12:03

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6090455511001#sp=show-clips

Far Left Ideology, Government regulations or mandates to control, where you live, how you live, personal choices, mobility, transportation, what to buy, are taking away your freedoms every day. All described in the word: EQUITY. Not EQUALITY, but EQUITY

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349644928112

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-left-wing-media-full-lying-dishonesty-hysteria

LIVE 1965

Not to mention Free mobile phones and connectivity, free food, free health care, free transportation, free Housing, no vetting to keep out terrorists, prisoners, and other undesirables, and giving them legal status in 24 months. And not to mention a new Biden program, just announced, to provide illegal aliens a “first time $ program to buy a new home”.

https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-03-05-0334/immigration-biden-administration-admits-flying-320000-migrants-secretly-us

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/mustsee_video_one_amazing_black_woman_gets_it_about_democrats_all_of_it.html

You must listen to this 21:00

https://video.spreely.com/watch/tucker-carlson-went-to-a-mcdonald-039-s-in-moscow-and-here-039-s-what-he-got-for-7_XyLBGwdTzj7A3lB.html

https://video.spreely.com/watch/tucker-carlson-visits-russian-grocery-store-discovers-americans-have-been-told-a-lie-video_miWVHTRckfnDFhN.html

https://video.spreely.com/watch/tucker-discusses-the-moscow-subway-station_37NJYxyzDF48VXZ.html

https://video.spreely.com/watch/tucker-carlson-being-secretly-filmed-in-russia_JlxlFDQFdNSZ5xe.html

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-interview-1235902906

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/white-house-finishes-review-special-counsels-report-biden/story?id=107047339

Posted by: bj | February 5, 2024

Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?

He is All Three. I call a Real “Bad Guy”.

Link: https://victorhanson.com/is-biden-malicious-incompetent-or-conniving/

Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving February 5, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness

What Excites Biden?

Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.

When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president now speaks, he rarely becomes excited about Iranian or terrorist provocations. Biden seems restrained even at Russia’s outlawry in Ukraine. The atrocities of Hamas now earn only measured objections from Biden. He does not seem too angered by the collapse of the border. Nor do the deaths of 100,000 Americans to imported fentanyl earn a loud trademark Biden scream.

No, what earns his unchecked ire, often expressed in shouts and hysterical tones, are Donald Trump and his supporters. Most recently, out of nowhere, Biden resurrected the old and proven falsehood that Trump had libeled the Normandy dead as losers and suckers. He then compounded that libel by claiming Trump’s supposed dismissal of the heroic dead was a grievous family insult to his own late son, who did not die either in combat or while in uniform but in 2015, tragically, from brain cancer.

During these anti-Trump fits, Biden wakes up and his face tightens up. He begins screaming, in uncharacteristic, animated fashion, anytime he can smear half the nation’s voters as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” extremists. In private, he swears that Trump is a “f—ing asshole” and “sick f—k.” If only Biden substituted “cartel” or “Iran” or “Hamas” for “Trump” or “MAGA.” we might see an animate president.

A Borderless Nation

Meanwhile, a mob of illegal aliens recently tried to kick and stomp sprawled New York peace officers into senselessness—felonies that would earn any such violent citizen a decade or more on Rikers Island.

Yet somehow, only a few were arrested. Stranger still, all of them were immediately let go without bail—as if freeing wolves to prey further upon sheep.

Upon release, a few smirked and flipped their middle fingers to bystanders. Apparently, they wished to show Americans that they are violent, crude, unrepentant, and exempt. And thus they tell us that their newfound hosts are fools for letting the likes of themselves in.

And why not, given the attackers bussed with impunity to California—the land of free everything if only one qualifies as illegally residing in the U.S.

These grotesque bullies are part of the eight-million illegal aliens who pranced across the southern border without background checks—all taking Biden up on his 2019 encouragement to “surge” the border with impunity.

Many brandish their cartel affiliations. Some pay for their transit by smuggling cartel fentanyl, which contributes to 100,000 American overdose deaths per year. Others sport lengthy criminal records. All seemed to have been welcomed out of their countries by conniving Latin American governments and mysteriously invited into our country by our derelict president.

The Death of the Law

There is a continuing pattern here. Sometime around late 2020, Americans woke up in a country they no longer recognized. That summer, tens of thousands of rioters had looted, burned, killed, maimed, and assaulted for four months with veritable impunity. Leftwing mayors and governors dubbed the violence as “largely peaceful” demonstrations or a “summer of love.”

The 2020 legacy of defunding the police and exempting criminals on the basis of their race or ideology is that each week now videos circulate of massive looting, smash-and-grab epidemics, and deadly car-jackings in our major cities. No one cares much about the small business owners who are ruined.

Who laments for the poor who lose their last shopping outlet? Does the Biden administration worry over the terrified employees who are ordered to stand back or the occasional security officer totem instructed to stand down?

Instead, we are to empathize with the thief, the assaulter, the rapist, and the carjacker—at least in the sense that he does not deserve punishment for the mayhem he caused, given we, not he, are supposedly the true guilty parties. A lot of innocent and defenseless people have been assaulted and killed since 2020 as the wage of that toxic theory.

So the subtext of all these violent acts is exemption based on perceived correct race, ideology, or membership in the supposed victim/oppressed binary. The perpetrators are either not arrested, let out the same day as arrested, never charged, or never convicted. And the result is a growing distrust of the law and a cynicism that there is little law anymore, just statutes used against political undesirables.

If, for just one month, the Biden justice department used the same resources and budget it has spent the last three years rounding up bystanders at the January 6 riot and instead prosecuted, convicted, and jailed these big-city violent assailants, then the crime epidemic could be solved.

The Implosion of the University

As a general rule, in 2024, the more “prestigious” our universities, and the more they prided themselves as elite or Ivy-League, the more likely there were racially segregated dorms and graduations, a virtual anti-Semitic hounding of Jewish students, grade inflation, watered-down courses, and pro-Hamas terrorist demonstrations.

