Your Tax Dollars Not at Work John Stossel

Government excels at NOT getting things done. 

Kamala Harris declared that our government would "build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!" 

This "Broadband Connectivity Agenda" was supported by "every House Republican on Energy and Commerce," write Republican representatives.

• Three years later, not a single person has been connected.

Why? Because, as Milton Friedman put it, "Few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own."...

• Government pumped billions into "high-speed rail." Fifteen years later, they're still talking about the future.
• Bureaucrats wasted $500 million of your money on the solar company Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. They wasted millions more trying and failing to create "synthetic fuel."
• More recently, Biden doled out $7 billion to build 500,000 EV charging stations. Two years later, they've built seven.
• Republicans joined Democrats in funding a CHIPS Act, meant to bring chipmaker jobs to America. It isn't working. Most chips are still made in Taiwan...

#1 This day 1965-----The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Audio)

Why are taxpayers forced to subsidize this clear hatred of white people??!!-----Professors: Rural whites’ health negatively affected by ‘whiteness’ - Dave Huber

“Whiteness,” as the authors point out, is a system “that typically upholds White Americans’ social supremacy”

“Whiteness: A Fundamental Determinant of the Health of Rural White Americans” by Professors Caroline Efird and Derek Griffith also asserts that “rurality” affects whites in ways “that are not present for racially minoritized populations or nonrural White populations.”...

• Academics have linked “whiteness” to virtually anything imaginable including the opioid crisis, religious appropriation, “all psychic suffering,” the conflict between Japan and the U.S. during World War II, and even one’s humanity.

Universities and school districts have courses and workshops dedicated to examining — and then eradicating — “whiteness” from whatever the topic du jour is...

A whole bunch of lies!

 

Legal team fights hospital's agenda to schedule nurses to help with abortions * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Legal team fights hospital's agenda to schedule nurses to help with abortions * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Further, the fight is about more than just one nurse. "It's about preserving the rights of all Americans to live and work in accordance with their faith," the legal team said. "The failure to accommodate religious beliefs not only undermines the rights of individuals like Judy but also poses a threat to the ability of Christian practitioners to work in the healthcare industry altogether. A workplace that disregards conscience rights undermines the principles of mutual respect and religious freedom, which are foundational to our republic." The law is on the side of the nurse, the report said.

Sad descent!-----Greta Thunberg’s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist by Will Jones

Not so long ago, Greta Thunberg was fêted by the great and the good and anyone criticising her was immediately labelled a misogynistic bully. 

• Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. 
• But now that she has became a profanity-spewing, militant pro-Palestine activist, her old fans are left looking like credulous fools...

Speaking at a rally in the German city of Mannheim on Friday, Thunberg, 21, was a far cry from that angelic Time cover, which followed a keynote speech delivered to the UN in September 2019. 

“F— Germany,” she said into the microphone on Friday, before descending into giggles as the 700-strong crowd of protesters whooped and clapped. Thunberg added: “And f— Israel.”..

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 16

History for December 16 - On-This-Day.com 

Philip K. Dick 1928 - Author

• 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
• 1835 - In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire.
• 1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.
• 1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
• 1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
• 1998 - Eric Michelman filed the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse.

'Preposterous': Biden admin extends liability protection to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers | Blaze Media

'Preposterous': Biden admin extends liability protection to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers | Blaze Media: 

The Biden admin issued COVID-19 vaccine manufactures what is effectively a pre-emptive pardon for alleged injuries through 2029. The Biden Department of Health and Human Services has extended liability protection to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and administrators through Dec. 31, 2029, precluding vaccine recipients who reportedly end up injured or their surviving family members from holding those responsible to account.

The way we were-----ABBA in Switzerland (1979)

The Most Disgusting Thing Ever

Blame Barack: Obama's lost mystique marks the end of an era - Victor Davis Hanson

as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term: “If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in . . .” - Victor Davis Hanson 

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.
Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration...
But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation...

• An inert Biden is departing office with a 36% favorability rating in a recent Emerson poll.
• His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, also has virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure...

When the Penny Drops - Jupplandia

Comparing Penny and Luigi.- Jupplandia 

Look at the contrast in the reactions to Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione.

