Month: July 2023

Has anyone else noticed that if Democrats do not agree with something or someone, that they seem to do whatever they can to either file criminal charges in order to attempt to silence that person or they resort to ad hominem attacks to discredit the individual without actually debating the issue.

Lately I have been having increasing interest in RFK Jr. … what he says and what he believes, and I just watched part of the questioning of him in the 7/20 hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

The  Democrats sought to deplatform Mr. Kennedy both before and during the hearing. They tried to censor him, but thankfully it was Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said, “The hearing that we have this week is about censorship. I don’t think censoring somebody is actually the answer here.”

Several Democrats called on Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a letter to disinvite Mr. Kennedy. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) declined.

Still, Democrats on the panel continued their attacks on the witness from the start of the hearing, attempting several procedural motions to limit his time to speak or end the hearing altogether.

Setting the tone for the hearing, Ranking Member Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) opened her remarks with attacks on Mr. Kennedy, accusing him of “hateful, evidence-free rhetoric.”

In response to the issue of discussing more pertinent topics, Kennedy said, “We can’t do that without the First Amendment, without debate.”

To illustrate the point, he cited his removal from YouTube after his speech announcing his run for president, where he discussed all those issues, and was “deplatformed” five minutes into the speech.

“I didn’t talk about vaccines in that speech, I didn’t talk about anything that was a verboten subject,” he said, but emphasized that he was removed nonetheless.

Mr. Kennedy then referenced a copy of the letter signed by fellow Democrats calling for his appearance before Congress to be canceled.

“This itself is evidence of the problem this hearing was meant to address,” Mr. Kennedy said. “This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.”

Mr. Kennedy decried the proliferation of a relatively new term, “malinformation,” which he said was “invented to censor people like me.”

Malinformation, according to a definition from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”

Mr. Kennedy gave an alternative rendering of the term as “information that is true but is inconvenient to the government.”

I do not agree with everything that RFK Jr. says, but I do agree that he should be allowed to say whatever he wishes. RFK Jr is a Democrat, and by doing whatever they could in order to shut him up, the Democrats attacked one of their own, … and that makes me like him even more!

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7/21/23

A while back I heard a quote attributed to Edmund Burke, included by John F Kennedy in a speech in 1961: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 

Earlier this week I read part of Tucker Carlson’s speech at Turning Point, and it struck me that now basically anyone who goes against what the mainstream media is touting is disregarded and furthermore is labeled  as a troublemaker. If one speaks out about what happened on January 6, that individual is anti- law enforcement even though it is coming out that the crowd was loaded with undercover agents. Even Republican Mike Pence cannot come around to see what was apparently taking place there.

If one comes out and questions the prudence of our military involvement in Ukraine, then that individual is labeled as pro-Russian and anti-American. Why are all of those who are supposed to represent us keeping their mouths shut when it comes to Ukraine? Isn’t there anyone who is saying, “how and when is this going to end?” Just today our President basically admitted that he had no answer to that question.

If one comes out and states that this transgenderism craze is nonsensical, then that individual is prejudiced and anti-whatever! If an individual refuses to be a part of this “you need to call me what I want to be called” absurdity, then it is that individual who is chastised for not partaking in this psychosis. I realize that some may feel that the term, ‘psychosis” is harsh, but a psychotic person is one who believes in things that are not reality. Hmmm, how does “I am XX, even though my chromosomes are XY,” not meet the definition of ‘psychosis?’

I will say, “God bless Tucker Carlson for speaking his mind so that evil doesn’t triumph!” … (see Edmund Burke’s quote above.)

7/20/23

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CV News Feed :

The White House staff budget has exceeded $158.8 million during the first three years of the Biden administration, the largest White House payroll since 1971.

Joe Biden is the first president since Richard Nixon to employ over 500 employees on the White House payroll.

“Biden employs 108 more staffers than Trump (416) (FY2019) and 70 more than Obama (454) (FY2011) at the same point in their respective presidencies,” reported Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com.

The large Biden White House payroll had been a leading indicator of his commitment to expand the federal bureaucracy at all levels,” Andrzejewski pointed out. “In the first nine days of his presidency, Biden issued many executive orders expanding the size, scope, and power of the federal bureaucracy.”

While Biden officially declared the COVID-19 pandemic “over” in September 2022, the White House still retains 19 employees whose titles include “COVID.” Those titles include “Director of Economic Policy and Budget for the COVID-19 Response,” “Deputy Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response,” and 17 others. These COVID positions collectively receive over $2 million in salaries.

Speaking of Covid we are now seeing the consequences on children of the policies pushed by the federal government as well a lot of state governments. I wonder … “what were these at least nineteen White House “Covid” employees doing during Covid?” Why didn’t any “experts” on Joe Biden’s staff realize the immense harm that was inevitably going to come to children because of  their “wise” policies involving school closures, masking, and lockdowns? Could it be that these “Covid experts” were in fact appointed because of their political affiliation, and not their Covid expertise?  Hmmm!