For nearly a hundred years, universities told us that the SAT or ACT admittance exam was critical in determining their admissions. It was sold as a way to confirm the potential and preparation necessary to perform at a level demanded by these elite schools. The tests were praised as a meritocratic tool to determine talent by honing grade point averages and allowing opportunity to those without money and contacts. Then suddenly, in 2021, these tests were mostly junked.

That dismissal of standardized tests was a de facto admission that:

1) Universities had been admittedly wrong for a century that standardized admissions tests had any value in determining the degree of student preparation needed to complete a rigorous Ivy League class load.

or 2) in the interest of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the university would now be free to admit students who could not meet their prior unrealistic or unnecessary standards and instead would accommodate new students by suddenly inflating grades, introducing easier classes, or diminishing required course work.

Of course, the university admits to neither of these realities. It compounds the deception and fraud by claiming new generations of students are more competitive and gifted than ever and will leave with degrees that guarantee employers rigorously trained graduates. Time will soon tell.

The End of Deterrence

The same nihilism characterizes our foreign policy.

Our worst enemies could not have planned a more disastrous and humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan than the Biden administration’s August 2021 scamper. We simply, without an afterthought, abandoned billions of dollars of sophisticated weapons to Taliban terrorists.

We left behind a $1 billion new embassy and a remodeled Air Force base. We bragged about taking out terrorists with a “righteous strike” that wiped out an entire friendly Afghan family, while 13 American service personnel were blown up trying to secure a non-securable escape route.

Then followed the mysterious laxity as a Chinese spy balloon lazily traversed the U.S. with impunity. Next was the radical drop-off in military recruitment. If one wished to ensure that the one group that serves—and dies—in combat units at twice its demographics would exit the military en masse, prompting an enlistment crisis, the Pentagon could not have done a better job.

The top brass all but accused its white male recruits of being prone to toxic white supremacy, only to form a task force to root it out—and then discover such rage and hatred never existed in the first place.

It nonetheless drummed out 8,400 veterans for not receiving the mRNA vaccinations, many of whom had naturally acquired immunity and real doubts about the efficacy or safety of the inoculations. And, finally, the Pentagon made it known that prior standards of recruitment, promotion, and evaluation had apparently weakened the military. Therefore, new race- and gender-based criteria would ensure fewer and now unneeded white males in positions of rank and influence.

Abroad, China serially threatens to annex Taiwan. A hungry and perennially restless Vladimir Putin once upon a time thought he was restrained from invading his neighbors by fear of more costs incurred than the likelihood of benefits to be gained. But like an earlier reaction to a weakened U.S. in 2008 and 2014, Putin assumed that the 2022 Biden administration would likely do little if he annexed greater swaths of Ukraine. And so he invaded.

National security advisor Jack Sullivan, on the eve of the October 7 Hamas massacres of Jewish citizens, claimed the Middle East was at last calm. Now it is on the verge of a theater-wide war, once Iran sensed that the Biden team would appease and beg it to behave.

So the Biden administration was eager to end oil sanctions, plead with Iran to reenter the Iran Deal, remove the Houthis from terrorist designations, route billions of dollars to Tehran for hostages, junk the Abrams accords, and restore millions of dollars in please-be-nice bribe money to the Palestinians.

Biden’s abject misreading of human nature has ensured that a thuggish theocracy that slaughters abroad and tortures at home would interpret that reproachment as either naiveté or stupidity. And thus it would respond with contempt and escalating aggression. And so it has.

Somehow, over just three years, the Biden administration did to the Middle East what it did to the southern border: blew it up in the same exact manner of mindlessly undoing any policy that had previously worked with Trump’s finger prints on them.

What Is Going On?

What is the common denominator, what is the rationale behind the anarchy, and what is the reason why a president would so willingly rend the fabric of America?

Why would the government privilege the illegal alien over the law-abiding citizen? The violent pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic foreign-born protestor over the peaceful pro-Israel, U.S. citizen? The smash-and-grabber over the dutiful security guard?

We are nearing a French Revolution, reign-of-terror moment. The law seems to be what a cabal of hardcore leftists who control the Oval Office say it is.

Joe Biden’s administration offers no better confirmation of warnings from Thucydides to Thomas Hobbes that the veneer of civilization is precious, hard-won, quite thin, and beneath it churns innate human savagery and chaos roaring to be released.

So why did Biden unleash the hounds of anti-civilization? Did he despise the supposedly boring middle-class citizen who follows the law, pays all his taxes, and never gets arrested? Does he hate the idea of meritocracy? In Biden’s puppeteers’ dangerous calculus, is all this savagery and chaos a deliberate mechanism to ensure parity? Equity? Inclusion?

So is the deliberate nihilism—economic, social, cultural, social, and political—a way of leveling the field? Making life difficult for the more successful? Making those who cherish the traditions and protocols of America pay?

Is that the plan to take the country to near collapse, and then only at the abyss itself to force revolutionary change—or else?

How else can anyone explain the descent of our city downtowns into dank medieval cesspits, our notion of male and female transformed into the sexual circus right out of Petronius’s Satyricon, our race relations into a mixture of Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and our universities into Soviet-like “People’s Universities of Correct Thought?”

None of this was by accident. It is the dividend of a philosophy that says, “We have to blow up your America before we can reboot it for us.”

Is Trump the Only Person E Jean Carroll Accused of a Fake Sexual Assault: Not Even Close

It is interesting to me that with all of the many stories written about the alleged sexual assault on E Jean Carroll by President Trump, the mainstream media seems to leave out the many men Carroll has accused of sexual assault. The long list of assailants includes a babysitter’s boyfriend, a dentist, a camp counselor, an unnamed college date, an unnamed boss, and CBS chief executive Les Moonves.  I am surprised that such an unattractive woman would be assaulted by so many men.

