The way we were-----Christopher Columbus: Life and Voyages in the Age of Exploration

‘Simplicity is a hate crime’: Sex Discrimination Commissioner doesn’t kn...

About time we addressed this!-----Senators: Dependence on foreign drug supplies threatens security, health - UPI.com

The United States has grown dependent on foreign drug supplies, particularly from China and India, causing a national security and public health threat - Bridget Erin Craig

That was the verdict when senators on the Special Committee on Aging held a hearing titled "Bad Medicine: Closing Loopholes that Kill American Patients" to assess challenges and potential solutions to the country importing 83% of the top-100 generic drugs.

• "With the vast majority of our generic drugs and their ingredients, Communist China is the world's largest producer of active prescription drug ingredients, and India relies on Communist China for approximately 80% of the active drug ingredients that are used in drug manufacturing," said Chairman Rick Scott, R-Fla.
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., concurred...

MUST READ!!-----Regarding NY AG @TishJames, this tweet is by SMB Attorney(@SMB_Attorney)

“I spent years as a mortgage banker at Quicken Loans (now Rocket Mortgage), the number one mortgage lender in the country, before I ever went to law school. - Harriett Lublin

“Not trying to make a political point here.
“I spent years as a mortgage banker at Quicken Loans (now Rocket Mortgage), the number one mortgage lender in the country, before I ever went to law school. 

So when I see stories like this, I look at them a little differently.

• “How you classify a property as a primary, secondary, or investment home changes everything about the loan. 

The down payment, the interest rate, the underwriting, all of it.

• “Primary or secondary homes can get by with as little as 3 to 10 percent down.
• “Investment properties usually require 25 percent or more.

“So if you’re a brand new real estate investor with limited cash, there’s a big incentive to call something a ‘second home’ instead of an ‘investment property.’...
What @TishJames is accused of doing is straight-up fraud, lying to secure favorable terms.

Sev Onyshkevych - Exactly. Trump's "crime" was not a crime and his valuation had zero to do with the terms of the loan.
Hers is for real.
#FAFO

Dr. Oz reveals the TRUTH about government shutdown and health care for illegal aliens | Blaze Media

Dr. Oz reveals the TRUTH about government shutdown and health care for illegal aliens | Blaze Media: 

“One of the things we addressed, I think, quite successfully, is the fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid. In fact, some of the points you make like money going towards illegal immigrants — again, it’s not that you’re paying for it in California; it’s that folks are being taxed in Mississippi and Texas and Florida, and that money is being shipped to California,” Oz explains.

Bakery Closes: No Refunds For Customers

‘Hate Crime’ School Superintendent Is Indicted for Fraud

Devon Horton, who unleashed the unfounded vilification of two white students in Evanston, Illinois, allegedly steered school contracts to friends and pocketed over $80,000 in kickbacks. - Frannie Block

The 17-count indictment...alleged that Horton and three friends cheated District 65, the Chicago Public Schools, and the federal government by creating companies that applied for—and won—contracts with District 65 while Horton was superintendent. 

Those companies then made payments to 

• Horton, either directly 
• or through an unidentified sibling, 

according to the indictment...
After Horton was indicted, a DeKalb County School District spokesperson said that he has been put on paid leave...

Lunch video-----Vaccine injuries, full version

Noon-toon

 

US Troops Will Miss Paycheck For First Time In History Thanks to Schumer Shutdown

US Troops Will Miss Paycheck For First Time In History Thanks to Schumer Shutdown: 

Active-duty service members are on the verge of missing their next paycheck due to Senate Democrats voting to keep the government shuttered indefinitely. U.S. service members were already temporarily reporting to work without the certainty of being paid on time since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, but the 1.3 million active-duty troops are likely to miss their first paycheck as the funding lapse drags on through next week.

Explains much!

 

ANTIFA Does Not Exist - by Michael Smith

Democrats are trying out a new ideological lie. - Michael Smith

I happen agree with the Democrats and their sycophantic media - ANTIFA as a distinct entity doesn’t exist.
The reason that is true is because they are merely an extension of the Democratic Party. 

This is simply undeniable. 

• ANTIFA’s black-masked, street-brawling militants are not a separate movement but the inevitable outgrowth of a Democratic Party that has embraced violence as a political tool, fueled by its leaders’ relentless demonization of Donald Trump and his supporters. 

This radicalization, rooted in the party’s complete abandonment of principle during the Clinton era, has transformed Democrats into a force that wields mob tactics to maintain power, with ANTIFA as its most visible and aggressive manifestation...

The Church of England decided this week to cover the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the voices of “marginalised communities.”

