Democrats have been promising "help is on the way" in the way of COVID relief. Since before Nancy Pelosi held it hostage to hurt Joe Biden's predecessor. Now that Democrats are going to get credit for it, help is allegedly on the way. Taxpayers have been struggling since the government shut things down. The government will now give taxpayers some of their money back and call it "help." Jen Psaki claims 75% of Americans support the "components of the package." I'd argue 75% of Americans think that means $1,400 stimulus checks. That's never the case with stimulus bills. Nor does it appear to be the case with this one.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Five Ways Democrats Plan to Spend Taxpayer Money in COVID 'Relief' Plan - Louder With Crowder
Five Ways Democrats Plan to Spend Taxpayer Money in COVID 'Relief' Plan - Louder With Crowder:
School board resigns after caught hot mic trashing parents - TheBlaze
School board resigns after caught hot mic trashing parents - TheBlaze:
An entire school board in northern California resigned after a video of the officials bashing parents went viral. In a virtual meeting, the school officials ridiculed parents who wanted in-person public education to resume. The video grabbed nationwide headlines.
The way we were-----USS Jamestown and the Great Famine
"The US sloop of war USS Jamestown entered Cork harbor the morning of April 15, 1847.
While the US was at war with Mexico at the time, the mission of the Jamestown was one of mercy.
The History Guy recalls the forgotten history of one of the earliest examples of a government providing foreign disaster relief.'
Harry Shearer Steps Down from Voicing Black ‘Simpsons’ Character Dr. Hibbert
Harry Shearer Steps Down from Voicing Black ‘Simpsons’ Character Dr. Hibbert
"In the latest win for inclusive voice casting in animation, Harry Shearer is stepping down from voicing Dr. Hibbert on “The Simpsons” (via The Wrap.)
The character, who first appeared in the 1990 second season of the iconic series, will be voiced by beloved voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson, best known for voicing Cleveland Brown Jr. on Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” and “The Cleveland Show.”
...Moving forward, ‘The Simpsons’ will no longer have white actors voice nonwhite characters,” the network said in a brief statement at the time.
...Dr. Hibbert is not the most notorious case of cross-racial voice casting...Read all.
Virginia legislation will require ‘cultural competency’ for teacher licenses
Virginia legislation will require ‘cultural competency’ for teacher licenses
"Legislation that passed both houses of the Virginia legislature by slim margins will require state teachers to complete “cultural competency” training to keep their licenses.
...The legislation also requires history teachers seeking licensure to have an “endorsement” for teaching African-American history.
The bills came about via the Virginia Commission on African American History Education which determined state schools “were doing a subpar job of teaching Black history.” The two-year-old commission’s lengthy report alleged “teachings of Black history [were] ‘incomplete’ and ‘tainted with a master narrative that marginalized or erased the presence of non-Europeans from the American landscape.’”...Read all.
Catalytic converters are at the center of a Twin Cities crime wave.
Instapundit--Catalytic converters are at the center of a Twin Cities crime wave. 
How it’s going: Catalytic converters are at the center of a Twin Cities crime wave.
HOW IT STARTED: Minneapolis City Council Calls for Defunding the Police.
“Law enforcement officials say catalytic converters have become a hot commodity because the insides are coated with precious metals like palladium, rhodium and platinum, which remove the worst toxic pollutants from the car’s exhaust.
The value of those metals is skyrocketing: Platinum was going for more than $1,200 an ounce Thursday, according to several online trading sites.
Thieves can sell the converters to scrap yards that pay up to a few hundred dollars apiece, or fetch a pretty penny by hawking them on Facebook marketplace and other websites featuring used car parts...read all.
"Being less white" equates, in practical terms, to "be less productive..."
"If you remove the racial component from these "anti-racism" training programs and only examine the behaviors deemed to be "hurtful", it becomes clear that these programs are not about racism at all, they are little more than excuses for lack of performance and productivity.
Corporations and businesses throughout the marketplace have worked for decades upon decades to improve productivity with a focus on product, process, tool and task design, worker satisfaction and safety, even including participation by the workers themselves when the Toyota Production System went mainstream.
- None of that had anything to do with race, it had to do with achieving an objective.
- Critical Race Theory negates all of that.
None of that is true.
In my estimation, "anti-racism" programs purportedly designed to help blacks - don't.
