Republicans betray their voters, again, this time in the Senate
Not today....
Stacey Abrams is driving around Atlanta, she gets off on an Interstate 285 exit to find food (of course). Gets lost and finally stops at a rural grocery, and asks
"How do I get back to 285"?
Elderly grocery owner looks her over closely and finally asks...
Have you tried diet and exercise?
Newsworthy from Portland, Oregon.
The city council of Portland voted to allow bereavement leave for employees who have had an abortion.
The President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health happily announced :
"It's important to recognize that employees need time to address their reproductive health needs, and they may need time to process what they're experiencing."
The deliberately deceptive moniker is silly enough, an unofficial self-titled "Institute" that is focused on protecting women's Supreme Court adjudicated right to kill unborn fetuses, has no interest in reproductive health.
I understand that a woman, or couple, that aborts a pregnancy, is bound to have remorse, if they have any conscience at all. But is that not a recognition that the life has been ended.
The policy adopted by the city Portland inadvertently affirms the pro-life concept. Does anyone think that this was the intent?
The recent election demonstrates that voters see through the duplicity of the current failed leadership of the Democratic Party and will make their party pay in next year's midterm elections unless there is reform at the top.
There is more, including suggestions to the right that the moderates should rebuke those on the extreme right.
There have always been extreme opinions on both sides of the political game. I would argue that the center of the Democrat part has moved significantly to the left since November 2016. There is research that shows that the Republican party has not moved positionally in the last decade, but Democrats have moved in the opposite directions. I am not looking to argue about it
President Trump should have fired Anthony Fauci when he had the prerogative.
News has come out in the last week confirming what most conservatives suspected, that the government was up to its neck in gain of function research, subcontracting work to Chinese laboratories.
That governments do such things isn't that surprising. Doctors, generally, are invested in the welfare of people. Gain of function research is a tool for creation of vaccines that have abroad scope of effectivity. Naturally occurring viruses constantly mutate, potentially negating a vaccine's usefulness.
Like so many of President Trump's battles, this was a conflict between the common (sic) man and politician, compounded with egomania. President Trump expressed frustration with the inconsistency of Dr. Anthony Fauci. I retrospect Fauci, is more of a politician than the businessman ever was. As a politician, he has, even in combating AIDS been squirrely, a man not to be trusted.
This past week a newly retired NIH Director made public, documents that prove Fauci was involved in sponsoring gain of function research at EcoHealth.
Doctor Fauci has testified before Congress, claiming that he was unaware of any such sponsorship. He should be subject to penalties for perjury, whatever they might be. He won't, because he is a darling of the political class, the man who absorned the brunt of complaint, deflecting complicity by our government and allowing the "reset" to proceed.
The funny thing is, if he hadn't lied, the people would have understood, at least I would.
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Then most of us go on to greater things.
In 2018, the Republicans controlled all three branches of government.
In 2021, the Democrats control all three branches of government.
Tweets authored three years apart with entirely different conclusions
Robert Reich is a political operative posing as an expert on the economy, and, by the way, a lying jack-ass.
Is It Puppeteers or Puppets in Control in Washington?:Like the last two Democrat Presidents, this executive's team concentrates too much on the visual, counting far too much on the belief the American public has a short memory. There is no substance in their position and it often, appearance-wise, seems to be predicated upon doing the opposite of what the last administration represented.
Is an Australian description for American football.
Good players have come from down under, some of whom have made it to the NFL.
Let us hope that that our federal government shows more restraint than they have in Australia.
A few years ago the Australian government took away the general right to bear arms. Gun crime has not changed, but the right is gone nevertheless. With the COVID pandemic, more Australian rights have evaporated, notably assembly and free speech. Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts describes fiscal a connection between AstraZeneca and Google, a potential conflict of interest. Google hosting an application which 230 protects legally as an open forum, abuses is protection and restricts free speech.
Candace Owens barred from COVID testing facility over political views even as left complains the right is “spreading the virus”
Generally I do not like the votes that David Scott makes.
That said he does tend to lean conservative when it comes to defense spending and recently on e-verify.
When it comes to voting policy, he marches the Democratic part line, basically he supports the misleading premise that laws that attempt to reign in voter fraud are really all about restricting access for black voters.
