Never trust the government. NEVER!-----The Myth of American Inequality | RealClearPolitics

The Myth of American Inequality | RealClearPolitics - By J. Peder Zane  

• The federal government significantly and intentionally misreports income distribution, sparking bad policies and political divisions.

"That’s the argument former senator Phil Gramm and two other economists, Robert Ekelund and John Early, lay out in their compelling and essential new book, “The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate.”
...one key observation: 

• While the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the average income of the top 20% of American households that year was 16.7 times greater than the average income of the bottom 20% of households, the real number, they argue, is 4.1 times. 
• This massive discrepancy is explained by a straightforward accounting trick: The Bureau didn’t count two-thirds of the $2.8 trillion in transfer payments given mostly to the poor and working class or the $4.4 trillion taken through federal, state, and local taxes, “82% of which are paid by the top 40% of household earners.”
• The net result, they report, “is that, in total, the Census Bureau chooses not to count the impact of more than 40% of all income, which is gained in transfer payments or lost in taxes.”

...In a sign of the times, their book, which was published in September, has been ignored by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, CNN and most every other liberal news outlet...

AM Fruitcake

History for January 10

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com 

George Foreman 1949 - Boxer

• 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
• 1840 - The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain.
• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
• 1951 - Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
• 1981 - In El Salvador, Marxist insurgents launched a "final offensive".
• 1990 - Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery."
• 1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.

Chinese Geolocating Device Found in UK Govt Car: Report

Chinese Geolocating Device Found in UK Govt Car: Report: 

A Chinese geolocating tracking device was reportedly discovered in a British government car that would be used by high-level officials including cabinet ministers, raising further concerns about Chinese espionage in the UK.

The way we were-----1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)

Our Parasitic Generation - By Victor Davis Hanson

Our Parasitic Generation By Victor Davis Hanson

• We are $31 trillion in collective debt. 
• The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. 
• The military is politicized and short of recruits. 
• We trade lethal terrorists for woke celebrity athletes as if to confirm our enemies’ cynical stereotypes.
• Our FBI is corrupt and discredited, collaborating with Silicon Valley contractors to suppress free speech and warp elections. 
  
• We practice segregation and racial discrimination and claim we do not because the right and good people support it and, anyway, the victims deserve it. 
• The country has seen defeat before but never abject, deliberate humiliation as in Kabul, when we fled and abandoned to the terrorist Taliban a $1 billion embassy, a huge, remodeled air base, thousands of friends, and tens of billions of dollars in military hardware—and hard-earned deterrence.
• We are witnessing the breakdown of basic norms essential for civilized life, from affordable food and fuel to available key antibiotics and baby formula...

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY:

Instapundit--ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY:

Media Blackout Over Terror Incident At Vegas Power Plant.
"The US power grid is under attack as extremists shoot, sabotage, and vandalize electrical equipment at power stations. 

• One of the highest-profile attacks was when two men used guns to paralyze a substation in Washington state on Christmas Day, leaving thousands without electricity. The incident made national news, but strangely enough, another attack last week on the Las Vegas power grid went unnoticed by the national press.
• Mohammad Mesmarian, 34, rammed his car through the gate of a solar power generation plant outside Las Vegas on Wednesday and set his car on fire, intending to damage a massive transformer, 8 News Now reported...

...Move along, nothing to see here.--Posted by Ed Driscoll

Ex-Virginia Tech soccer player allegedly benched for refusing to kneel gets $100K settlement: attorney | Fox News

Ex-Virginia Tech soccer player allegedly benched for refusing to kneel gets $100K settlement: attorney | Fox News: 

A former Virginia Tech women's soccer player who accused her coach of benching her because of her political opinions will reportedly receive at least $100,000 as part of an agreement to dismiss a federal lawsuit. Kiersten Hening will receive the award as part of a settlement in the lawsuit she filed in 2021 against head coach Charles "Chugger" Adair on First Amendment grounds, her attorney Cameron Norris said last week, according to the Roanoke Times.

We Can't Let People Forget What The RINOs and Neocons Tried To Do!

Scientific American claims Damar Hamlin injury proves NFL is racist - TheBlaze

Scientific American claims Damar Hamlin injury proves NFL is racist - TheBlaze 

"...Scientific American was sacked online for attempting to move the goalposts in the discussion about the horrific injury suffered by NFL player Damar Hamlin.

• A recent opinion piece in the science magazine founded in 1845 argued that the Buffalo Bills safety experiencing cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game exemplified the "violence black men experience in football." 
• ...The opinion piece in Scientific American was written by Tracie Canada – an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology. She is affiliated with the Sports & Race Project that "critically studies race and sports at Duke."...

Lunch video-----"no room for doubt about climate change"

""Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."  - Richard P. Feynman

Noon-toon

 

Hundreds of Chicago teachers accused of sexually assaulting students - TheBlaze

Hundreds of Chicago teachers accused of sexually assaulting students - TheBlaze:

A new report revealed that hundreds of Chicago teachers and school employees were accused of grooming, sexually assaulting, and raping students during the 2021-2022 school year. The alarming findings were exposed in the Chicago Public Schools Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) annual report that was released this week.

The report stated that there were a total of 470 sexual allegations last year – including inappropriate touching, grooming, sexual abuse, illegal sexual acts such as rape, sexual comments, and sexual electronic communication.

Fearmongering unlimited!

 

Lucianne.com News Forum - FBI Underreports Defensive Gun Use to Congress

Lucianne.com News Forum - FBI Underreports Defensive Gun Use to Congress

"...Perhaps one of the most important was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) covered up the fact that armed citizens use their guns quite frequently to stop active shooter attacks...the FBI grossly underreported the number of times armed citizens had stopped active shooters.

