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Thursday, December 30, 2021
MSNBC producer raises eyebrows by referring to 'China's alleged human rights abuses' - TheBlaze
California’s Great Climate Fail
"President Biden has made California his green-energy model, so it’s noteworthy that a new study shows that the Golden State is failing to meet its greenhouse-gas emissions goals in part because of its climate obsession.
...Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered that
- sales of new gas-powered cars be banned by 2035.
- Then during the summer, CARB upped the ante by proposing to require all new light-duty cars sold in the state by 2025 be electric, and that
- refineries be shut down by 2035, which would effectively ban gas-powered cars.
Angst filled liberal refuses to look in mirror-----Here is what confuses me about San Francisco.
We have a $13B budget.
And we have 8,000 people sleeping in the rain this week.
Can someone please explain this to me?
What do progressives stand for, exactly?
I thought it was about making things more fair.
About standing up for the little guy.
About human rights, equality (equity?), compassion.
San Francisco (to me) looks like the least compassionate city on the planet.
The slums of Mumbai look cleaner than the streets of downtown SF...Must read all. This moronic mindset is what is killing every lib-controlled city/state.
Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater | Intellectual Takeout
With cancel culture shredding our culture, that expression might take on a whole new meaning. Sing some of the songs from this tale of U.S. sailors fighting the Japanese in the Pacific, and you might find your reputation hanging from the nearest oak tree.
Let’s start with the score’s most egregious offense in today’s politically poisoned climate: its treatment of women. Back in 1949, when the musical first appeared, euphemisms for women like “dolls,” “dames,” and “broads” were as common as saddle shoes and bouffant hairdos. Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist for South Pacific, opens the song “Honey Bun” with these words:
My doll is as dainty as a sparrow,
Her figure is something to applaud,
Where she’s narrow, she’s narrow as an arrow,
And she’s broad where a broad should be broad.
When sung, those “broads” come as “baaaa-rod. Sing it that way today, and the misandrists will be after you with stilettos—and I don’t mean high heels.
“There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame” contains lines like these...
- The critical theorists who dominate so many of the humanities departments in our universities are behind the cancel culture movement, teaching students a new Trinity:
- recognition of oppression,
- protest against that oppression, and
- liberation.
Which means wiping out our past.
This erasure of culture is not unique to the United States. It has already occurred in Communist China and in other Communist states and is well underway in Western Europe. Customs, traditions, the arts, history itself: all are under steady assault. As in those places, radicals and their weak-kneed accomplices are putting the butcher’s blade to our American culture and history.
What will be the outcome if we allow this butchery?
In “The crusade to erase history,” columnist Christine Flowers cites this passage from George Orwell’s 1984:
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Flowers then writes, “I will not say the appropriate things. I will not apologize for a guilt I do not bear. I will not engage in pithy, socially woke slogans. I will not grovel, bend the knee or worry that my words might get me ostracized, unemployed or even killed.”
Her words should serve as banners and bugles to the rest of us.
As for me at this moment, it’s time to clean the house and listen to South Pacific.
Full blast."...Read all!!
Homeless Man Attacks People with Homemade Flamethrower - Louder With Crowder
A really neat story and link to a bunch of other cool info!-----Don Surber: Highlights of the News
ITEM 1: Hey, remember when Maggie Haberman of NYT heard the band play Edelweiss at Trump's White House and freaked out thinking it was a Nazi song? It was written by two Jewish men a dozen years after the war and for their antiwar, anti-Nazi musical The Sound of Music.
And now for the rest of the story.In the movie version of the musical, Julie Andrews portrayed Maria Von Trapp, who became the matriarch of a family of singers.
Life News reported, "The von Trapps were new to America when Maria was pregnant with her son, Johannes, the youngest of their 10 children. The family also was struggling financially because they recently had lost their fortune in a bank crash in Europe, according to the report.
"Then, more bad news came. When Maria visited a doctor complaining of severe back pains, he told her that she needed to abort her baby."
They were Catholic.
The story said, "However, the von Trapps refused to consider aborting their unborn son. Instead, they began to pray, asking God to heal both Maria and Johannes. When Maria went into labor, the family gathered together to pray the rosary and sing hymns together, she wrote in her book."
Lord willing and the creek don't rise, he will celebrate his 83rd birthday next month...Much more here, read all!
History for December 30
- 1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
- 1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
- 1924 - Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic systems.
- 1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
- 1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
New poll finds four Democrat politicians with very low approval ratings, but one Republican with the worst - TheBlaze
They've allowed the unions to destroy the entire system!-----Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs law allowing any district employee with a high school diploma or GED to substitute teach
What the hell is going on???-----House of Representatives Votes to Eradicate Blasphemy Against Islam - American Thinker
"The House of Representatives has passed a bill that seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam.
Horowitz: A private business can discriminate based on a vaccine? Tell that to Christian photographers - TheBlaze
the exact moment my trust in our public heath experts began to erode...
"AT THE APEX OF THE PIVOT:
As Greenwald writes in his follow-up tweet, “That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they’d politicize their expertise when convenient.
Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then — overnight! — cheered densely packed street protests.”
Flashbacks:
Report: More than 150 people in one Texas county have been killed by suspects released on bond - TheBlaze
American voice!-----Man who told Biden ‘let’s go Brandon’ makes no apologies, corrects the record where he stands on Trump
"The Oregon man who made headlines for saying “Let’s go Brandon” while on a live call with President Joe Biden defended himself in a new interview and asserted that former President Donald Trump should “still be the president right now.”
Former police officer Jared Schmeck told Steve Bannon on his “War Room” podcast that he had made the comment on the Christmas Eve call with the president and first lady Jill Biden “in a joking manner.”
But, Schmeck added, he felt it was also his chance to “voice my disapproval of this man and his administration.”
The 35-year-old father of four sent the left into a collective meltdown when he not only uttered the phrase which has become an understated way of saying “F— Joe Biden,” but that the president repeated it without seeming to understand its meaning...Click to see fabulous video!
Hypocritical scum!-----Stop insulting us with phony social distancing theatre! - American Thinker
But when they thought the cameras were turned off, they hugged:
Minneapolis Target Holds Semi-Annual 'Everything Is Free' Sale | The Babylon Bee
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—We at The Babylon Bee try to keep you posted on the latest deals, sales, and offers from your favorite stores.
Today, we've got a great deal alert for you: all the Targets in the greater Minneapolis area are planning a big "everything is free" sale in celebration of the end of the Derek Chauvin trial.