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Sunday, February 28, 2021
Saturday, February 27, 2021
UNCLE JOE STARES INTO THE FUTURE
BY SCOTT JOHNSON | Powerline
The gentleman from Madame Tussauds emerged from storage yesterday to read remarks celebrating 50 million COVID-19 vaccinations. Whoever prepared the text is seeking to exploit the ignorance of Biden supporters and others who may devote 23 minutes of their lives to taking it in.
The lords of Amazon have put me in mind of Joseph Stalin
this morning. I see Biden in this light. He is the source of all that is good
and true. Simon Sebag Montefiore put it this way in a Times
book review:
The Bolsheviks viewed the ideology of Marxism
as essentially scientific in its analysis of human progress, and science was
always a vital part of their conception of the Soviet Union,
which they trumpeted as the first state ever founded on “scientific”
principles. Its rulers, particularly Lenin and Stalin, regarded themselves as
manifestations of the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” which gave them the
authority to adjudicate on everything in society, including the arts and
sciences. Lenin was an intellectual, at home as much in the British Museum
Library as in the Kremlin. Stalin was a published romantic poet and
enthusiastic autodidact with a library of thousands of books, not only read but
annotated. They had the confidence to interfere in every genre of art
and every discipline of science. Stalin would soon be hailed as the all-knowing
coryphaeus (leader of the chorus in Greek drama) of science.
Uncle Joe, as I think of him in this context, is all but
the inventor and distributor of the vaccine. His unnamed predecessor has been
“disappeared” from the history. He not only didn’t have anything to do with the
vaccine, he was an obstacle to it. Uncle Joe — he’s the “vaccinator” in
chief (emphasis on the last syllable or you will be eliminated).
John called out the thoroughgoing
gracelessness of Biden’s performance here yesterday.
Watching
Biden speak, one sees something beyond the gracelessness. Staring blankly at
the teleprompter, easily confused, struggling to read and articulate, Biden
appears to be out of it. He’s losing it, if he hasn’t yet lost it altogether.
We need the little boy to shout out, “The emperor wears no clothes!”
Toward the end of his remarks Biden “pushes” (his word)
his $1.9 trillion “recovery plan.” The lying is out of control.
Biden chooses “to close with this. The question I’m asked
most often is, when will things get back to normal?”
Biden’s answer combines the lying and the gracelessness
that permeate these remarks. The preface is a giveaway: “My answer is always
honest and straightforward.” This is Biden’s version of “to be perfectly
frank.”
“I can’t give you a date. I can only promise
that we’ll work as hard as we can to make that day come as soon as possible.
While things are improving are we’re going from a mess we inherited to moving
in the right direction at a significant speed, this is not a victory lap.”
Translation: Not any time soon.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/uncle-joe-stares-into-the-future.php
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The Ledger Report: Bombshell Truth about Covid: the Pandemic that Never Was!
Not only are the death by Wuhan coronavirus numbers
horribly and politically inflated, but the “science” of the spread and who is
most vulnerable has been staring at the CDC and the rest of government for
nearly a year. This never was an actual “pandemic”. The government response to
COVID-19 is nothing more than a partisan attack. Graham Ledger speaks with the
author of the book Covid-19: Lockdowns on Trial about the dangerous mistakes
government perpetrated on Americans and why the so-called “pandemic” is over!
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STUDY:
Long term mask use breeds microbes that infiltrate the lungs and contribute to
advanced stage lung cancer
By: Lance D Johnson
A new study finds that cultivation and enrichment of microbes on the face can infiltrate the lungs through unconscious aspirations and cause inflammatory responses and advanced stage lung cancer. The nose and the mouth were designed to take in oxygen without strain, uninhibited. The oxygen travels down the trachea and splits off into two tubes called the bronchi. From there, the oxygen travels down a series of bronchioles until it reaches the alveoli, which are tiny air sacs covered with blood vessels. These air sacs take the oxygen directly to the heart, where it is dispersed throughout the body.
When a person exhales, the process is put in reverse and
the lungs exhale carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide gas is the vehicle that
allows the organ systems to rid the body of wastes. When this process is
obstructed or restrained for prolonged periods of time, the lungs and the heart
struggle to nourish the rest of the body. Long term mask wearing also hinders
the body’s natural ability to detoxify wastes, creates an acidic environment,
and slowly strains the organ systems throughout the body.
