It’s Fight Like a Flynn Friday at Wolf’s Pub. Welcome back! I think you would agree there is freedom, and then there is FREEEEDOMMM!
What does it mean to be truly free? Can the body be imprisoned but the mind free? How does one free the mind? Are there things worse than death? Is freedom worth dying for? How do we learn freedom?
I believe the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights attempted (and mainly succeeded) in enumerating how a self-governed nation would operate. Maximum freedom of religion, speech, self-defense, assembly, and then freedom FROM unlawful search and seizure and so on.
General Flynn had a compelling op-ed in the Western Journal a couple days ago that is worth taking the time to read and ponder. This stood out to me:
“Though the battle for the soul of America is fierce before us, we cannot afford to look away in hopes of finding retreat. There will be none.”
Speaking of the soul…for your listening pleasure, here is Loreena McKinnett singing “The Dark Night of the Soul”, a poem by St. John of the Cross, a 16th century Spanish mystic. It speaks to the time preceding the union of the soul with God, when the darkness within drives the soul to leave earthly things and seek God. I would say union with God is true freedom.
Lyrics:
Upon a darkened night
the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest
Shrouded by the night
And by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyes
while all within lay quiet as the dead
Chorus:
Oh night thou was my guide
of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other
Upon that misty night
in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
Without a guide or light
than that which burned so deeply in my heart
That fire t’was led me on
and shone more bright than of the midday sun
To where he waited still
it was a place where no one else could come
(Chorus)
Within my pounding heart
which kept itself entirely for him
He fell into his sleep
beneath the cedars all my love I gave
From o’er the fortress walls
the wind would brush his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
caressed my every sense it would allow
(Chorus)
I lost myself to him
and laid my face upon my lover’s breast
And care and grief grew dim
as in the morning’s mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
In honor of the Spanish mystic, our special tonight is the Spanish Tempranillo wine, a bold tasting and vibrant grape that may have been brought to Spanish shores by the Phoenicians thousands of years ago.
You can learn more here with the added bonus list of 40 of the top-rated Tempranillo wines from Spain. Unfortunately, a good Tempranillo can be hard to find. The ones in the local grocery store are usually the lower end of quality, with bitingly sharp tannins and sometimes murky overtones.
That said, if you can find a good Spanish Tempranillo wine, it will often be a reserva (aka more expensive). We happen to have all 40 of the top-rated wines on hand tonight (wink, wink), so feel free to browse through the list and order a bottle for your table.
HOUSE RULES
Before we get back to Fight like a Flynn Friday, let’s review the rules. Make nice. Easier said than done in these trying times but give it your best shot. In case you feel like getting ugly, there’s the Utree. The Utree has more than one purpose, too. It is also a rendezvous place in case something happens to this site. Thanks Coothie, for reminding us that we have another place to gather in the event we can’t gather here.
Now, back to Gen. Flynn’s op-ed in the Western Journal. He describes how our nation was founded on faith in God as the bedrock of our freedoms.
“Faith and freedom can never be separated
from one another.”
General Michael Flynn
And then he begins to urge us to take in hand and read again our founding documents and the writings of the Founding Fathers.
“Anyone can learn more about our nation’s founding. Start simple. When was the last time you read the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence?
We tend to forget just how easy it is to read the Constitution from cover to cover. President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was more than 314,000 words long, but the document that frames our entire system of government is only 4,500 words in length. The average American can read it in half an hour.
Of course, if we really want to get into the mindset of our Founding Fathers, we must dig deeper. “The Federalist Papers,” de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” Paine’s “Common Sense” and the writings of John Locke are all well worth the read.”
He goes on:
“There is a reason why the forces of darkness are trying so hard to eradicate the family as we know it. They see how powerful the bond of family can be, so they want to redefine it, water it down and replace it with a dependency on the state. We cannot allow them to destroy the family. As long as marriages and families are strong, freedom will always have a fighting chance. Never concede to those who say they know how to raise your children better than you do. God entrusted the care of children to parents, not to governments.”
General Flynn mentions the importance of friendship and the will to fight against the forces arrayed against America. He asks us:
“Will you join the fight?
For the sake of our children and grandchildren, I pray you will.”
Tragically, most of our children have not learned what it means to be free and the cost of it, and the history of it. They’ve been fed a load of crap in our schools for several generations now. Let’s face it, we have been allowing the enemies of freedom to indoctrinate our children for decades.
I found this video of five libertarians (as near as I can tell) enjoying a wide-ranging discussion about educational alternatives. It’s an hour and a half, but it discusses so many issues, mentions so many good resources, and addresses so many of the facets of educating one’s own children and grandchildren, that I urge you to give it a listen.
https://lbry.tv/@UnlooseGoose:9/episode-6-educational-alternatives:b
In a 2017 article at the Federalist, Mike Sabo wrote:
“But if recent findings are any indication, Americans’ acquaintance with the founders’ principles and practices seems to be at a nadir. According to a report of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a majority of college graduates can’t recall “the substance of the First Amendment, or the origin of the separation of powers.” Perhaps most alarmingly, “nearly 10% say that Judith Sheindlin—‘Judge Judy’—is on the Supreme Court.” A big part of the problem seems to stem from the fact that of the 1,100 “liberal arts colleges and universities” surveyed, just “18%” require students to take a course on American history or government before graduation.”
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF EXCUSES
The folks in the video above talk about a plethora of educational options for getting your kids out of the government schools. We talk freedom, but the government schools (yours included) have been teaching servitude, and our children have been learning to LOVE IT.
At the end of the book by Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, Sigmund Freud is quoted. Freud basically believed that the primal urge of hunger would bring uniformity to a diverse group of people. Frankl writes:
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, ‘Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their stead will appear the uniform expression of the one unstilled urge.’ Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was spared knowing the concentration camps from the inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of Auschwitz. There, the “individual differences” did not blur but, on the contrary, people became more different; people unmasked themselves, both the swine and the saints. And today you need no longer hesitate to use the word “saints”: think of Father Maximillian Kolbe who was starved and finally murdered by an injection of carbolic acid at Auschwitz and who in 1983 was canonized.
You may be prone to blame me for invoking examples that are the exceptions to the rule. ‘Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt’ (but everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find) reads the last sentence of the Ethics of Spinoza. You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to ‘saints.’ Wouldn’t it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they will always remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So, let us be alert—alert in a two-fold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” (My bolding above)
As we now face a global enemy that seeks to deprive us of every one of our God-given freedoms, of even mental autonomy through the great evil of transhumanism; that seeks to control our movements, our medical decisions, our financial and political decisions, we have no choice but to join the fight with Gen. Flynn.
The Cult of Globalism believes
REASON IS TREASON
Let us fight for our freedom and for our children’s freedom by freeing their minds of the poison of globalism, socialism, progressive theories, and communism. The ruling elites are eaten up with a soul sickness that will not hesitate to reach beyond the depths of the Holocaust.
WE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF. We have seen them kill off thousands of vulnerable seniors and others through the CCP virus. We know of the trafficking of children and women, of the vaccine injuries inflicted thoughtlessly on African children by psychopaths like Bill Gates. THEY WON’T STOP. The only way to stop them is for the United States of America to remain FREE. The battle must be engaged. Search your soul and find where God will take you in this battle. And then get to it. Politics, education, religion, agriculture, business—whatever your bailiwick—turn it to the battle for freedom.