Here’s what you need to know about E. Jean Carroll, that was previously reported here on The Gateway Pundit. Most of these information were deemed “inadmissible” by the judge per John LeFevre:

  • She couldn’t recall the date, month, season, or year the incident happened
  • She never told anyone about it, despite being publicly obsessed with her own sexuality
  • The dress she claims to have been wearing didn’t exist at the time
  • Her description of the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman was inaccurate, making her sequence of events impossible
  • Her lawsuit was bankrolled by Jeffrey Epstein pal and Democrat (and Nikki Haley) mega-donor Reid Hoffman
  • Democrats created a law (The Adult Survivors Act in 2022) to enable her lawsuit to proceed
  • Her accusation is the exact plotline of an episode of Law & Order (one of her “favorite shows”)
  • Trump’s Apprentice was also one of her favorite shows
  • She has a history of falsely accusing men of rape, including Les Moonves
  • She told Anderson Cooper, “most people think of rape as being sexy. Think of the fantasies.”
  • She made a career promoting promiscuity, even writing glowingly of sexual assault and naming her cat Vagina

She accused former CBS CEO Les Moonves of sexual assault. Moonves emphatically denies Carroll’s accusation. Personally, I think Carroll is a nutcase who fantasizes about being raped. When I was much younger than I am today I knew a girl who would only have sex with you if you role played rape. For the record, she and I never spent time together because I was unwilling to play that game with her. But, I am aware of a few who did. Is that what Carroll is? Honestly, I could not say. But it is odd that she has accused so many men of sexual assault.

From The Gateway Pundit

We are trying to confirm all of the reported accusations. We know for certain that she accused former CBS CEO Les Moonves of sexual assault.

Moonves “emphatically denies” Carroll’s account.

For some strange reason – this news DID NOT make any headlines in the mainstream Trump-hating media. E. Jean Carroll accused several men of sexual assault including a babysitter’s boyfriend. a dentist, a camp counselor, a college day, a boss, and Les Moonves from CBS – and, of course, Donald Trump.

We forgive you if you’ve never heard this before.

Carroll’s interviews on TV, social media posts, and inconsistent information concerning her allegations should have been enough to throw out any case, but not with Judge Kaplan.

There is no way that this case should have been brought to court. Trump was not even told what month or year the ridiculous story actually took place.

Posted by: bj | January 24, 2024

Biden Administration in One Photograph

He forgot a few Subjects like the Global Warming Hoax and Iran, etc.

Posted by: bj | January 9, 2024

The Ross Rant – 2024

The Ross Rant™ 2024

Where from here in 2024? It is going to be a very rough and historic year. There is no way to predict what is going to happen in the world or the economy. As I have noted prior, the consensus is that 2024 will see a stock market that is flat to down. Stock prices have surged far more than anyone predicted, and the gains were mostly in a small number of stocks driving the indexes higher than they really should be when you look at the equal weighted SPX vs the market price weighted. In other words when you eliminate the Magnificent Seven massive percentage in the market weighted, and just treat them equally, then the gains are much lower. The P/E ratios are now too high in some cases and the market P/E is high, so the likelihood is we are now over the normal Santa Rally and back to a more normal trading market. The real risk I have mentioned over the past several weeks are only getting worse. Israel is now doing what the US should have done, but Biden was afraid to do- they have killed top officers of the Iranian army, and they are going after Syrian anti-air weapons likely to prepare the way for many more attacks on Iranian assets. This is going to result in a much bigger confrontation at some point. Israel is doing what Biden should be doing. Maybe Israel will also take out the Houthi rockets and command centers since Biden is afraid to. In any event, the risks are growing, and anything could happen at any moment. Just think back to WWI- they shot the archduke and that triggered the explosion that was waiting to happen. It is the same now. Nobody can predict what might happen next. So, I remain conservative, and will be happy with a 5% return in 2024.

Why was everyone wrong about a recession and lower stock prices? In my opinion, nobody realized the magnitude of the impact of the flood of government spending being so overwhelming that the Fed increase in rates were offset. This flood of cash into all levels of the economy kept the job market strong once the economy reopened, along with all the cash that had been handed to consumers during Covid. The amount of the fiscal spend, over $6 trillion, has been unprecedented, and due to all the Covid excess savings of $3 trillion, the economy became awash in cash. Add to this, the mass payoff of credit cards and debts during the lockdowns and consumers had excess cash, lots of unused credit, and a lot more paper equity in their home. To compound things, most people have a 3%-4%, mortgage so their personal debt service is lower than in the past, thereby freeing up more cash to spend. Combine that with the supply disruptions, and inflation rose, but so did spending, and so creating more labor demand, so unemployment has remained very low, meaning more spending. Covid and rising home equity caused many more to retire than otherwise might have happened, and so we had labor shortages while consumers went on a spending spree with all that excess cash. What has probably compounded the labor shortage is the retirement of experienced, efficient, hardworking employees, who are being replaced by unproductive young people who are not interested to work nearly as hard, nor are they as well educated in many cases given the woke indoctrination in schools. In summary, the amounts of cash floating around the system at the consumer level was unprecedented. It began to feed on itself. More government spend, led to more excess savings, led to more consumer spend, led to more labor shortages and higher wages, led to higher prices and more spending. The problem is now the real price has to be paid for all the excess.

