Sunday, March 27, 2022

Millennium Tower - A Solution Without a Problem? (San Francisco's Leaning tower...

Big Government and Big Corruption | International Liberty

Big Government and Big Corruption | International Liberty"
"When the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video back in 2009, we wanted people to understand the link between big government and big corruption.

Simply stated, unethical people are naturally drawn to politics and unethical interest groups naturally seek to obtain unearned wealth (a process known as “rent seeking“).

The obvious takeaway is that making government bigger is going to mean that these unsavory groups will have even greater ability to engage in corruption...Read all.

Easter bunny battered by candy business inflation

Easter bunny battered by candy business inflation
  • Mitch Cohen, co-owner of Economy Candy in the Lower East Side, says costs have been rising across the board since 2019.
"...A Post survey of seasonal sweets shows the average cost of an Easter basket has skyrocketed to $61.83, up from $50.46 in the pre-pandemic spring of 2019. 
That’s an increase of 22.5%, more than double the already historic 9% percent inflation rate in the same period.
  • Luxury chocolatier Jacques Torres of Brooklyn spent $23,000 on a recent shipment of packaging from Indonesia. It cost him only $9,000 for the same shipment just two years ago...Read all.

'We are not victims!' Guest blows up 'The View' panel's narrative about critical race theory - TheBlaze

'We are not victims!' Guest blows up 'The View' panel's narrative about critical race theory - TheBlaze

"We are not victims. OK? Even though we have been victimized, we are not victims," Granger declared. "We are here to grow and there’s beauty in us and we are winning out here. Black people are beautiful, so I want to see that more often. And I don’t want to constantly tell my 6-month-old daughter that she’s a victim."

Biden needs to consider doing less public speaking: Freeman

MSNBC Op-ed: If You Exercise, You're a Neo-Nazi

MSNBC Op-ed: If You Exercise, You're a Neo-Nazi
MSNBC Op-ed: If You Exercise, You're a Neo-Nazi
"The Left has a Nazi fetish.
  • They have an unhealthy obsession with Adolf Hitler. 
  • Maybe it’s because they all secretly want to be him? 
  • After all, he built death camps, put people he hated into them, and systemically murdered them. 
  • It’s what liberals want to do with anyone with whom they disagree, so roughly half the country.
  • Everything they hate is rooted in racism, sexism, misogyny, or Nazism. 
It’s the same old game, but it’s not reaching levels of mockery that we really haven’t approached yet. 
I have never seen an op-ed that argues that working out and exercising is akin to Nazism. 
It’s all here. 
Exercise is a far-right activity. 
You cannot make this up (via MSNBC):
"It appears the far right has taken advantage of pandemic at-home fitness trends to expand its decade-plus radicalization of physical mixed martial arts (MMA) and combat sports spaces...Read all.

Linch video-----P-38 Lightning Aerobatics - Steve Hinton - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021

"Steve Hinton performs aerobatics in the P-38 Lightning "SCAT III" during the Friday airshow at EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in 'Laptop From Hell' Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices

Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in 'Laptop From Hell' Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices

The letters from Issa to the various characters begin similarly, demanding the recipient “immediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response, from 2020 to current, to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020.”

We DO have a problem!

 

Lucianne.com News Forum - Minneapolis mosques to broadcast call to prayer all year round

Lucianne.com News Forum - Minneapolis mosques to broadcast call to prayer all year round

Original Article
"The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard regularly in parts of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis mosques can now publicly broadcast the adhan, or call to prayer, over loudspeakers without acquiring a permit and so long as they abide by the city's amplified noise ordinance.
...Council Member Jamal Osman announced this week that mosques will be allowed to play the adhan several times between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily and all year round...
Comments: Why not. Blast it loud and proud...Read all w/comments.

That sums it up!

 

“The Floor Was Shaking” – Yale Law School Speaker Disruption Worse Than Originally Reported

“The Floor Was Shaking” – Yale Law School Speaker Disruption Worse Than Originally Reported
"The disruption of a debate at Yale Law School by students protesting the appearance of Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom continues to reverberate...

...I would not downplay the role of faculty and administrators. 
...In almost every law school attack on speakers and law professors we have covered, faculty and administrators are as much a part of the problem as the students. 
It’s a culture of intolerance and a sick symbiotic relationship in which students, faculty, and administrators feed off each other...Read all!

#1 This day 1974-----John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders (Audio)

Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment

Climate Change Is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment
"The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a
diversion tactic
by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press.
  • The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the rise of the oceans or heal the planet.
  • Lobbying for more climate regulation is to enhance the power of the authoritarian state, not protect the environment.
  • The radical Left has the world obsessing over whether we have 10, 20, or 50 years before the eve of destruction.
  • The hysteria gives the government the excuse it needs for more controls over the energy we use, the products we purchase, the homes we live in, the food we eat, and since the pandemic when we can leave our homes.
  • However, the data supporting the climate studies are rarely made public so that scientists can test the reproducibility of the studies...Read all.

Defying truth.


