Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Worthy read-----Why we need an inquiry into January 6 - The Spectator
Why we need an inquiry into January 6 - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts
Indeed, so quick was the construction of this narrative that the cynics among us speculated that the riot, if not exactly premeditated by anti-Trump forces, was at least foreseen as an exploitable possibility. Something similar can be said about the deployment of the phrase ‘our democracy’.
"...Democrats instantly seized upon the riot, elevated it into an ‘armed insurrection’, and bewailed the assault on ‘our democracy’.
In this case, the first-person-plural possessive is very clearly intended to be exclusive, not inclusive.
No one wearing a MAGA hat or waving a Trump banner is included in that ‘our’.
The thousands of loyalty-tested National Guard troops and the tall, razor-wire-tipped fence hastily erected to surround the Capitol communicated the same message.
It’s Us vs Them, comrade: talk about ‘unity’ and ‘our democracy’ but practice division and exclusion. Nancy Pelosi called the Capitol ‘the people’s house’, the ‘citadel of democracy’, but the armed troops and the fence bespoke a different reality...Read all!
This is what our colleges are focusing on. Teach the children well.-----Understanding Multiracial Whiteness And Trump Supporters : NPR
Understanding Multiracial Whiteness And Trump Supporters : NPR
CRISTINA BELTRAN: Great. Thank you so much for having me.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Cristina Beltran, professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, about the phenomenon of "multi-racial whiteness."
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
The chairman of the hate group The Proud Boys identifies as Afro-Cuban. One of the organizers of the pro-Trump extremist group Stop the Steal is Black and Arab. Christina Beltran is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. And she uses the term multiracial whiteness to explain why some groups who are disdained by white supremacists embrace white power movements. And she joins us now to explain. Welcome to the program.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: So what do you mean by multiracial whiteness?
BELTRAN: So there's been a whole lot of people thinking and theorizing about white supremacy. And all of these scholars share a view that I share, that whiteness is not the same thing as white people and that whiteness is actually better understood as a political project that has emerged historically, and that is dynamic and that is always changing.
And so whiteness as an ideology is rooted in America's history of white supremacy - right? - which has to do with the legacy of slavery or Indigenous dispossession or Jim Crow...Read all... or don't.
Dem Rep. Khanna admits Democrats 'don't want' small businesses that pay less than $15 minimum wage - TheBlaze
Dem Rep. Khanna admits Democrats 'don't want' small businesses that pay less than $15 minimum wage - TheBlaze:
California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna essentially argued Sunday that Democrats believe no jobs are better than "underpaying" jobs — those that pay less than $15 per hour.
"Gates's plan to "dim the sun" poses the single greatest danger yet faced by humanity - possibly ever."
"Lex-Luther Gates's plan to "dim the sun" poses the single greatest danger yet faced by humanity - possibly ever.
Diminished solar energy WILL result in
* crop failure - famine
* extreme cold
* greatly increased demand for heating fuel
* diminished effectiveness of solar power
We don't have to guess at this.
The Earth has experienced both warming and cooling trends throughout billions of years' history and has 'recorded' the results in the fossil record.
What does the fossil record show us?...Read all!
What does the fossil record show us?...Read all!
History for February 24
History for February 24 - On-This-Day.com
John Vernon 1932 - Actor ("The Outlaw Jose Wales", "Dirty Harry")
- 1803 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled itself to be the final interpreter of all constitutional issues.
- 1839 - Mr. William S. Otis received a patent for the steam shovel.
- 1868 - The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson.
- 1903 - In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an area was leased to the U.S. for a naval base.
- 1938 - The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
- 1989 - Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses". A bounty of one to three-million-dollars was also put on Rushidie's head.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Merrick Garland admits his DOJ would 'advance' Joe Biden's gun control agenda: 'Entitled to pursue' - TheBlaze
Merrick Garland admits his DOJ would 'advance' Joe Biden's gun control agenda: 'Entitled to pursue' - TheBlaze:
Merrick Garland, the nominee for attorney general, admitted Monday that the Department of Justice would most likely enforce President Joe Biden's gun control agenda. What did Garland say?
Garland revealed his philosophy toward the Second Amendment during questioning from Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R).
Lee asked, "Do you support banning of certain types of firearms?"
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:
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.
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.”
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