This should be seen by every single American. Just maybe it would slow down the current insanity before we descend into major withdrawal of police in big cities, and the outbreak of total chaos. Pass it on. -Del
Friday, July 31, 2020
Insane: Seattle Moves to Abolish Entire Police Force
Insane: Seattle Moves to Abolish Entire Police Force
Anti-Cop Atlanta Councilman Indicted On Federal Fraud Charges
https://bluelivesmatter.blue/
Anti-Cop Atlanta Councilman Indicted On Federal Fraud Charges
Anti-Cop Atlanta Councilman Indicted On Federal Fraud Charges
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Our Summer of Cultural Suicide
Our Summer of Cultural Suicide
Excerpt: If students can Zoom or Skype their classes from home this fall, why pay $70,000 a year for the campus “experience”? Supposedly woke and informed rioters this summer incoherently toppled or damaged the statues of everyone from Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant to Frederick Douglass and Miguel de Cervantes. So the public might begin to wonder how the nation’s multitrillion-dollar investment in higher education actually served the country. Soon, popular fury will beget more dangerous questions for American universities. Maybe the country should subsidize the training of more essential electricians, plumbers, contractors and masons instead of unemployable environmental and ethnic studies majors. If a university president wanted to devise a plan for how to destroy his university, he could not have come up with a better one than what has happened on campus in recent decades. [Hanson really lays it all out. Ron P.]
THE NEW BLOGGER SUCKS!
I see no way ti post to my blog. I reverted back to the old version, only good until 8/24.
The American Iliad: Past Wisdom and Gallantry versus Marxist Revolution 2020 http://www.thetribunepapers.com/2020/07/30/the-american-iliad/
http://www.thetribunepapers.
The writer makes some great points. The Union generals and officers who fought the war treated the surrendering Confederates with respect. If they could and did, no one today has the remotest right to smear those who fought for the South as traitors. By that way of thinking, this nation was founded by "traitors" since Washington and most others had taken oaths to serve the king. Principled men can take up a new cause they believe is just, we can disagree with that, but still should respect their sincerity.
Del
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Corporate Media Is Ignoring Broadest Riots In U.S. History, But Americans Hurt By These Riots Aren’t
Corporate Media Is Ignoring Broadest Riots In U.S. History, But Americans Hurt By These Riots Aren’t
Excerpt: While the most extreme riots in cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and particularly Minneapolis did receive considerable attention — however fleeting, incomplete, and unnecessarily inflected with knee-jerk partisanship — there were also smaller-scale riots in surprisingly far-flung places that you hardly would’ve known about unless you lived in the area, happened to visit, or intentionally sought out what remains of the bare-bones local media coverage. To take just a small sampling: Atlantic City, NJ, Fort Wayne, IN, Green Bay, WI, and Olympia, WA all underwent significant riots, at least per the normal expectations of life in these relatively low-key cities. Did you hear anything about them? Because I hadn’t, and I’m abnormally attuned to daily media coverage. Only because I personally visited did I learn of the damage. These riots exploded with such intensity, across so many jurisdictions, and within such a contained period of time — roughly speaking, a one-week stretch beginning May 28, the day the chaos in Minneapolis/St. Paul reached a grisly apex — that no other instance of past civil unrest seems quite analogous. Complicating matters is that the riots occurred in tandem with a protest movement now believed to be the largest ever in U.S. history — one which saw demonstrations, vigils, and general rancor extend even into the most unassuming expanses of suburban and rural America. [This is a long article, well documented with photos. The damages shown are appalling. It’s difficult to believe all this “just sprang up spontaneously” as we’ve been assured by the media. On the other hand, it’s also difficult to believe there was any large-scale planning behind it that the FBI’s intelligence people didn’t know about in time to intervene. Either it was very well planned and the counter-intel guys were asleep, or it was incredibly bad luck. Any community that survived intact should be grateful and say a prayer of thanksgiving. We live in dangerous times and I suspect they’ll get worse. I’ve stocked up on both birdshot #4 and buckshot #00. I hope I don’t need any. Ron P.]