Masks are priming the lungs for inflammation
and lung cancer pathology
A study published in the journal Cancer Discovery finds
that lung cancer progresses when the lungs are forced to regurgitate microbes.
Prolonged mask use creates a moist environment that cultivates microbes. This
toxic environment not only forces the person to regurgitate their own wastes,
but also inundates the lungs with microbes that cause a toxic environment that
feeds lung cancer.
The researchers found that the lungs are not just a
sterile environment. When microbes inundate the lungs, they can active an
immune response. This causes inflammatory proteins such as the cytokine IL-17
to appear.
Microbes that are normally found in the mouth can make
their way into the lungs. “Given the known impact of IL-17 and inflammation on
lung cancer, we were interested in determining if the enrichment of oral
commensals in the lungs could drive an IL-17-type inflammation and influence
lung cancer progression and prognosis,” said Leopoldo Segal, Director of the
Lung Microbiome Program and Associate Professor of Medicine, New York
University Grossman School of Medicine. (Related: Masked schoolchildren are
harmed physically,
psychologically, behaviorally and suffer from 24 distinct health
issues.)
Masks cultivate and enrich microbes that
infiltrate the lungs and cause immune suppression
The research team used diagnostic clinical bronchoscopies
to analyze the lung microbiomes of 83 untreated adult patients who were
diagnosed with lung cancer. They identified the composition of each microbial
environment and documented which genes were expressed as a result. They found
that lung tissue from patients with advanced state lung cancer (stages 3b-4)
was more enriched with microbes than lung tissue of patients who had early
stage disease.
This increased enrichment of oral bacteria in the lungs
was also associated with decreased chance of survival, no matter the stage of
tumors. The bacteria colonies that caused the most damage was Veillonella,
Prevotella, and Streptococcus bacteria, all of which are more readily
cultivated in a mask. Tumor progression was associated with the enrichment of
Veillonella, Prevotella, Streptococcus, and Rothia bacteria. The cultivated
microbes infiltrate the lungs and affect genetic expression, namely the p53,
PI3K/PTEN, ERK, and IL-6/IL-8 signaling pathways.
In further evaluation, the cultivation of Veillonella parvula in the lungs of mice led to expression of inflammatory proteins, increased expression of IL-17, and the presence of immune suppressing cells. “Given the results of our study, it is possible that changes to the lung microbiome could be used as a biomarker to predict prognosis or to stratify patients for treatment,” said Segal. Prolonged mask wearing not only puts strain on the heart and lungs but also cultivates a microbial environment that is more likely to infiltrate the lungs and create an environment of cancer.
CDC data shows that COVID-19 survival rate
for adults is 99.98%; chances of surviving coronavirus is over 99.9% for
most age groups
The coronavirus pandemic which started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has claimed at least 253,600 American lives, according to the latest tracking data from Johns Hopkins University. In September, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (IHME) predicted that more than 410,000 Americans could die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020.
With governments around the world imposing a new round of
lockdowns to combat the second wave of coronavirus, the question
remains: Just how deadly is the coronavirus? Who are the most
vulnerable and why? To answer some of these questions, researchers and
public-health officials use the infection fatality rate to determine how to
respond to the deadly virus.
In late August, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) published its findings on the survival rates for
COVID-19 and its controversial provisional death counts. CDC said
there is a high survival rate for COVID-19 and individuals are more likely
to survive the coronavirus after contracting it. According to the CDC
data, 94 percent of all coronavirus deaths, on average, have 2 or more
pre-existing conditions or causes per death or co-morbidities.
Based on the stats, it means that less than 10,000
Americans or 6% of the 161,392 US deaths are related to COVID-19 only. Put
another way, 94% of Americans who died from COVID-19 had other “types of health
conditions and contributing causes” in addition to the virus, the CDC said in
the updated report.
The latest CDC data on new survival rates for COVID-19
includes five COVID-19 pandemic planning scenarios “that are designed to
help inform decisions by public health officials who use mathematical modeling,
and by mathematical modelers throughout the federal government.” According
to the CDC, each scenario is based on a set of numerical values for
biological and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 illness, which is caused
by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The five COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios also
represent a range of possible parameters for COVID-19 in the United States. All
parameter values are based on current COVID-19 surveillance data and scientific
knowledge. “Scenarios 1 through 4 are based on parameter values that represent
the lower and upper bounds of disease severity and viral transmissibility
(moderate to very high severity and transmissibility),” the CDC explained. The
CDC says that Scenario 5 represents a current best estimate about viral
transmission and disease severity in the United States, with the same caveat:
the parameter values will change as more data become available.
