Monday, February 01, 2021
You Will Be Made to Believe Implausible Things - American Thinker
"In George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984, he said, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
To guide you along this path, I bring to your attention implausible things you are expected to believe this week.
- Things that are not graft.
Outrageously generous book deals to present and former officials.
The Obamas’ $65 million book advances still lead the way to the most lavish, though the notion that even Democrat politicians’ relatives, like Chelsea Clinton, would offer ghostwritten pap worth anything is something you just have to believe.
Generous speaking fees.
The $25 million the Clintons garnered for just six months of speeches in 2014 and 2015, you must regard not as bribes for access and influence, but as well-earned compensation for minutes worth of pearls of wisdom...
Charitable Shakedowns.
You must ignore the suggestion that plea bargains in which the government gives a settlement payment to a bureaucrat’s favorite nonprofit constitutes anything unethical...Read all!!!
Someone Edited A Maxine Waters Quote About Trump Staffers So That It Applied To Cuomo Staffers, And NY Dems Are Outraged | The Daily Caller
A Twitter user edited a quote from Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters originally directed at Trump staffers to make it appear it was targeted at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s staff, and Democrats were outraged.
At a 2018 rally, Waters encouraged her supporters to harass officials in the Trump administration over Trump’s immigration policies.
This day in history-----Columbia: NASA blew it
History for February 1
- 1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
- 1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
- 1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
- 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
- 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
- 1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.
- 2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
Sunday, January 31, 2021
FNC's Carlson: 'This Is the Most Sweeping and Audacious Assault on Civil Liberties in American History'
Carlson said such treatment with the intention of accumulating power could ultimately result in more radicalism.
REPORT: Black Lives Matter Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize | The Daily Caller
Electric Cars Aren’t Nearly as Green as People Think
- Next time you see an electric car or a charging station, keep in mind the emissions involved in producing the battery and the electricity used to keep it running.
...Carbon dioxide emissions don’t just come out of a tailpipe.
...At the end of the day, the direct comparison between electric cars and gas cars is irrelevant.
Gotta see this, these people control BILLIONS$$. And they are nuts!-----Gina McCarthy Talks About the Intersectionality of Climate Change
Biden promised no new taxes for families making under $400K, but his Commerce nominee just said something else entirely - TheBlaze
This is from the Firefox folks!---We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog
"There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.
...But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality.
Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.
Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:
- Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
- Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
- Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
- Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.
Propagandists gotta propagand.-----THIS IS CNN
CNN asks why there’s such a deep political divide and gets handed all the mirrors.
CNN’s Parkland “town hall” was a key mile marker on the way to our current polarization.
As was this: Who Is John Sullivan, Who Was the Woman With Him and Their Appearance on CNN After the Capitol Hill Riot?--Posted by
Democrat Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill for Nationwide Mail-in Voting
Two Democrat lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday, dubbed the “Vote at Home Act,” to expand “Oregon-style” mail-in voting nationwide, contending that the move is necessary to “make real progress” in the country.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), is designed to “fight voter suppression” as detailed by Wyden’s press release. The measure would “massively expand vote-at-home ballot access, provide voters with pre-paid ballot envelopes and enact automatic voter registration.”
Boot-licking media nerds can't even see this is total JUNK SCIENCE. Publicly funded fraud!-----University of Michigan research shows Whitmer's tough coronavirus measures saved lives | News Hits
But was the pause successful in saving lives?
"Our modeling suggests that the state’s social distancing measures, although challenging for Michiganders, prevented illness and deaths, providing some relief to our already stretched health care system," said associate professor Marisa Eisenberg....
The researchers also compared Michigan's results to other Midwestern states, finding that states with higher average "government response index" fared better at containing virus...Read all.