And fight like a Flynn.
Links and resources:
US Constitution: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, & Amendments
The Essential Thomas Paine Collection
Previous posts about teaching/learning Civics:
Grandparents of the World Unite!
OK. Here it is.
But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell:
but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15
AMEN!
Ah, what a great musical selection!
“Faith and freedom can never be separated
from one another.”
General Michael Flynn
I like that. I think I guessed right on that one.
GLOATING. Yeah, I needed a minor gloat. 😃
☺ Thanks!
10,000th Victim Comes Forward To Accuse Cuomo Of Inappropriately Killing Her Grandma
https://babylonbee.com/news/10000th-victim-comes-forward-to-accuse-cuomo-of-inappropriately-killing-her-grandma
Biden Removed From White House After Biting Aide
March 9th, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Biden has been removed from the White House for evaluation by a team of physicians after biting one of the aides.
“We are so shocked,” said Chief of Staff Ron Klain of the incident. “He has always been so docile and well behaved– always limiting his interactions to sniffing and friendly licks. He’s never bitten anyone like this.”
Experts have suggested that the new environment and activity has been traumatizing to the President, and are suggesting adjusting his diet and perhaps a few weeks at obedience school to remedy the situation.
Turns out that Ivermectin study seems to have been so poorly constructed that the results mean nothing. But it’s being used to cast shade on this treatment.
Protocol violations in López-Medina et al.: 38 switched ivermectin (IVM) and placebo doses, failure of blinding, widespread IVM sales OTC in Cali, and nearly identical AEs for the IVM and control groups
March 11, 2021
https://osf.io/u7ewz/
Abstract
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/m2y1xp/protocol_violations_in_lópezmedina_et_al_38/
Excellent information.
We need to SHAME these FRAUDS posing as researchers at every turn.
We sure do! Sick of the lies!
Fake science won’t admit to these things, quite frankly. They had to be dragged over hot coals by outsiders to retract Lancetgate, and NOBODY in charge has ever admitted to the Lancetgate Effect in countries that banned HCQ temporarily and saw deaths rise – and then fall when HCQ returned.
This is going to be an increasing problem in science, as many people lose inhibitions against rigging studies. I believe that “assassination studies” like Lancetgate, and clearly sabotaged studies like this one, as well as politically contrived studies like the ChiCom (in America) Zhang mask study, are all going to become more common.
The replication crisis tilled the soil; the politicization of science seeded the ground. We’re going to enjoy the crop for some time to come.
Biden’s nominee for top civil-rights post hyped the Jussie Smollett hoaxTuesday, March 9th 2021, 7:51:27 pm
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division boosted the now-debunked claim that actor Jussie Smollett was the victim of an anti-gay, anti-black hate crime, saying on Twitter in January 2019 that the actor was attacked by two white men. See more at WND
Yeah, this is bad stuff. She’s a left-wing activist. This is nuts.
Big trouble, this lady.
I’ve been following this story closely from before the marriage. The goal is to insert her into political office. She needs to have her title removed by the Queen first. What I cannot figure out is if the BRF is ‘for’ or ‘against’ her.
https://www.meghanforpresident.com
2020…trial balloon website. Planting the seed.
YIKES.
Ok I should know better than to post so early and without reading da link. Disregard all my Markle posts. Not relevant to the story. Apologies.
But still true, though! Double true! I loved the irony – Markle is every bit as dangerous as a Soros DA – maybe MUCH MORE dangerous!
I wonder who her backers are.
Why am I not surprised.
Prince Harry and Megan Markle have managed to tempt one of Bill and Melinda Gates’ top staffers to lead their new, as yet undefined, charity.
Catherine St-Laurent has been hired as chief of staff and executive director of their nonprofit enterprise.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8160321/Meghan-Harry-hire-Catherine-St-Laurent-one-Bill-Melinda-Gates-executives.html
To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are
By Glenn H. Reynolds March 11, 2021
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/to-beat-woke-tyrants-rest-of-us-must-treat-them-like-monsters/
Most Americans hate woke politics — and most minorities don’t share “woke” priorities. Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party. Despite endless charges of “racism,” former President Donald Trump took the biggest share of minority voters of any Republican in my lifetime.
Woke tyrants ride high, even so; according to a Cato/YouGov poll, 62 percent of Americans self-censor their political expression. Only a tiny minority of consumers care about Mr. Potato Head’s toxic masculinity, about “Aunt Jemima” as a brand or about the #MeToo aggressions of Pepé Le Pew. Yet corporations, universities and governments rush to placate that minuscule slice of the population, trashing large chunks of our culture in the process.
It’s happening not because anybody voted for it, but because a small but determined and vicious minority is bullying people to go along, relying on cowardice and groupthink to achieve ends that could never happen via majority vote: How do you think Dr. Seuss would have done in a referendum?
How does this happen? To some degree, the woke abuse the good nature of Americans. For the most part, Americans want their fellow citizens to be happy. If they hear something makes others unhappy, they generously look to change things.
And there’s fear. Writing about the goings-on at New York’s Dalton School, Bari Weiss notes that even parents who think the political correctness has gone too far are afraid to speak out: They think their kids’ shot at the Ivy League could be at risk. And it’s not just Dalton.
Weiss quotes one mother: “I look at the public school, and I am equally mortified. I can’t believe what they are doing to everybody. I’m too afraid. I’m too afraid to speak too loudly. I feel cowardly. I just make little waves.” Another says: “It’s fear of retribution. Would it cause our daughter to be ostracized? Would it cause people to ostracize us? It already has.”
In his book “Skin in the Game,” Nicholas Nassim Taleb writes about the surprising ability of small but intransigent minorities — 3 percent to 4 percent is enough — to change the direction of entire societies. He writes: “The most intolerant wins. . . . Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. . . . [I]t will eventually destroy our world. So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities.”
Does this mean we should be less tolerant of our own minoritarian tyrants? In a word, yes.
I don’t mean that they should be forced into camps, or even driven from their jobs and from polite society, as the woke are all too willing to do to their opponents. But they need to be deprived of the thing that is most important to their self-image: moral credibility.
The woke think of themselves — and want everyone else to think of them — as deeply moral. If they have a flaw, it’s that they just care too much. They’re too idealistic, too empathetic, too eager to make the world a better place.
That’s bulls–t (pardon my French, Pepé!). If you look at what they do, rather than what they say about themselves, it quickly becomes obvious that the woke are horrible, awful, people, and they should be treated as such and reminded of this whenever they raise their head.
Historically, it’s not the good guys who are out burning books and censoring speech. It isn’t the caring, empathetic people who try to destroy lives based on something someone said years ago, often while young, often taken out of context. It isn’t the good guys who take undisguised glee at the ruining of lives, families and careers.
You know who does these things? Horrible, awful people. Selfish people. People with serious mental and emotional problems who seek some sort of vindication for their deficient characters by taking power trips while imposing suffering on others.
Treat these tyrants as what they are: awful people who shouldn’t be listened to and who need to work hard on joining the better half of the human race. And remind them of it, over and over. Because it’s true. Deep down, they know it, too.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.
