice admiral James Stockdale.

BIDEN
“WHAT AM I DOING HERE?”
“We would all like to know the answer to that question, Joe. Biden’s dementia proceeds apace:”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/what-am-i-doing-here.php

Sad times. Heck, the Dems claimed President Reagan had big time dementia, yet quote Reagan’s ‘Shining City on the Hill’ as their most cited Reagan speech by our Dems (who are not our friends). Well, if Reagan with dementia can deliver a powerful stirring speech at the end of his Presidency, why can’t Joey Fingers of the Biden Crime Syndicate (who his supporters claim he does not have dementia) give a real speech early on in his presidency? Sloe Joe went back home to Delaware for the weekend. Hopes he gets some much needed nice peaceful naps. Do not disturb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

[paul emery]

Just remember Bill that Reagan never wrote a speech in his life. He was always reading a script. Surprising that you didn't understand the role of an actor.

[Gregory]

punch 1016am

I can tell the wait for Nov '22 is gonna be hard on you.

Your gushing over the guy with the Trump statue reminded me of he character Lucy played by Christina Ricci in 'Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas' (the Terry Gilliam version) with Depp and Del Toro.

Lucy painted portraits of Barbra Streisand, over and over.

[🐠]

Posted by: paul emery | 28 February 2021 at 08:23 AM

Trump is your guy fish.

If he’s my guy Punch why are you so obsessed with him! I don’t fall 😍 in love with politicians. I don’t recall ever playing the Reagan card and don’t really see myself getting all wet eyed over Trump.

You on the other hand just can’t seem to let go Punch.....why is that?

PS: Xho Bai Den....that old Xi cuddler ....has been breaking campaign promises left and right! What’s up with that? Is he lying?

[Bill Tozer]

Today’s theme is shaping up to be called ‘meaningless”. Or emptiness. “Vanity, vanity, all things are vanity”, which correctly translated means “Emptiness, emptiness, all things are emptiness.” Same ancient word for ‘void’. Politics has intruded greatly into spheres in which it does not belong; at home, at work, at play, in sports, and in entertainment, in the sewing circle. Even shopping at the market. Leaves one empty.

Interesting perspective. Haven’t read Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ since ‘72 or ‘73, but it always struck with me.

‘My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough’

“But, I suspect the problem is more nuanced than this. I don’t doubt that Gen Z is under a lot of strain, but I also think our plight is unique. For the first time in history, much of our misery stems not from too much suffering, but from not suffering enough. Gen Z does face real problems. I have certainly felt beleaguered by the pressures of social media, an oversaturated job market and the impact of coronavirus restrictions on my education. On top of that, there’s the difficulty of simply trying to exist as a fallible human in a political climate which demands infallibility, where nothing feels light-hearted anymore, and everything we say or do in our youth is stained onto the Internet for all time.

So, pressure is no doubt part of it. But previous generations faced egregiously difficult times: world wars, pandemics, economic crises, political rebellions, totalitarian regimes, and conditions of extreme poverty. Not only that, but today there are a wider range of mental health services available than ever before, and Gen Z are more likely than any other generation to seek treatment. So, for our rates of mental illness and suicide to be so high in a time of relative peace, there must exist a more convincing explanation than simply the asperities of life.

What lurks over my generation is not just a sense of misery, but meaninglessness. We exist in a state of lethargy and unfulfillment, tormented not by the tragedy of it all, but the futility. This is a point most articles and public figures today are less willing to discuss. But, to examine this possibility isn’t to say that Gen Z never struggle—but to suggest that at least some of us are caught in a rut of boredom, not burnout.“

https://quillette.com/2021/02/28/my-generation-isnt-suffering-enough/
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Counter argument to above: Blame the Boomers, I do. Well, blame the Utopia Marxist peddlers. At least the writer’s opinion has merit.

‘How Baby Boomers Ushered In Our Narcissistic Age’
Helen Andrews' book, 'Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster,' offers a penetrating and damning look at a generation that put America on a path to ruin

“Just short of the season of Festivus, he conflated the memes with hate speech: “Boomer’ is the n-word of ageism. Being hip and flip does not make bigotry ok, nor is a derisive epithet acceptable because it is new.” Lonsberry was done listening to the internet-fueled ageism on steroids. After years of cultivating “snowflake” and “Peter Pan” as practical analogs of the word “millennial,” the baby boomers were not about to lay down and take it in return.