Below is a quick summary of the CDC COVID-19
Survival Rates.
Age 0-19 — 99.997%
Age 20-49 — 99.98%
Age 50-69 — 99.5%
Age 70+ — 94.6%
Below is Infection Fatality Ratio for Scenario
5: Current Best Estimate
R0* 2.5
Age 0-19 years: 0.00003
Age 20-49 years: 0.0002
Age 50-69 years: 0.005
Age 70+ years: 0.054
Looking at this data, one can argue that, the most
vulnerable age group does (Age 70 and older) does okay with an Infection
Fatality Ratio of 0.054. This CDC data should also be sufficient for everyone
to feel safe, get the kids back in school, and return back to work. The
findings also cast doubts on mainstream media narratives about the potential
lockdown later in the year.
Since most in our major news outlets remained silent
refuse to cover the news. The state of the media is so bad that it takes a
foreign journalist to report the news. Adam Creighton, an Economics
Editor, of The Australian and Co-Host of Business Weekend at Sky News
Australia, said this on Twitter, “The US govt last week updated the survival
rates (i.e., IF infected) for Covid19: …Didn’t see it reported much.”
Below is a screenshot of Table 1 of the CDC 5 planning
scenarios.
In Table 1 below, the Parameter Values
that vary among the five COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios. The scenarios
are intended to advance public health preparedness and planning. They are not
predictions or estimates of the expected impact of COVID-19. The parameter
values in each scenario will be updated and augmented over time, as we learn
more about the epidemiology of COVID-19. Additional parameter values might be
added in the future (e.g., population density, household transmission, and/or
race and ethnicity).
CDC is not alone in predicting a high survival rate for COVID-19 survival rate. Another study conducted by Stockholms Universitet in June 2020, reached a similar conclusion. The study titled, “Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities, and Health System Capacity,” found there is a 99.99 percent chance of surviving Covid-19. The study further suggests that the fatality rate from COVID-19 varies greatly across countries.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
FBI Releases Docs in Heat of Capitol Riot That Show Pelosi’s Communist Roots Run Deep
By Kyle Becker
Among the revelations was that D’Alesandro Jr., who was a
member of Congress and mayor of Baltimore, was shown to have ties to communist
organizations, including a Soviet front group.
Investigative reporter John Solomon dug through the files
and unearthed the most revealing passages on Just the News:
Elsewhere, the memo cites a “confidential source, who has
furnished reliable information in the past,” reporting that D’Alesandro
appeared onstage at a 1943 rally for the National Council of American-Soviet
Friendship, which was formed in 1943 by the Coummunist Party USA as a Soviet
front group, according to the FBI.
The following year, the memo notes, D’Alesandro was
reported as the main speaker at an event for the International Workers Order,
an insurance organization placed on a list of subversive organizations by the
U.S. attorney general in 1947 and later disbanded by order of the New York
State Insurance Department for being too closely aligned with the Communist
Party, in violation of regulations prohibiting political activity in the
industry.
The files also at times paint a picture of serious
corruption:
In the same memo, which begins on page 38 of the
collection, the agent summarizes allegations that a powerful D’Alesandro took
payoffs from applicants to the police force, and that he helped to hinder the
investigation and prosecution of crimes.
“Pelosi” author Molly Ball, in an NPR interview on “Understanding Nancy Pelosi,” only gives half the story about the future Speaker’s Baltimore roots:
One of her mentors earlier in her career, Jack Murtha,
used to say about her, don’t think she’s from San Francisco. She’s from
Baltimore. And that’s both literally true and true in a deeper sense, right?
Her father was a congressman from Baltimore and then became the mayor of
Baltimore. He came out of the machine politics of Baltimore, a Democratic city.
She was born in 1940, when her father was already in Congress. So literally
from the day she was born, she was part of this very Catholic, very Democratic,
very Italian family that was involved in the political life of the city and the
nation.
And that machine politics, as you know from Philadelphia,
was very much about the sort of tribes and factions of the city. The different
ethnicities all had their own little neighborhoods, and they all had a sort of
boss who could deliver their votes, often in exchange for something. So when
you see the kind of deal-maker that Nancy Pelosi is, when you see the kind of
negotiating that she does on Capitol Hill, I think a lot of it does trace back
to her roots in Baltimore.