It’s actually stunning how much the elite of Britain hate their own culture and civilisation.  - Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou

The Very Rev David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury, said: ..."This exhibition intentionally builds bridges between cultures, styles and genres and allows us to receive the gifts of younger people who have much to say.” 

It’s actually stunning how much the elite of Britain hate their own culture and civilisation. 

• You couldn’t even invent this as satire. 
• They are literally scrawling graffiti on the walls of ancient cathedrals. 

Everything beautiful is just torn down and destroyed.

New plan!

 

California's $20 fast food minimum wage eliminated jobs

California's $California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Hike Cost the State 18,000 Jobs. That Shouldn't Surprise Anyone.20 fast food minimum wage eliminated jobs - Peter Suderman
In 2023, California passed a law requiring a $20 per hour minimum wage for all fast-food restaurants with more than 60 locations nationwide. 

• Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom portrayed the union-supported law as pro-worker, saying it moved the state "one step closer to fairer wages."
• Other California politicians supporting the law claimed it would provide a path to economic security for lower-income workers, enabling them to more assuredly put food on the table.
• "Sacrifice, dedication, and the power of a government who serves its people is what got us to this moment," said then-Assemblymember Chris Holden (D–Pasadena)...

#1 This day 1969-----The Temptations - I Can't Get Next to You

We persist in romanticizing the native peoples of America. The truth is far different.

Mackubin Owens - "...archaeology yields evidence of prehistoric massacres more severe than any recounted in ethnography"

David Black Mastro added a photo to the album: Lessons from History

For example, at Crow Creek in South Dakota, archaeologists found a mass grave containing the remains of more than 500 men, women, and children who had been slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival (ca. A.D. 135)...
--Lawrence H. Keeley, 'War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage' (1996)

• Donald Sensing - In other words, they were doing what tribes of all races and ethnicities had been doing all over the world for tens of thousands of years.
• Michael Smith - Donald Sensing As I reminded someone the other day, history proves that superior civilizations always overcome inferior civilizations. It is the way of things.

I don’t know how you could watch this video and not conclude that Abigail Spanberger is a sociopath

Abigail Spanberger is a sociopath - Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain
I don’t know how you could watch this video and not conclude that Abigail Spanberger is a sociopath

'A historic moment': Trump gets Gaza deal as Dems continue shutdown * WorldNetDaily * by Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Wire

'A historic moment': Trump gets Gaza deal as Dems continue shutdown * WorldNetDaily * by Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Wire: 

As members of the Cabinet met at the White House to celebrate the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza, a product of the peace deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised as "a historic moment in the history of our country," the Senate prepared to vote. It was the seventh vote to reopen the federal government, and it failed, 54-45, along the same predictable lines as all the other attempts before it.

Another Phony 'Conservative' Gets It All Wrong About Why Red States Are Winning in the Education Space

"When Democrats are at their best, they are performing one job: reducing inequality and making American life more just". - Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

David Brooks is the faux-conservative columnist at the New York Times...
This week, Brooks is musing about why red states are making educational gains while blue states are languishing.
No Duh. 

Brooks' analysis does not even come close to the why, but he gives it the old college try.

When Democrats are at their best, they are performing one job: reducing inequality and making American life more just. That’s what Franklin Roosevelt did with the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson tried to do with the war on poverty. That’s what Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did with their education reform policies...

No, Mr. Brooks: when Democrats are at their best, they ruin the country, and nowhere has this become more apparent than in their wholesale co-opting of the education apparatus with 

• critical race theory, 
• gender ideology, 
• diversity, equity, and inclusion, and 
• removing civics requirements so that children are not only unmoored from themselves and any sense of identity or purpose, but have no sense of belonging to the country in which they live...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 12

History for October 12 - On-This-Day.com 

Dick Gregory 1932

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas...
• 1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
• 1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
• 1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.

Watch: Sen. Kennedy Lists Worst Items Dems Demand Funded Before They'll Reopen Government - Zambian Circumcision, Classes for Male Prostitutes, Etc.

Watch: Sen. Kennedy Lists Worst Items Dems Demand Funded Before They'll Reopen Government - Zambian Circumcision, Classes for Male Prostitutes, Etc.: 

“We found $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric busses in Rwanda. We found $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti.

“I kid you not. I’m not making this up. It was in the budget under President Biden. We took it out,” Kennedy explained while again mentioning AOC — this time by name. Fox News reported Monday, Kennedy believes that despite Schumer’s role as a Democratic leader, AOC is actually the one responsible for these demands playing into the shutdown.

“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and the socialist wing, the loon wing of the Democratic Party, says, ‘We’re going to shut down the government until you put it back in.'”

The way we were-----SNL 50 Rewind: The Early Years of Saturday Night Live