National media finally looking at our moron-gov?-----James Freeman--Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ

Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) has taken a back seat to no one in regulating the daily lives of citizens during the era of Covid-19. 

She’s even trying to make some emergency workplace rules permanent in the Wolverine State. 

But for her own life, it seems Gov. Whitmer is not exactly a fanatic about following rules when she’s in the passenger seat.

Recently this column noted Ms. Whitmer’s decision to ignore her own warnings against out-of-state travel. 

Now there are more questions about her mode of transportation. Paul Egan reports for the Detroit Free Press from Lansing...
...There’s also more news on Ms. Whitmer’s rejection of her own government’s travel advisory. 

It’s not just an issue of deciding to fly to Florida—which she has singled out as a travel risk—but also her government’s guidance on what to do in the event of such travel.

• Rod Meloni and Natasha Dado of NBC affiliate WDIV report that a few weeks before her trip, Michigan’s health department leased guidance saying, “get tested with a PCR viral test one to three days before you travel.” The WDIV report continues:
• Then upon your return to Michigan the guidelines read, “Get tested again with a viral test three to five days after your trip and stay home and self-quarantine for a full seven days after travel, even if your test is negative.”
• “If you don’t get tested, stay home and self-quarantine for 10 days after travel,” the guidelines continued.

Yet [three days after her return]... Local 4 News cameras rolled as the governor bypassed the self quarantine and attended a vaccination press conference at Ford Field...
Local 4 News asked the governor’s office why she did not follow her own health department’s guidance and the response was it wasn’t an executive order and she followed all orders...Read all

The way we were-----The TRAGIC Execution Of Sophie Scholl - The White Rose

"During the Second World War and also in Germany in the 1930s, there were numerous groups within the country that opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Resistance to the Nazis and Hitler usually was put down rather brutally with those in opposition being sent to concentration camps, or even worse being put to death. One particular group 'The White Rose' lives on today in the memory for being a student group which featured two siblings who died for their beliefs.

Sophie Scholl at the age of 21 would be tragically executed using the guillotine at Stadelheim Prison in Munich. She had been part of the White Rose and had been caught alongside her brother distributing leaflets across Munich University which told people to rise up and defy the Nazis and Hitler. This was an incredibly serious thing, and many of those who practised acts of resistance like this would be sentenced to death for treason. Sophie had been an active part of the White Rose and their spreading of anti-Hitler propaganda, but she was caught.

A pro-Hitler janitor had caught Hans and Sophie Scholl throwing leaflets from a balcony at the University, and for this the Gestapo were called and the siblings arrested. They were placed on trial in a sham-trial, and then sentenced to death for treason. A day after this sentence they were executed, and Sophie's execution was performed using the guillotine by Johann Reichhart. It took a matter of seconds for the young girls life to be taken away. 

Today she is remembered as an incredible and courageous young woman, who defied the tyranny of evil. 

So join us today as we look at 'The TRAGIC Execution of Sophie Scholl - The White Rose.' "

15 Worst Business Decisions Ever

VACCINATIONS SPARK COVID VARIANTS

Instapundit--VACCINATIONS SPARK COVID VARIANTS

"That’s what French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montaignier contends, as reported by LifeSiteNews’ Celeste McGovern. 

This report from the same publication also has me wondering.  

Now I am really confused. 

But surely the CDC can clear this up, right? Right???--Posted by Mark Tapscott"

AND JUST LIKE THAT, RUSSIANS AREN’T THE BAD GUYS ANYMORE:

Instapundit--AND JUST LIKE THAT, RUSSIANS AREN’T THE BAD GUYS ANYMORE:

"Can’t make this up: Sec. of State Blinken “calls for cooperation with Russia to make world ‘safer.’”

Similarly, Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is 

• pipelines in America, bad. 
• Jobs in America, bad. 
• Pipelines in Russia, good. 
• Jobs in Russia, good. 

And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”

Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

Related: Peddlers of Russiagate Won’t Take Truth for an Answer.