It appears that the environment that molded Pelosi’s drive
for power was one part radicalism and one part machine politics. It makes
perfect sense.
Speaker Pelosi herself has taken positions indicating her
sympathy for Communists. In the 1980s, she lionized an open socialist named
Vivian Hallinan, even calling her a “role model.” Cliff Kincaid noted in a 2009
story:
Indeed, Pelosi paid tribute to Vivian Hallinan by
inserting into the Congressional Record an article saying that she had ‘opposed
U.S. policy in Central America’ under President Reagan, had ‘befriended Daniel
Ortega, Nicaragua’s [Communist] Sandinista leader,’ and had met with Cuban
dictator Castro.
“She was a role model for many of us,” Pelosi said. “If
Vincent was the lion, Vivian was the lioness.”
“My mother and Nancy were pretty close,” said Conn Hallinan, one of her sons. Vivian Hallinan would financially back one of Pelosi’s campaigns.
As Kincaid notes: “Vincent Hallinan, a lawyer who died in
1992, was a founding member of the San Francisco chapter of the National
Lawyers Guild, officially designated a front of the Communist Party, and
defended secret Communist Party member and labor leader Harry Bridges.”
Hallinan ran for president on the ticket of the
Progressive Party, which a California State Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on
Un-American Activities described as, “a creature of the Communist apparatus,
and completely dominated by the Communist Party from start to finish.”
This raises even further questions about exactly what
kind of “creature” Nancy Pelosi is.
It turns out, it’s the kind that refuses to denounce
socialism. Instead, Pelosi denies that the oppressive ideology is the
mainstream view of the Democratic Party.
Judging from her past, Nancy Pelosi knows better.
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Leftists Become Incandescent When Reminded of the Socialist Roots in Nazism
By Daniel Hannan | Real Clear Politics | March 13, 2014
On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for
Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the
Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he
wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased,
Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver "der echte
Sozialismus": real socialism.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Here Are a Few Communist Atrocities You Don't Know About and the Left Hopes You Never Do
By Dennis Prager | The Western Journal
Photo: Vladimir Lenin, Russian founder of the Russian
Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution
(1917) - Getty Image
One of the most highly regarded books of the 20th century
was Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death.” Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize,
the book is regarded as a classic for its analysis of how human beings deny
their mortality.
But there is something people deny more than mortality:
evil. Someone should write a book on the denial of evil; that would be much
more important because while we cannot prevent death, we can prevent evil.
The most glaring example of the denial of evil is communism, an ideology that, within a period of only 60
years, created modern totalitarianism and deprived of human rights, tortured,
starved and killed more people than any other ideology in history.
Why people ignore, or even deny, communist evil is the
subject of a previous column as well as a Prager University video, “Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism?” I will, therefore,
not address that question here.
I will simply lay out the facts.
But before I do, I need to address another question: Why
is it important that everyone know what communism did?
Here are three reasons:
First, we have a moral obligation to the victims not to
forget them.
Just as Americans have a moral obligation to remember the
victims of American slavery, we have the same obligation to the billion victims
of communism, especially the 100 million who were murdered.
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Second, the best way to prevent an evil from reoccurring
is to confront it in all its horror.
The fact that many people today, especially young people,
believe communism is a viable — even morally superior — option for modern
societies proves they know nothing about communism’s moral record. Therefore,
they do not properly fear communism — which means this evil could happen again.
And why could it happen again?
That brings us to reason number three.
The leaders of communist regimes and the vast number of
people who helped those leaders torture, enslave and murder — plus the many
more people who reported on their neighbors for saying something objectionable
to the communists — were nearly all normal people.
Of course, some were psychopaths, but most were not.
Which proves that any society — including free ones — can devolve into
communism or some analogous evil.
Now some facts:
According to the authoritative “The Black Book of
Communism,” written by six French scholars and published in the United States
by Harvard University Press, the numbers of people murdered — not people
killed in combat; ordinary civilians trying to live their lives — by communist
regimes were:
Latin America: 150,000
Vietnam: 1 million
Eastern Europe: 1 million
Ethiopia: 1.5 million
North Korea: 2 million
Cambodia: 2 million
The Soviet Union: 20 million (many scholars believe the
number was considerably higher)
China: 65 million
These numbers are quite conservative. For example, in
Ukraine alone, the Soviet regime and its Ukrainian Communist Party helpers
starved 5 to 6 million to death within a two-year period. It is almost
inconceivable that only 14 to 15 million other Soviet citizens were murdered.