Developmental disability among children between the ages of three and 17 rose to 8.56 percent during 2019–2021, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published this month. 

Almost one in ten children in the United States have a developmental disability, with their rates rising during the pandemic period when students were isolated and faced numerous restrictions.

In September, the “Nation’s Report Card” published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that the average scores for students aged 9 years old fell by five points in reading and seven points in math last year compared to 2020. This was the first-ever score decline in math and the biggest average decline in reading since 1990.

In February last year, Stephen Miller, the founder of America First Legal, warned about the issue. “Until Biden’s CDC calls for the end of all forced masking of children—recognizing the immense developmental harms they inflict—the Administration continues to be guilty of child abuse,” he said in a Feb. 26, 2022, post on Twitter.

While Joe Biden can deny the existence of a granddaughter that was fathered by his son, Hunter, he and his “expensive experts” cannot deny that their Covid policies have significantly harmed the children of our nation.

7/19/23

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The year 536 A.D. is popularly known as “the worst year to be alive.”

What was so bad about it? Well, there was darkness for 18 months. And what was the cause of it? It was unknown for most of history, but climate change scientists have since discovered it was caused by a volcanic eruption.

As Science reported in 2018, the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine discovered that a massive volcano in Iceland erupted in 536 A.D. and spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere. It was followed by two other massive eruptions in 540 and 547 A.D.

Science cites medieval historian Michael McCormick, who noted that “Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record ‘a failure of bread from the years 536–539.’”

It also was cited as a likely cause of a deadly plague that killed around 50 million people. The Sun reported in 2019 that the eruption in 536 also led to “famine and a collapse of the global economy” while “Some experts even believe the eruptions are linked to a major plague pandemic. The Justinian Plague started in 541 A.D. and killed around as many as 50 million in just 12 months as it spread across the Mediterranean.”

Let’s be clear. I did not know the details about 536 A.D. until I read a piece by Joshua Phillips, titled, “Solar Geoengineering—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”

As Mr. Phillips notes:

The United States is now investigating how to inject chemicals into the atmosphere in order to block out the sun.

The idea is to use a “stratospheric aerosol injection” to essentially mimic the effects of the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Interest in the concept started after a volcanic eruption in 1991 in the Philippines. Mount Pinatubo blasted 20 million metric tons of sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere. This sparked interest among climate change enthusiasts, because the natural disaster caused a cooling in global temperatures that lasted for two years.

Remember, the technology is meant to mimic the solar dimming effect of a massive volcanic eruption. If they did that using chemicals, it would last at least a year, and current proposals would drag this out for around 15 years. 

Keep in mind that if this “blocking out the sun” insanity takes hold, it will not be reversible, and we could all be taken back to the darkness of 536 A.D., and subsequently be in for “the worst year to be alive” reincarnated!

7/18/23

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Is this just the beginning? I would guess that most of you remember the mass protests by farmers in Holland last year, because the liberal nut jobs in the EU were in the process of making farmers stop farming and culling farm animals to fight climate change.

As Dutch politician Geert Wilders said during the recent round of farmers protests: “The real aim here is to get rid of our farmers for some leftist Nitrogen agenda and make room for non western immigrants.”

The EU’s war on farmers is also a war on farming communities that preserve Europe’s traditional and religious values. These rural regions often vote for conservative and right-wing parties, offering resistance to the globalist agenda of climate change and mass-migration. 

Well the farmers protests have now moved to Ireland.

From the Irish Examiner:

Over 2,000 farmers turned out to a rally in Bandon on Thursday, 7/13/23,  as frustrations and fears grow over the potential cut to the nitrates derogation stocking rate.

On foot and in tractors and trucks, attendees came from across industry and gathered in the West Cork town as they voiced their concerns about how a decrease from a maximum stocking rate of 250kg of nitrogen per hectare on dairy farms to 220kg can impact on farm incomes, livelihoods, and rural communities.

This rally came following the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent report showing that nitrates “remain too high in rivers, groundwater, and estuaries in the south-east, south-west and midlands and eastern regions”.

While negotiations are continuing, the EPA’s report has gone to the European Commission.

From The Irish Times:

Besides cutting down on the use of fertilizers and manures, the Irish government is pushing ahead with regulations that require mass-culling of farm animals that may force thousands of farmers out of business. “Up to 65,000 dairy cows a year could be culled as the Government moves to bring the agriculture sector in line with climate targets,”

Ask yourselves these questions :

Why do governments push these crazy plans to reduce food supply?

Is what happened in Holland and now is about to happen in Ireland just the beginning?

How long before this insanity spreads to America?