#COMMIES
I saw somewhere that the version broadcast in France had Pepe as an Italian skunk.
I did a lap on the Disneyland Railroad one time, and (IIRC) the Fireman had a de-odored skunk as a pet.
From him and others, they reputedly make very engaging pets — in their mind, they still have their species’ natural defense, so they have no fear of humans and rather appreciate attention.
Even if aware they can’t spray, their other patterns wouldn’t change as they’re largely instinctual/temperament. As long as they’re not taught a lesson (e.g., an abusive owner), there’s no reason for it to change, even if they know they can’t spray.
I agree. We have to fight back against the Wokester Commies.
March 11, 2021
Leave Dr. Seuss for Dead
By Edward Welsch
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/leave-dr–seuss-for-dead/
One of the most prominent children’s book authors of the 20th century, Dr. Seuss, suffered a double blow to his legacy this month. His estate said they would no longer publish six of his children’s books that contained depictions of Africans and Asians that are “hurtful and wrong.” The Biden administration followed by unceremoniously dumping all of the doctor’s books from its annual “Read Across America Day” book list.
Conservatives tore their shirts in anguish over yet another example of cancel culture and political correctness gone mad. Fox News ran segments lamenting the left’s suppression of Dr. Seuss all day on March 2. “People are too scared,” Fox & Friends co-host Ainsely Earhardt said. “The places we are going in this country right now!”
It is ironic to see members of the right run to the defense of the dear doctor, who himself was one of his era’s greatest cancelers of conservatives. Dr. Seuss was the lead cartoonist during the interwar years for PM, a leftist New York daily tabloid dominated by Communist fellow travelers. He routinely used his post to smear conservatives opposed to the Roosevelt administration as racists and anti-Semites, and the paper’s editorialists aggressively lobbied Roosevelt’s government to shut down conservative media.
Moreover, in his role at PM, Dr. Seuss was one of the most effective propagandists advocating for war and internationalist foreign policies committing American troops and treasure abroad. An enemy of the original “America First” conservative populist movement, Dr. Seuss was not just an advocate for America’s early entry into WWII, but for a permanent internationalist foreign policy posture after WWII, and for the re-education of people worldwide into the ideals of American democracy.
. . . By the end of the war, Geisel was well-off from plying his trade as a skilled propagandist for various internationalist socialist causes, wealthy WASPs, oil companies, and the U.S. military. But he truly struck it rich as a writer of children’s books. His 1956 hit, The Cat in the Hat has sold millions of copies and is still in print today. Geisel has admitted that his children’s books are themselves propaganda. “I’m subversive as h—!” Geisel said in an interview published in Jonathan Cott’s 1983 book Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. “I’ve always had a mistrust of adults.…The Cat in the Hat is a revolt against authority.”
The last thing to note about the recent handwringing over Dr. Seuss is that he isn’t truly being canceled. He was forgiven in the ’70s for his racist statements on and depictions of Asians, which were arguably much worse than what Charles Lindbergh said about the Jews (and for which Lindbergh has never been forgiven). Seuss’s image is merely being scrubbed clean this month. Six books that contain uncomfortable depictions of Asians and Africans were merely taken out of his canon. The rest remain favorites of the neoliberal establishment. As former President Barack Obama said in 2015: “Most of what you need to learn you can actually just read Dr. Seuss.”
As a child who loved his books, none of that mattered to me, of course, since I had no clue. As an adult who knows how it is still the case that none of that matters to children, and the benefit that children still receive from his books, I’m not comfortable with censoring them. Children learning to read know nothing of propaganda, questioning authority, racist depictions, international politics, and the like. They just see a fun and rewarding way to learn.
Given the man’s military connections and career as a literal propagandist, I strongly suspect he was positioned as a children’s book publisher by the early intelligence agencies of the time. He didn’t just write books; he had a powerful position editing and publishing other children’s authors.
What did children read before there were Dr. Seuss books? More specifically, what did Dr. Seuss books replace in the average child’s education? Serious questions. I honestly don’t know the answers to them. I ask because I wonder if his position in children’s publishing was used to keep pro-Christian, pro-America, and pro-anything inconvenient to the cabal agenda out of children’s books.
Great thinking! He was an AGENT OF SECULAR MORALIZATION. Yes – you NAILED IT. I was a kid at that time. My mother was still adjusting to American culture as an adult, returning from Hitler’s Germany and Poland after the war – she sucked up the Dr. Seuss and trendier crap, but I had friends and baby sitters with more traditional stuff because they had more grounding in the culture. Much more classic stories and religious stuff – Bible stories – etc. At that time libraries were becoming more leftist, and the “new” kids books were all the bright and shiny!
Oh, this is all making sense now!
Yeah, this is what I suspected. They’d rather have the children reading about green eggs and ham rather than the Bible or Western civilization classics like Brothers Grimm fairy tales. They want to erase history and tradition almost as badly as they want to erase Christianity.
Kids, though, when they are little, can’t learn to read using Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which can be pretty grim.
That’s part of the appeal of the sing songy rhyming of Dr. Seuss. And you can always add more reading to counter any messages not desired.
Yep. The Dr. Suess books promoted literacy and after your first few months with them you were branching out to more varied reading.
Absolutely.
How did children learn to read before Dr. Seuss? What beginner books did they start with? I’m not being a smartass here. I’m genuinely curious what Dr. Seuss replaced.
Books like this. First published in 1942. Said to be among the first affordable children’s books. Titles like The Poky Little Puppy and Scuffy the Tugboat.
http://www.littlegoldenbooks.com/
Yep. Great little books.
Grimm and Aesop and Greek and Roman mythology are absolutely full of morality and introspection.
D’Aulaire’s book of Greek Myths is one of the best for small children.
The illustrations are excellent and the stories detailed enough to keep interest but not Bullfinch’s.
Ty. Its now in my list.
Great book. My copy is plum wore out by the grandkids.
National socialism was the same way in Germany – “modern! modern! modern!”
That’s really a good series of questions. What did it replace?
Ambleside is a Christian homeschool resource (they also have affiliate brick&mortar schools).
Here is a link to their public domain audio book reading list:
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List
I will check. Its in my list. TY!
I don’t know the answer now, but I think I might have known it some day in my distant past…
Here is a Christian school resource list of audio books (public domain) recommenced for the youngest age group:
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List#Booklist_for_Year_0.2FPreschool_and_Kindergarten
I had a college professor from Russia who said “The Cat in the Hat” is actually about how to be afraid of your mother.
That being said, the simple rhymes and ear candy worked to help one of my nephews learn to talk. He’s clueless about liberalism, etc., at this point.
If people want Christianity and traditionalism in their children’s reading ciriculum, then add it. Leaving such education to others without discernment is a cop out.
I’m guessing that would also be the case for places like Spec’s. The prices appear to be in grocery store range.
Yes. Specs is so-so. Total Wine is much better.
Actually, there are a variety of Mediterranean wine grapes that are very forgiving, prolific, and almost impossible to make really bad wine with. They include Tempranillo (Spain), Sangiovese (Italy — the primary component to Chianti) and what became Zinfandel in Yugoslavia.
Trader Joe’s has a variety of drinkable versions of these for about $4 a bottle.
