Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"The Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect political weapon.
It has no cure, no vaccine and no real therapeutic regimen.
The only successful management tool currently available to the public at large is avoidance.
That being the case, it is a tool that can be turned on and off. It can be deemed selectively deadly...
The debates over wearing/not wearing a mask, whether a mask even provides a sufficient degree of safety and to whom it protects (the wearer or the public) has transitioned from a scientific discussion to one of moral dimensions - you are viewed as and active weapon if you do not wear a mask in public. If you don't wear a mask all the time, you are essentially a fully semi-automatic AR-15 carrying, high capacity magazine toting, body armor wearing, school shooting, serial killer wanna-be... Read all!
The headline to this article is not sensationalistic. It is not click bait. It is truth. Shocking truth. Yes, Instagram has designated videos of live worship on the streets to be in violation of community guidelines, calling the content "harmful." Let the outrage be felt and heard.
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming:Roy W. Spencer"
This is how climate alarmism spreads...the latest news headline is at the top, while the rest is provided by me (and the WeatherBell.com graphic) — with Joe Bastardi and Anthony Watts."
The coffee chain joins big brands including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Hershey, Honda, Eddie Bauer, The North Face, Levi's, Ben & Jerry's and Verizon in taking various steps.
Much of the activity stems from the #StopHateForProfit campaign, which includes the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press and Common Sense.
"We will pause advertising on all social media platforms while we continue discussions internally, with our media partners and with civil rights organizations in the effort to stop the spread of hate speech," Starbucks said in a statement... Read all!!
This man apparently was fed up with CHAZ, the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, and decided to take matters into his own hands. The unidentified man started ripping apart booths and tossing tables in CHAZ on June 25, the video shows. The man also can be heard lecturing bystanders, saying “this is not a Black movement.” CHAZ, also known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), is located in downtown Seattle. Spanning six blocks, it is a self-proclaimed autonomous zone that organizers described as a cop-free area. Later in the video, an unidentified Black woman is heard telling CHAZ residents that “the Republican Party is the party of the Blacks.”
Like many people, my exasperated friend, and others I know, are mesmerized and frightened by daily news reports on the number of COVID-19 cases. You can cite all the data you want, such as these from the U.S.:
It’s good news all around. But you turn on the television and get a different message.
People worry about sending their children to school this fall.
Some display authoritarian views as they excuse politicians for destructive errors merely because they showed “strong leadership.”
If you’re wondering why so many people don’t see the world the way you do, engage them in conversation...
“Videos and photographs of the mob flooded social media as they shouted various messages throughout the residential neighborhood and tore down American flags,” the Daily Wire reported.
Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong shared footage of protesters shouting “Eat the rich!”:
Later, he tweeted a video of protesters in Los Angeles shouting “No justice, no peace! No racist police!” as they tore down an American flag attached to a building:
In another video, the protesters in Beverly Hills shouted, “Abolish capitalism now!” while they continued their march through the neighborhood...
Surprise! Gun sales explode in Minnesota after riots, #
"Gee, whodathunkit?
Let’s allow the streets to burn, demand the dismantling of the police department, and then call concern over property crimes and assaults a symptom of “privilege.” Minnesotans have responded by rediscovering one of the core purposes of the Second Amendment — mainly first-time firearms buyers, local CBS affiliate WCCO reports.
“People are really scared,” one gun-store owner says, and they should be:
...Background checks in Minnesota spiked in March as COVID-19 hit the United States, with more than 96,000 filed — the most for any month in 20 years.
...What happens when civic authority retreats?
Those with the most credible threat of violence fill the vacuum.
That’s what happened in the riots themselves, and that’s what happened in Seattle, too... Read all.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg rolled out new rules for the platform in a Facebook post Friday, most notably that the company would place labels on posts from public officials that violate user policies. The Facebook post stated that “problematic content” from public officials would include “a prompt to tell people that the content they’re sharing may violate [Facebook] policies.” Zuckerberg mentioned that “newsworthy” posts found in violation of user policies would not be removed, however, stating that “seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest.”
Biden calls protests 'right and necessary,' urges Americans to turn 'anguish into purpose'
"Former Vice President Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, released a statement just after midnight Sunday morning, calling the protests “right and necessary” while urging peaceful demonstrations over violence. “I know that a grief that dark and deep may at times feel too heavy to bear,” he said in the statement. “I know. I also know that the only way to bear it is to turn all that anguish into purpose.”
He urged Americans to use their pain to make change.
“We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us,” he said."
History for June 29 - On-This-Day.com George W. Goethals 1858, William Mayo 1861, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 John Toland 1912, Slim Pickens 1919, Gary Busey 1944 1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast. 2007 - The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale.
On Friday night, a group of Black Lives Matter activists began shouting a political script in a Target store in Washington, D.C.
The verbal assault was led by a male with a bullhorn, who read the script in portions which were were then shouted back by the rest of the group.
Yet, pretending that these figures never existed, or eradicating the memory of the good they performed, will continue the march toward a false sense of place — one that is not based on what was, but on what the folks in power wish had been. That is a self-delusion that escapes reality. We must live in the real world where bad men did good things and good men did bad things — and intelligent people recognize this. You can escape reality. But you cannot escape the consequences of escaping reality. Those consequences will be the inevitable repetition of a past we should never forget.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of American Adults still regard being a police officer as one of the most important jobs in our country today, down only slightly from 68% three years ago.
...Blacks (67%) are the most concerned about public safety where they live, compared to 63% of whites and 65% of other minority Americans..."
It can be deemed selectively deadly...
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming:Roy W. Spencer"
Much of the activity stems from the #StopHateForProfit campaign, which includes the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press and Common Sense.
Surprise! Gun sales explode in Minnesota after riots, #
Biden calls protests 'right and necessary,' urges Americans to turn 'anguish into purpose'
