Monday, June 28, 2021

Is Your Teenager Secretly A Libertarian? 9 Warning Signs To Look For | The Babylon Bee

Is Your Teenager Secretly A Libertarian? 9 Warning Signs To Look For

It's every parent's worst nightmare: your kid comes out as a libertarian. Don't worry -- we can help you nip it in the bud. You should be closely involved in your teen's life to make sure he doesn't suddenly start believing in freedom and personal responsibility. Make sure to constantly check for these 9 warning signs:

1. You walk into his room late at night and he frantically tries to hide the video he's watching: Ron Paul's Liberty Report. - Caught red-handed.

2. He asks for his allowance in Bitcoin. - Dogecoin can also be a red flag.

3. He screams, "AM I BEING DETAINED!?" when you ask him to come downstairs for dinner. - Also during detention, when you make him go to the grocery store with you, and pretty much anytime anyone asks him to do anything.

4. You check under his mattress and sure enough, he's been hiding the worst thing imaginable: a copy of Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. - Talk to your kids about Sowell before it's too late...Read all!

Monday Is The Last Day To Submit Comments On ABA's Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools

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Monday Is The Last Day To Submit Comments On ABA's Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools

"Following up on my previous posts:

ABA Sends Proposed Changes To Accreditation Standards Out For Notice And Comment (May 6, 2021)
ABA Mulls Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Requirement For Law Schools (May 18, 2021)

Brian Leiter notes that Monday is the last day for submitting comments on the ABA's proposed changes to the law school accreditation standards to mandate racism and bias training.

Here are some of the interesting comments submitted thus far:

David Bernstein and Brian Leister [sic]:

Professor Brian Leiter and I agree on very little...By seeming to mandate such preferences, the ABA would be taking the decision out of the hands of the individual schools, and instead making it a requirement of accreditation. If a particular law school disagreed with the ABA"s views on diversity, the ABA would nevertheless require that school to act illegally lest its accreditation be threatened.

Homan: Biden Is the 'First President in the History of This Nation That's Actively Facilitating Illegal Immigration'

Homan: Biden Is the 'First President in the History of This Nation That's Actively Facilitating Illegal Immigration':

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former ICE Director Tom Homan, now a Fox News contributor, slammed the Biden administration on the heels of Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to El Paso.

Homan told fill-in host Jesse Watters that Harris should have “been embarrassed” by the circumstances at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Can more local self-rule save a 'Late-Roman' America?

Can more local self-rule save a 'Late-Roman' America?
"Observed from some angles, the United States is falling apart.

All over, we’re seeing signs of fragmentation.

At the smallest scale, the tony community of Buckhead, Ga., may be seceding from Atlanta. Mayor Keisha Bottoms’ anti-anti-crime strategy has led to a predictable criminal surge. Buckhead wants escape from dysfunction — via self-rule.
The same thing is happening within states. Last month, several communities in eastern Oregon voted to secede and join Idaho. The region’s farmers don’t want to be ruled from their state’s weed- and Antifa-plagued coastal regions.
Parts of New Mexico want to join Texas.
A huge swath of downstate Illinois talks of splitting from Chicagoland.
Some upstate New Yorkers have been talking for years of splitting away from Gotham.
Then there are various plans for splitting California into two, three or even six new states. All are gaining attention.

...Left and right, in other words, are resisting federal rule when it comes to their pet issues.
And recently it’s gone beyond resistance.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending law enforcers to assist Texas and Arizona.

Faced with the Biden administration’s reluctance to secure the border, threatened states are cooperating with one another to do a job once left to federal authorities.
Any one of these developments might be unimportant, maybe even amusing.

But put together, they have a certain late-Roman-Empire flavor.

And there’s more...Read all!!!!!

Amazon supports the left. The left HATES Amazon!-----Amazon Prime Day Is Dystopian - The Atlantic

Amazon Prime Day Is Dystopian - The Atlantic

"...Prime is Amazon’s greatest and most terrifying invention: a product whose value proposition is to help you buy more products.

With 200 million subscribers worldwide, it is the second-most-popular subscription service on Earth, poised to overtake Netflix in the not-so-distant future.

...You’re paying to have your every purchase cataloged—also something consumers aren’t wild about, at least in theory—so that Amazon can use that information to sell you, and people like you, more goods.

...Amazon’s warehouses bring traffic and pollution to the neighborhoods they’re in, many of which are poor.

...Prime isn’t just bad for Amazon’s workers—it’s bad for Target’s, and Walmart’s.

It’s bad for the people behind the counter at your neighborhood hardware store and bookstore, if your neighborhood still has a hardware store and a bookstore.

...If amazon is like climate change, subscribing to Prime is like flying: a personal choice that pales in comparison with what government intervention could do.

...Whelan teaches a class at UW called Consuming Happiness, and she is fond of giving her students the adage that you can buy happiness—“if you spend your money in keeping with your values: spending prosocially, on experiences. Tons of research shows us this.”...Read all

Lunch video-----"Countless Scientists"

"When climate journalists and politicians don't have any factual information on their side, they make up fake appeals to authority about consensus in an effort to get people to turn their brain off."

