From 2019, much worse today!-----$5.2 Trillion Of Government Pension Debt Threatens To Overwhelm State Budgets, Taxpayers

Does NOT include retiree health insurance or ballooning municipal debt/borrowing!
$5.2 Trillion Of Government Pension Debt Threatens To Overwhelm State Budgets, Taxpayers

• Government Pension Liabilities May Total $5.2 Trillion Nationwide

"Pension Tracker, a project of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research led by former California State Assemblyman Joe Nation, Ph.D., is out with its updated assessment of the nation’s unfunded state and local government pension fund liabilities. 
It’s not a pretty picture—especially if you live in Alaska, California, Connecticut or Illinois where your per household pension debt ranges from $102,084 to $76,398...
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The STASI STATE has arrived!-----THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

Instapundit Blog Archive THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED.

Alternatively, such horrific examples could be made of the offenders here that the Bureau will be scared straight for a generation. 
But I think that’s even less likely than abolishing the Bureau.
UPDATE: Yep.


Plus:

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe there’s a lesson there?

Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

Lunch video-----The Paris Agreement: An Exposé, Tracing the History Behind the Climate P...

Mirrors and Mazes: Dr Howard Brady

*The Paris Agreement* "A mini-series recounting how the UN and IPCC gradually entangled the world using climate change. The deadline to deliver the Paris Agreement had finally arrived...

The style of this series is simple, but effective, supporting a narrative that has been expertly prepared and weaved together to cut straight to the heart of the climate debate, past all the fuzzy and emotional talking points that now characterise it..."

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Mag: Sex Misconduct Allegations 'Swirling Around Biden' for Years

Mag: Sex Misconduct Allegations 'Swirling Around Biden' for Years:

A 2008 column in the far-left magazine CounterPunch accusing Joe Biden of “loutish sexual advances” in the U.S. Senate has become a lightning rod in the debate over Biden and his former staffer Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault in 1993.
The article, written by the late Alexander Cockburn, lamented then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s choice of Biden as a running mate in August 2008. Biden, in Cockburn’s view, was an empty and worthless swamp creature, a D.C. insider chosen purely to improve Obama’s electoral odds who would ultimately stifle any progressive agenda for the candidate of “Hope and Change.”

Be afraid, very afraid!-----The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here - Reporting by Matt Taibbi:

• As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet

"Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type – ran an in-depth article of the problems free speech pose to American society in the coronavirus era.
The headline:

Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

"In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong."

...They went on to list all the reasons that, given that we’re already on an “inexorable” path to censorship, a Chinese-style system of speech control may not be such a bad thing. 

In fact, they argued, a benefit of the coronavirus was that it was waking us up to “how technical wizardry, data centralization, and private-public collaboration can do enormous public good.”

Perhaps, they posited, Americans could be moved to reconsider their “understanding” of the First and Fourth Amendments, as “the harms from digital speech” continue to grow, and “the social costs of a relatively open Internet multiply.”

This interesting take on the First Amendment was the latest in a line of “Let’s rethink that whole democracy thing” pieces that began sprouting up in earnest four years ago..."
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Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history - Washington Times

Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history - Washington Times
"...The response to the coronavirus is hyped. 
And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed.
In fact, COVID-19 will go down as one of the political world’s biggest, most shamefully overblown, overhyped, overly and irrationally inflated and outright deceptively flawed responses to a health matter in American history, one that was carried largely on the lips of medical professionals who have no business running a national economy or government.
The facts are this: COVID-19 is a real disease that sickens some, proves fatal to others, mostly the elderly — and does nothing to the vast majority.
...The data to keep America closed and Americans closed in simply doesn’t exist.
If truth be told, it’s questionable it ever did.
The scientists leading the coronavirus shutdown charge predicted in March that in America, between 100,000 and 250,000 would die. 
They based those estimates on computer modeling.
But at the same time they were basing those estimates on computer modeling, they were acknowledging that computer modeling is inaccurate and errs on the side of hype.
“I’ve never seen a model of the diseases I’ve dealt with where the worst-case actually came out,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, during a CNN interview in March. “They always overshoot.”
Catch that? 
Fauci’s message: Computer models are flawed and inaccurate and always overestimate the problem.
...Since, about 56,000 have died in America due to coronavirus — or have they? 
Again, the facts are flimsy..."
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We still can't go outside...