And, of course, these numbers do not describe the
suffering endured by hundreds of millions of people who were not murdered: the
systematic stripping people of their right to speak freely, to worship, to
start a business or even to travel without party permission; no noncommunist
judiciary or media; the near-poverty of nearly all communist countries; the
imprisonment and torture of vast numbers of people; and, of course, the trauma
suffered by the hundreds of millions of friends and relatives of the murdered
and imprisoned.
These numbers don’t tell you about the many starving
Ukrainians who ate the flesh of people, often children, sometimes including
their own; or the Romanian Christians whose communist prison guards forced them
to eat feces to compel them to renounce their faith; or the frozen millions in
the vast Soviet Siberian prison camp system known as the Gulag Archipelago; or
the Vietnamese communists’ routine practice of burying peasants alive to
terrorize people into supporting the communists; or Mao Zedong’s regular use of
torture to punish opponents and intimidate peasants, like leading men through
the streets with rusty wires through their testicles and burning the vaginas of
wives of opponents with flaming wicks — Mao’s techniques to terrorize peasants
into supporting the Chinese Communist Party in its early days.
I return to the theme of the denial of evil.
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.
The Book of Psalms states, “Those of you who love God —
you are to hate evil.”
In other words, you can’t love God if you don’t hate
evil.
And if you don’t believe in God, here’s another way of
putting it: “Those of you who love people — you are to hate evil.”
If you don’t hate communism, you don’t care about, much
less love, people.
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Sources
for the above:
Ukraine:
Anne Applebaum, “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.”
Romania:
Eugen Magirescu, “The Devil’s Mill: Memories of Pitesti Prison.” (Cited in Paul
Kengor’s “The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death,
Deception, and Infiltration.”)
Vietnam:
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975.”
China:
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, “Mao: The Unknown Story.”
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https://www.westernjournal.com/dennis-prager-communist-atrocities-dont-know-left-hopes-never/
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Former Clinton Adviser: US Becoming a
'Totalitarian State' Under Biden
By Jack Davis | The Western Journal
The creeping shadow of totalitarianism is falling across America,
according to feminist author Naomi Wolf.
Wolf, who served as an adviser to former President Bill Clinton during his 1996 re-election campaign,
appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Monday, declaring that emergency orders are violating the rights of
Americans, according to Fox News.
Wolf said Americans must see “the terrible crisis that
we’re in, that we have to recognize — under the guise of a real medical
pandemic, we’re really moving into a coup situation, a police state situation.”
“That’s not a partisan thing,” Wolf told Carlson. “That
transcends everything you and I might agree or disagree on. That should bring
together left and right to protect our Constitution.”
“We’re absolutely moving into what I call step 10,” she
said, referencing the book she wrote about totalitarianism and how tyrants
consolidate power, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.”
“Whether they’re
on the left or the right, they always do the same 10 things and now we’re at
something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime,” she said.
“It is step 10 and that’s the suspension of the rule of
law, that’s when you start to be a police state, and we’re here. There is no
way around it.”
Wolf said that groups on the left and right are
both concerned over the direction the nation has taken,
saying that the ordinary people she speaks with are expressing “fear and
horror.”
“The state has now crushed businesses, kept us from
gathering in free assembly to worship as the First Amendment provides, is
invading our bodies … which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, is
restricting movement, fining us — here in New York state I could be fined
$15,000 a day if I gather people more than 10 or 25 people, depending on where
in New York state I live — which is a complete violation of the First
Amendment. The violations go on and on and on,” Wolf said.
“Autocratic tyrants at the state, and now the national
level, are creating this kind of merger of corporate power and government
power, which is really characteristic of Italian fascism in the twenties,” she
said.
“They are using that to engage in kind of emergency
orders that simply strip us of our rights: rights to property, rights to
assembly, rights to worship and all of the rights that our Constitution
guarantees.”
Wolf said Americans must protect their Constitutional rights.
“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say all this can be
suspended if there’s a bad disease. We have lived through typhus, cholera,
smallpox, HIV, tuberculosis, polio, the Spanish flu.”
“We’ve lived through an attack on our soil — never have
there been months and months and months of emergency powers when we weren’t
actually fighting a war,” Wolf said.
“Lockdowns have never been done before in free societies,
and really, we are turning into a version of a totalitarian state before
everyone’s eyes.”