Noon-toon

FACT CHECK: Biden Claims 2nd Amendment Banned Cannon Purchases

FACT CHECK: Biden Claims 2nd Amendment Banned Cannon Purchases:

CLAIM: During his June 23, 2021, gun control speech President Joe Biden claimed the Second Amendment prohibited Americans from purchasing a cannon at the time it was ratified. VERDICT: False.

More true today than ever!

Why can't America build any new F-22 Raptors? - Sandboxx

Why can't America build any new F-22 Raptors? - Sandboxx
"The U.S Air Force has two air superiority fighters in their stable in the F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle, but when looking to bolster the fleet with purchases of a new (old) jet for the job, it was the Eagle, not the famed Raptor, to get a second lease on life.

That really begs the question: if America can buy new F-15s, a design that’s nearly 50 years old, why isn’t it looking to build new F-22s instead?
By most accounting, the F-22 Raptor remains the most capable air superiority fighter on the planet, with its competition in China’s J-20B beginning to shape up and Russia’s Su-57 still lagging a bit behind.

The F-22 really is still at the top of its game… but that doesn’t mean building more actually makes good sense.
The F-22 and F-35 are fighters with two very different jobs...Read all.

#1 Movie this week 1979-----Moonraker (1979) Official Trailer - Roger Moore James Bond Movie HD

"... an obese black man who supposedly just delivered a baby raising a communist fist on the cover..."

Conservative Political Cartoons Daily
"Geez, I am so sorry when I have to share things like this but it's part of my mission to make sure as many people see what these nutcases are doing and promoting.

Yes, that is depicting an obese black man who supposedly just delivered a baby raising a communist fist on the cover of what you would think would be a relatively professional, respectable, authoritative periodical...Read all.

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#1 This day 1972-----Neil Diamond - Song sung blue 1972

VERY worthy read!!-----What Is to Be Done? A Blueprint for Taking the Country Back

What Is to Be Done? A Blueprint for Taking the Country Back

"From the beginning of the modern “progressive” movement—which occurred around the time that Jean-Jacques Rousseau published “The Social Contract” in 1762, adumbrating the French Revolution—to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe, through the advent of “scientific” Marxism and the horrors of those deformed twins, Soviet Communism and German National Socialism, the same desire to inflict punitive misery has marked nearly every “revolutionary” movement.

For all their talk of “the people,” however, leftist revolutionaries hardly ever spring from the people or have them on their side.

The people prize stability and order; the left welcomes chaos and anarchy, leading to totalitarianism.

Leftists are, by definition, minorities in their own countries, generally drawn from the intellectual vanguard, and very often—because their ideas are so ridiculous—not taken seriously until it’s too late.

They think of themselves as elites, and they mean to continue in that status long after their revolution is effected.

Adept in operating the levers of power once they attain them, however, they quickly bring “the people” into line with a program of terror and brute force—the American Revolution was a notable exception—and henceforth do all of the people’s thinking for them.

...As we sit here, six months into the disastrous Biden administration, the question is finally becoming evident to even the most politically disinterested American.

The quality of life in the big blue cities has deteriorated markedly.

The cost of gasoline has seemingly doubled overnight.

The petty restrictions imposed unconstitutionally on the electorate are still insisted upon in many places—proof once more that tyranny isn’t primarily about rounding up folks and shipping them off to camps, but about insisting that they conform to the most picayune and counter-factual ukases, just to illustrate their powerlessness...Read all.

George Floyd has replaced Dr. King?

Biden Nominee Pushed Population Control: American Children Are 'Environmental Hazard'

Biden Nominee Pushed Population Control: American Children Are 'Environmental Hazard':

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis.

The Daily Caller reported on Stone-Manning’s thesis, titled “Into the Heart of the Beast| A case for environmental advertising,” after which she was awarded a master of science degree in environmental studies. Her thesis, however, amounted to public policy recommendations for the University of Montana described as “environmental education.”

An entire new generation of America-haters is being groomed in... AMERICA!!!-----America-hater Gwen Berry shows her disrespect for U.S. flag at Olympic trials - American Thinker

America-hater Gwen Berry shows her disrespect for U.S. flag at Olympic trials - American Thinker

America-hater Gwen Berry shows her disrespect for U.S. flag at Olympic trials--By Monica Showalter

"Despite the statements from Olympics officials in Japan, that political demonstrators will be punished, the Colin Kaepernick crowd among the Olympic contenders here have gotten busy:

According to the Washington Post:

Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag and raised a T-shirt over her face as the national anthem played Saturday, minutes after she qualified for the Olympic team at the U.S. track and field trials in Eugene, Ore.
“I feel like it was setup,” Berry said with a burst of laughter. “I feel like they did that on purpose, and I was pissed, to be honest...

Why the heck is this creature permitted to compete at all for the U.S., given her seething hate for the country that gave her all those opportunities to develop her talent?

