Angry demonstrators swarm, scream at NYC diners: 'We don't want your f***ing taqueria, owned by f***ing white men!' - TheBlaze

Angry demonstrators swarm, scream at NYC diners: 'We don't want your f***ing taqueria, owned by f***ing white men!' - TheBlaze

"Demonstrators swarmed people dining outside of a Brooklyn taqueria, according to the New York Post, demanding they take their business elsewhere.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Maya Taqueria in Prospect Heights on Tuesday following the guilty verdicts of Minneapolis former police Officer Derek Chauvin, demanding the outdoor diners leave.

Newsweek reported that the protesters, purported to be with NYC group Shut it Down, stopped outside of the restaurant to "castigate the outdoor diners."

"Stay the f*** outta New York!" some could be heard shouting, while others chanted, "We don't want you here!"

"We don't want your f***ing money! We don't want your f***ing taqueria, owned by f***ing white men!" the apparent leader screamed at the customers...Read all.

Evil people!

 

The Era of Easy Money - WSJ

The Era of Easy Money - WSJ

"...How and when will it all end?

• Someone pointed us to Hometown International (HWIN), which owns a single deli in rural New Jersey. The deli had $21,772 in sales in 2019 and only $13,976 in 2020, as it was closed due to COVID from March to September. HWIN reached a market cap of $113 million on February 8. The largest shareholder is also the CEO/CFO/Treasurer and a Director, who also happens to be the wrestling coach of the high school next door to the deli. The pastrami must be amazing.

...Another passage in the Greenlight letter may help explain the bold new thinking of Fed officials, who don’t seem too concerned about inflation risks as they continue to hold short-term lending rates close to zero, even as they have continued to create new money by expanding the Fed balance sheet. 

Greenlight writes of the Fed:

...Furthermore, the Fed has indicated that it believes any abnormally high inflation will be transitory. 

We wonder, how will the Fed know? 

Do price increases come with a label that says “transitory”? 

Our sense is that no matter how hot inflation gets in the coming months, the Fed will continue with zero interest rates and large-scale asset purchases. 

After all, the U.S. Treasury has a lot of debt to sell and it isn’t clear who, other than the Fed, can absorb the supply...Read all!

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Illinois' Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse | RealClearPolicy

Illinois' Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse | RealClearPolicy

• A crisis exposes weaknesses.

"The COVID-19 economic crisis showed the danger of government making promises it can’t afford.
Here in Illinois, the crisis has served as a dress rehearsal for the kind of havoc the state’s pension crisis could inflict on the Illinois economy and government retirees if nothing changes.
More than 1 in 10 Illinoisans – 1.1 million, or about 11.4% of the adult population – are members of an Illinois public pension system.
Those government retirment systems are sitting on mountains of debt. 

There's $144 billion in debt just in the five statewide systems, by the state’s conservative estimate, or $261 billion by a more realistic, independent estimate. 

They average only 40% of the funds needed to pay out retiree benefits long-term.
...Illinois politicians have enhanced benefits without funding them and pushed off the financial reckoning for decades. 

As a result, pension costs, which took up just 4% of the state’s budget in the 1990s, have increased by more than 500% during the past 20 years, growing to consume more than 25% of budgets in recent years - rapidly approaching 30%....Read all.

A hoax!

 

Detroit Police Chief Demands Rashida Tlaib Resign After 'Reckless' Comments

Detroit Police Chief Demands Rashida Tlaib Resign After 'Reckless' Comments: 

In an interview Sunday with WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in the Detroit area, Detroit Police Chief James Craig made it clear he would not be sorry to see Tlaib take a permanent leave of absence from a congressional position.

“I’d love to see her resign. I’d throw her a goodbye party,” Craig told interviewer Charlie Langton, an attorney and WJBK anchor.

AOC says 'trampling' of 'indigenous rights' and 'racial justice' is a cause of climate change | Washington Examiner

AOC says 'trampling' of 'indigenous rights' and 'racial justice' is a cause of climate change | Washington Examiner

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faulted the rejection of "indigenous rights" and "racial justice" on Tuesday as causes of climate change.

"The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice, and it is a crisis born of the pursuit of profit at any and all human and ecological cost, which means that we must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change," the New York Democrat said, "that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change because we are allowing people and we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to healthcare, the right to housing and education."...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 22

History for April 22 - On-This-Day.com

Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) 1870 - Russian premier (1917-1924)

• 1509 - Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry VII.
• 1861 - Robert E. Lee was named commander of Virginia forces.
• 1864 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed the inscription "In God We Trust" to be included on one-cent and two-cent coins.
• 1889 - At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started as thousands of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land.
• 1970 - The first "Earth Day" was observed by millions of Americans.
• 1976 - Barbara Walters became first female nightly network news anchor.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Declares State Of Emergency Due To "Crisis" At S...

'Reimagine policing'? Mark Levin unpacks Obama's MARXIST messaging on law enforcement - TheBlaze

'Reimagine policing'? Mark Levin unpacks Obama's MARXIST messaging on law enforcement - TheBlaze: 

On the latest episode of "LevinTV," Mark Levin exposed the former president's use of Marxist catchphrases like "reimagine policing" and attempt to tie this tragedy to George Floyd's death in order to advance a racial-injustice agenda at the expense of the rule of law. "These politicians think they need to be out front, that they need to comment before they know anything, because they are playing to the mob," Levin stated. "In my research of Marxism and Critical Race Theory, the word 'reimagine' shows up everywhere. That word has meaning. Reimagine means destroy."

