Putin rules only because Europe keeps sending him money to buy fossil fuel we want to stop burning.

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• 50% of Russians get their income from the government, which gets 43% of its revenue from oil and gas and is 1/3rd of the GDP. 
• Putin rules only because Europe keeps sending him money to buy fossil fuel we want to stop burning. 

...But what if Europe stops paying..Read all!!

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History for January 30

History for January 30 - On-This-Day.com

Dick Cheney 1941 - U.S. Vice President for George W. Bush

• 1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
• 1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
• 1894 - C.B. King received a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
• 1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France.

More COVID-19 School Closures Spell End of Teachers Unions Empire

More COVID-19 School Closures Spell End of Teachers Unions Empire: 

But it’s not just that these closures are counterproductive when it comes to reducing the spread of COVID-19; the damage done to children will not be easily fixed. As some have quipped, “two weeks to slow the spread” has turned into “two years to flatten a generation.”

The way we were-----What's A Checker

Funeral For NYPD Det. Jason Rivera Held At St. Patrick's Cathedral

NYC Cop Is Shot With an Illegal Weapon and the Shooter Walks. NYC Mayor Eric Adams Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, He Has a Sanity Problem

NYC Cop Is Shot With an Illegal Weapon and the Shooter Walks. NYC Mayor Eric Adams Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, He Has a Sanity Problem

...A 16-year-old, up-and-coming rapper charged with shooting an NYPD cop in the Bronx walked free on bond Thursday — and cops are fuming over it.

Camrin Williams, who is also known by the rap name C Blu, posted his $250,000 bond after being locked up at a Brooklyn juvenile facility on gun and assault charges in the shooting of a 27-year-old cop in Belmont.

“C Blu” was already on probation for one weapons violation from 2020. During this incident, he fought with a cop and shot him, not fatally, with yet another illegal weapon. But never fear:

Williams reportedly planned to use an advance on his contract with Interscope Records to post the $15,000 in cash needed to secure the bond.

To summarize the story, we have a kid who has been arrested twice with illegal handguns and shot a cop, and he’s free on bond...Read all!

When Big-pharma OWNES the democrat party!-----Exclusive — Rep. Greg Murphy: GOP Doctors Caucus Is ‘Infuriated’ that Fauci’s Policy ‘Has All Been About Vaccination’ and Not Therapeutics

Exclusive — Rep. Greg Murphy: GOP Doctors Caucus Is ‘Infuriated’ that Fauci’s Policy ‘Has All Been About Vaccination’ and Not Therapeutics
...“We’re not going to vaccinate our way out of it,” Murphy, a urologist, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
...Fauci has been, ‘Vaccination, vaccination, vaccination,’ rather than therapeutics.”
He went on, “Duke University, just last week, posted they’re finally, finally, going to be studying — doing studies of — Ivermectin.
There’s been so much data, not only from this country but from other countries, that have shown that it has efficacy in this particular arena, and there are other things — fluvoxamine, probenecid — other drugs that could be repurposed but are not big sexy expensive drugs...

• Murphy continued, “There should be something that we should be able to write and prescribe that’s not $800 a pill for people who test positive to try to get them better, not only keep them out of the hospital, but get them better, get them back to work, and let society function, I think this is a major problem.”
• Fauci has contributed to broad erosion of public trust in the healthcare industry and physicians, Murphy held...Read all!

Turley: Biden's Black, Female Supreme Court Requirement 'Unconstitutional' in Other Contexts

Turley: Biden's Black, Female Supreme Court Requirement 'Unconstitutional' in Other Contexts: 

Imposing an absolute requirement that a nominee be a particular gender and race is effectively an affirmative action pledge. It is precisely what the Supreme Court already declared to be unconstitutional discrimination.

How People Get Deceived by Government Promises (A Case Study) | Thomas Sowell

Fascinating!-----This Senate Rule Could Stop Biden's SCOTUS Nominee

This Senate Rule Could Stop Biden's SCOTUS Nominee

"...However, the provision of Rule 26 that saved Graham in 2020 could now doom a similar Democratic effort in 2022. 

This is due solely to the fact that the current Senate is tied between 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats.

In a 50/50 Senate, committee ratios (the number of Democrats to Republicans) are also tied. 

This means Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee could not, by definition, present a physical majority of members on their own. 

To meet the requirements of Rule 26, they need Republican help....Read all.

Lunch video------Saving Kids From Government Schools

Noon-toon

 

Spotify drops Neil Young after he forces them to choose between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast - TheBlaze

Spotify drops Neil Young after he forces them to choose between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast - TheBlaze: 

Media streaming network Spotify began to delete songs from legendary musician Neil Young after he issued an ultimatum over Joe Rogan's podcast and what he saw as coronavirus misinformation. Young had previously issued an open letter to his management team and his record label asking for his music to be removed unless the company censored Rogan.

She really does loathe our country.

 

The way the media reports.

 

A mean, nasty Robo-cop, Big Brother. 24/7! -----'You're about to get more speeding tickets!' Pete Buttigieg's speed camera plan is SLAMMED | Daily Mail Online

Pete Buttigieg's speed camera plan is SLAMMED | Daily Mail Online

'You're about to get a lot more speeding tickets!' 

Critics slam 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan to fix the nation's roads crisis with MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers

• Pete Buttigieg announced a plan yesterday to make the nation's roads safer
• Tucked away in his 42-page strategy is a promise to promote safety cameras
• Buttigieg claimed cameras are less racially biased than cops so will patrol more fairly
• But critics say it's just a Trojan horse to fine motorists more in the way of speeding tickets...Read all!