Wow: More Than 100 Police Agencies Pull Out of Security for the DNC Convention
Wow: More Than 100 Police Agencies Pull Out of Security for the DNC Convention
Declassified Senate Report Reveals CIA Tried to Talk FBI Out of Relying on ‘Very Unvetted’ Steele Dossier
Declassified Senate Report Reveals CIA Tried to Talk FBI Out of Relying on ‘Very Unvetted’ Steele Dossier
Excerpt: On Dec. 20, 2016, Comey had tried to include Steele’s information in the body of the ICA but John Brennan, then- CIA director, “pushed back,” saying he was “very concerned about polluting the ICA with this material.” The agency eventually agreed to add the information in a two-page annex to the ICA on Dec. 29, 2016. An assistant director for an intelligence agency supported the annex’s information regarding Russia’s election-related efforts, but warned allegations of collusion involving members of the Trump campaign was uncorroborated, according to the report. “I can tell you that there is no information coming from [redacted] sources that would corroborate any of that,” the official told the Senate panel, adding that Steele’s Trump-related information was “very unvetted.” Brennan told the committee that someone in the British government had called him to clarify that they were not involved in creating the dossier. “He wanted to make sure that I understood and that others in the senior officialdom of the U.S. government understood that that officer, Steele, had been a former [redacted] but had no current relationship with [redacted] and that dossier was not put together in any way with [redacted] support,” Brennan said. [It’s worth noting that Brennan has been as anti-Trump as any other top Democrat. There is ZERO reason to doubt his testimony on this. Ron P.]
Interesting.
Wow.
Very interesting!
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When Good People Drink the BLM Kool-Aid
When Good People Drink the BLM Kool-Aid
https://patriotpost.us/?
Excerpt: Cognitive processors sometimes fail to convey an empathic understanding of an issue, while emotive processors tend to be overwhelmed with empathic feelings about it. The real disconnect starts when emotive interpretation neglects the facts, and cognitive understanding fails to recognize the feelings. In debate, this constitutes the proverbial mix of oil and water — which are quick to separate. Frankly, it's extremely important to have the capacity to both think and feel in order to cognitively contemplate a position and then express it effectively to someone who's emotively entrenched in a contrary position. [Here’s an interesting idea for a counter question to someone chanting “(fill in the blank) Lives Matter!” Ask them to point their finger at anyone present whose life DOESN’T matter. But, don’t be shocked if they point directly back at you. That’s their real message, and your skin color has almost nothing to do with their answer if you “think wrongly.” Ron P.]
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
WA: SEATTLE PROTEST - STARBUCKS DESTROYED
WA: SEATTLE PROTEST - STARBUCKS DESTROYED
Tried to buy off BLM. Failed. ~bob
The Khe Sanh of the Pacific Northwest
The Khe Sanh of the Pacific Northwest
But probably won't, unfortunately. I agree 100% with this writer, just keep our various law enforcement officers there under attack without taking serious steps to take out the attackers is stupid. The longer this goes on, the stupider it gets, and the real anti-Americans keep using it, in lying, fabricated form, as great propaganda. --Del
No, Hillsdale College Doesn’t Need To Join The National Reckoning On Race
No, Hillsdale College Doesn’t Need To Join The National Reckoning On Race
Excerpt: There is a reason Hillsdale College, a tiny liberal arts college in rural Michigan (and my alma mater), has been in the news recently. It is not because anything particularly newsworthy has happened there of late, but because the college, almost alone among education institutions in America, has had the temerity to push back against demands from a handful of alumni that it issue statements “admonishing white supremacy,” as if Hillsdale’s failure to stage a performative struggle session makes it complicit in “systemic racism.” To its credit, the college responded last month with a brilliantly understated open letter, first published in the school newspaper then in the Wall Street Journal, arguing that everything Hillsdale does, “though its work is not that of an activist or agitator, is for the moral and intellectual uplift of all.” Rather than cheap virtue-signaling, the college pointed to its actual work of educating men and women in the classical liberal arts as evidence of its commitment not just to equity and justice, but to “the great principles that are, second only to divine grace, the solution to the grave ills that beset our times.”
Speaker: Most Parents Have No Idea Their Kids’ Schools Are Pushing Insane Transgender Ideology.
Speaker: Most Parents Have No Idea Their Kids’ Schools Are Pushing Insane Transgender Ideology. By Allison Schuster
Excerpt: Schools are shaping students’ beliefs on sex-related matters such as abortion and gender identity, and whether parents know it or not, they will soon see the results. The Heritage Foundation recently hosted “National Education Survey Results: Gender Identity and Life Issues in Schools” as part of a three-part series to investigate issues American students are facing in school.