By contrast, Northern European wines tend to be tempermental and vary in character from vintage to vintage. I’ve had expensive Merlots that were over-sweet in an odd syrup-y sort of way. I find most Cabs undrinkable as sold (lay ’em down for 3-5 years and they start getting good)….
And, then, there is the Great Divide between varietals (based on one kind of grape, as above), and regionals (based on a region’s preferred style, with a mix of grapes). Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Chianti are all regional wines.
It’s like the difference between single-malt Scotch and Chivas Regal.
Mediterranean wine grapes show up in the house wines of many taverna. As you take a sip, you may think, “this is a fine vintage — perhaps five weeks ago….stomped by….yes, Maria!”.
Like so much else, the winemaking business has become broken.
Grape blends and the race for high alcohol content has caused problems.
It’s actually a mixed bag. The University of California at Davis has a department — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_Department_of_Viticulture_and_Enology — that is top-tier, if not the best worldwide, in understanding what makes palatable and fine wine. That said, there was a scandal some years back where a Gallo hired/interned a bunch of them to do a batch of “Hearty Burgundy” that contained no actual grapes…….
The UCD program is a major reason that California wines are competitive with (and frequently better than) European wines. But it also meant that the wines produced by wineries got to be conjured-up to spec by marketing people.
It’s not that winemaking is particularly broken….it’s more like “strictly business”.
Strictly business, and definitely NOT the French model.
Gallo? No grapes ..wow
Yes. Theres a bunch of wineries in my region and brew rooms. All kinds of etoh tourism. People were renting busses just to go around to every one and get loaded. Very classless people and they were caysing fights etc.
Most of this is better.
RN, the issue is blm adherents coming from L.A. and renting yuge winery houses from air bnb and having house parties over a weekend with hookers and all. They completely destroy the homes.
Normalizing Deceit
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS • MARCH 11, 2021 • 400 WORDS
https://www.unz.com/proberts/normalizing-deceit/
Here is the media’s uniform misrepresentation of a nonevent—“the white supremacist insurrection” at the Capitol:
“Years of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riots,” Associated Press, January 14, 2021
“White supremacist extremists are the nation’s deadliest terror threat,” Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2021
“The Capitol attack was White supremacy, plain and simple,” CNN, January 10, 2021
“White Riot,” New York Times, January 13, 2021
“The seditionists made clear what their attack was about: White supremacy,” Washington Post, January 15, 2021
“What the Capitol Insurgency Reveals about White Supremacy and Law Enforcement,” Brookings Institution, January 12, 2021
“The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy,” Atlantic, January 7, 2021.
“Insurrection Day: When White Supremacist Terror Came to the US Capitol,” Guardian, January 9, 2021.
(Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-white-supremacist-armed-insurrection-lives-on/ 😉
When the media lies like this, the media normalizes deceit, and the word “liar” loses its sting. Lying becomes part of the New Normal.
When government lies as well—Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Assyd’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasions, Russiagate—lying becomes ubiquitous. Truth becomes so discordant that truth is discarded.
Truth-tellers become dissident “conspiracy theorists” who are guilty of trying to shake the population’s confidence in the ruling lies. They are censored, and if they persist they risk becoming labeled “domestic terrorists” and “enemies of democracy.” Orwell’s 1984 is our reality.
Newspeak is used to restrict grammar and limit vocabulary in order to diminish the range of thought and communication. Thus, gender terms become impermissible, and language cannot be used to identify gender. The Democrat House has even passed House rules to this effect. A granddaughter is a grand-sibling, a stepbrother is a step-sibling, terms that obviously convey far less information.
The feminization of university life and society in general results in feelings replacing reason, bringing an end to independent thought, which is confrontational. “Tone” becomes more important than content. With math and physics demonized as tools of white racism, society is on its way back to the dark ages. (See https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/an-unleashed-feminine-mystique-is-destroying-higher-education/ )
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Yes. The truth makes us FREE.
society is on its way back to the dark ages
The irony of this statement being that the Middle Ages were actually a time of great discovery in some parts of the world.
“Dark ages” is a term not favored by historians now. It originally referred to an era we couldn’t figure out much about, because they left few records (being too busy trying to survive). And, contrary to popular belief, it generally only referred to about 400-800, not the entire medieval period, the latter portions of which had surprising technological innovation and of course the beginnings of the university system.
There has even been speculation that the 20th century will be looked back on as a dark age, because so many books then were printed on acid laden paper and will disintegrate.
But the term now means any period of collapse, and can serve as a generic for any similar period (whether or not it’s global). In that sense…maybe we’re headed for one.
Good data digging, but does not provide a chart comparing debt to GDP ratios.
US Debt by President by Dollar and PercentageWho increased the U.S. debt the most? Depends on how you measure itBY KIMBERLY AMADEO REVIEWED BY JANET BERRY-JOHNSON
Updated February 26, 2021
https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296
What’s the best way to determine how much each president has contributed to our nation’s nearly $27 trillion in U.S. debt? The most popular ways to do so involve comparing the debt level from when a president enters office to the debt level when they leave, and comparing the debt as a percentage of economic output, which takes into account the size of the economy at the time the administration accumulated the debt.
Fact Check: About Those Viral ‘Trump vs. Biden’ Economic Charts…
Guy BensonGuy Benson| @guypbenson|Posted: Mar 11, 2021 10:25 AM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2021/03/11/about-this-chart-n2586028
Lefties and journalists — often one in the same, of course — have been sharing charts on social media purporting to illustrate how much better Joe Biden’s first major legislative achievement (‘American Rescue Plan’) will be for average Americans than Donald Trump’s opening foray (‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’). Because they appear to confirm typical partisan stereotypes designed to reflect poorly on Republicans, these have rocketed around the internet:
First off, we are comparing apples to oranges here. The Trump/GOP tax cut reduced Americans’ tax burdens and simplified the tax code overall. It did not represent the government mailing one-off (taxpayer-funded) checks to people; it implemented a new policy to allow American families and businesses to keep more of the money they earn every year (reminder: the economy grew and government tax receipts increased after these tax cuts). Second, there are reasons why the data points above look the way they do. The so-called “COVID relief” bill will send direct one-time payments to Americans earning under a certain income threshold, excluding wealthier Americans. The tax reforms and cuts necessarily impacted higher earners because they were — and still are — paying disproportionately high percentages of all federal taxes:
[A telling part of this story:]
The New York Times even felt compelled to produce a fact check to disabuse large numbers of Americans, including a large share of Democrats, of the false notion that they were not receiving a tax cut from the GOP-passed law. Democrats and their media allies had lied to them so incessantly that people simply did not believe the factual truth about what the law actually did, weirdly clinging to a semi-religious belief that the new law did nothing for the non-rich — or even raised their taxes. This was simply untrue, the Times reported, triggering a wave of fury from blind ideologues incensed by their own financial benefit.
. . . MORE . . .
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor-Greene Bill Calls For FULL Biden Immigration Moratorium, Cessation Of All Migrants Into USA.
MARCH 11, 2021 STAFF WRITER
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/mtg-immigration-bill-calls-for-moratorium/
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene is set to release a bill calling for a full moratorium on migration into the U.S. and several other America First immigration measures, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.
In addition to the moratorium, the bill would also reinstate hallmarks of the Trump presidency: the zero-tolerance policy, termination of chain migration, constructing a wall on the southern border, and more.
