Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Read all!!-----Opinion: The Cheap Mercedes and the Beautiful Bridge - Illinois Review
Opinion: The Cheap Mercedes and the Beautiful Bridge - Illinois Review - JOHN F. DI LEO"...But no matter what the cause was, we now know certain things for sure:
• This bridge cost $110 million to build, 50 years ago. It will cost at least 1 billion to replace today, most likely much more than that.
• The world survived without this bridge until 1977. While we have spent 47 years getting used to having it there, we will have to spend at least the next several years living without a bridge there...
• And very few people will ask the question that needs to be asked:
“Should it really be rebuilt?”...
And the proper public policy question must be asked: Is it worth the risk, now that we know what that risk is?...
• This bridge cost $110 million to build, 50 years ago. It will cost at least 1 billion to replace today, most likely much more than that.
• The world survived without this bridge until 1977. While we have spent 47 years getting used to having it there, we will have to spend at least the next several years living without a bridge there...
• And very few people will ask the question that needs to be asked:
“Should it really be rebuilt?”...
And the proper public policy question must be asked: Is it worth the risk, now that we know what that risk is?...
- If we rebuild a bridge in front of a huge seaport, with several massive ships – container ships, brake bulk vessels, cruise ships, RO-RO vessels – crossing back and forth under the bridge every day, who’s to say that another ship, five years from now, won’t crash into it again? And then another, four years after that?
- We don’t build an enormous bridge encircling the port of Los Angeles that ships must travel under, back-and-forth, every hour. The risk of a collision is simply too great with that kind of traffic. Why do we do it in Baltimore?
Major woke chain closing 24 stores this year, and 10-15 more by next year | WND | by Around the Web
Major woke chain closing 24 stores this year, and 10-15 more by next year | WND | by Around the Web:
In a recent earnings call, Best Buy, a woke retail giant, announced the closure of 24 stores in 2024, with an additional 10-15 stores expected to shut down in the fiscal year 2025.
While the specific locations of the impending closures have not been disclosed, this decision is part of Best Buy’s broader efforts to adapt its retail footprint to the changing consumer shopping habits in an increasingly digital marketplace. As of now, Best Buy operates over 1,000 stores across the United States.
One-third of Michigan residents receive government assistance
Number has grown 30% since Whitmer took office By Jamie A. Hope
One-third of Michiganders now depend on the state government for at least one form of financial assistance, according to the latest Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The number has increased 30% since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer entered office...
State welfare assistance programs include the following: Medicaid, food stamps, State Emergency Relief, the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance and Child Development and Care...
One-third of Michiganders now depend on the state government for at least one form of financial assistance, according to the latest Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The number has increased 30% since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer entered office...
State welfare assistance programs include the following: Medicaid, food stamps, State Emergency Relief, the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance and Child Development and Care...
History for March 27
History for March 27 - On-This-Day.com 
Quentin Tarantino 1963 - Movie director
- 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.
- 1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.
- 1933 - About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City.
- 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
- 1997 - Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is Even More Devastating Than It Seems - It's an 'Economic Nuke Strike'
The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is Even More Devastating Than It Seems - It's an 'Economic Nuke Strike':
By now, most people have seen the shocking images of the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, that happened on Tuesday morning.
Indeed, it would be hard to forget the sight of the cargo ship hitting the 1.6 mile bridge, with the bridge almost instantly crumbling on impact into the Patapsco River.
What caused the cargo ship to ram into the bridge or what was faulty in the construction of the bridge to make it collapse so readily has not yet been discovered.
Up to 30 squatters took over Atlanta man's property for years, he spent thousands to clean up estate, got sued for $190,000 | Blaze Media
Up to 30 squatters took over Atlanta man's property for years, he spent thousands to clean up estate, got sued for $190,000 | Blaze Media:
A Georgia man has been desperately fighting for years to remove dozens of squatters off his property in Atlanta. The property owner has faced major hurdles in trying to reclaim his land from the squatters, including spending thousands to clean up the estate and being sued for $190,000.
More ATF Atrocity: ATF SWAT raid in Arkansas Raises Questions About Excessive Force - The Truth About Guns
More ATF Atrocity: ATF SWAT raid in Arkansas Raises Questions About Excessive Force - The Truth About Guns - By Doug Howlett"Bryan Malinowski, the 53-year-old executive director of the Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, died two days after exchanging gunfire with ATF agents who raided his home at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.
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His death raises questions about whether he knew he was trading gunfire with federal agents, or if he thought their no-knock raid was a home invasion...
“Something stinks to hell,” Matthew Malinowski told a local NBC affiliate Wednesday...
“The ATF burst into his house, and they did it in a manner that was the most dangerous combination possible.” Bryan’s brother Matthew Malinowski told local media Wednesday. “The easiest way to have taken care of this situation – the most common way – would be to wait until he gets in his car, pull over and arrest him. Or you wait until he comes to work, and you arrest him there.”...He was a prominent and respected member of the community, lived in an affluent West Little Rock neighborhood and earned more than $250,000 per year at the airport.
“Something stinks to hell,” Matthew Malinowski told a local NBC affiliate Wednesday...
Didn’t ask for evidence when they told you...
Didn’t ask for evidence when they scared you with terms like “super spreader.” You just went along with it. - Robert W Malone
- Didn’t ask for evidence when they told you to social distance. You just did it.
- Didn’t ask for evidence when they told you to stay home for two weeks. You just did it.
- Didn’t ask for evidence when they told you to mask up. You just did it.
- Didn’t ask for evidence when they told local businesses to close down. You just went along with it.