Twitter deletes video promoted by Trump on hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus
Twitter deletes video promoted by Trump on hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus
Excerpt: witter removed a video that was promoted on President Trump's account late Monday showing what appeared to be doctors in Washington praising the benefits of using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients. The video, which was widely shared on social media, appeared to include about a dozen doctors standing in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington. It was unclear when the video was shot. A Twitter representative told CNN that the action was taken “in line with” their coronavirus misinformation policy. ... Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiology professor at Yale School of Public Health, told Fox News last week that he believes hydroxychloroquine could save 75,000 to 100,000 lives if the drug is widely used to treat coronavirus.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Globetrotting With Soros Organizations, Fails to Report Trips
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Globetrotting With Soros Organizations, Fails to Report Trips
Excerpt: St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the controversial prosecutor who has selectively enforced the laws she prefers, has become the darling of the progressive left. She was elected in 2016 as a reform candidate after the Black Lives Matter movement was born in the wake of the Ferguson riots. Now, an explosive new report says Kim Gardner has taken many lavish trips on the dime of Soros-backed organizations, and may have broken the law by not reporting them. ... Gardner is the prosecutor who is framing the McCloskey family after they brandished guns in defense of their home after protesters broke into their property and refused to leave.
Monday, July 27, 2020
The Confederacy and Black Lives Matter--Jeffery Robinson
The
Confederacy and Black Lives Matter
This
video was sent to me by a very conservative Marine buddy, a combat vet who was
a company commander in Vietnam. His nickname is “Machete Eddie.”
I
was going to watch only a few minutes, but ended watching the whole thing. I
think you should to. It is a defense of Black Lives Matter by an excellent,
articulate black defense attorney, Jeffery Robinson. It’s worth knowing how at
least this intelligent black man sees things.
Much
of what he says about the confederacy I agree with. I have never believed the “lost
cause” myth. Every state declaration of succession cites the need to protect
slavery as a primary reason for succession. The south succeeded because they
knew that “Black republican” Lincoln was opposed to slavery and thought his
election meant the federal government would come after it. So by all means,
remove Confederate statutes, though I would prefer moving them to museums to destruction.
So I agree that the south was fighting for slavery and succession was treason.
For
a different view by Walter Williams, PhD, a distinguished black economist, see:
Historical Ignorance and Confederate Generals. Walter E. Williams
Like
a good defense attorney, Robinson cites the points in his clients’ favor, and
ignores the rest.
He
doesn’t say why BLM would destroy the statute of Frederick Douglas, an escaped
slave and abolitionist leader. Or the statute of Col. Hans Christian Heg, a Wisconsin
abolitionist who led a regiment in battle against the slave power.
Why deface the monument
to the 54th Massachusetts, a black regiment that served bravely? (I
have a special interest. My great, great grandfather, Sgt. Oliver Vernal,
served through the war with the 6th Connecticut, and was badly wounded
twice putting down the slave power. Had he died I would have died with him. The
6th went in next to the 54th at Battery Wagner, but they
didn’t make the movie Glory. I might say his history was erased.)
Why deface the statute of
Gen. Grant? True, Grant may be said to have technically owned slaves because
his wife did. But without his leadership, would the confederacy have been
defeated? And as president he defended the rights of black citizens and broke
the Klan.
In Robinson’s view, the
south was fighting for slavery while the north, apparently, was only fighting
to preserve the Union.
He quotes Lincoln as
saying he would keep slavery if it would preserve the Union. He passes over numerous
quotes from Lincoln against slavery. What he doesn’t understand is that if
slavery was to be ended, the south had to be defeated. To do that, Lincoln knew
that he had to keep the north united. There were a great many in the north who
though slavery was a bad thing, but were not abolitionists, fearing what that
meant for society. Without their support, the north would have lost the war. And
slavery would likely have existed another 20-30 years, followed by an Apartheid
country with a long border with the US. Would this have been a good
thing?
The
usual estimate is the 360,000 Union soldiers died in the war, 40,000 of them
black. If they were not fighting slavery, why did every regiment sing John
Brown’s Body as a marching song? Would one in ten BLM members know who John
Brown, William Lloyd Garrison or William Wilberforce was?
He
does not say how a country steeped in systemic racism elected a black president
twice, or why Obama got more white votes in 2008 than Kerry in 2004 or Gore in
2000.
Since
I hold a masters in history, I have read a great deal about slavery and race
relations. I put a lot of this in an essay in 2014, when I was in the hospital
after my lung transplant:
Essay: Racism in
America.
Be
warned, the essay is 2000 words, and the bibliography of books I have read as
of 2014 on the subject is another 2000. I especially recommend:
While
its use of slave genealogies to show how they tried to hold their families together
can be tedious (you can skip), it is well worth reading.