China, China, China!-----2/3 of Biden’s ‘free’ taxpayer-funded USPS COVID tests were bought from China

2/3 of Biden’s ‘free’ taxpayer-funded USPS COVID tests were bought from China

• Chinese companies are making a windfall from COVID Mania.

"Have you received your “free” USPS delivered COVID-19 test in the mail yet? 

There’s a two out of three chance that it was made in China, according to data retrieved from government contract records.
Of the 380 million taxpayer-funded COVID-19 tests procured thus far by the Biden Administration, some 250 million of those tests are expected to come from the China-based company Andon Health...Read all!

#1 This day 1986-----Dionne Warwick - That's What Friends Are For

Another democrat criminal scam!----- BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship | Washington Examiner

BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship | Washington Examiner
"No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. 

The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found...
BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION RAISED MORE THAN $90M IN 2020
...BLM previously came under fire from local black activists after the New York Post reported in April that Cullors, then its executive director, had spent $3.2 million on real estate across the United States...Read all.

Priorities!

 

'No, I don't work for you': Public school board member absolutely shreds parents, taxpayers in brutal op-ed. But observers are fighting back. - TheBlaze

'No, I don't work for you': Public school board member absolutely shreds parents, taxpayers in brutal op-ed. But observers are fighting back. - TheBlaze: 

She added to the Daily Mail that Robinson is "giving a public lashing to concerned parents who have every right to express their views. We are parents who can't get responses on anything from this school board. This is all we have left, and we deal with it. He is an elected official who says he does not work for us. And that he knows what's best for our children. We are parents exercising the right to give public comment about their kids. And this the bitter and callous response from their elected official. I have never heard of an elected official saying, 'I don't work for you.' If you don't work for the people you represent, who do you work for?"

“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”

“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”

• 
  Alfred Henry Lewis’ observation dating back to 1896 still rings true. 
• There is a thin line between society and anarchy. 
• It’s thinner than we want to admit.

So I saw this comment on Facebook:

Dear city dwellers, google the 9 meal rule and then think about why its a terrible idea to piss off the people who deliver your stuff. and could you do me a favour and not collapse the supply chain until I get home next week? that would be super. thanks.

Here we go. Just like Mass Formation Psychosis, another term I had not heard of, the “9 Meal Rule.”

...I thought it might be one of those phrases that really had no provable attribution, but nope, I found it in the digitized archives of Cosmopolitan maintained by various universities, in the March 1906 issue in an article titled, The Day of Discontent...Read all!

There it was.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 29

History for January 29 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Paine 1737

• 1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
• 1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
• 1924 - R. Taylor patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
• 1979 - U.S. President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House. The visit followed the establishment of diplomatic relations.
• 1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

Elon Musk Declares Solidarity with Canadian Truck Drivers - Louder With Crowder

Elon Musk Declares Solidarity with Canadian Truck Drivers - Louder With Crowder: A convoy of freedom-loving truck drivers is en route to Ottawa. They are calling for an end to all Canada's pandemic restrictions, or for Prime Minister Justin "I Feel Pretty" Trudeau's resignation. The convoy is expected in Ottawa this weekend. Trudeau, that walking pile of soy and hair care product, announced he caught COVID and won't be at work for five days. You could believe that. Or you can just think Trudeau's a pussy.

Truckers protest Canadian vaccine mandate with impressive 'Freedom Convoy' - TheBlaze

Truckers protest Canadian vaccine mandate with impressive 'Freedom Convoy' - TheBlaze: 

Truckers from across Canada are protesting vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions with a "Freedom Convoy" that began in British Columbia and is making its way to the nation's capital with tens of thousands of supporters. The convoy departed from Vancouver on Sunday and is headed toward Ottawa in protest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vaccine mandate for all truck drivers crossing the border from the United States into Canada. As of Wednesday, the convoy has grown to a seemingly world record-smashing length of 70 km (43 miles), according to Freedom Convoy spokesman Benjamin Dichter.

Youngkin Sends Teachers' Unions Into Panic Mode After Executing Devastating Plan: 'Chaos'

Youngkin Sends Teachers' Unions Into Panic Mode After Executing Devastating Plan: 'Chaos': 

Leftists are chameleons. Chameleons change colors to blend into the environment. In this way, they protect themselves and, at the same time, are camouflaged to lure in unsuspecting prey. Proponents of CRT have adopted the chameleon’s tactics.

In Virginia, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has spotted CRT in disguise. According to Newsweek, Youngkin, while explaining his executive order to ban critical race theory in schools, announced he had set up an email tip line where parents can report “divisive practices” in the classroom.

Why did it Take so Long for Newfoundland to Join Canada? (Short Animated...

Dems using book deals to launder campaign money??-----Stormy Daniels Testifies About CNN Permanent Guest Michael Avenatti Swindling Her Out of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars —Ace

Ace of Spades HQ

• Stormy Daniels Testifies About CNN Permanent Guest Michael Avenatti Swindling Her Out of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars—Ace

"Avenatti was broke and in debt and unable to make rent or payroll, so he did what any lawyer or Permanent CNN guest would do: He just stole the money from his clients.

Daniels got a big book contract. 

The book, by the way, sold very few copies; leftwing hitjob books never do, and yet these leftwing book publishers keep serving up the seven figure contracts. 

Almost as if they're not contracts made with an economic return in mind, but are made for purposes of advancing a political interest while evading campaign donation laws...