The job market is not really growing as much as we hear. Yes, jobs are being added, but the majority-56%- of them are welfare and healthcare related jobs and due to migrants having to be dealt with and more homeless. It is mainly concentrated in the big blue states, NY and IL lead the pack.  NYC spends $143,800 per migrant per year. Medicaid, a Pelosi and Schumer priority, is the biggest area of wasted spend, with social welfare also adding a lot of jobs due to woke ideology. Of net new jobs added due to healthcare and welfare, these jobs in CA were 61% of new jobs, NJ 81%, OR 89%, MI 113%, IL 113% and the winner was NY121%.  It means MI, IL and NY actually lost private sector productive jobs. Compare these numbers to TX 34%, SC  37% FL 41%, GA 48%. NY spends 2.5 times as much as TX on Medicaid per capita. TX has a $18 billion budget surplus. CA has $75 Billion deficit. NYC has to cut cops due to the migrant influx. So, were it not for the open border and the massive spend on Medicaid, job growth would be very small, and the budget deficits of these blue states and the federal government would be far lower, so taxes would be lower, which would grow the economy faster.  In case you wondered what the difference is between states run by Republicans and those run by Dems, this explains it. Blue states waste far more on migrants and social welfare, and so have to raise taxes, so the real taxpayers leave, making the situation even worse. If you were to not have the massive waste of subsidies on EV’s, battery factories, and new Solyndras and other wasted spend on climate, from the climate industrial complex, we would have far less of a problem with the deficit. This also gives you a far better understanding of the real jobs market. It also shows the massive cost of open borders in not just drugs and potential crime and terror issues. It is huge deficits and higher taxes, more crime, and fewer cops.

Government debt is now $34 Trillion, a number that we cannot afford. Debt service is now rising at a rate that it will soon overwhelm the budget, which is why the big fights in Congress. We are rapidly reaching the break point which will show up when the primary dealers find it too hard to sell the $9 Trillion of paper they have to sell in 2024, and rates beginning to rise again no matter what the Fed does. The Dems seem not to understand any of this, or their intent is to keep spending to keep the economy going so by November it looks better than it really is. We have dug a hole so deep there may be no escape, and we will be digging ever deeper unless there is a major reduction. This is why I continue to caution about a fiscal crisis arising this year. CA is the canary in the coal mine. They keep adding entitlements and regulation. Result is a $75 billion budget deficit that is going to $110 billion in 2024. Consider that when unemployment is very low, and consumer spend is high, their deficit is skyrocketing. That is counter intuitive. Consider what will happen when the economy slows, and more taxpayers leave. They had a large surplus before. They will have to raise taxes, more large taxpayers will leave, and so the deficit just gets worse, and the hole gets deeper, so more taxpayers leave. Same for NY. When they tally the number of New Yorkers leaving by using moving van counts, they far understate reality. Many New Yorkers continue to have a home here, but they do not pay taxes here, and they use FL as their tax home, so the hit to the government revenue is far worse than net migration data suggest since it is the wealthier taxpayers who do this, and they were the taxpayers. CA has the same problem as does NY City. It is not head count that matters, it is large taxpayers who matter. The real taxpayers are the ones who can afford to have the second home which becomes their tax home. In CA and NY, and Chicago, the taxpayers are being replaced by migrants who are costing billions that the states and cities have no money for. That is why NYC is in a death spiral now, as is CA. The longer the border stays wide open, the worse the fiscal disaster being created.

The decline in CRE values is continuing and will continue for a while, especially in multi. Different product types will decline more, or less, and will bottom out at differing points. Multi still has a way to go toward a 20% decline, while industrial is likely not to suffer very much. As in all real estate, it is location and condition of the asset that matters a lot. It is also if the mortgage is floating or fixed, and what is the term. If it is a very good and reasonably new asset with a 10-year term on a low leverage mortgage at 3%, then that asset will decline in value a lot less than the older asset with a floater or a near term maturity. So don’t just take general averages when assessing the value of a real estate asset. If you are invested in a multifamily asset and you can survive until 25, you are likely OK. Most markets will recover at least a portion of the lost value as new supply dries up, and as mortgage rates and possibly insurance move back down a little. Since the consensus is that the ten-year will not go much lower from here, and could go higher, don’t expect to refinance at some very low rate like we had before 2021. Expenses are up, especially insurance, occupancies are down, rents are flat or down, and NOI is down in most cases. That is not going to change much for a long time in the south. You are in survival mode now. Hotels will soon follow as the spending on US travel will slow this year, and as more travelers go abroad or on cruises post Covid.

One of the biggest changes in the world economy is the decline of China which was the driver for much of world economic growth over the past 10 years. That is now in reverse with major consequences for everyone. The Chinese stock market declined 11% this year while the rest of Asia had very good stock markets. The new economic report from China shows the PMI-purchasing managers index to have fallen into negative territory. The entrepreneurs are disappeared. The pollical bureaucrats have taken over, and the anti-corruption drive continues to hamper business. Capital is flowing out now. The state is now even more in charge of the economy. That means a lot of bad business decisions and inefficiency. Xi is destroying what had been the economic driver of the world. Consumers are pulling back after the large losses in their real estate and stock market investments. In short everything is going in the wrong direction. This is why Germany, which was heavily dependent on sales to China, is in recession which has follow on impact on the rest of the EU. The US will have less growth than expected as China continues to falter. This represents a major shift inworld economic trends. Pay attention. Lyric Hale and her EconVue report continues to be the best place to keep tabs on China. You should subscribe.

A lot is going to change this year in the wars. Ukraine cannot sustain the level of battle for a lot longer due to the loss of so many fighters and the delays in receiving weapons and ammunition. Zelensky is likely to get replaced at some point. Russia is using its same strategy as in WWII and other wars. Just feed hundreds of thousands of men into the battle and ignore massive losses until the other side can no longer maintain the fight. Russia has lost closing in on 400,000 dead, wounded or captured, but Putin could not care less. There are more where they came from, and now he has the momentum on his side. This is not going to end with victory for Ukraine.  In Gaza, Israel is going to continue its massive attack until they kill the leaders and as many fighters as they can locate. They claim they have killed 8,000 Hamas fighters and many top leaders. They have another 17,000 to go. As the Israelis control more areas, and destroy more tunnels, and close in on more concentrated areas where the Hamas fighters will get pushed, many more Hamas fighters will die more quickly. Sometime in this year it will be over. The question then is does Hezbollah pull back or attack, and does Israel wipe out the Houthis and the Iranians in Syria in the process. The real issue is, does Israel destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities in the next few months before they build the bomb after Israel wins the war. With Biden in office and the election, Israel will have to do it on its own. My bet is yes, they destroy the nuke facilities. They cannot ever allow Iran to have a nuke. Then the Mideast explodes, and oil goes through the roof as Israel will likely also take out the oil fields. This will be the ultimate black swan, and it is why I am staying conservative in investing. There is no way to predict what may happen geopolitically, nor in the election. We can only hunker down in your investing and wait to see how things play out this year. Better to miss some of the ups than to risk suffering a 30% possible sudden decline. Anyone who claims they can predict this year with any degree of confidence is just mouthing off.