Comments:
More FBI intentional lying to Congress. 

Note that the Crime Prevention Research Center found that there were 30 cases of legally armed civilians stopping mass shootings since Jan 2020, but in that time frame, 17 public shootings of more than four people happened.

• This indicates that armed citizens stopped just under 2/3 of all mass shootings. 
• Think about that for a moment. The FBI says 4.4%, the CPRC says 64%. 

And the FBI is LYING, again...

#1 Movie this week 1976-----One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Official Trailer #1

How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities

How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities

• An obsession with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion threatens students, professors, and the very credibility of higher education in the U.S.

"One of the things The Free Press has been doing since its inception is documenting and exposing how many of our most important institutions—medicine, the media, the law—are increasingly being captured by an ideology that is hollowing out their core functions.
Today, John Sailer, a fellow at the National Association of Scholars, tells the story of how that’s happening at American universities across the country.

• You don’t have to have ever stepped foot on a college campus to care about the revelations in today’s piece. 
• Because as we’ve seen again and again, what happens on campus doesn’t stay there. 
• It’s just a preview of what’s coming for the rest of us. — BW

#1 This day 1960-----Marty Robbins - El Paso (Audio)

It was all lies!-----Remember the Twitter “ER doctors” who claimed hordes of patients were dying daily of COVID? They were fake…

Remember the Twitter “ER doctors” who claimed hordes of patients were dying daily of COVID? They were fake…

• If you were on Twitter back when the COVID “fear mongering” was at its peak, you’ll likely remember the “Twitter doctors” who popped up, seemingly out of thin air, claiming they were losing hordes of patients to COVID every single day.
• These so-called “doctors” whipped everyone into a fear frenzy. Their tweets would get tens of thousands of retweets and engagement daily.
• The “doctors” posed as ER physicians and were part of the LGBTQ community in some way. They created this hellish/apocalyptic scenario that made it sound as if bodies were piling up in the streets.
• Well, this probably won’t come as a huge surprise to you, but those popular “ER doctors” were fake.
• ...But this wasn’t just a “one-off” situation. This was part of a much bigger effort – a mini network – created to stoke fear over COVID-19...

The media does this each day. Distort reality!

Loudoun County father arrested at school board meeting for standing up for kids and against leftist indoctrination cleared of wrongdoing - TheBlaze

Loudoun County father arrested at school board meeting for standing up for kids and against leftist indoctrination cleared of wrongdoing - TheBlaze: 

A Loudoun County dad was criminally charged and smeared as an extremist after he took a stand at a school board meeting in June 2021 against leftist indoctrination and "moral decay." On Wednesday, he was cleared of wrongdoing. After his vindication in court, Jon Tigges told TheBlaze that while he does not advocate getting arrested, every person has to come to their own understanding of "what God is calling them to say and do."

Biden's political weapon!-----In 2022, the IRS Went After the Very Poorest Taxpayers

In 2022, the IRS Went After the Very Poorest Taxpayers 

• Despite $80 billion in new funding, the agency is living up to its reputation of hassling low-income taxpayers over rich people.

"On Wednesday, Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by the agency in fiscal year 2022. 

Despite the infusion of new funding earmarked for the IRS via last year's Inflation Reduction Act, the agency continued historic trends of hassling primarily low-income taxpayers, with relatively few millionaires and billionaires getting caught up in the audit sweep...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 9

History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com 

Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913

• 1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
• 1940 - Television was used for the first time to present a sales meeting to convention delegates in New York City.
• 1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.
• 1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.
• 2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
• 2007 - Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s CEO, announced the first generation iPhone.

Air marshals tasked with 'making sandwiches' for illegal aliens at southern border despite looming threat of jihadist terrorism - TheBlaze

Air marshals tasked with 'making sandwiches' for illegal aliens at southern border despite looming threat of jihadist terrorism - TheBlaze: 

The Biden administration has tasked federal air marshals with babysitting criminal noncitizens who have stolen into the country, even though neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the White House is willing to declare the border crisis an emergency. This mandated work may appear even more intolerable for the highly trained agents since there is now cause to suspect that Islamic terrorists are once again scheming to attack American citizens.

The way we were-----A Far Too Brief History of Checker Motors

Why Do These People Keep Calling Themselves Progressives?

"Would it surprise you to learn that the annual snow mass for the entire northern hemisphere has been above average for the 7th year in a row?

"Would it surprise you to learn that the annual snow mass for the entire northern hemisphere has been above average for the 7th year in a row?   Scott Rose shared a post.

"Would it surprise you to learn that the annual snow mass for the entire northern hemisphere has been above average for the 7th year in a row? 

True story. 

The last time it was average was the 2015-2016 winter season...

It's not a "study", it's a scam to pay insider "experts" to "advise" what they're pre-told to say.-----Michigan to study whether state should have more nuclear power plants - mlive.com

Michigan to study whether state should have more nuclear power plants - mlive.com

LANSING, MI – Michigan lawmakers and utility regulators want to know the pros and cons of building more nuclear energy generation, both for the economy and the environment.

• The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) this week asked for proposals for an independent feasibility study on nuclear energy generation in Michigan. 
• Lawmakers asked the commission for a critical analysis of both advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy generation, expected economic impacts, and environmental risks that come with the emissions-free power source that can help meet state climate goals...

MTV comes out against DeSantis: Promotes Florida progressive who calls parental rights bill harmful and discriminatory - TheBlaze

MTV comes out against DeSantis: Promotes Florida progressive who calls parental rights bill harmful and discriminatory - TheBlaze: 

MTV News recently promoted progressive Florida House member Michele Rayner-Goolsby (D), who attacked Florida's Parental Rights in Education law for being "deliberately vague," saying that it is discriminatory and harmful.