There is all sorts of facts that prove the premise is false, in the state of Georgia voter participation of all races has been growing. The premise also ignores poling that finds that over 70% of the black voting public supports accessible yet controlled voter access.
Underlying all of this Democratic nonsense is a truth that is undeniable. In urban areas, voting fraud is common.
Investigations here in Georgia are bringing fraud into the light, you would not learn it from the local press, but the evidence is emerging.
Same for Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
My mother-in-law knew Zell when he was a little boy and she was a student at Young Harris.
Now they are both gone, and I miss them very much.
Lately it seems the only people in either party that are heard are the loudmouths.
On the left you have unblemished by life, self-loathing loudmouths.
On the right you have trumpeting caricatures of righteous loudmouths.
I certainly lean rightward, but without the fortitude of leaders gone on.
Here is an opinion written by Zell Miller, published in 2003 at the Wall Street Journal.
The Democrat party that was speaking to then hears even less now.
George Bush vs. the Naïve Nine
Why this lifelong Democrat will vote Republican next November.
BY ZELL MILLER
Monday, November 3, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
If I live and breathe, and if--as Hank Williams used to say--the creek don't rise, in 2004 this Democrat will do something I didn't do in 2000, I will vote for George W. Bush for president.
I have come to believe that George Bush is the right man in the right place at the right time. And that's a pretty big mouthful coming from a lifelong Democrat who first voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate the 12 cycles since then. My political history to the contrary, this was the easiest decision I think I've ever made in deciding who to support. For I believe the next five years will determine the kind of world my four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren will live in. I simply cannot entrust that crucial decision to any one of the current group of Democratic presidential candidates.
Why George Bush? First, the personal; then, the political.
I first got to know George Bush when we served as governors together, and I just plain like the man, a man who feeds his dogs first thing every morning, has Larry Gatlin sing in the White House, and knows what is meant by the term "hitting behind the runner."
I am moved by the reverence and tenderness he shows the first lady and the unabashed love he has for his parents and his daughters.
I admire this man of faith who has lived that line in that old hymn, "Amazing Grace," "Was blind, but now I see." I like the fact that he's the same on Saturday night as he is on Sunday morning. And I like a man who shows respect for others by starting meetings on time.
That's the personal. Now, the political.
This is a president who understands the price of freedom. He understands that leaders throughout history often have had to choose between good and evil, tyranny and freedom. And the choice they make can reverberate for generations to come. This is a president who has some Churchill in him and who does not flinch when the going gets tough. This is a president who can make a decision and does not suffer from "paralysis analysis." This is a president who can look America in the eye and say on Iraq, "We're not leaving." And you know he means it.
This is also a president who understands that tax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.
I have just described George W. Bush.
Believe me, I looked hard at the other choices. And what I saw was that the Democratic candidates who want to be president in the worst way are running for office in the worst way. Look closely, there's not much difference among them. I can't say there's "not a dime's worth of difference" because there's actually billions of dollars' worth of difference among them. Some want to raise our taxes a trillion, while the others want to raise our taxes by several hundred billion. But, make no mistake, they all want to raise our taxes. They also, to varying degrees, want us to quit and get out of Iraq. They don't want us to stay the course in this fight between tyranny and freedom. This is our best chance to change the course of history in the Middle East. So I cannot vote for a candidate who wants us to cut and run with our shirttails at half-mast.
I find it hard to believe, but these naive nine have managed to combine the worst feature of the McGovern campaign--the president is a liar and we must have peace at any cost--with the worst feature of the Mondale campaign--watch your wallet, we're going to raise your taxes. George McGovern carried one state in 1972. Walter Mondale carried one state in 1984. Not exactly role models when it comes to how to get elected or, for that matter, how to run a country.
So, as I have said, my choice for president was an easy decision. And my own party's candidates made it even easier.
The building collapse in Florida dominated the weekend news.
While rescue workers have difficult and sometimes dangerous tasks, there are only so many times I can watch the same film clip of men with buckets climbing a pile of rubble. There is much time wasted saying nothing, soothing nobody, and allowing no insight.
In the channel flipping mode, CNN and MSNBC were part of the cycle. Noticed that for nearly every political issue discussed, there were included prerequisite statements that President Trump is a liar and the election results were beyond reproach.