Two 'Biracial' Abolitionists From Different Centuries, Both Conceived in Rape, Praise Emancipation Memorial
Two 'Biracial' Abolitionists From Different Centuries, Both Conceived in Rape, Praise Emancipation Memorial
Ilhan Omar Campaign Mailer Accuses Opponent of Being ‘in the Pocket of Wall Street’ and Only Quotes Jewish Donors by Name
Ilhan Omar Campaign Mailer Accuses Opponent of Being ‘in the Pocket of Wall Street’ and Only Quotes Jewish Donors by Name
Can You Spare a Thought for the Rich New Yorkers Roughing It in Their Second Homes?
Can You Spare a Thought for the Rich New Yorkers Roughing It in Their Second Homes?
"NFAC(Black Militia) Wounding Their Own People Now" on YouTube
"NFAC(Black Militia) Wounding Their Own People Now" on YouTube
Why is it these bad guys, rioters, and looters can form large groups causing the damages they do, but 130,000,000 or so gun owners cannot get more than a couple together and sit brag about how no one is going to take their weapons. Stop talking and start acting. Otherwise, you can join the people that Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc., took care of, permanently. --TL, Black Republican Blog
Historical Ignorance and Confederate Generals.
Historical Ignorance and Confederate Generals. Walter E. Williams
Black Writer. ~Bob
How to make your arguments stronger (hint: longer is not the answer)
How to make your arguments stronger (hint: longer is not the answer)
AP Reporter Describes Being Inside Portland’s Besieged Courthouse With US Marshals While 4,000 Rioters Attack
AP Reporter Describes Being Inside Portland’s Besieged Courthouse With US Marshals While 4,000 Rioters Attack
Excerpt: Balsamo continues by describing the attitudes the rioters have toward the officers defending the courthouse. They don’t view them in any way that would grant them humanity as Balsamo says they see the officers as “at best thoughtless political minions, at worst murderous henchmen.” What the officers are sure about the rioters are that if they gain access to the courthouse, these men will either be horribly injured or even killed by the attackers. “It’s scary. You open those doors out, when the crowd is shaking the fence, and … on the other side of that fence are people that want to kill you because of the job we chose to do and what we represent,” said one Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Worth reading: The exceptional American first century
Worth reading: The exceptional American first century
Worth Reading: The Voter-Suppression Myth. By ERICK Erickson
Worth Reading: The Voter-Suppression Myth. By ERICK Erickson
BLM Protester Fatally Shot After Approaching Vehicle With His Rifle
BLM Protester Fatally Shot After Approaching Vehicle With His Rifle
https://milnenews.com/2020/07/26/blm-protester-fatally-shot-after-approaching-vehicle-with-his-rifle/?fbclid=IwAR3Y4YjWcAbcKwOiHdfSle89VS_BkpYKVVO-qCzms9XF0grjyl9TIheoMFg
https://milnenews.com/2020/07/26/blm-protester-fatally-shot-after-approaching-vehicle-with-his-rifle/?fbclid=IwAR3Y4YjWcAbcKwOiHdfSle89VS_BkpYKVVO-qCzms9XF0grjyl9TIheoMFg
Attacks on Christians in Europe rise 285% since 2008, converts from Islam particularly targeted
Attacks on Christians in Europe rise 285% since 2008, converts from Islam particularly targeted
NFAC LEADER SAYS GROUP IS DEMANDING AG CAMERON FINISH BREONNA TAYLOR INVESTIGATION IN 4-WEEKS......"OR ELSE!"
NFAC LEADER SAYS GROUP IS DEMANDING AG CAMERON FINISH BREONNA TAYLOR INVESTIGATION IN 4-WEEKS......"OR ELSE!"
Black Trump Supporter Shot to Death, Hours After Interview About Trump, Calls for Fed Investigation
Black Trump Supporter Shot to Death, Hours After Interview About Trump, Calls for Fed Investigation
Excerpt: Bernell Trammell, 60, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Thursday in the middle of the day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was shot to death in front of his business, eXpressions Journal, which was covered in signs including those showing his support for President Donald Trump. He often held up his signs outside and walked around with them. He spent the past few weeks advocating for Trump’s re-election both in his neighborhood and in front of City Hall in downtown Milwaukee, talking with people who would listen. (Another black life that didn't matter to the black thugs. ~Bob)
Black Portlander Changes His Mind About the Nightly Protests After He Attends One
Black Portlander Changes His Mind About the Nightly Protests After He Attends One
Excerpt: A Portland resident who is black and lives downtown a block away from the Justice Center thought the nightly protests had been completely peaceful. Then he attended one and had a rude awakening. Gabe Johnson, a 48-year-old black man who served in the Marines, now says that Portland police should use any means necessary, including force, to sweep the riots off the streets and end the nightly violence. In an interview with PJ Media, Johnson said he considers himself a patriotic American, and that the United States flag should be a symbol of unity for all Americans. He laments how some have turned it into a symbol of racism and division, especially in Portland.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Poetry Magazine Caves to the Mob
Poetry Magazine Caves to the Mob
Excerpt: Anyway, here’s the offending passage:
“Negress” was another word she liked to use
That’s the nice way to say it
“Oh they are always changing what they want to be called”
On the bus she dropped her purse
I was with her
A nice Negress handed it back.