“I really hope we wake up quickly,” she said, “because history also
shows that it’s a small window in which people can fight back before
it is too dangerous to fight back.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/former-clinton-advisor-us-becoming-totalitarian-state-biden/
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CATCHING
WILD PIGS
BY Henry P. McIntosh IV
Karl Marx once said, "Remove one freedom per
generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one will have
noticed."
I have had this story in my computer files for at least
five years. I do not know who the author is but I came across it last night and
began editing it. I wanted to share it with you because the lesson is so damn
important that I hope you will share it with others across this great land.
There once was a biology professor in a large college that
had some foreign exchange students in his class. One day while the class was in
the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept
rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter.
The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while
fighting Communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his
country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his
story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked:
"Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor
laughed and thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man
said that it was no joke. "The way you catch wild pigs is by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs will find
it and begin to come every day to eat the free food. If you have patience, soon
they will come every day. At that point, you put a fence down one side of the
place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the one-sided fence,
they begin to eat the corn again and, at that point, you put up another side of
the fence.
The pigs get used to the two sides of the fence and they
ignore it preferring to find the corn eat the free food all there for the
taking. Exhibiting patience, you continue until you have all four sides of the
fence up with a gate on the last side. You leave that gate open.
The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come
through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate shut on
them and catch the whole herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run
around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they put aside their captivity and go
back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten
how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their
captivity."
If you think about this story, it is exactly what is
happening in America & Canada. The government keeps pushing us toward
Communism /Socialism and keeps spreading the “free corn” out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credits for unearned income, tax
exemptions, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare
entitlements, medicine, drugs, shelter and access to our social security
programs for illegal immigrants, open borders during a pandemic, etc., all
while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
President Biden campaigned (from his basement) as the
soft-spoken, grandfatherly gentle leader, unlike that curmudgeon Trump, who was going to fulfill our every need. In
case you haven’t noticed, none of Biden’s actions, all 52 of his executive
orders, have done anything positive to help Americans and America. Indeed, they
have weakened America economically, morally, and militarily.
One can make a good case that President Biden is pushing our nation closer to war every time he opens his mouth. Certainly, his willingness to re-enter the Iran Deal is not just a slap in the face of Israel, but a door opener to fostering armed conflict because Israel will not stand by and allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. John Kerry, the new “Climate Czar” has his fingers in the Iran discussions and is blinded by his desire to welcome the world’s largest sponsor of state terrorism and hatred for all things Western to the table. And, of course, Kerry is delighted that the democrats have embraced climate change and escalated it to the top of their list of vitally important and necessary things to accomplish! Of course, there is no science behind any of it, but that doesn’t matter.
The damage has already been
done with Biden’s canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline, banning fracking and oil
and coal exploration on Federal Land, and wiping out America’s energy
independence it took decades to develop. And who, in command of their
faculties, believes Joe Biden will be tough on China’s expansion plans in the
South China Sea? Remember, there is a plethora of evidence to suggest he and
his son Hunter have very close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and might
very well have taken payments in exchange for access to the office he now
holds.
One should always remember two truths:
1. There is no
such thing as a free lunch and,
2. You can never
hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
You see, stripped of all the fancy jargon and the talking heads we see on TV, the major problem we face today is this:
The democrats/ liberals/socialists/communists all believe passionately that the future of America lies with Big Government.
In their minds, it is big government that
must be the guiding light for our future. Big government can plan our lives for
us and our children better than we can ourselves. Big government believes that
the problem does not exist that throwing money at it cannot solve. Hell, we’ve
spent $5.0 Trillion since the 1960s on Civil Rights and we’ve still got “racial
inequity”….but no one is mentioning that in the media…any media. For the Left,
government agencies once created are the closest thing we have to eternal life
here on earth!
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans believe that
the Republic or Founders gave us, where the only sovereign power our
representatives have is that which we the people have given to them, is still
the most unique and admired form of government in the history of mankind. It
has served us well for 245 years and is the envy of the world! That bears
repeating….the envy of the world. We still revere the worlds of Abraham
Lincoln…’government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not
perish from the earth”
People ask me from time to time…what can we do? My response is always the same: fight back! Write your representatives, congressmen and women, senators, governors. Organize and inundate them with your feelings. Don’t sit back and allow yourselves to be overtaken by actions you know to be wrong. You have the power to do this. Use it.