7/17/23

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As many of you are aware,my Sunday pieces are about someone who deserves our respect and admiration. Mesha Mainor was featured on my Sunday blog of May 21, 2023. The following is a clip from that May blog:

“It takes a lot of fortitude for a Democratic politician to buck the trend and go against her fellow Democratic politicians.

She angered her fellow Democrats when she stood with Republicans in support of Georgia Senate Bill 233, which would have provided $6,500 vouchers to parents with students performing in the bottom 25% in the state. The vouchers could have been used to pay for private school tuition and homeschooling expenses.

Mainor, a supporter of “parent choice,” was the only Democrat to vote in favor of the legislation.”

On this Sunday I am happy to again praise Mesha Mainor because of a second thing she did just this past week.

From Fox News:

The Peach State lawmaker who angered her Democrat colleagues in the Georgia state House of Representatives over her support for a recent school choice bill has announced she is officially switching parties.

Mesha Mainor – a Democrat who has represented District 56 in the Georgia House since January 2021 – announced the decision shortly before noon Tuesday that she will switch her party registration to Republican.

“When I decided to stand up on behalf of disadvantaged children in support of school choice, my Democrat colleagues didn’t stand by me,” Mainor explained of her decision in a statement to Fox News Digital. “They crucified me. When I decided to stand up in support of safe communities and refused to support efforts to defund the police, they didn’t back me. They abandoned me.”

“For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community,” she added. “For decades, the Democrat Party has received the support of more than 90% of the black community. And what do we have to show for it? I represent a solidly blue district in the city of Atlanta. This isn’t a political decision for me. It’s a moral one.”

Wow, a politician with moral courage!

I will accept Mesha Mainor on my team anytime!

7/16/23

I would suppose that if I said that the possible upcoming collapse of the banking system is the fault of President Biden, you would just refer to me as a partisan yokel. Nonetheless, just follow my logical thinking, and then tell me what you think.

First, we all are probably aware that in the last few months there has been the collapse of three banks (Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank). Those in the know are projecting that other banks will potentially follow suit.

From Breitbart Business Digest:

After the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, a study on the fragility of the U.S. banking system found that 186 more banks are at risk of failure.Banks are failing because the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes to tamp down inflation have eroded the value of bank assets such as government bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and other interest-rate-sensitive assets.

Okay, so basically the banks are failing because of the Fed’s aggressive interest rate increases that are being made in order to attempt to control inflation. I will surmise that there are very few among us that have not felt the ravages of the current bout of inflation. I doubt whether President Joe has suffered the pain that is part and parcel of severe inflation, and I also am pretty sure that President Joe does not have a clue that he and his policies have been major factors in causing this inflation. “Build Back Better” has added trillions in government spending, and anyone who has even a passing knowledge of economics is aware what how this type of spending can lead to inflation.

But even before “Build Back Better” … in fact on President Joe’s first day in office, he stared the inflation ball rolling by canceling the Keystone Pipeline, and he followed up with his various policies to limit the our supply of energy. Again, Econ 101 … when you limit the supply of something, the price of that thing goes up. As the price of oil and gas went up, just about the price of everything went up, and when the price of everything goes up … tah-dah we have uncontrolled inflation.

OMG! By using simple logic, I have just proven that President Joe is the cause of the potential upcoming collapse of our banking system.

Furthermore there are rumblings that there will be more of  this banking collapse.

From Epoch Times:

Weiss Ratings is now warning that 4,243 U.S. banks and credit unions are vulnerable to fail. Weiss Ratings—the nation’s only independent ratings agency that assesses the safety and risks of U.S. banks and credit unions—has now issued a red warning flag for 1,210 institutions that are at risk for imminent failure. In addition, 3,043 were issued a yellow warning flag; in total, 45 percent of all banks and credit unions in the United States have been deemed vulnerable.

Biden has to be hoping that there are no further bank failures before the next election … remember that logically speaking the whole mess is his fault!

7/15/23

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I have three daughters, and seven granddaughters. Although none have been superstars in various sports, they have all played sports while growing up. At this point none have been forced to compete against men or boys, and rightfully so.

Men can pretend to be women and women can pretend to be men … no me importa! As far as I am concerned anyone can pretend to be whichever gender they choose, but do not drag me into this fantasy world.

At this point an XY can pretend to be an XX and compete in a women’s sport. He might come in first, and stand on the podium, but in reality all rational XYs and all  XXs know that he is non campos mentis to some degree. He might have finished ahead of the genetic XXs, but he is not an XX. 

When will this insanity end?

Finally, a competitive organization has stepped forward, and stated what we all know, namely that XYs and XXs should not be competing against each other in competitive sports. 

The Belgian Waffle Ride (BWR) is a cycling competition that describes itself as being “created in homage to the great one-day classics of Europe with their cobblestone sectors … long, hard, multi-terrain races that test the best of the best.”