The bill focuses on protecting American workers and national security, as the moratorium would last throughout Joe Biden’s presidency and until Americans are able to return to work. The bill would also do away with Biden-era executive orders that have allowed for crime and human trafficking to increase at the U.S. border and reintroduce Trump-era policies.
Taylor-Green’s legislation comes as President Biden’s relaxation of Trump’s policies triggered a crisis at the border, including increasing durations of stay for unaccompanied children past the federal limit and over 100,000 migrants attempting to cross the border in just four weeks.
The bill also shortens the removal period for illegal aliens from 90 to 30 days, strip “sanctuary cities” of federal funding, and terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Concerning the southern border, the bill would either improve existing portions of wall or construct new panels through a 22-billion-dollar fund housed at the U.S. Treasury Department.
To enforce the variety of strict measures, Rep. Taylor-Greene would prohibit financial aid to countries whose citizens are either detained or deported by the U.S.
Bless her for trying. We need more fighters like her who speak boldly.
It’s important that prominent people say this.
Because, unfortunately, it will never go anywhere. It won’t even fail on a party line vote; too many of today’s Rs will never vote for such a thing.
At least, it won’t go anywhere this time. Perhaps her speaking out like this will bring it (or something with very low non-zero limits) closer.
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The Biden regime is not a sustainable political entity. It cannot continue to exist in its present state because it will collapse under the weight of its own spectacle. As a result, it needs a catalyst to move its increasingly unpopular agenda forward. The catalyst they are trying to create is a defined internal enemy. A bogeyman they can use to justify tyrannical “emergency” actions, which mask the truth of the regime’s activities and enable it to eliminate any credible political opposition.
Since the national security apparatus is the primary regime backer within the permanent bureaucracy, you can expect it to use the provocation-reaction-counteraction template that is the favorite of organizations like the FBI. They provoke and harass the target until it punches back—at which point the target is labeled a threat and a counteraction is justified.
Traditional Americans need to recognize this tactic because they are the antagonist in this regime’s Greek tragedy. If the regime’s enforcers can get traditional Americans to look like they are about to commit violence, then they can justify the passage of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act and can implement draconian gun control policies. Once they’ve attained the legal authorities to neuter their political opposition, they can move to further isolate them under the guise of national security.
Keep in mind that agents provocateurs and government informants are now a part of the political landscape. The regime wants to restrict or eliminate constitutional rights it deems problematic, including the Second Amendment. Don’t make it easy for them by following their agents provocateurs. Those who continuously espouse violence are poseurs and provocateurs. Government informants are paid to lie for their handlers. Treat both of them like any other undesirable character and walk away.
Remember the old Russian proverb: “Three men sit down to talk about revolution. Two are police informants, and the third is a fool.”
Traditional Americans can win this battle, but they need to be smart about it. They should understand the tactics that the regime will use and not fall into the trap that is being laid. We, traditional Americans, can do this by using a layered defense-in-depth that capitalizes on nonviolent political action.
There is a certain kind of personality that is attracted to Washington, D.C. That personality may be vain, self-serving, power-hungry, and even psychotic, but the one thing it will always do is try to position itself next to the winner, the one with the power. If traditional Americans want Washington to do their bidding, then they need to look, sound, and act like winners. Traditional Americans need to demonstrate that it is the people who have the power and that the people are the ones to be feared . . . thus liberty.
Read the whole article here: amgreatness.com
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/09/choose-your-ground/
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Choose Your Ground – Now is not the time…
https://oathkeepers.org/2021/03/choose-your-ground-now-is-not-the-time/
Now is not the time for impotent tough talk and posturing with weapons at protests.
By Max Morton March 9, 2021
In America, firearm ownership is a right—not a privilege. It is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights and backstopped by the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Traditional Americans view the Second Amendment as one of the most important in the Bill of Rights. It is a part of American culture; a unique individual right of self-preservation and protection that is now either nonexistent or heavily restricted in most other nations.
Over the past several years, as the woke cultural revolution intensified, conservative conversations focused on the Second Amendment as the final defense against the tyranny that may result as progressives march toward authoritarian-style government. In response, right-leaning and independent-minded citizens have shown up at protests to exercise those Second Amendment rights by posturing with firearms and assorted tactical equipment. Regardless of the prudence involved in such actions, we are now treading on new ground.
Following the November 3 election and subsequent January 6 protest at the Capitol, the current regime set out to eliminate political opposition by casting them as “white supremacists” and “domestic extremists.” They intend to use the legal authorities, tactics, and techniques that were previously employed against Al Qaeda and ISIS against those ordinary Americans who refuse to accept the ruling elite’s political ideology.
Simply put, the most deadly counterterrorism machine from the world’s most powerful country is coming for you. You, ordinary American, are the target. Now is not the time for impotent tough talk and posturing with weapons at protests. The Second Amendment, and all of our rights, are critical to a free society, and we should seek to understand how best to exercise and defend them from authoritarian factions of the ruling elite. This is the time to get smart on how to counter this assault on liberty and avoid falling into the traps the ruling elite are setting for traditional America.
Choose Your Ground – Now is not the time… but it’s the only time your going to get.
Yes the provocation-reaction-counteraction template is in play, however the roads back to normalcy and democracy are being closed down as well. Resistance needs to harden and society must become very brittle to the snapping point unless the left decides to soften and when and if they do we need to keep pushing back and keep pushing back all the time expecting everything to snap. Back lash by the government needs to met with more and more indignation not less. Support for those under pressure is required and condemning those that put them under pressure needs to be the order of the day.
This winery is outstanding.
They had a tempranillo that I couldnt resist. Their old vine zin is excellent but very pricey, I only had 1 bottle.
https://saucelitocanyon.com/shop/individual-wines
Thanks! Checking it out!
Too late Mr Potato Head.
Your influence is GONE.
Top GOP Senator Mitch McConnell has likened stepped-up security in the nation’s capital to his trip to war-ravaged Afghanistan, arguing the measures are excessive and based on a non-existent threats
He is a posturing potato head.
DH got his orthotic (brace) today, he’s been very excited to get it. Next week he should get some new exercises to go with it. We have a friend that had back surgery, so he will be staying with us for a short while as his family are all out of state. We’re both pleased to be able to help him, he’s a really good guy. Both he and DH like a lot of the same kinds of food too, so I will be fixing them some things they like (but I don’t!).
At the very least, the first two items of the reading list should be required of high school students in order to graduate. I made sure my children read the first items before they graduated from high school as I was not sure if they were being taught at that time since the course descriptions were purposefully vague.
Faux-Con Watch: David Brooks.
Opinion
Joe Biden Is a Transformational President
We’re seeing a policy realignment without a partisan realignment.
By David Brooks
Opinion Columnist
March 11, 2021
*https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opinion/biden-covid-relief-bill.html
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Oh it’s definitely like the reverse of a dawn there David.
He does get something right, by accident of course.
Here we go again. Obama race wars 7.0
5 Cops Charged After Executing Unarmed 15yo Boy Like a Firing Squad on Video
Oklahoma City, OK — An act of capital punishment caught on video was so excessive and over the top that five Oklahoma City police officers have been charged with first-degree manslaughter. A 15-year-old boy was complying with officers’ orders before all five cops opened fire on him, executing him in firing squad fashion.