* Yes, I know I spelled President Ron Klain incorrectly.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

Biden Wants to Surveil Soldier Social Media Pages - Louder With Crowder

Biden Wants to Surveil Soldier Social Media Pages - Louder With Crowder: 

The Democrats who control Joe Biden have been chirping about a "domestic war on terror" since January 6 and even before that while ignoring all the domestic violence their side was committing all throughout 2020. Leftists claim their concern is "extremism," then declare any opinion they disagree with to be "extreme." Unfortunately for them (yet good for Americans), the Bill of Rights makes it difficult for them to surveil anyone they determine to be a "domestic threat." So they use private companies to get around pesky First Amendment issues. This now, according to reports, includes our military. That's right. The Biden administration is concerned that our armed service members maybe a little too "extreme" and wants to monitor what they say on social media.

From the web---How we got the politicians we got!---Free Ice Cream

Free Ice Cream

• A simple lesson how socialism weaves its way into the fabric of a free society
• When free people come to accept it's okay to live off the spoils of others, they don't care if new promises can't be paid for. They just want them and they want them now even at their own peril. - Webmaster

"The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. 

I decided we would have an election for a class president. 

We would choose our nominees. 

They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class Members. 

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. 

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. 

Both candidates were good kids. 

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots

of parental support. 

I had never seen Olivia's mother. 

• The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded.
• He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten. 

Olivia won by a land slide.

Every time most politicians open their mouths, they offer ice cream, and fifty percent of America reacts like nine-year-olds. 

They want ice cream. 

The other fifty percent know they're going to have to feed the cow."

Every statue MUST be torn down! That's the plan...right?-----Deadline Detroit | Lapointe: In Wake of Scandal, Bo Schembechler's Statue on Michigan's Campus Must Go

Deadline Detroit | Lapointe: In Wake of Scandal, Bo Schembechler's Statue on Michigan's Campus Must Go

"...None of this rescinds all the victories in their stadiums and the good works they accomplished off the field.

But both turned out to be idols with feet of clay. 

Like the statue of Joe, the one of Bo must also go...Read all!

Noon-toon

 

Law student faces possible expulsion for daring to say women have vaginas and that men are physically stronger - TheBlaze

Law student faces possible expulsion for daring to say women have vaginas and that men are physically stronger - TheBlaze: 

Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old student at Abertay University in Scotland, is reportedly facing discipline from the school for telling her classmates that a woman must have a vagina — citing generally understood biology that females are born with female genitals — and that men are stronger than women and "the difference in physical strength of men versus women is a fact."

"...anyone who opposes the US...."

 

And Trump is banned from Twitter and the rest of the web?-----Ad for room rental in Portland Antifa ‘whorehouse’ goes viral

Ad for room rental in Portland Antifa ‘whorehouse’ goes viral
"An online advertisement for a room opening in an Antifa housing collective and unregulated prostitution facility in Portland has gone viral after being met by a barrage of ridicule by social media users.
An online advertisement for a room opening in an Antifa housing collective and

unregulated prostitution facility in Portland has gone viral after being met by a barrage of ridicule by social media users.
An advertisement for Creature’s Co-Op was posted on Facebook seeking a “secret roommate” to reside in an eight feet by eight feet corner of a living room built out of recycled doors and a shower curtain for $302 a month, including other charges. 

Screenshots from the advertisement were posted on Twitter last week, prompting thousands of retweets and comments ridiculing the advert’s stringent and bizarre rules...Read all!

Bidenomics

 

It's ALL about votes and political power!-----BUSTED: Biden Admin Caught Secretly Flying Illegal Migrant Children Into Key Red State

BUSTED: Biden Admin Caught Secretly Flying Illegal Migrant Children Into Key Red State

"...Not only was the current border crush anticipated by the regime, but the plan was always to ‘catch and release’ migrants, especially children, into the interior — say, in Republican states — where they will grow into good little Marxists after being propagandized in government schools, and then vote Democrat for the remainder of their lives.

That’s what’s happening now: Millions are on the way because they, too, know that most will get to stay in America. Somewhere.

Like Tennesee, for instance.

The Daily Mail reports that the regime has been busted distributing migrant children into Tennessee without notifying the state or its congressional contingent:

Several videos obtained by WRCB-TV Channel 3 show a handful of planes carrying minor migrants arriving at Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center during overnight hours...Read all.

#1 This day 1970-----The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature (Audio)

Should republicans send their children and money to institutions that loathe them?-----Can a Republican Be a College President? | Power Line

Can a Republican Be a College President? | Power Line

"...But, can a Republican be a president of a major university or university system outside the South?
Mark Kennedy’s experience at the University of Colorado suggests that it may not be in the cards. Kennedy served several terms as a Congressman from Minnesota before teaching at George Washington U. and then becoming President of the University of North Dakota. 