Often hosting events across North America, the organization held a race in Hendersonville, North Carolina, on June 10, 2023. However, the “BWR N. Carolina” saw a man win the “Women Overall” category. A man named Austin Killips took first place in the women’s competition with a finishing time of 8h 28m 07.47s. Comparatively, had Killips competed against men, he would have finished in 22nd place with the same time.

In other words, an XY was declared the winner of an XX race. However the BWR subsequently made some changes to insure that an XY would not win an XX BWR race in the future.

On July 9, 2023, BWR announced on Instagram that it would be moving forward with a third category, open to anyone. The classifications were listed as follows:

• “Female: In the interest of protecting the parity of sports between women and men, racers who were born female may compete in the classification.
• Male: Racers who were born and/or identify as male may compete in this classification.
• Open: All racers, regardless of gender identification, may compete in this classification.”

Finally, sanity!

Can we learn anything from BWR?

7/14/23

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Am I surprised? No, not really!

Let me explain.

When something is put up on the website of a magazine, and then taken down within twenty-four hours, something is obviously amiss. When this happens with a paper in a medical journal … hmmm! 

From the Epoch Times:

The paper, a pre-print that had yet to undergo any part of the peer-review process, was uploaded to Lancet’s website on July 6. 

According to Dr. McCullough, the paper’s leading author, the reason he and other co-authors went for a pre-print is that they wanted to get their findings out as quickly as possible, “Pre-print servers go through a check to make sure all the elements of the paper are there, but it is not peer-reviewed by external doctors. And the preprint server simply offers people a chance to look at the data themselves and decide. I think that’s perfectly fair to look at the tables, look at the figures.”

Dr. McCullough continued: “The government narrative is still that people do not die after COVID-19 vaccination. Now we have the largest series of autopsies, and the autopsies really are incontrovertible,”

The paper in question is a review of autopsy data of over 300 post-COVID-19 vaccination deaths and it would certainly challenge the mainstream narrative on the safety of the shots. As noted above, it was removed within 24 hours of the initial submission. 

Still from the Epoch Times:

For the study, the researchers looked at 678 papers and narrowed down 44 that contained 325 autopsy cases. They then performed what is called a “blind adjudication” by having three physicians independently review all deaths and determine whether COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed significantly to them.

“We use the standard called PRISMA, where we searched for every paper possible. We sorted through hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts because deaths can be reported as different clinical syndromes are coming out after the vaccine,” Dr. McCullough said, noting that they took out cases that obviously had nothing to do with vaccination.

A total of 240 deaths (73.9 percent) were identified as directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.

The most implicated organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system (53 percent), followed by the hematological system (17 percent), the respiratory system (8 percent), and multiple organ systems (7 percent), according to the paper. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days, with most deaths occurring within a week from the most recent jab.

 Now, let’s be clear. I have not read the pre-print … as it is gone from the Lancet’s website.

Dr. McCullough has long been a vaccine skeptic, and because this is not the first time that the Lancet has been accused of playing political futbol, as I said that I am not surprised. But why was it accepted as a pre-print in the first place? 

To me this pre-print got somebody’s dander up! After all going against the pre-set narrative of vaccine safety is a no-no … at least to the higher-ups at the Lancet.

Hmmm! 

7/13/23

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Who is he? Why do I not read about him in my local “newspaper?”

From Google:

To start Gal Luft is the executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS). A former Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces with rich combat experience, he has published numerous articles and studies on international security affairs.

He certainly sounds like a “good” guy.

 From Wikipedia:

The US government has issued a warrant for missing Israeli academic Gal Luft, who disappeared on Tuesday, April 25. The Jerusalem Post reports that Luft was detained at Cyprus’ Larnaca International Airport after being accused of smuggling weapons into China and Libya.

Here he certainly sounds like a “bad” guy!

Which is it?

From C&C:

The story of Gal Luft began to surface last week, when the Israeli professor with a murky covert intelligence background uploaded a viral 12-minute video claiming he was being “hunted” because he was prepared to testify before Congress that Joe Biden is a dirty, rotten traitor and bribe taker who has sold the U.S. out to the Chinese.

So as Gal Luft is a new whistleblower, he is being “Trumped,” which is now a neologism alluding to that process in which the political party presently in charge bring phony charges against someone who they cannot stop or silence. 

FYI: I listened to Luft’s entire twelve minute video on YouTube, and found him to be quite believable. I further found what he was saying to be credible, despite the fact that he tossed around the names of many multi-lettered organizations, which I found somewhat confusing.

Is Gal Luft an arms dealer (“bad guy”) or is he a credible whistleblower (“good guy”) whose testimony is a big threat to the Biden’s as well as to the credibility of various government organizations?

Good guy or bad guy? … listen to the video yourself and decide.

7/12/23

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