The incident unfolded on Nov. 23, 2020, when police were called to a gas station over a report of a robbery in progress. The alleged suspect was 15-year-old Stavian Rodriguez. Until now, police ran with the narrative that Rodriguez was an armed threat. However, video proves this is not true.
When police arrived, the clerk managed to flee the store while locking Rodriguez inside. Officers had the gas station surrounded when Rodriguez climbed out of a window to comply with the officers’ orders to exit the building.
“Nobody has to get hurt, just show us your hands,” police say over the loudspeaker. Later the voice repeats, “Facedown, on the ground.”
As the video shows, when the boy walks into the parking lot, he puts his hands up, shows his waistband and is armed. Officers order the boy to drop the weapon and Rodriguez complies, going so far as to grab the pistol by the extended magazine to make sure officers knew he could not shoot at them.
After dropping the gun, officers yelled at the now-unarmed Rodriguez to comply with conflicting orders. In a probable cause affidavit from the Oklahoma County district attorney, authorities admitted the officers were “simultaneously giving him varying commands.”
Clearly confused, Rodriguez appears to reach his hand to his lower back to either pull up his pants or possibly empty his pockets. But he would never finish what he started because five officers opened fire on the boy and executed him like a firing squad.
He was unarmed and the only thing in his pockets was his cellphone.
“Stavian Rodriguez had no weapons other than the firearm, which he dropped prior to being shot,” the affidavit said. “A cellphone was recovered from the left rear pocket he had his hand in at the time he was shot.”
All five officers who fired shots — Officers Bethany Sears, Jared Barton, Corey Adams, John Skuta and Brad Pemberton — face charges of first-degree manslaughter. Another officer, Sgt. Sarah Carli, was not charged because she fired a less-lethal round.
Disgustingly enough, John George, president of the Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police, defended the officers for executing the unarmed boy, claiming the officers, who were previously joking about the boy “calling his mom,” feared for their lives and made a “split second decision.”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/15yo-boy-executed-unarmed-oklahoma-police/
Oh no. Aside from the tragic loss of life with these incidents, I’m so tired of the Left using them to divide us.
After you get past all the bias and inflammatory rhetoric in this hit-piece designed to ignite a race riot, the basic fact is that the officers followed their training.
You don’t wait for an armed suspect to shoot at you first.
They knew he was armed because he dropped one weapon on the ground. There is no way for the officers to know if that was his only firearm.
When he reached his hand behind his back for his pocket, as an officer (or even a civilian), you can’t wait until the (reasonably expected) gun is pointed at you, because if you do, and there is a gun in his hand, you’re already dead.
It happens just that quick.
Which is why the police are TRAINED to shoot, if they have reasonable cause to think a suspect is armed, and he reaches for his pocket or his waist or wherever a gun might be hidden.
But you would never know that from this hack writer, who purposely characterized the situation as a ‘firing squad’ over and over again.
If the officers have an even halfway competent attorney, there is no way a jury can lawfully convict. Not once the jury has the LAW explained to them, and the training, and the REASON for the training.
Officers don’t have to wait until they’re dead before defending themselves.
Nobody does.
No matter how inflammatory the claims of the media are to the contrary.
But the civil suit will be massive, due to conflicting/confusing orders being yelled.
There are people out there who claim cops deliberately shout contradictory orders so they’ll have an excuse to shoot you. If you’re cop A, yelling “down on the ground”, and the guy follows cop B’s orders to “freeze!”, he’s violating your orders, so you shoot him.
It certainly demonstrates a lack of training and proper procedure. OTOH, it’s not where you’d find in-person LEO culpable.
Apparently the Sgt on the scene did not exercise proper command and control over the situation and since she fired a non lethal round she is not among the five being charged.
Now that SMELLS like a set up
MTG on DC as an economy, an industry and business model – very well said
https://rumble.com/embed/vbxdjv/?pub=4#?secret=72RaGrs06x
Things are going to get testy as the Obama mil and the “we gotta virtue signal to the socialists or we’re gonna get ousted” mil both virtue signal to the Bidenazis.
https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/1370115533971070976
GD @gailauss
Australia Southern Land NEWS
Breaking: Aussie Navy in COVID Jab Cover Up After Mass Adverse Reactions?
This is a developing story. Mainstream media pulls original story of Australian sailors on HMAS Sydney suffering widespread adverse reactions to COVID19 vaccinations. Sanitized version refers only to “mild side effects” despite the fact the ship’s crew needed hospitalization.
This latest setback for the pro-vaccine lobby follows soon after the Australian government performs a U-turn on mass vaccination policy the day after the Australian Health Minister falls ‘critically ill’ immediately after getting his COVID jab.
So, whenever the mainstream media conspires to quietly ‘disappear’ web pages of a story it has already reported on you can bet something far bigger and worrisome is being covered up.
In this latest case, the UK’s Daily Mail yesterday pulled a story from their pages about adverse COVID jab reactions among the crew of an Australian war ship.
Direct from Australia, a valued contact told us by email:
“Our health minister is still in the hospital from the day after he had his injection! Not a word about the navy hospitalisations. What a way to take out a country’s military… In just one jab!”
Our contact refers to the story earlier this week of Australian Health Minister, Gregg Hunt, who was taken seriously ill in a “critical condition” after he received his dose of the untested, experimental vaccine. In a statement on Tuesday evening his office stated that Minister Hunt had:
“been admitted to hospital with a suspected infection, he is being kept overnight for observation and is being administered antibiotics and fluid.”
Hunt’s story, like this navy frigate shocker, has been toned down for the masses. When we attempted to locate the reference to HMAS Sydney in the Daily Mail it had disappeared. Even our diligent search on the reliable Way Back Machine took us to an unrelated article. Our contact explains:
“I spent quite a bit of time searching through their headlines, but couldn’t find the story. Wouldn’t be surprised if it has been deleted, though the link is still appearing … makes me think it was probably quickly taken down after initial publication.
Navy sailors hospitalised after being given Covid vaccinations
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9349695/Navy-sailors-hospitalised-given-Covid-vaccinations-HMAS-Sydney.html which reported:
https://principia-scientific.com/breaking-aussie-navy
Yes, sometimes the people have to be shown. One of the other cantors in the one parish where I sing had an immediate reaction to the first jab. There was no other way for this person to accept that maybe, just maybe, the “vaccine” is not the answer.
TY grandma. Enjoyed your post!-! ❤❤❤
Sylvia!!!
How are you doing today?
I’m doing pretty well. Healing they tell me. I’m about ready to have them take another pic of the wound so I can see it for myself. ❤❤❤
OK, so instead of an SUV getting lost in there, it’s just a Prius.
Progress!!!!
😂😂😂
What, is it on your backside?
Perv! [snicker]
🙄🙄🙄 in that area…
How do you feel? Are you ready to do isometrics with the shovel?
You’re welcome! So glad you are doing better.
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This is a must read article from American Greatness.
It adresse similar ideas of General Flynn and our GrandMainTexas
Sorry for the formatting, but there is some bug in the new commenting feature, when you use the ‘Enter’ at the end of a line.
Only in quotations. If you don’t use quotations, it doesn’t do it. Wolf knows and will try and find time to make it work better.