What most are unaware of is, the ME Secretary of state has also tried to prevent No Labels from getting on the ballot. This is not just a stop Trump effort. It is part of a nationwide effort by the far left and Dems to keep Trump and No Labels off the ballot and to sideline RFK Jr. In short, the Dems and their allies on the radical left are trying to take over the government and ending democracy at the ballot box. It is that simple. You will be hearing a lot more on this in January. This is not about Trump. Democracy is at stake. This is not just the usual election games. It is an all-out attack on the constitution and the moves against Trump are only what you have so far heard about. A few weeks ago the far left and their allies like Mark Elias held a strategy Zoom call to plan ways to destroy No Labels including threats against potential NL candidates that they should not even consider running. It got recorded so we know what was said, and who was there. If you think mail in ballots and ballot harvesting was bad, what is happening now goes to the heart of our democracy.  The press has so far ignored what is happening, but that is going to change in January. If the Dems and the far left were to succeed, they would assure Biden to be reelected and then they would have total control by controlling him. It is Obama and Mark Elias who are behind the curtain on much of this, along with Schumer.

Haley was correct in her response. The Civil War from the view of the south was all about their economy and way of life, and who gets to decide about slavery. Slavery was the manifestation and basis of the economic system and the whole culture of the south. To southerners, they were fighting to maintain their way of life and economy, and what they believed was their states rights to decide on those things. Slavery was the key to all of that. The north was fighting to obtain federal control, and end slavery.

Massachusetts is considering setting up a government trust to give every “poor” kid a trust account to pay for various things. They admit that really means low-income black kids who they say will get priority. Other jurisdictions have implemented minimum income and now NY State is considering setting up a reparations commission. The left just does not understand that giving people money just because they are poor or black is a counterproductive policy. That is the whole basis as to why we have many ofthe social and crime problems we now have. They have created a dependent culture where kids are taught from a young age that they are ”victims” of white oppression, and therefore, they are “entitled” to be given money instead of earning it. They get promoted to the next elementary school grade even if they failed reading and math.  They get into Harvard and Penn just because they are black, and they become doctors and lawyers despite doing poorly in professional school. Doctors are now reporting that this has resulted in situations where medical mistakes are being made. Single women are told they will get various forms of payments if they have a baby.This all began with LBJ and the various poverty programs implemented in the sixties and seventies. If you want to destroy the drive to work in order to eat and pay rent, as I and most of my now wealthy friends had to deal with when young, then just hand out money to people of color. If you want to end the concept of self-reliance, just give people money because they are of color and are “victims”. Many decades ago, before welfare and other entitlements, 80% of black babies were born to two parent families.  Now the number is 30%. The whole word entitlement is one of the real problems. Nobody is “entitled” to get money from the government without doing something to earn it. We should get rid of the word and replace it with free hand out, which is what it is. Many blacks are now recognizing that the whole welfare state has been the worst thing that has happened to blacks since reconstruction.  The other problem now is the woke ideology being taught to kids as young as 8 in elementary school. They are taught “never trust a white man.” So, when a white manger or someone in a position to try to help a young black man with mentoring they are often rejected as not being trusted. In pro sports these black athletes are suddenly paid huge salaries and have no concept of how to manage that money. They often end up blowing it all one or two years after they stop playing. It is not their fault. They don’t have the teaching how to save and invest, and they were taught from a young age, don’t trust the white managers who try to mentor them. So, the cycle continues, and the culture issues never improve. The whole idea that hard work, a nuclear two parent family, education and law abiding is shunned by groups like BLM and rap artists. Thus, we have a culture that is destructive and actually harms the young blacks who they claim to be helping. Tough love always works best. For those of us starting out before the sixties, there was no choice other than to get a job, and work hard to get ahead. Nobody gave us anything but the opportunity.  My biggest fear that drove me when I started work was that I would end up homeless and hungry. It drove me to work hard since nobody gave me anything and I had nothing.

Harvard is destroying itself by refusing to fire Gay. The more we learn, the more her appointment becomes clear it was not based on merit. Now the truth is out. She plagiarized extensively, and her research in some cases was flawed and inaccurate. The board has dug itself a hole and continues to dig even deeper. This will get worse the longer they keep her. Clearly, they are afraid of the far-left pushback from professors and are just compounding the problem they created by hiring her.  This is the classic case of once you hire based on DEI, the harder it is to fire someone. The president of Penn is white. This is the perfect example of DEI and woke making things much worse, just like Disney and Bud and Target. Even the NFL is suffering lower ticket sales with their woke agenda. DEI and woke policies are very costly, and now everyone can see how DEI instills division and hatreds and the end of free speech. 2024 will see the beginning of the end of DEI in corporations and many other places. The Harvard SCOTUS decision and the explosion of anti-Semitism are the triggers for this to happen. Oct 7 will have world ramifications far beyond Gaza. It will change everything by the time it is over. It was the equivalent of the assassination of the archduke in modern times. Just like Europe in 1914, the Mideast was on the verge of all-out war for many years, and now the lid blew off. This is why it is so important to study history, to learn its lessons.