The way we were-----Prince Philip & Queen Elizabeth: A Lifetime Of Love | 50 Glorious Years ...

Boob-tube-----Homer Grows Hair & Gets Promoted

The Gaslighting of the American People by Jackie Gingrich Cushman

The Gaslighting of the American People by Jackie Gingrich Cushman

"This week, Project Veritas released a video of Charlie Chester, a CNN technical director...reveal that CNN was involved in what proved to be a successful media campaign to control the political process.

• "Look what we did, we got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that, if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out," Chester said. "Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that's what it was."

Part of the process within CNN, according to the tapes, was to highlight anything negative against then-President Donald Trump. 

• If Trump's "hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to all tell a story that was all speculation -- that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it," said Chester. "We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about. That's what -- I think, that's propaganda."

The opposite tactic was taken with Biden, according to Chester.

...According to Psychology Today, "Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. 

Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. 

They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity. 

Over time, a gaslighter's manipulations can grow more complex and potent, making it increasingly difficult for the victim to see the truth."...Read all.

A union leader mixes toxic race theory with anti-Semitism to justify closed schools

A union leader mixes toxic race theory with anti-Semitism to justify closed schools

• Randi Weingarten attacked Jewish parents who want schools opened as “privileged” members of the “ownership class” to justify the harm her union is doing to kids.

"If there is any profession other than medical personnel that would ordinarily be thought of as “essential workers,” it would have to be teachers. 
...That’s why one of the most discouraging aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the public-school teachers unions’ opposition to the reopening of schools for in-person instruction, despite all the evidence showing that doing so is both safe and in the best interests of children.
That the unions seem to have an agenda that is contrary to the goal of advancing education has been clear for a long time. 

But nothing has done more to illustrate the way leadership of these groups prioritize their own selfish interests and leftist doctrine, as opposed to education itself, than an interview that Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, gave to JTA this week...Read all.

Albuquerque police take defiant stand after leadership disciplines officer: 'There is no morale' - TheBlaze

Albuquerque police take defiant stand after leadership disciplines officer: 'There is no morale' - TheBlaze: 

In total, 17 officers, two sergeants, and one lieutenant resigned from ADP's emergency response team. Shaun Willoughby, the president of the Albuquerque Police Officers' Association, said the officers resigned because they don't feel supported by APD management. "They don't feel supported here, and they don't feel trust. They feel second guessed, and they don't feel that they can do their job, no matter how perfect they do their job, without getting in trouble," Willoughby told KOB. "They're damned if they do, and they're damned if they don't," he added.

Extra COVID Revenue for Schools Averages $4,600 Per Student--- But large disparities among districts; some get less than $1,000, others more than $10,000

Extra COVID Revenue for Schools Averages $4,600 Per Student --But large disparities among districts; some get less than $1,000, others more than $10,000
"MIDLAND, Mich. — Michigan public schools are emerging from the pandemic with an unprecedented dose of extra funding, according to a new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. 

The report breaks down the financial impact of the three major federal COVID-19 relief packages and change in state policy that funds districts for students they no longer educate.
...Among conventional districts, for example, 58% of the federal CARES Act funding went to districts providing only remote instruction as of January 2021.
...Taking into account all sources of extra COVID relief funds, the three districts that received the most extra dollars were 

• Flint, with an additional $51,193 per pupil, 
• Benton Harbor with $29,502 per pupil and 
• Detroit with $26,695 per pupil. 
• The bottom four districts are all below $500 per pupil. 

...You can view the full report here...Read all.

Remind your democrat friends!

 

Lunch video-----Outsiders Weather and Ice Age Watch: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts!

"Sky News host Rowan Dean says satellite data has revealed global warming has mostly occurred below the predicted average of over 100 climate change models."

Noon-toon

 

Chicago prosecutor put on leave after telling judge 13-year-old Adam Toledo was armed when police shot him - TheBlaze

Chicago prosecutor put on leave after telling judge 13-year-old Adam Toledo was armed when police shot him - TheBlaze: 

The Chicago Sun-Times similarly reported that one angle of bodycam footage doesn't show Toledo "throwing away the gun, and the boy doesn't appear to be holding a weapon in his raised hands...but another video shows him apparently throwing something through a gap in the fence to the other side — and a video shows an officer discovering a handgun there."

A far larger threat!

 

Fauci vs. DeSantis: Should Vaccinated People Need to Wear Masks? by Guy Benson

Fauci vs. DeSantis: Should Vaccinated People Need to Wear Masks? by Guy Benson
"...Instead, here he is on his endless media tour (consider the diminishing returns factor based on the above data) arguing that people who've been fully vaccinated may still need to wear masks indefinitely.
He doesn't use that word specifically, but his standard seems to be "until there's zero risk" and there will never be zero risk:

The question he's answering was prompted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' overwhelmingly sensible and data-driven guidance that vaccinated people are immune and should therefore act like it: 

He's right. 

...In short, the vaccines work miraculously well, and recent CDC data showed that the so-called "breakthrough" infection rate is 0.008 percent among the fully vaccinated. 

That's not zero risk, but there's very, very, very little risk, and vaccinated people should in fact act as if they're immune because they are...Read all.