Meanwhile, If you see that all of this wonderful
government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in
America & Canada, you might want to share this with your friends. If you
think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably not
share this.
But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
Now, think about this:
Quote for today: "The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Op-Ed: How long can Biden flip-flop on immigration?
By William Haupt III / The Center Square contributor
President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential
Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. - AP
Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool
“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters
are to shopping.”
– David Letterman
As word spread throughout Europe about opportunities in
the New World, Europeans cast their fate upon the rigging of the Mayflower. They
braved the seven seas to reap the harvest of bountiful gifts awaiting them in
America. They were dissatisfied living under monarchs with limited economic and
social mobility. They were audacious, enterprising, industrious and eager to
invest in America.
The spirit of our immigrant founders was the impetus for
our independence and built the commerce of our nation. Immigration brought us
craftsmen, skilled workers, Enlightenment thinkers, inventors, scientists and
scholars. America attracted Europe’s most inspired citizens seeking social,
cultural and national unity. America’s unlimited boundaries for all men built
the foundation of her greatness.
But in subsequent years, the attitude of those seeking
refuge in America changed. Rogue leaders, wars, poverty, religious malignity
and political upheaval influenced waves of immigration; both legal and illegal.
Some came to invest in America, but others came to live off the prosperity and
wealth of the Americans.
“A simple way to measure a country is to look at how many
want in.”
– Tony Blair
For years, America opened its doors to the oppressed,
especially after the Great Wars and Asian conflicts. But flaws in our laws
surfaced after the 2001 terrorist attacks and during the 2007-2009 recession.
When large numbers of families showed up at our borders, our system imploded.
For years, the left has blocked immigration reform, claiming it was inhumane to
deny poor Mexican families entry to the U.S. Although this leftist altruism is
admirable:
“The devil is in the details.”
– Gustave Flaubert
During the presidential debates, immigration was a hot
topic with Democrats. Biden, who ran as a centrist in the Democratic primary
against progressives and socialists, took a hard stand against open borders:
“Undocumented immigrants need to ‘get in line’ and we have a right to
‘cherry-pick’ degreed, high-skilled immigrants. I will give only those with
doctorates a seven-year green card.”
Latino activist Mayra MacÃas, wrote “Joe Biden is out of
touch with every other Democrat running."
Progressive candidate Latino Julián Castro said, “This is
unacceptable for a Democratic candidate.” But Biden retorted, “When people
cross the border illegally, it is illegal, unless they seek asylum.”
Throughout the primary, Biden refused to address the
Obama-era immigration deportation policies that Donald Trump continued. In
fact, he defended deportation. But during a CNN interview, under pressure from
progressives after he received the nomination, Biden boldly did an about face
on his position!
“It’s a big mistake to import anyone here illegally
without a criminal record.”
– Joe Biden
Of course, for Biden this is politics as usual, and the
day he took office Biden laid out his vision for major immigration reforms. He
wants to provide citizenship for over 11 million people who are illegally in
the U.S. and halt deportation of illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as
children. He ended asylum rules that prevented privilege abuse. He pledged less
border security to allow more illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. under more
lenient laws. He promised them access to federal and state social welfare
programs.
For someone who ran in the center on immigration and
supported Obama’s deportation policies for eight years, why was Biden so easily
convinced to turn to the far left on immigration? Biden saw the writing on the
political wall when the GOP secured key victories in the in 2020 state
elections. This will pay huge dividends for the GOP after the census and during
the state redistricting process.
Since House seats and Electoral College votes are
assigned by total population, increasing head counts in blue states is vital
for progressive socialists. So don’t be surprised if Biden signs an executive
order to build a bridge across the Rio Grande over to the U.S. border in a few
weeks.
"Just because someone is here illegally doesn't mean
they broke any of our laws."
– Nancy Pelosi
The 2020 census reveals the number of U.S. illegal
immigrants will shift 26 House seats. Changing the party of 21 Congressmen can
flip control of the House. Of 26 seats that will be lost, 24 are from states
that voted GOP in 2016. Five blue states will gain 19 seats: California,
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Texas and Florida are the
only two GOP states who will gain seats.
When Socialist Bernie Sanders won his sixth primary, it
threw a monkey wrench in the left’s plans to turn the republic into a socialist
nirvana through the back door with help from our southern border. When
progressive socialists panicked, they resuscitated Biden from inevitable
retirement, and rewrote his resume. Overnight, they transformed a perennial
loser into a progressive Horatio Alger.