Good Article BTW
Thanks for posting.
No worries. It is very peculiar, and Wolf has already been exploring “edge conditions” for it (when it does and doesn’t happen).
By the way, Wolf, I went back looking for someone’s comment from last week’s Saturday daily…and I noticed a post that was a long quote, that looked okay back then, now has the huge gaps in it.
Ooooh….that is interesting. It’s input ok, it’s stored ok, it’s just not currently displayed ok. Good info!
Yes. It’s the plugin.
Yeah, the plugin people just did an update, but that did not fix it, so I expect another update soon. And I even recycled the plugin after that failed – no joy.
Looks like this will be with us for a while.
Maryland cancels ALL COVID restrictions – COVID IS OVER!
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/maryland-cancels-all-covid-restrictions-covid-is-over/
A Dem governor, too, I believe!
Stolen state. Trump won Maryland.
time change
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@JenUSA90
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This Sunday I’m setting my clocks back to 1776 when America had some balls
edit add 😉
Catturd ™
@catturd2
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Is there anyway to set our clocks back this weekend to when Trump was President?
Except it’s “Spring Forward.”
Can we set the clocks ahead to when Trump is President again?
RIGHT! THIS FEELS SO RIGHT!
future proves past 🙂
writing the wrongs
https://twitter.com/andrealong1971/status/1369728628880117760
One reason I drive a stick. I’m almost completely immune from carjacking.
& the kids asking to borrow the car 🙂
car comparisons…my 1st car was a hand-me-down Pinto, but then my dad worked for Ford his entire career…
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@SexCounseling
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There is no comparison between Trump and Biden one is a Rolls Royce and the other is a Pinto.
Texas toughness, I wish we had such an AG in my state!
The Patriots Gazette
@ThePatsGazette
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11h
BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton SUES City of Austin for NOT Lifting Mask Mandate
Anti-American, anti-science, & anti-freedom Amazon…
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
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This is insane. The most egregious case of Big Tech censorship by far. Amazon has officially blacklisted all books that treat gender dysphoria as a mental illness, even though the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders literally categorizes it as mental illness.
Amazon = CIA.
that’s worse than I’d thought 🙁
The thing about Amazon that most people don’t get is that the amount of income they get from delivering smiling boxes to doorways isn’t their main source of income — https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=1018724&accession_number=0001018724-21-000004&xbrl_type=v# . [We’ll see if that worked.]
In fact, they frequently run that as a loss in either the US or the rest of the world.
The great bulk of their profit comes from data services.
dementia dick-tater
Jenna Ellis
@JennaEllisEsq
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What you heard earlier today from Joe Biden was not the speech of an American President guarding your liberty and freedom.
It was the speech of an insane dictator.
keeping hope & truth alive
Jim Benson
@jmbenson1491
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5h
It’s imperative that the world and those who are running this banana republic know we don’t buy their absurd narrative that Biden won more legal votes than any other candidate in history…
chinatyzed crises
Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
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5h
China owns 200,000+ acres of farmland in the US. 97% of antibiotics, 80% of ingredients in pharmaceuticals and 70% of acetaminophen come from China.
A country must never have power like this to destroy America from within.
America needs a divorce from China.
Anyone relying on acetaminophen hasn’t been paying attention.
PDB
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
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4h
Have heard from multiple White House and national security officials that Kamala is getting the full PDB daily. Highly unusual and Biden didn’t even get that himself when he was VP.
Tea Party redux
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
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Mar 10
American Patriots Dump Harry And Meghan Into Boston Harbor
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1369744304164376577/d9gDpGcW?format=jpg&name=small
American Patriots Dump Harry And Meghan Into Boston Harbor
BOSTON, MA – A group of rebellious American patriots did their duty for God and country today by dumping Meghan Markle and Prince Harry into Boston Harbor. The protest, dubbed ‘Boston Tea Party Part…babylonbee.com
vax smack-down
The Bias News
@thebias_news
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21h
NEW: Denmark suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears (AFP).
https://twitter.com/thebias_news/status/1369968098825019395
gorgeous glow
some kids will be just fine 😉
https://twitter.com/i/status/1370281398347571200
Jim Benson
@jmbenson1491
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That’s downright child abuse! There are just somethings you NEVER call your children!
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Replying to @NewMexicoRoni and @jmbenson1491
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f923.svg'Daddy called me a democrat’
Oh, grandma…just a boffo Opener.
Thanks SO much.
You are welcome! ☺
Portland is still an Antifa war zone!
eeted
Cardinal Conservative
@CardinalConserv
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BREAKING: FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT sent to protect federal buildings and streets in Portland, as ANTIFA continues their day long campaign of violence and agitation. Mainstream Media wont cover it. Social media wont let it trend.
As a follow-on to all my kvetching about UPS, I’ve just unboxed my Raspberry Pi 400 kit. I got it for $100 from Adafruit. It includes a Raspberry Pi 4 variant built into a keyboard (remember the TRS-80?) with expanded memory and overclocked. It also includes a matching optical mouse, a cable to connect it with an HDMI monitor, a wall-wart power supply, a SD-to-micro-SD adapter (the micro SD is already in-place), and a nice-looking paperback book.
This really looks like something you can start to work with with just power, an HDMI video device, and an internet cable. For $100.
My intent is to move forward with this tomorrow as if it were my only Linux machine and I were just getting started, and leave a comment describing this. Then I’ll replace the micro-SD with a 32G with Ubuntu Mate and be on my merry way….
I have noted one defect so far — when I hit the bottom 1/4 of the “.” key on the keyboard, it ends up cocked-up. It doesn’t settle flat, it’s tilted so that the top part of the key is above the level of everything else while the bottom level is depressed. I’ll be speaking more to that when I fire things up.
A note about doing business with Adafruit….
Besides getting the Pi, and the other junk I ordered, they threw in a half-size breadboard PCB (this is not the push-in flavor, this is “the solder to it” flavor) and a black surgical-style facemask. I don’t know if I’ll ever use either, but it shows an old-fashioned “desire-to-delight” that I find laudable. Oh, and they also include something to post on your cubicle wall — for my order, it says (on a separate sheet of paper in large type): “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering — Freeman Dyson”.
So far, I’m pleased and excited.
Gates of Hell cartoon
https://youtu.be/BPiBXOW3_64
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@Algerwins
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Replying to @Matthew_4_Trump
Longer version..
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Bill Gates Cartoon Short Clip – Puppet Agenda
Original upload link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcvuftqXFY This is a reuploading. I do not own this video and did not create it.youtube.com
https://twitter.com/Algerwins/status/1370281809150283779
Lots of Truth in that!
I’m amazed that Googtube hasn’t banned that video yet.
water powered car!
cbch
@cbch54898101
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Have you heard of this ??
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@sdaws5MUFC
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clean (er) entertainment?
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Mike in Osaka
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This is in response to the PDF and Video by Geerten Vaanden Bossche. Thanks to Kittylists for sharing that warning about the dangers of the current Vax regimen.
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This goes with it, IMO.
https://youtu.be/YtHfI00D_s4
Gonna be a rough 4 years of Bidenazis and Kamalagoons.