• Daniel Penny was punished for stepping forward to protect others. Normal people supported him because his actions were objectively worthy ones and having people in your society willing to risk harm to themselves to confront a real and present threat is a good thing...
• With Luigi the ‘threat’ was extremely abstract. There was no personal danger from a CEO walking by... All of the rational specifics have to be ignored to reach the Luigi the Hero conclusion, subsumed entirely by broad, ideology based assumptions...

The exact opposite of the very specific reasons why Penny was considered admirable.

REVEALED: FBI had CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES at the Capitol on Jan. 6 | Blaze Media

REVEALED: FBI had CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES at the Capitol on Jan. 6 | Blaze Media: 

Abombshell report from the Office of Inspector General has revealed that 26 confidential human sources for the FBI were on the Capitol grounds on January 6, with at least 13 of these sources “storming the Capitol” that day.

“Why didn’t any of this come out in the J6 committee hearing that we saw?” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” asks Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“Why would it? So much of the J6 committee hearings have previously just been Democrat witch hunts,” Bedford answers. “I guess this has been something that Republicans have been trying to turn around, and they’ve been doing some good work on that in the last couple of months.”

Court Throws Out Crazy $81,000 Water Bill

Money-grabbing scam!-----Bombshell Report Claims That Biden’s Education Department Spent $1 Billion on DEI - Madeline Leesman

Key takeaways from the study include the fact that multiple Education Department grants “feature programming that advances race-based teacher recruiting, hiring, and training, including the use of race-based affinity groups.” 

In addition, many grants were issued for youth activism programming used in far-left ethnic studies courses (via PDE):

• –– A $4,000,000 grant was given for a 3-week residential “culturally responsive” computer science summer camp for 600 11th and 12th graders.
• –– The University of Iowa received a grant award of $1,261,718 to train 40 elementary teachers to “enact equity-centered education” in partner K-12 districts.
• –– The University of Missouri – St. Louis was awarded a $306,209 grant to train school counselors in Trauma-Informed, Antiracist Social-Emotional Learning (TIAR-SEL).

“The only people or groups to benefit from the enormous amount of grant funding are the universities, administrators, and DEI consultants, at the expense of children’s education...

Must view!-----Lunch video-----The Banality of Evil

C.S. Lewis, Preface to The Screwtape Letters, 1942

“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. 

It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. 

In those we see its final result.

But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

Noon-toon

 

Dems push Biden to extend deportation shields for illegal aliens in last-minute plea | Blaze Media

Dems push Biden to extend deportation shields for illegal aliens in last-minute plea | Blaze Media: 

A group of Democratic senators is relentlessly pushing President Joe Biden (D) to extend deportation protections to illegal aliens ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming term. On Monday, seven senators sent a letter to Biden, urging him to redesignate Temporary Protected Status "for All Eligible Countries and Consider Providing Deferred Enforced Departure."

She's OWNED!

 

Do the Chinese own the entire democrat party?-----Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies

“Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?” - Brianna Lyman 

But the thing is, Biden didn’t “just” commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving...

• Even more disturbing, Biden also granted clemency to Shanlin Jin, who was convicted after “police found more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography in his computer.” One such video allegedly showed “an adult male sexually assaulting a female infant,” according to The Dallas Morning News...

Make no mistake! The hate-driven lunatics are still spreading their venom. Still encouraging violence!

 

These lying morons are teaching our officers??!!-----West Point Apologizes, Confirms It Accepted Trump Nominee Pete Hegseth to the Academy | The Epoch Times

The academy had falsely said that Hegseth did not even apply to the school. -  Zachary Stieber 

The U.S. Military Academy has apologized for falsely saying President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, Peter Hegseth, was never accepted into the school, known as West Point.

“A review of our records indicates Peter Hegseth was offered admission to West Point in 1999 but did not attend. An incorrect statement involving Hegseth’s admission to the U.S. Military Academy was released by an employee on Dec. 10, 2024,” a spokesperson for West Point told The Epoch Times in an email. “Upon further review of an archived database, employees realized this statement was in error. Hegseth was offered acceptance to West Point as a prospective member of the Class of 2003. The academy takes this situation seriously and apologizes for this administrative error.”...

#1 This day 1958-----The Teddy Bears - To know him is to love him (HQ)