Next up is the revelation of how much foreign money has gone to universities like Penn and Harvard. It is billions, and with that money comes influence. China, Qatar, and other Arab nations have bought undue and unreported influence. Academia, especially Ivy schools, are now totally corrupt, and they have hidden these contributions despite the law requiring that the money was to be reported. Major change is coming to academia now that the three presidents’ testimony has exposed the reality of anti-Semitism, DEI, total lack of free speech and thought, and foreign influences. The big donors are doing a great service to the nation by forcing change. Congress needs to pile on now. They need to end the indoctrination of a generation, and bring back merit and free speech to campus. They need to end the foreign money. This goes far beyond firing the president of Harvard. SCOTUS took the first step by ending affirmative action admissions.

Posted by: bj | December 20, 2023

 A sobering message From Geert Wilders

Read this report from Holland. It is chilling to say the least mainly because Muslim laws and rules are unacceptable in a free society. 

Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.
In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?” Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators ‘settlers’. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ‘submission’. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam ‘the most retrograde force in the world’, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz; second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem …

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe ‘s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.

 A sobering message! from Geert Wilders

Read this report from Holland. It is chilling to say the least mainly because Muslim laws and rules are unacceptable in a free society. 

Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.
In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?” Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators ‘settlers’. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ‘submission’. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam ‘the most retrograde force in the world’, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz; second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem …

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe ‘s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.

Posted by: bj | December 17, 2023

The American Thinker on Michelle Obama

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/michelle_obamas_changing_sexual_identity.html

Biden took this issue to the Supreme Court a few months ago. They told Biden it was un-constitutional. Biden should be immediately impeached for breaking the law.

Biden is also Violating the Constitution by allowing over 8 million illegal immigrants into the US at the Mexican Border in the 3 years he has been president.

https://fortune.com/2023/12/06/biden-moves-to-forgive-5-billion-student-debt/amp/

Obama gave billions of US Government Loan Guarantees to Solyndra Solar, Tonopah Solar and other solar companies owned by Democratic Party Cronies. They all went bankrupt. Here we go again, but for BILLIONS more of potential tax payer $

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-firm-sunnova-gets-3-bln-loan-guarantee-us-energy-department-2023-04-20/

Another must Listen too !!

Every Major Organization in the World is involved in this, beginning with the UNITED NATIONS.

Since the US pays for the majority of the UN costs, THE US IS DESTROYING ITSELF FROM WITHIN

This is A MUST LISTEN

For some reason you have to click the x to get rid of advestisements

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6342272352112

https://video.spreely.com/watch/pelosi-s-daughter-caught-on-tape-refuting-j6-narrative-admitting-jan-6-protests-not-a-insurrecti_bQFjmuDZFjsAk79.html

Posted by: bj | November 24, 2023

Son of Hamas Co-Founder Denounces Hamas

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Posted by: bj | November 23, 2023

Tucker Carlson – Nov 2023 Las Vegas Conference

Posted by: bj | November 21, 2023

TRIVIA


‘A SHOT OF WHISKEY’ – In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey If a cowhand was low on cash, he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a “shot” of whiskey.

BUYING THE FARM – This is synonymous with dying. During WW1 soldiers were given life insurance policies worth $5,000. This was about the price of an average farm so if you died you “bought the farm” for your survivors.

IRON CLAD CONTRACT – This came about from the ironclad ships of the Civil War. It meant something so strong it could not be broken.

RIFF RAFF – The Mississippi River was the main way of travelling from north to south. Riverboats carried passengers and freight but they were expensive so most people used rafts. Everything had the right of way over rafts which were considered cheap. The steering oar on the rafts was called a “riff” and this transposed into riff-raff, meaning low class.

COBWEB – The Old English word for “spider” was “cob”.

SHIP STATE ROOMS – Travelling by steamboat was considered the height of comfort. Passenger cabins on the boats were not numbered. Instead they were named after states. To this day cabins on ships are called staterooms.

SLEEP TIGHT- Early beds were made with a wooden frame. Ropes were tied across the frame in a crisscross pattern. A straw mattress was then put on top of the ropes. Over time the ropes stretched, causing the bed to sag. The owner would then tighten the ropes to get a better night’s sleep.

SHOWBOAT – These were floating theatres built on a barge that was pushed by a steamboat. These played small towns along the Mississippi River. Unlike the boat shown in the movie “Showboat”, these did not have an engine. They were gaudy and attention grabbing which is why we say someone who is being the life of the party is “showboating”.

OVER A BARREL – In the days before CPR, a drowning victim would be placed face down over a barrel and the barrel would be rolled back and forth in an effort to empty the lungs of water. It was rarely effective. If you are over a barrel, you are in deep trouble.

BARGE IN – Heavy freight was moved along the Mississippi in large barges pushed by steamboats. These were hard to control and would sometimes swing into piers or other boats. People would say they “barged in”.

HOGWASH – Steamboats carried both people and animals. Since pigs smelled so bad they would be washed before being put on board. The mud and other filth that was washed off were considered useless “hog wash”.

CURFEW – The word “curfew” comes from the French phrase “couvre-feu”, which means “cover the fire”. It was used to describe the time of blowing out all lamps and candles. It was later adopted into Middle English as “curfeu” which later became the modern “curfew”. In the early American colonies homes had no real fireplaces so a fire was built in the center of the room. In order to make sure a fire did not get out of control during the night it was required that, by an agreed upon time, all fires would be covered with a clay pot called-a “curfew”.

BARRELS OF OIL – When the first oil wells were drilled, there was no provision for storing the liquid so they used water barrels. That is why, to this day, we speak of barrels of oil rather than gallons.

HOT OFF THE PRESS – As the paper goes through the rotary printing press friction causes it to heat up Therefore, if you grab the paper right off the press, it’s hot. The expression means to get immediate information.

There, don’t you feel smarter now?

Posted by: bj | October 23, 2023

America Wake Up

It’s about America 

BY David Meiselman

First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

— Martin Niemoller

Martin Niemoller was a German pastor who vigorously supported many Nazi ideas in the late 1920s and early 1930s. 

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemoller spoke out against the government and from 1937 to 1945 was confined to Nazi prisons and concentration camps. 