DOJ targets 18-year-old homeschooler, suggests it’s a crime to believe 2020 election stolen
‘The Cua case has nothing to do with seeking justice … [but] has everything to do with punishing a family who dared to show up in support of Donald Trump and dared to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election.’
Wed Mar 10, 2021 – 10:32 am EST
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doj-targets-18-year-old-homeschooler-suggests-its-a-crime-to-believe-2020-election-stolen
Global Warming aka Climate Change, Transgender, mask and vaccine efficacy – all mandatory modern myths – and they want to punish people who don’t toe the line. It’s a socialist pathological attempt to control people’s thought and speech.
Either they are ideologues and have a sick need to defend their unprovable illogical beliefs – They do get when anyone disagrees.
For some, it’s all for profit – big money in green business money-laundering.
They generally do not value human life – as we have seen with abortion and the Democrat governor nursing home murders. 47 years of legal abortion have devastated the humanity of Western nations.
Our side has adamant believers in myths and they will jump on you for not believing them. Reminds me of alcoholics and addicts….or a cult. It’s hard to traverse between the two sides.
Explanation….
Our side also has adamant believers in myths [based on what certain online personalities have declared, or on a meme], and they will jump on you for not believing them too. Reminds me of alcoholics and addicts [that I have known, who get mad if you don’t hang with them any more]….or a cult. It’s hard to traverse between the two sides.
Striking, isn’t it how quickly the DOJ has become cooperative with them, yet we never could get a single goddamned thing out of them for four years.
It was nothing but embeds.
Saturn 2007
https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/1370264564831518721
This is pretty wild & sci-fi looking
“gender” stereotyping 🙂
Now it is totally clear what that dupey Dem Alan Alda was helping to shill……
GENDER NUTTERY and COMMUNISM.
Except that Klinger was *pretending* to be a gender nut, so using him as an example, we would assume they are pretending to be what they want us to think they actually are.
That’s not the message they’d want to send.
IMO the people behind the MASH franchise were conflating Vietnam anti-war back to Korea (typical left-wing revisionism), centering on doctors “because safe anti-Americanism” (difficult for them to find such attack points, but compare COVID – power of medical to enact socialism), and changed the original movie message to be less “initial propaganda offering” (where the Hollywood message was extremely subtle to pull in right-militarists for the audience) and changed it to be more blatantly indoctrinating (Alan Alda style TV sitcom humor as a vehicle). They were still (IMO) normalizing tranny behavior with the Klinger character, going for laughs, but “speaking the unspeakable” through a “good guy” to get it out there. Notice that this led to a lot of other normalizing propaganda, including Mrs. Doubtfire, which conflated trans with “men’s rights” – a brilliant propaganda move, IMO.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I know the show was propaganda on the whole, painting the entire military as a bunch of dufuses, and of course Alan Alda got to get on his leftist soapbox.
yup, sneak it in via humor
Hollywood began this early in the 20th century in black and white fare, where it was clear they teased about adultery and trans through “innocently cohabitating via lies and cross-dressing so we can keep from looking worse than we are” characters and plot lines.
It took turning off modern fare to see how they did it in the old fare.
So McCarthy was largely right as was the Hollywood un-American search, forgot the names of those activities…
crazy crap happening in Pacific NW, paintball too?
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Some of these cops have green blinking backpacks and helmets and some high tech less lethal guns. Wonder what those are. They look straight out of Dead Space.
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DHS and the camo feds begin a very trigger-happy.
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The Antifa guys in the background (behind the camera man) are faking seizures and asking police to help them. They always pull this shit.
Either rubber or salt bullets. Most likely rubber.
thanks GA/FL
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1370246108178440193
I watched my mother’s face change after strokes and with age. It’s the same guy – same ears – he’s just aged badly.
I can agree with that, except the eye color thing is odd.
The lighting, photography, contacts will change the look of eye color. He may be wearing shaded contacts due to age and sensitivity to light.
Lots of cosmetic work, too. Face-lift for sure.
There are some glaucoma meds that can turn the iris from blue to brown over time (don’t it turn my blue eyes brown). That same med also is used to make eyelashes/eyebrows thicker… Not sure if he is using that… have to say, the side effects of that are gnarly…
Interesting, Cuppa. Are the side effects similar to dementia?
Could be 🙂 Actually the med I was thinking of is bimatoprost, which is sometimes used off-label for growing eyelashes and perhaps eyebrows. Could be that they grew inward with “hands-on”…
Certain drugs dilate the eyes.
We went through that at the time of the debates, when he suddenly had dark eye color. Those are very likely the assistive “heads up” contacts that are essentially Google Glass in contact lens form. Facebook is working on the same thing.
As people age, noses get longer, not shorter. And the cleft in the chin…that’s not an aging thing.
Maybe Jill wanted him to get one. That Kirk Douglas look. Or maybe it was a decision by the campaign. Or – the skin sagged around the chin on both sides and made it look like a cleft. Giggle.
I could spend a million bucks on plastic surgery and still not be glamorous beautiful – always been just passable. However, after all the years of plain brown hair, GOD gave me some compensation for my sags, bags, broken veins and age spots – a sweet little ‘blonde’ streak around my face and left the rest the same. Looks like I paid the beautician to do it.
Plastic surgery. As for a chin cleft, I would not put it past some people to create one to bolster their narrative. It’s been done before. But in some pics it just looks like a scar.
Plastic surgeons claim Joe Biden, 76, has undergone a huge transformation during his career through cosmetic procedures that have filled in his wrinkles, altered his hairline and made his teeth whiter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6970041/How-Joe-Biden-underwent-cosmetic-overhaul-make-appealing-voters.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/its-obvious-cosmetic-surgeons-say-biden-had-facelift-before-2020-campaign
And how did the plastic surgeons redo his hair cowlicks? I had NO IDEA they could change how hair falls on a scalp.
I’ve spent a lot of time in theater, and watching behind the scenes make up artists, etc. I also know ALOT of people who have had plastic surgery. I cry foul. That doesn’t look right, and I don’t trust the Daily Mail.
Biden has also had caps on his teeth for at least a decade.
That’s a different person, IMO.
I don’t know about Biden’s hair cowlicks, but I do know this: There are enough people who are itching to use Photoshop to make their point, even if it’s a false one. Which is essentially lying. Which is infuriating when we’re trying to find the truth. It has been provably done many times on pics of Hillary just so someone could claim there was a body double. Some people are more invested in the theory than the truth.
There are pages of search results where different plastic surgeons talk about the work Biden has had done. I trust the experts in the field, the plastic surgeons who can spot work done a mile away (and who conversely could spot it that were a different person), before I trust internet sleuths who start out with an agenda and try to make things fit it. (And I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about the people who are misleading everyone on purpose.)
I remember when Biden got the work done that made him look like he was wearing a tight mask. I thought it did him no favors whatsoever and made him look worse, and unnatural. That was several years ago. And that’s the same guy we’re seeing now. He’s the same guy who makes gaffe after gaffe.
I’m done with this because I’m not going to convince anyone. I know how much “experts” are paid for their knowledge, too. Don’t trust them, but I do trust my gut. Until pictures surface with the bruising from the skin being lifted and repositioned…I’m probably going to doubt those, too, since I’ve actually used Photoshop and other graphics programs to alter images.
I don’t buy it.