They hurt everybody, black or white, while also damaging everything."
These Are the Roughly 200 Businesses Whose Leaders Are Backing Gun Control Initiatives by Beth Baumann
These Are the Roughly 200 Businesses Whose Leaders Are Backing Gun Control Initiatives by Beth Baumann:
“We’re not calling for a boycott of these companies,” Gottlieb said. “Businesses and the people who own them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want, and gun owning consumers can likewise not spend any money with those firms. Let the marketplace decide. Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable [sic] consumer bloc, and they will decide where they spend their money.”
Soooo, never mind? (but they're out of business) FACEBOOK MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR JAN 6 THAN PARLER
Instapundit--FACEBOOK MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR JAN 6 THAN PARLER
Here’s what she found:
"Rachel Bovard dug into the flood of Mainstream Media (MSM) reporting accusing Parler of being the social media of choice for organizers of the January 6 Capitol riot.
“Of the 223 charging documents, 73 reference posts on Facebook as evidence, 24 reference posts YouTube, 20 single out Instagram posts (owned by Facebook), and only eight highlight posts on Parler.
...Bovard has more, much more and, boy, is it damaging to the MSM and Big Tech.--Posted by
IT’S ONLY RACIST WHEN YOU DO IT
Instapundit--IT’S ONLY RACIST WHEN YOU DO IT
"Tori Richards of the Washington Examiner pulls the lid off a government employee training program in San Diego so intrinsically racist that, were the colors reversed, it would warm the heart of the KKK:
“The Health & Human Services Agency required employees to spend six hours watching the online racism course, a training participant told the Washington Examiner.
Critical Race Theory classes taught participants ‘Racism is a WHITE’ problem, and, ‘Only white people can be racist.’ The title of the course is ‘Power and Privilege.’...
Expect many more stories like this across the country in the days ahead.
And oh yes, you will be helping to pay for it with your federal tax dollars.--Posted by
Fauci: Americans May Need to Wear Masks into 2022
Fauci: Americans May Need to Wear Masks into 2022:
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Anchor Dana Bash said, “You and the president have suggested that we’ll approach normality towards the end of the year. What does normal mean? Do you think Americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022?”
Universities’ Insane COVID Rules and Snitch Culture Are Training the Next Generation to Embrace Totalitarianism
Universities’ Insane COVID Rules and Snitch Culture Are Training the Next Generation to Embrace Totalitarianism
- The societal effects of the university COVID power grab will be felt when students leave college and enter the workforce.
Schools across the country have imposed extreme, micromanaging rules on 19-22 year olds—a demographic more likely to die from the seasonal flu and pneumonia than COVID.
Paying top dollar at already overpriced institutions for vastly inferior remote learning,
Paying top dollar at already overpriced institutions for vastly inferior remote learning,
- university students remain unnecessarily isolated and barred from using the services and facilities they and their families are paying for.
- Many schools, like Southern Methodist University, forbid students from having guests in their dorm rooms.
- Others have even installed security cameras in the hallways aimed at residents’ doors to monitor adherence.
- Most institutions have isolation dorms or, as some students call them, “isolation prisons,” where students who test positive for COVID are forced to live alone for two weeks (sound familiar?).
- Many students must wear masks at all times, including outdoors and in gyms. ..Read on, it's worse than we thought!
Justice Thomas: SCOTUS Refusal to Hear Pennsylvania Election Cases Is 'Inexplicable' by Katie Pavlich
Justice Thomas: SCOTUS Refusal to Hear Pennsylvania Election Cases Is 'Inexplicable' by Katie Pavlich:
In his dissent Justice Thomas argued mass mail-in voting, which was conducted in Pennsylvania for the first time ahead of the 2020 presidential election in November, combined with election rules being rewritten last minute, makes the process prone to fraud and mistrust. "The Constitution gives to each state legislature authority to determine the 'Manner' of federal elections...Yet both before and after the 2020 election, nonlegislative officials in various States took it upon themselves to set the rules instead. As a result, we received an unusually high number of petitions and emer- gency applications contesting those changes. The petitions here present a clear example.
History for February 23
History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com
W.E.B. DuBois 1868
- 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
- 1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
- 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
- 1896 - The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
- 1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
- 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
- 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $4 million more for the release of Patty Hearst. Hearst had been kidnapped on February 4th.
Monday, February 22, 2021
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