He issued the above warning upon his release in 1945.

Let me say at the outset, that while I take pride in being Jewish, I am not an Israeli. 

I am an American. 

I am not a Jewish American. 

I am an American American.

I don’t need any hyphens. 

I have only one loyalty, only one country. 

I have never been to Israel. 

I do not know anyone in Israel. 

I do not speak Hebrew and I’m not afraid of, or averse to, disagreeing with Israeli policy.

My family has been in America for 160 years and generations of my family have seen combat for America in several wars – as volunteers, not draftees. 

I am a proud United States Marine Corp veteran who served with honor in Vietnam 1968-1969.

That having been said, this piece is not about Israel. 

It’s about America. 

We need to learn the lessons of history and see the big picture. 

What’s going on in the Middle East is our future, here at home. 

And I don’t mean 25 or 50 years from now. 

I mean soon, very likely within the next 10 years.

And if you don’t see it coming, it will only come sooner.

They may not be coming for you today but they will be tomorrow.

It often starts with the Jews because they are an easy target. 

But they are only the first stop along the way. 

As Chris Rock prophetically offers, “that train is always on time.” 

Then, like with Hitler, it expands to other people and other countries. 

That is precisely what is happening today.

Don’t be distracted by the shiny object. 

We need to see the world as it is. 

Evil is coming our way. 

Today it’s “over there” but soon the terrorism, the danger, the fear, the bombs, the hostages, the loss of innocent lives and the loss of our freedoms, will be here. 

9/11 will look like a firecracker compared to what’s coming. 

This movement is global. 

Many of those chanting “Death to Israel” in our streets and on college campuses will soon be chanting “Death to America.”

It’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.”

Make no mistake. 

This war is really against America, the “Great Satan.” 

When they say they are coming for you, believe them. 

When they say Jihad, believe them. Iran and its allies China, Russia, North Korea fervently believe their time has come. 

They accurately see us as divided, weak and vulnerable. 

Their goal is to end our existence as a free and democratic nation. 

They know that if America falls, so does the rest of the world, and we are aiding and abetting them by refusing to see it, despite its obvious presence.

Their strategic chaos is intended to destabilize us and the world order. 

We now have wars raging on three continents. 

We must not be fooled by propaganda, social media and talking heads. 

Let us not become part of the misinformed and misguided masses that are so easily led astray. 

They unknowingly march in favor of repression, violence and intolerance. 

There will be no BLM, LGBTQIA+, ESG, DEI, BIPOC, environmental or climate voices, safe spaces, criminal justice or women’s rights groups when Iran and China are in charge. 

Just look at what they do to their own people.

This is not about politics.

We are all at risk. 

No one is immune. 

As in Iran and its allies, there is only one political party and no freedom to change that government by voting. 

Israel helps to keep America safe by being on the front line. 

Not supporting Israel is not understanding reality. 

It’s about survival for our children and grandchildren. 

We need to support Israel, Ukraine and any other country willing to fight our fight. 

We need to stop brawling amongst ourselves.

We must not allow our politicians to divide us. 

We cannot allow our differences to strengthen our enemies, weaken our allies and make us vulnerable to those who wish us harm. 

Hating each other compromises us from within. 

All other issues pale in comparison to loss of our personal safety, fundamental freedoms and national security.

This is one issue that should unite us.

So even if you do not support Israel in its existential battle, remember that they are fighting the evil that will soon be knocking at our door. 

That is why there is no place for anti-semitism in America. 

If Israel is out of the picture, the full attention of their enemies – our enemies – will become laser focused on attacking America, even if that attack requires nuclear weapons. 

To think otherwise is naive.

David Meiselman is a Marine Corp veteran who lives in Dorset.

Posted by: bj | October 18, 2023

New Trump Ad with Tucker Narrating

Posted by: bj | October 17, 2023

Bucket List Hotels –

Posted by: bj | October 13, 2023

Best Friend Michael – Wife Michelle –

Check the ear rings

The traditional US oil, natural gas and coal Companies produce 85% of domestic energy requirements in the United States, and the delusional Biden administration is doing everything in their power to destroy ALL these providers of US energy in the name of “The New Green Deal” and the biggest scam or hoax ever perpetrated on the American and world public.

In the process, the Marxist Biden government has caused the greatest inflation in 40 years as well as dozens of other major domestic and international blunders. It seems every decision made by the Biden Administration is made to purposely destroy the economy harm the country.

Markets should be driven by consumers desires, not government subsidies and political dictates.

How many coal-fired power plants are there in the world today? 

The EU has 468 – & building 27 more… Total 495, 

Turkey has 56 – & building 93 more… Total 149, 

South Africa has 79 – & building 24 more… Total 103,   

India has 589 – & building 446 more… Total 1035,  

Philippines has 19 – & building 60 more… Total 79,   

South Korea has 58 – & building 26 more… Total 84,   

Japan has 90 – & building 45 more… Total 135, 

China has 2,363 – & building 1,171 more… Total = 3,534.  

That’s 5,615 projected coal powered plants in just 8 countries.

USA has 15 – & building 0 more… Total = 15. 

And Democrat politicians with their “Green New Deal” want to brainwash us and shut down those 15 plants in order to “Save” the planet. 

This is EXCELLENT!! I knew the rough idea about the number of coal plants, but had not yet seen actual numbers until now. 

This makes the point.  Whatever the USA does or doesn’t do won’t make a Tinker’s Dam regarding CO2 unless the rest of the world, especially China and India reduce their coal-fired power plants as well. 

The whole “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” gambits by Democrats are to create a *supposedly* sound, scientific basis to justify a federal government power-grab and the passage of MORE laws to increase taxes and increased control of the privately owned power industry and its distribution.  Never forget the *main* motivation they have! 

“Oh, we will SAVE the planet!!” 

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! 