 

Joe Rogan Blasts SNL for Turning Into Woke Crap - Louder With Crowder

Joe Rogan Blasts SNL for Turning Into Woke Crap - Louder With Crowder

Joe Rogan took a trip down memory lane many of us oldhead comedy fans have had. When "SNL" used to be funny or, to use more precise language, when "Saturday Night Live" used to be funny. You wouldn't know it if you stay awake in 2022, but "Saturday Night Live" used to be must-watch TV long before it turned into the woke crap we see before us now.

Fun read of the good old days.-----When the Oscars got the Best Picture winner wrong


"The Oscars are coming up this weekend and while I probably won’t watch the show because it’s often insufferable, I do try to see some of the Best Picture nominees so I can form my own opinion about them.
...Back in 2016 the Washington Post published a piece about all of the Best Picture winners since 1976 along with their picks for the films that should have won
This week they updated that. 
I spent some time looking over their list and I agree with some of their choices. 
For instance, 1979:

Nominees: All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Kramer vs. Kramer, Norma Rae

Best Picture winner: Kramer vs. Kramer

The actual best picture: Apocalypse Now

What a bonkers roster. “Kramer vs. Kramer” is a gorgeously spare, simple movie about divorce and parenting — can you believe that 105 minutes of talking without CGI or explosions was not only the Oscar winner but the box-office champ for 1979? But it’s hard not to love every shot of “Apocalypse Now,” which routinely makes Top-10 lists of the best films ever. If this lineup were voted on today, “Apocalypse” would win in a landslide...Read all.

AM Fruitcake


 

History for March 27

History for March 27 - On-This-Day.com
James Callaghan 1912 - British prime minister
  • 1794 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy.
  • 1836 - In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution.
  • 1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made from Boston to New York.
  • 1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.
  • 1912 - The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.
  • 1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Saturday, March 26, 2022

'You are a disgrace': European MPs trash Justin Trudeau to his face during Brussels visit over� 'trampling' of Freedom Convoy protests - TheBlaze

'You are a disgrace': European MPs trash Justin Trudeau to his face during Brussels visit over� 'trampling' of Freedom Convoy protests - TheBlaze

The MEP said Canada was once a symbol of the modern world but has recently become a "symbol of civil rights violation" under Trudeau’s "quasi-liberal boot."

“We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block bank accounts of single parents so they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities, mortgages for their homes," he charged, adding, "To you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind."

The way we were-----TWO GUYS - Life in America

Georgia school board shuts down mom reading explicit lines from school library's book.

Important read!-----Trans-Lysenkoism - by Peter Venetoklis

Trans-Lysenkoism - by Peter Venetoklis
"...Concurrently, DeSantis roiled the waters when he rejected transgender swimmer Lia Thomas's victory in the NCAA women's 500 yard freestyle finals, recognizing the runner up (Emma Weyant, a Florida native) as the "rightful" winner. 
This engendered the usual screams of trans-phobia.
No matter that every rational person knows that biologically male athletes competing against biologically female ones is fundamentally unfair.
Growing up with XY chromosomes and male hormones coursing through your body results in different skeletal structure, greater musculature, and greater aerobic capacity than growing up with XX chromosomes and female hormones. 
No amount of hormone suppression treatment will undo these differences. 
...Yet, here we are, and it's the result not of a broad "tolerance and acceptance" movement...but of a small subset of activists, who have made it so clear that they want to wipe out our natural cultural understanding that men and women are different that they've alienated former allies in the feminist and the LGB movements.
...This all echoes the Soviets' Lysenkoism of nearly a century ago...Read all!

The Canadian Army is going for a new gender-neutral dress code which allows for more free expression

The Canadian Armed Forces have given Americans yet another reason to make fun of them by moving towards a gender-neutral dress code that will allow service members more choices.
"Because that is what every service members truly wants... to be able to express themselves through fashion!...Read all!
"We cannot define our soldiers by short hair anymore," says Maj.-Gen. Lise Bourgon, the acting chief of military personnel. 
"The colour and the length of your hair does not define your quality as a soldier and aviator and sailor. 
So this is a big departure."...Read all.

Poll finds majority do not think colleges should consider race in admissions - TheBlaze

Poll finds majority do not think colleges should consider race in admissions - TheBlaze

A majority of both white and nonwhite respondents resoundingly rejected the idea that colleges should be able to use race as a factor in admissions decisions — 69% of white respondents and 68% of non-white respondents said considering race should not be permitted, while 26% of white respondents and 29% of non-white respondents said it should be permitted.

Gutfeld: People are terrified of facts

"'Gutfeld!' panelists react to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson being unable to say what a woman is."

Biden is planning a new digital currency. Here's why you should be very worried | TheHill

Biden is planning a new digital currency. Here's why you should be very worried | TheHill

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"Whenever the White House says it is working on a plan that would transform a vital part of the U.S. economy, and that the administration is doing so with the “highest urgency,” it should go without saying that the press should pay close attention to what’s going on.
  • Even more importantly, the press should eagerly and comprehensively inform the public of the potential risks associated with such a proposal.
  • Unfortunately, that’s not happening today, and the effects of the media’s negligence could reverberate for decades to come.
...But there is an even more important part of the EO: President Biden has instructed the federal government and Federal Reserve to lay the groundwork for a potential new U.S. currency, a digital dollar...Read all!!!

Lunch video-----Kyiv - The Tragic History of Ukraine's Capital

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