The repeated diatribes made the bucket carrying loop more palatable.
President Biden won the election, but suggesting that there was no cheating flies in the face of logic. Will guilt ever be proven, no. Here in Georgia, the official word is that it no illegality was identified, but there is little doubt that the acts that Stacy Abrams and her sister were unethical.
Extremely unethical.
Thus ends today's lesson in irony.
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Always trying to increase my word comprehension, am signed up for an emailed "Word of the Day". Today's word was one I already knew, even if I would have pronounced and spelled it incorrectly.
I for one and sick of the rigmarole.
We know it, we knew it and CNN is proud of it.
Project Veritas got CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester on video bragging about it.
CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’.
Hiding the truth of CNN's shaping of public perception, is deliberately dishonest.
Why do the leaders at CNN feel they have to lead their audience with deception?
Is it to sell advertisement?
Is it because they have hidden political affiliations?
I think both.
Follow the link and listen through, Chester admits that fear sells, and that climate change is the next topic.
Donors can spend their money on whomever they choose. I will give no money to the RNC and will direct donate to the candidates of my choice. Not a week passes that I do not receive a phone call, letter or both asking me to write a check. I make a point of using the return postage paid envelope to return the mail back with explicit comments. Sending money to the RNC is not unlike paying NEA union dues, it does not matter what you as the donor want, the organizations are only interested in using your money toward their ends.
Science Is The Belief In The Ignorance Of The Experts
Think Little is brief book, a collection of essays if you will, in which Wendell Berry describes the country paradise of his Kentucky homeland.
Published in 1969, the collection uniformly professes a love for the country and a disdain for progress.
While I disagree with most of the conclusions, conclusions based a willful ignorance of reality, the writing is beautiful, the thoughts deep and haunting.
The writing reminds me of the Robert Roark books I read long ago, filled with a love for countryside land and the men who lived carefully within it.
I have a neighbor who was a student of this author at the University of Kentucky.
I loved the National Lampoon magazine, and was so upset when it winnowed away. The monthly included indelible cartoons, articles and graphics. P.J. O'Rourke was an editor for that magazine
P.J. O'Rourke has written books that I have also enjoyed.
Until now I had never connected to two, if not for this linked Just the News clip that describes a legal fight for for free speech against modern media censors.
In 2016 Lester Holt moderated a Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Holt anchors NBC Nightly News, and recently made headlines after a cartoon character representing him made a November 2020 appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “Our Cartoon President,” in which he asserted “you’d have to be a ‘f*king idiot’ to vote for President Donald Trump.”
During Holt's acceptance speech, he made the statement...
"Fairness is overrated."
I've always though this cheating bastard deserved the Davis Cup, for being asshole of the week, He can wear the toilet seat for a crown for all I care.
The circle jerk is left handed.
A tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it.
Not as good as the Rotten Johnny joke, but definitely amusing, to some.
He took it to the old shop owner and asked, "How much for the bronze rat?"
"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story," said the wise old Chinaman.
The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story".
As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.
A couple of blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing. Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay.
Again, after a couple of blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.
Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned.
The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown.
"Ahhh," said the owner, "You come back for story?"
The tourist said, “No, I just wanted to know if you had a Bronze Democrat.”
A woman stopped by, unannounced, at her son's house. She knocked on the door then immediately walked in. She was shocked to see her daughter-in-law lying on the couch, totally naked. Soft music was playing, and the aroma of perfume filled the room.
"What are you doing?!" she asked.
"I'm waiting for Mike to come home from work," the daughter-in- law answered.
"But you're naked!" the mother-in-law exclaimed.
"This is my love dress," the daughter-in-law explained.
"Love dress? But you're naked!”
"Mike loves me and wants me to wear this dress," she explained." It excites him to no end. Every time he sees me in this dress, he instantly becomes romantic and ravages me for hours on end. He can't get enough of me”!
The mother-in-law left.
When she got home, she undressed, showered, put on her best perfume, dimmed the lights, put on a romantic CD, and lay on the couch, waiting for her husband to arrive. Finally, her husband came home. He walked in and saw her lying there so provocatively...
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"This is my love dress," she whispered sensually.
"Needs ironing," he said. "What's for dinner?
He never heard the gunshot.