From there, he became President of the University of Colorado in 2019. 

His hiring was greeted with howls of execration from student leftists who subjected him to a bizarre on-stage inquisition at the beginning of his tenure. 

That tenure has now come to an end.

...insufficient wokeness is a firing offense in today’s academia. 

The Federalist reports:

University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy announced earlier this month he would step down after a brief two years on the job culminating in turbulence from student and faculty protest of a president insufficiently leftist for their tastes...

That is a polite way of saying that Democrats have now taken over the Board of Regents. 

They can’t abide a Republican university president...Read all!

Wimp-amerikans

 

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot granting interviews only to 'black or brown journalists,' local TV news reporters say - TheBlaze

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot granting interviews only to 'black or brown journalists,' local TV news reporters say - TheBlaze: 

Far-left Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is granting one-on-one interviews only to "black or brown journalists," a number of local TV news reporters said on social media Tuesday.

What are the details?

Mary Ann Ahern — a political reporter for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago — tweeted that Lightfoot's spokeswoman said the mayor "is granting 1 on 1 interviews — only to Black or Brown journalists."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 21

History for May 21 - On-This-Day.com

Plato 427 B.C.

• 1819 - Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as "swift walkers."
• 1832 - In the U.S., the pro-slavery, Democratic Party held its first national convention.
• 1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
• 1922 - The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.
• 1924 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago.
• 1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.
• 1929 - William Henry Storey registered the trademark for the board game Sorry! in the U.K. (U.K. number 502898)
• 1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.
• 1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
• 1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.

Non-Profit Exposing Truth About 'Woke' Companies - Louder With Crowder

Non-Profit Exposing Truth About 'Woke' Companies - Louder With Crowder: 

A majority of Americans oppose companies getting involved in woke politics. A majority of Americans oppose woke bullsh!t in general. The problem is the minority of woke leftist twats are louder and organized around the belief that if you have a platform, that platform needs to be used to promote leftist politics. Or else! People can say how dumb Gina Carano's firing was all they want. All it takes is a handful of losers on Twitter to complain and she gets fired. The minority accuses people and companies of -ists and -isms. The majority is too busy having a life. Shook corporations with no testicles cave to the minority.

'What they respect is POWER and CONTROL': How the Left used masks to condition us to turn on each other - TheBlaze

'What they respect is POWER and CONTROL': How the Left used masks to condition us to turn on each other - TheBlaze: 

Dave and Glenn agreed this new development should not erase how the Left exploited masks make half the American population feel less than human. In fact, Dave said he believes they used masks to inflict "a psychological condition on us to make us afraid of each other, and turn on each other." "So many people on the liberal side see the mask as a sign that you're part of 'the party,' and when you're not wearing a mask, you're a problem," Glenn observed. "They've been shaming us, they've been side-eyeing us, speaking out and calling us names. How do they remove that mask when it has become part of the identity of the party?"

The way we were-----Next Exit: A History of Roadside Attractions

"At countless stops along the old highways travelers could find all manner of attractions like the “World’s Largest Ball of Paint”, “Cadillac Ranch”, and “The Thing”, giving birth to an entire culture of kitsch, monuments to the mammoth, and shrines to the strange. 

The history of these roadside attractions - or less charitably, tourist traps - predates even the highways they dotted.

This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration.  

As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. "

Will America bend to this outright racism?-----Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color | Fox News

Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color | Fox News

• Lightfoot slams 'overwhelming whiteness' of Chicago press, defends only speaking to reporters of color-'Many of [the Chicago City Hall reporters] are smart and hard-working, savvy and skilled. But mostly white, nonetheless,' Lightfoot wrote

"...Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, D., defended her controversial announcement to only give individual interviews to journalists of color and blasted Chicago media institutions for their "overwhelming whiteness and maleness" in an extraordinary letter on Wednesday.

...In a two-page letter to the media, Lightfoot, the first Black woman as well as the first openly gay mayor in Chicago's history, praised her own 2019 election for "breaking barriers" and took a shot at media organizations in the city for not adequately addressing "institutionalized racism" in their ranks. 

Her decision to temporarily only speak to Black and Brown reporters, she said, was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion...Read all.