Can you say 'height of ingratitude'?...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

History for June 28

History for June 28 - On-This-Day.com

John Wesley 1703 - Theologian

1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations.
1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1951 - "Amos ’n’ Andy" moved to CBS-TV from radio.
1960 - In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil refineries without compensation.
2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Michigan Lockdown: 23% of Detroit Kids Considered Suicide, Mental Health Orgs 'Unable to Keep Up'

Michigan Lockdown: 23% of Detroit Kids Considered Suicide, Mental Health Orgs 'Unable to Keep Up':

An alarming increase in child mental health issues coincided with the Michigan government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) took a hardline approach to the pandemic, ordering businesses and schools closed.

The way we were-----The 1960s in Color - Life in America

The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?

"Lawsuits against downloaders were meant to scare people into buying CDs again.

However in the late 2000s a pair of cases went way too far, with even the judge calling the outcome "monstrous and shocking."

Interestingly, the fight against digital music began as early as the 1980s.

Enjoy the full history of the RIAA vs digital music!?

Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? | The Pipeline

Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? | The Pipeline
"In November 19, 2019, Nathaniel Pinnock was shot and killed by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Pinnock, 22, had robbed an auto parts store in Hollywood while armed with a machete and was walking from the scene when officers arrived and confronted him.

...such is the transparency now attendant to officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles that anyone questioning the propriety of the officers’ actions can find the LAPD’s video summary of the incident and the involved officers’ body camera footage here, the civilian police commission’s 37-page report here, and the Los Angeles County district attorney’s 12-page legal assessment here.

This level of transparency regarding the use of deadly force by police has come to be expected and is now common (though not yet ubiquitous) across the country, which makes it all the more curious that what rightly should be regarded as one of the most controversial police shootings to have occurred recently has gone all but unexamined in the press.
The case of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a U.S Capitol Police officer during the so-called insurrection of Jan. 6, has gone largely unexamined, either in the media or among the self-professed experts who find fault in even the most clearly justifiable police shootings...Read all.

What will become of the useful idiots? - American Thinker

"As the Marxist revolution oozes forward, I occasionally wonder what will happen to the useful idiots when the commies seize absolute power in this once great Republic. I believe that most AT readers are familiar with the term, but for those who need a brief refresher, a useful idiot, as defined by Wikipedia, "is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders."

In my opinion, this definition can be applied to a majority of the young, brainwashed radicals who have no idea about the true history of Marxism...or the real history of their native land that they're working so hard to destroy.

We're all aware of the current props being used by the radical left to further their cause — LGBT issues, racism, feminism, slavery, etc. — but how will some of those props fare under a Marxist regime?

...While several websites make vague and inconclusive references to gay and transgender rights in China and Russia, it appears that feminism and homosexuality — and certainly transgenderism — are simply not tolerated.

A look at history supports that conclusion.

In an illuminating article on Frontpagemag, the always incisive Daniel Greenfield (highly recommended...a must-read!) s on this subject...

And how will the myriad of social justice warriors fit in with the new Marxist ruling class?...Read all.

Biden Nominee Pushed Population Control: American Children Are 'Environmental Hazard'

Biden Nominee Pushed Population Control: American Children Are 'Environmental Hazard':

Electric Vehicle Fires: Nearly Impossible to Extinguish | The Pipeline

"Here's something you won't hear much about in the mainstream media -- America's firefighters are struggle to develop procedures for dealing with electric vehicles that have crashed and burst into flame.

"The problem," explains Jazz Shaw, "is that despite not having a tank full of gasoline, electric cars burn longer and more fiercely than automobiles with internal combustion engines."

Why is that?

Damaged banks of lithium-ion batteries...

...Shaw reports that back in April it took eight fireman seven hours to get a burning Tesla under control outside of Houston, and they used roughly 28,000 gallons of water to do it...Read all.

An Ominous Portent for Conservatives in the Military

"... the DOD still has not promulgated an official definition of extremism.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin refused to give a definition at a congressional hearing this week, and on Thursday, the DOD confirmed to PJ Media that it has not adopted a definition.

However, a working definition that the Army Recruiting Command apparently uses to screen applicants should raise alarm bells for conservatives.

“I’m very concerned about the recent order that you have conducted regarded looking at so-called ‘extremism,’ and I have sent to you two letters, Mr. Secretary, asking for the definition of what the Department of Defense views as ‘extremism,’ and have not heard back from you yet,” Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) told Austin at a hearing on Wednesday. “Could you just share with me, does the Department of Defense have a definition of extremism?”

Austin did not answer Hartzler’s question...

...“So, do you have a definition of what extremism is and what that behavior is?” Hartzler asked.

“Again, we’re focused on behavior,” Austin repeated, dodging the question.

...Hartzler brought up a new DOD screening procedure, asking, “What, specifically, would you be screening for?”...Read all.

Lunch video-----Ayn Rand: The Author People Love to Hate

Noon-toon

Poll: Young Americans evenly split on views of capitalism; socialism growing more popular - TheBlaze

Poll: Young Americans evenly split on views of capitalism; socialism growing more popular - TheBlaze:

The survey, which tracks shifting attitudes on the economy and perceptions of capitalism, shows that after the unprecedented government intervention in the U.S. economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans of all political persuasions are re-evaluating their beliefs about capitalism.