We are being played … again!!!

https://www.newsweek.com/2023/10/13/exclusive-fbi-targets-trump-followers-2024-election-nears-1831836.html

Tucker Carlson comments on Nixon

The Left, Socialists, probably communists comments on Tucker Carlson’s Nixon Comment.

This is a MUST LISTEN TO

Special piece written by Wayne Allyn Root for The Gateway Pundit:

I’m Obama’s college classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I’m also the author of the #1 bestselling hardcover book in America in 2012, “The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide.”

I’ve always had Obama’s number. I understand what makes him tick. I understand his goals.

First, let’s get the “gay issue” out of the way. I’ve reported on both my radio and TV shows for 15 years that my wealthy, connected friends in Chicago have always said, “Obama frequented gay bathhouses and gay clubs. Everyone in the know, knows Obama is gay.”

Now that we’ve heard from Obama’s biographer that Obama wrote about his daily gay fantasies, I think it’s pretty clear my Chicago pals were right. Tucker is onto something!

But gay is not the issue. The issue here is fraud. If Obama is in fact gay, then he was lying to the American people from day one. He portrayed himself as a happily married family man with a wife and two beautiful young daughters. That’s called fraud.

If America had known the truth in 2008, does anyone honestly think Obama would have been elected president? 

But all of this is small potatoes. This is not the big story.

Why does any of this matter now? Because Joe Biden is a brain-dead puppet. This is the third term of Obama. The proof is we are all reliving the nightmare Obama economy. Great for Wall Street and billion-dollar multi-national corporations. But a disaster for the American middle class and Main Street.

Second, Biden is fading fast- and everyone can see it. At the same time as Biden’s cognitive health is in freefall, all of his corruption from the past is pouring out of the closet. Biden is finished. He is toast. He will never make it to 2024.

Sometime this fall Biden will have a very public “episode” and be hospitalized. Soon thereafter he (or Jill) will announce he is stepping down for “health reasons.”

Who will replace him? Either Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom. But whoever it is, Obama will be calling the shots from his nearby Washington DC mansion. That’s why this story matters.

I’ve had Obama pegged from the first day. Obama is the ultimate “Manchurian Candidate.” Gay is unimportant. What matters is he was groomed to be president by the Deep State and communist, fascist, globalist enemies of the United States. What matters is Obama is a radical Marxist tyrant carrying out the destruction of America.

Obama was tame in his first two terms. He was “boiling the frog slowly.” But Trump ruined his plan. Now Obama is trying to destroy this country as fast as he can, before Trump has a second chance to undo the damage.

And at the same time, Obama is coordinating the attacks on Trump to either imprison him, kill him, or disqualify him.

My guest on my show, “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV last week was former Illinois Governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich. Blago’s Governor’s mansion was raided by an early morning FBI Swat team. Sound familiar?

I pointed out to “Blago” that Obama’s fingerprints were all over his frame job…and FBI SWAT raid…and long prison sentence. Obama set him up. Obama took away his freedom. I asked him to comment. Blago reported, “Obama set up the meeting that led to my arrest.”

Do you get it now? It’s the exact same M/O as what’s happening to President Trump. The same FBI raids, persecution, frame job. The same weaponization of government to destroy Obama’s political adversaries.

I’ve always said the key to understanding Obama was his time at Columbia University.

First, there is the “Ghost of Columbia” mystery. I was a Pre Law, Political Science major. So was Obama. He had to be in all the same classes as me. But he was never in one class. I never met Obama, never saw him, never heard of him, never met anyone at Columbia who has.

Obama got in, so why didn’t anyone ever see him? My educated guess is Obama was in the Soviet Union studying communism. Columbia had a “sister school” in Moscow. That would be the only real answer as to why Obama was rarely if ever seen at Columbia. He was being groomed way back then by the enemies of America.

Secondly, at Columbia we learned a plan to destroy America called “Cloward Piven.” I’ll bet Obama spent two years in the Soviet Union at our “sister school” becoming the world’s expert. Look around. Everything happening in America today is Cloward Piven…

The open borders bringing millions of foreigners into our country, changing our demographics forever. The explosion of welfare and bailouts. The Green New Deal. The destruction of our military. The end of the dollar as world reserve currency. The plans for pandemic lockdowns, climate change lockdowns and Central Bank Digital Currency. The censorship, banning of dissent, and weaponization of government against conservatives and Christians. Defund the police. The vicious criminals let out without bail. Critical Race Theory and Transgender brainwashing. Persecution of PTA parents. Conservatives and Christians classified as “domestic terrorists.” The arrest of political opponents. 87,000 new IRS agents. It’s all about Cloward Piven and communist-level control.

Sound familiar? It’s what Obama the “Manchurian Candidate” learned in the Soviet Union from the best. This man was groomed from day one by the communist and globalist enemies of America. He was sent to destroy us.

Now he’s working behind the scenes to finish the job. He is the man who ordered the spying on Trump. The framing of Trump. Now he’s the man directing the nonstop government attacks against Trump. Just as he did to Blago.

So, Obama being gay is the least of our worries. America is being destroyed. Obama is at the root of every evil thing happening.

Wayne Allyn Root is known as “the Conservative Warrior.” Watch Wayne’s TV shows- “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Network on Saturdays at Noon ET…and Wayne’s daily TV show on Lindell TV 2 at 7 pm ET at FrankSpeech.com. He is also host of the nationally-syndicated “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Audio Network, daily at 6 pm ET. Wayne’s latest book is a #1 bestseller, “The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book.” You can order here: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Patriot-BUY-cott-Book-Conservative/dp/099173372X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676215826&sr=8-1

No wonder a Quarter Pounder, French Fries and a coke cost $18

Three days ago, My McDonalds server would not take my order. I had to use the self order kiosk.

Wages should be determined by the MARKET, (supply and demand). Not DICTATED by the GOVERNMENT. This new law will put some out of business and create problems they are meant to solve.

Salaries should always be determined by THE MARKET (supply and demand). Not dictated by the GOVERNMENT.

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