What they WILL DO when back in power!-----Unreported: Democrat bill would use taxpayer money to ‘bring deported criminals’ back’ – World Tribune: Window on the Real World

Unreported: Democrat bill would use taxpayer money to ‘bring deported criminals’ back’ – World Tribune: Window on the Real World
From Feb. Bill not passed...yet!
"A new immigration bill being pushed by Democrats would not only decriminalize illegals entry into the U.S. but would use “taxpayer money to bring deported criminals back into America,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday.

The New Way Forward Act is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
The bill would entirely remake our immigration system with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move to the United States, and settle here permanently, with impunity.”

The proposed legislation “decriminalizes illegal entry into America, even by those we’ve previously deported,” Carlson said. “According to a document promoting this bill, criminalizing illegal entry into America is quote, ‘white supremacist.’ ”...

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#1 This day 1957-----Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (best version)

Minneapolis Neighborhood Begins Broadcasting Islamic Call to Prayer over Loudspeakers

Minneapolis Neighborhood Begins Broadcasting Islamic Call to Prayer over Loudspeakers
"...A cultural line has been crossed.
According to the Star Tribune, “the Muslim call to prayer will be broadcast the traditional five times a day in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, beginning with the start of Ramadan this week and continuing through the end of the religious holiday in May.
...the implications of this broadcast call to prayer...are ominous.
...what exactly is it broadcasting?
The adhan, prayed in Arabic, repeats “Allahu akbar” six times, “I testify that there is no god but Allah” three times, and “I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” twice.
Dr. Gavin Ashenden...observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism.
It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar...
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Doesn't seem to be much difference...except for California's destroyed economy.

5 Michigan businesses are suing Whitmer, claiming her executive orders violate constitutional rights | wzzm13.com

5 Michigan businesses are suing Whitmer, claiming her executive orders violate constitutional rights | wzzm13.com:

LANSING, Mich. — Five different businesses in Michigan have come together to sue Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Gordon, according to WXYZ in Detroit. The lawsuit claims the executive orders that the governor has put into place during the coronavirus pandemic have "violated the constitutional rights of several businesses." WXYZ said the lawyers for the plantiff's announced the lawsuit on Tuesday.

Madeline + Train = Sheer Delight

Let us not forget who will be forced to repay the terrible debt we are leaving to our children.

AM Fruitcake

History for May 1

History for May 1 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764 - Architect known for his design of the United States Capitol and the Baltimore Basilica, Kate Smith 1909 - Singer, Glen Ford 1916 - Actor ("Gilda", "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")


Jack Paar 1918 - Radio and television comedian, talk show host ("The Tonight Show"), Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright, Scott Carpenter 1925 - One of NASA's original seven astronauts


1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.


1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"

New York City ER doc explains why America should reopen immediately - TheBlaze

New York City ER doc explains why America should reopen immediately - TheBlaze:

One emergency room doctor who has been on the frontline of the coronavirus fight in New York City says it is time to reopen America.
Leaning on his experience treating COVID-19 patients, Dr. Daniel Murphy, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, explained in an essay for the New York Post why he believes America should strongly consider reopening.

The way we were-----Marilyn Monroe Metamorphosis-From Norma Jeane to Marilyn by Hollywood Ph...

Boob-tube-----TV Censored Bloopers (1981) Dick Clark

They will do ANYTHING to keep the union platinum-pensions fully funded.-----Decades of fiscal denial and now they tell us the problem is caused by "COVID-19"? Bull!-----Michigan cities face big financial losses due to coronavirus - mlive.com

Michigan cities face big financial losses due to coronavirus - mlive.com
"The rainy day is here.
Governments that oversee Michigan cities and other municipalities are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Local government leaders are forecasting millions of dollars in tax revenue loss, and making plans to try to stay afloat.
...On top of the revenue challenge, governments are having to provide additional staffing, meet higher demands, provide personal protective equipment and more, as the coronavirus remains a threat.
...The problem is hitting Michigan cities regardless of size.
Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, is working to plug a revenue loss in the hundreds of millions of dollars, while Iron Mountain, a small town in the Upper Peninsula, may need to find savings in employee health care and retirement costs because its staffing level never recovered after cuts during the Great Recession.
...The city of Detroit projects a $348 million revenue loss impacting the general fund for the duration of 2020, through June 30, 2021...
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Directors of hate and blame whitey!-----Universities hire new diversity czars while collecting federal bailout dollars

Universities hire new diversity czars while collecting federal bailout dollars

• Directors, associates, and administrators will start their new jobs to promote diversity initiatives on campus in the coming months.
• The new hires come as colleges nationwide collect billions as part of the university bailout.

Colleges are receiving this money from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which specifically outlines each allocation of federal money to each college.
...One of the universities receiving these funds is the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, which announced Thursday that it recently hired a new “director of diversity and community relations” officer, specifically for its business school...
Read all, it goes on and on.