Then again, anyone who has survived the COVID-19 apocalypse thus far should only be surprised at the vainglory. Only a generation who has been dictating the past 50 years of cultural trends could happily raise children and grandchildren who demanded worldwide lockdowns and wave it off as the price of living in society. The Baby Boomers ushered in this narcissistic age, and the millennials will have to wrest it from their cold, dead hands.“

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/how-baby-boomers-ushered-in-a-narcissistic-age/

[George Rebane]

Anybody wanna make book on when PaulE will let go of Trump and start addressing the travesty that the Biden administration has already become?

[Gregory]

gr 1237pm

I'll say never, but it's hard to place a bet on something not happening.

[fish]

Posted by: George Rebane | 28 February 2021 at 12:37 PM

Put a Grant down for me on never.

[fish]

Really Gavin......again??

Newsom appears to post TikTok inside restaurant, denies eating there

He must be a tremendous burden on the family who has been finding employment for the pretty, pretty halfwit all these years....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-appears-to-post-tik-tok-inside-restaurant-in-county-where-indoor-dining-is-not-allowed

[Don Bessee]

The awakening is beginning in france -

When the results are divided by political affiliation, the survey showed that 82 per cent of the supporter of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally believed the issue to be a problem, while 83 per cent of the centre-right Republicans held the same views, Franceinfo reports.

Supporters of Emmanuel Macron’s Republicans on the March (LREM) party agreed with the proposition 80 per cent of the time.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/28/nearly-7-in-10-french-say-islamo-leftism-a-major-problem/

;-)

[Paul Emery]

Been watching Trumps boring speech with weak response from the all white crowd. Of course what's a surprise about that since he's the biggest presidential loser in his first and only term since the 1800's. Can't be a bigger loser than that.

He's history and will spend his next 4 years pimping himself to raise money for his millions of dollars of legal fee's. What a hoot.

He's talking about the Repubs being a party of love-sure. Just look at Jan 6 for an example.

[Don Bessee]

Fredos brother and his party have a metastasizing problem -

Lindsey Boylan calls on Cuomo to resign or be removed from office: He can't choose his judge and jury, 'we do'
Boylan expressed her support for Charlotte Bennett, who also came forward with claims against Cuomo

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindsey-boylan-andrew-cuomo-resign-sexual-harassment-scandal

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-harris-warren-silent-cuomo-after-second-woman-sexual-misconduct-allegations

;-)

[Paul Emery]

TV's off. Walking my dog. Boring boring boring.

[Don Bessee]

Yes, yes you are @238!

;-)

[Don Bessee]

NEWSFLASH - Botox nancy throws fredos brother under the bus! -

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-calls-cuomo-sexual-harassment-allegations-credible

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

“Trump is your guy fish. Your kind of man.”

And Biden is Punch’s kind of guy. Best to watch out for Fish. He was making the moves on My Gal in 2016.
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“Yes, yes you are @238!”
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Don, that is what is known as ‘leading with the chin.’ He does than quite often.

Retirement and not being needed is going to hard on the old guy, besides the 2022 mid-terms.

[Bill Tozer]

Looks like Bill Maher is getting sick and tired of the wokemaniacs. Me too!

THE UNITED STATES OF CENSORSHIP

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/the-united-states-of-censorship.php
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[Bill Tozer]

‘Kamalafornication’
The Vice President and the politics of solipsism

https://spectator.us/topic/kamalafornication-kamala-harris-california/

[Scott O]

I asked Paul about his hot pick for POTUS and he responds with not a single word about what I had asked him, but he did manage to type 'Trump' 5 times in a single post.
Capitalism is one of God's gifts to us Paul - but I don't worship idols. Sounds like you're projecting again.
We all know about your Ann Coulter doll.
Did you have her next to you on the couch watching CPAC?

[Don Bessee]

We are way past that now -

Young authors may be self-censoring because they worry they will be "trolled" or "cancelled", according to celebrated writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro.

Sir Kazuo, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, warned that a "climate of fear" was preventing some people from writing what they want.

He said they may be concerned that an "anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery".

He told the BBC: "I very much fear for the younger generation of writers."

The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences.

"I think that is a dangerous state of affairs,"

He said he was particularly troubled about young writers "who rightly perhaps feel that their careers are more fragile, their reputations are more fragile and they don't want to take risks".

His comments come after a number of freedom of speech disputes, with writers being "cancelled" or facing threats to boycott their work. High-profile targets have included JK Rowling, Julie Burchill and Jeanine Cummins.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56208347

;-)

[Don Bessee]

State propaganda from the socialists in Minneapolis -

https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-minneapolis-social-media-influencers-city-approved-messages-derek-chauvin-trial

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