The left has been candidly outmaneuvering the GOP,
planning their political future. Although the GOP will be in charge of the
redistricting in critical states, the left is offering carrots from the public
treasury to lure illegal immigrant families to come to their sanctuary cities.
By increasing their head count in Congress and in the Electoral College, they
will cancel out most losses during redistricting.
Author Calvin Trillin wrote, “When you put a puppet on a
throne, never let go of the strings.” Biden is a stand in for a real president,
and does not make the call on anything. Allowing Biden to manage immigration
reform would be like putting Forest Gump in charge of the Army Air Corps bomb
squad.
“It is easy to get along. Just stand up straight, and
just answer yes.”
– Forest Gump
Biden is desperate to increase the headcount for the left.
But laborers drain on our support system while skilled workers and
professionals invest in our nation. They enhance our workforce and bring value
to our society. They pay taxes and increase our GOP. Any discussion on
immigration reform that does not improve this important element of our
migration policies should be DOA in Congress.
Latinos are the nation’s fastest growing voting segment.
If Biden can’t convince his party and his progressive and socialist comrades to
cut deals with the GOP on immigration reform, he’ll not pass anything at all.
With middle and upper class Latinos trending more toward the GOP, if Biden will
not work with the right on pragmatic immigration reform, he’ll lose control of
this progressive base.
Biden has a record of failures at every level of
government. If he fails on immigration reform, it will be his Waterloo. It will
nail the coffin shut on his political career, and turn over the reigns to
Harris.
The GOP must decide; would it be better to deal with
Biden or with Harris on immigration reform?
It is time the GOP expressed a desire to address
immigration reform on “their terms,” which would favor a higher class of
immigrants. Progressives are under the gun to deliver before the midterms.
“Why do people with certain political ideologies want to
help other people break the law? If we can answer that question, we can clarify
our response to the issue of illegal immigration.”
– Lee Elmer
Monday, February 22, 2021
Football Coach Fired After Objecting to Critical Race Theory in Daughter’s Class, Sues School
BY GQ PAN |Epoch Times
Stock
photo of a classroom. (Pexels)
A Massachusetts high school football coach claims in a
First Amendment lawsuit that he was fired for raising concerns with elements
of critical race theory in his daughter’s 7th grade
history class.
David Flynn, who has been heading the football program at
Dedham High School since 2011, sued the district and school leadership,
alleging that he was removed from his position in retaliation for expressing
political disagreements.
According to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal organization that
filed the lawsuit on behalf of Flynn, those political disagreements became an
issue when Flynn and his wife emailed a list of concerns about their daughter’s
world geography and ancient history class to members of the Dedham School
Committee.
Their concerns include, among others, a history teacher
using an avatar of herself wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt for her online
classroom, and class assignments instructing students to identify police
officers as a “risk” to black people and black males as a “risk” to white
people. The couple eventually removed their two children from the school
district and sent them to a nearby Catholic school in October.
“The instruction their daughter was receiving in ‘World
Geography and Ancient History I’ was unrelated to the ancient history and world
geography subjects described on the Dedham Public Schools website,” the lawsuit
(pdf) alleges. “Instead, the instruction concerned issues of
race, gender, stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, and politics.”
In January, Flynn was called to a meeting, where the
district superintendent handed him a copy of one of the emails he sent to the
committee members, and told him that the district had decided to not renew his
football coach contract. In a statement released shortly after the meeting, the
district and school officials said Flynn was fired because he “expressed
significant philosophical differences with the direction, goals, and values of
the school district.”
“As a district, we actively try to encourage our staff
and students to give constructive voice to their opinions, but must also ensure
we stay true to our overarching mission and vision for the district,” the
statement read.
Supporters of Flynn, including parents, past and current
students, and football players, have protested against the decision. A former
football player at Dedham High told local ABC affiliate WCVB that the coach was very well-liked among
students.
“Coach Flynn is an awesome guy and we’re all devastated
that they fired him,” the student said during a demonstration calling for
Flynn’s reinstatement.
Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, said in a
statement that the firing of Flynn is a manifestation of “cancel
culture.”
“Cancel culture has come to high school football,” said
Fitton. “Coach Flynn was fired for exercising his constitutional rights to
object as a citizen and father to an extremist and racially inflammatory school
curriculum in his child’s history class.”
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