Pennsylvania Businesses Ask SCOTUS To Stop State Lockdown | The Daily Caller

Pennsylvania Businesses Ask SCOTUS To Stop State Lockdown | The Daily Caller:

Some Pennsylvania business owners say it’s time to get back to work and want the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn a state lockdown initiated by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
These owners say Wolf had no authority to issue such a widespread declaration, Fox News reported Tuesday.

Most U.S. Hospitals Are Empty. Soon They Might Be Closed for Good | Opinion

Most U.S. Hospitals Are Empty. Soon They Might Be Closed for Good | Opinion
"Tens of thousands of health care workers across the United States are going without pay today, even as providers in the nation's hot spots struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic
...But instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds in systems left untouched by the pandemic.
At 18 percent of the U.S. economy, health care is a $3.6 trillion industry annually.
By barring all elective surgeries, which covers a huge array of operations, like knee reconstructions or even cancer biopsies, hospitals have been denied billions in revenue in just the last month alone.
Outpatient services account for half of all hospital revenue, which means hospitals are now making, and spending, half what they were this time last year..."
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"The reluctance of progressive Democrats to return the country to a normal, functioning status seems more directed at proving the problem was real..." --Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"The Coronavirus scare will go down in history as the first postmodern pandemic, revealing that the actions of postmodernist progressives are more directed toward the maintenance of the problem rather than solving it.
Why would they prolong the pain, one might ask?
Well, it's the same old reasons - it's power and relevance. 

The pandemic gives them both - during the pandemic, they get to exercise power without objection they normally wouldn't and by impoverishing the citizenry through economic shutdowns, they get to dole out money to prove they are relevant.
The reluctance of progressive Democrats to return the country to a normal, functioning status seems more directed at proving the problem was real than healing a nation from what history will record was the greatest self-inflicted economic wound a country could vest on itself.
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Lunch video-----How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

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'The Squad' wants feds in control of private property during pandemic - WND

'The Squad' wants feds in control of private property during pandemic - WND:

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has introduced a bill co-sponsored by the other members of the far-left freshman "squad" that would severely restrict personal property rights.

Tucker Carlson Delivers Another Epic Monologue, Calls Out ‘Egregious Censorship Effort’ Of Big Tech - Chicks On The Right

Tucker Carlson Delivers Another Epic Monologue, Calls Out ‘Egregious Censorship Effort’ Of Big Tech - Chicks On The Right
"...Last night, Carlson addressed troubling censorship by big tech. 
He highlighted the case of the California doctors that have been censored on YouTube.

Mock wrote about these physicians and their video that was making the rounds to millions on the internet.

These doctors had the nerve to question the need to lockdown and compared COVID-19 data to the flu. 
YouTube simply could not allow this and removed their video.

Carlson warned, “…dissent of any kind, is no longer tolerated in this country. Fact-based honesty, which is the soul of science, is under attack, even in hospitals.”

From Fox News:
“People have different opinions,” Carlson said. 
“More informed debate is exactly what we need to make wise decisions going forward, but unfortunately for all of us, informed debate is exactly what the authorities don’t want. 
They want unquestioned obedience, so they’re cracking down on free expression.”...
“The only justification for taking it down was that the two physicians on screen had reached different conclusions from the people currently in charge.” Carlson said.
YouTube’s CEO told CNN it is their policy to remove “medically unsubstantiated” information and anything that goes against World Health Organization recommendations.
This is terrifying.
...Differing medical opinions should be discussed and debated. 
Who among us, if found to have a serious medical condition, does not seek a second opinion?
The WHO has not proven to be an accurate source of information about the coronavirus over the course of this crisis. 
Remember when they initially claimed that the virus could not transmit human to human? 
And more than that, they have shown themselves to be a nakedly political organization.
YouTube is not the only influential platform censoring speech. 
Facebook is also taking part in this dangerous practice...
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Why hasn't the media demanded this... yeah right.

Why are we employing and paying for this racist?----Rutgers prof: 'F*ck each and every Trump supporter'

Rutgers prof: 'F*ck each and every Trump supporter'
"Rutgers University Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brittney Cooper says Trump supporters are to blame for the disproportionate number of black Americans who have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a tweet thread on Tuesday, Cooper wrote, "I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push [sic] to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID. 
Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power."
..."I am saying some obvious things this morning because as a country we are too good at skipping over the audience and we might as well say this to people as often as we can. 
Fuck each and every Trump supporter. 
You all absolutely did this. 
You are to blame," she added...
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