- Didn’t ask for evidence when they pulled your kid out of school. You just went along with it....(read all!)
Trans 'Treatments' for Minors One of the 'Greatest Ethical Scandals': French Report
Trans 'Treatments' for Minors One of the 'Greatest Ethical Scandals': French Report:
The practice of sexually ‘transitioning’ children will be remembered as one of the “greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine,” a report commissioned by French senators stated.
A landmark report produced at the behest of the centre-right Les Républicains in the French Senate found that the medical industry embarked upon the practice of giving children life-altering transgender treatments with little evidence of its effectiveness while ignoring the side effects.
Climate Refugees
"Another discussion of how the press and academics work together to create third rate science fiction.
Eight Months to the Fate of Our Nation
Eight Months to the Fate of Our Nation - Jeff Davidson"The other day, I was speaking to a friend...
- He says that, with each passing day, the country in which he grew up increasingly looks more and more foreign to him.
He sees laws that are flouted, primarily by Democrats, and go completely unpunished.
Whether it's rioting, looting, arson, or worse, he reads about district attorneys who decline to take a slam dunk case, bail reduced to zero for egregious crimes, and people who have committed violent acts being back on the street within 24 hours.
Whether it's rioting, looting, arson, or worse, he reads about district attorneys who decline to take a slam dunk case, bail reduced to zero for egregious crimes, and people who have committed violent acts being back on the street within 24 hours.
- He has strong concerns about the fate of our children. He comments that if you have a five- or six-year-old, or for that matter a 15- or 16-year-old, somewhere along the line they're being indoctrinated. If not by one teacher, then by several; if not by one textbook, then by another.
- Each day, in little ways, they're being taught to hate their country, their ethnicity if they are white, their history, and what Americans stand for. They are made to feel as if they are guilty of all the sins of the world since time began...
He is concerned about our ability to turn things around and at what cost.
- Will we need to fight a second Civil War?
- Will the internal, political cold war ever subside?
- If the Left doesn't care what they destroy, he wonders if that is their end game: to reduce the United States to rubble...
'Orwellian': Porn-for-kids gets labeled as 'decency' | WND | by WND Staff
'Orwellian': Porn-for-kids gets labeled as 'decency' | WND | by WND Staff:
Such as a "Freedom To Read Act" hidden in among other "nondiscrimination" schemes, the report said.
That simply would take away the abilities of libraries that get state funding to "regulate or restrict access to pornographic materials," the report said.
"I’m not exaggerating. Anyone paying attention to debates about the content of public school libraries over the past several years—including all the allegations of 'book banning'—is familiar with the caliber of smut that the radical progressives are trying to foist upon our kids," Trimbath wrote.
Why our institutions keep going woke and going broke - Glenn H. Reynolds
“Get woke, go broke” has been a catchphrase for several years. - Glenn H. Reynolds
"...Yet the people at the top of major corporations and government agencies keep, well, getting woke and going broke.
Which makes me wonder why.
Which makes me wonder why.
- Harvard, roiled by antisemitism scandals in which woke politics kept administrators from protecting Jewish students, has lost enough in donations that it’s shutting down a library and looking to borrow money to meet expenses...
- Disney, marked by subsidiary Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy’s “Put a chick in it, and make her gay” — as “South Park” famously formulated — is losing money hand over fist, as one beloved franchise after another is turned into politicized dreck that alienates fans.
- Sports Illustrated, which had a surefire moneymaker in its venerable swimsuit issue, went out of its way to alienate its once-loyal audience by featuring trans, obese and old models on the cover and is laying off its entire staff.
- Planet Fitness has decided to embrace men who identify as women shaving in the women’s locker room, and its stock is plummeting. (It’s even terminated the memberships of women who complained.)...
This will fix the university mess. Right?-----University of Michigan lecturers’ union holds rally to build support for contract fight
The lecturers are members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO), Local 6244 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
"...Some 200 University of Michigan (U-M) employees and supporters attended a rally on Saturday, March 16 at the main campus in Ann Arbor in support of non-tenure track lecturers who are in the midst of contract negotiations with the university...
But they are highly exploited and poorly paid.
Their minimum (starting) annual salary is $51,000...
If you self-censor your news, this looks real.-----It’s the Biden vs. Trump Economy—and Hell No, It’s Not Even Close
The facts are clear: Biden has overseen a stronger economy than Trump did. That reality should dominate his reelection campaign.
"...Real wages are now growing in the United States at a pace faster than the spike in the cost of living since the pandemic.
More than that: For the first time in decades, wage growth is consistently stronger in the middle and at the bottom than at the top.
- See, I told you that you wouldn’t believe it.
But it’s right there in a recent study by David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew, three well-known economists. Dube just wrote up the results at (EXTREME LEFT-WING) Project Syndicate...
WATCH: swarm of illegal immigrants attacks TX National Guard | Blaze Media
WATCH: swarm of illegal immigrants attacks TX National Guard | Blaze Media:
After recent video footage from the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, it’s become clear that America truly is being invaded.
The footage shows a swarm of over 100 illegal immigrants using force to overpower National Guard soldiers. The immigrants broke through razor wire and knocked down guards as they flooded into America.
History for March 26
History for March 26 - On-This-Day.com 
Strother Martin 1919 - Actor
- 1909 - Russian troops invaded Persia to support Muhammad Ali as shah in place of the constitutional government.
- 1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.
- 1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria.
- 1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
- 1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent poliomyelitis.
- 1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
- 1999 - In Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a terminally ill man a lethal injection and putting it all on videotape on September 17, 1998 for "60 Minutes."
- 2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election.
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