Of course, the point here is not to communicate racist ideas but to give us a glimpse of the grandmother’s casual racism.
Last Stand to Save America as Founded
Last Stand to Save America as Founded
This was Marcus' last post to AT. --Barb (Before his death)
WALSH: I Looked Up Every Case Of An Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In 2019. Here’s The Truth The Media And BLM Are Hiding.
WALSH: I Looked Up Every Case Of An Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In 2019. Here’s The Truth The Media And BLM Are Hiding.
USPS Fails Mail-In Ballot Test
USPS Fails Mail-In Ballot Test
Excerpt: CBS News decided to test the system upon which the government will entrust the sanctity of the ballot this November. And the U.S. Postal Service flubbed it. This is not about gaming the system, or voter fraud, or stuffing the mail with fake ballots from illegal aliens. This is about the competency of the USPS to deliver official ballots sent through the mail on time, and to the right people. They proved that the 100 million or more Americans who plan to mail in their ballots should not expect their vote to be counted unless they mail it weeks prior to the election deadlines in each state. (Birthday card sent to friend in same city. Mailed 4 days ahead of birthday. Recipient got card 2 days after birthday......along with another friend's card. Mine wasn't the only one that didn't make it in time.....Barb)
The 'Unhypenated American' is gone. By J.R. Dunn
The 'Unhypenated American' is gone. By J.R. Dunn
Excerpt: AT readers will be shocked to learn of the passing of Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party icon, prolific AT contributor, and conservative activist extraordinaire. Lloyd proudly called himself "the unhyphenated American." Lloyd suffered an apparent heart attack early Friday, dying before medical assistance could arrive. His beloved wife Mary was at his side at the time. Lloyd worked his way out of a ghetto background under the guidance of his father, the late Rev. Lloyd E. Marcus, a career firefighter and civil rights pioneer. Showing a talent for art at an early age, Lloyd gained a scholarship to the Maryland Institute College of Art, though he left before graduating. After a two-year stint in the Army, Lloyd returned to Baltimore to renew his artistic career. Working as a graphic designer for a Baltimore TV station, he established a close relationship with a young talk show host named Oprah Winfrey, with whom he worked closely as her career began to take off.
How to Prepare for a Communist Coup. By Judith Acosta
How to Prepare for a Communist Coup. By Judith Acosta
Excerpt: The other day I was speaking with a friend about the ongoing insanity in some of our greatest cities: Seattle, Boston, NYC. We bemoaned the reappearance of the “democratic socialist” in the United States. It seemed incomprehensible to us—and horrifying, like a slow-growing metastasis or an insidious dementia. I wondered how we could prepare ourselves for the eventuality of a horde of lunatics reaching our otherwise peaceful community or worse—occupying the White House. With years of experience as a doctor of pharmacy in critical incident work, including 9/11, she was the right person to ask. I also knew that her understanding of these things had been shaped by having had a father who risked his life in the Dutch Resistance, survived and escaped three concentration camps, and lived to be liberated from Nazi Europe. He was a complex man with a two-sided nature: aloof and critical but also a hero, having sacrificed a good part of his health and emotional well-being in order to save Jews and Christians he didn’t even know.
Federal officers in Portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers, officials say
Federal officers in Portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers, officials say
Forget the tear gas. Time to post snipers on roof tops.--Barb
Friday, July 24, 2020
Turkish intelligence tried to pass off al-Qaeda, ISIS fighters as moderates in CIA/Pentagon vetting
Turkish intelligence tried to pass off al-Qaeda, ISIS fighters as moderates in CIA/Pentagon vetting
Thomas Sowell: Black and minority lives would improve if politicians supported charter schools
Thomas Sowell: Black and minority lives would improve if politicians supported charter schools
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Why This Revolution Isn't Like the '60s
Why This Revolution Isn't Like the '60s
Excerpt: Thus, America is far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted and vulnerable target than it was in 1965. Today, radicals are not protesting against 1950s conservatism but rather against the radicals of the 1960s, who as old liberals now hold power. Now, many of the current enforcers — blue-state governors, mayors and police chiefs — are from the left. Unlike Democratic Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in the '60s, today’s progressive civic leaders often sympathize with the protesters. The '60s protests were for racial assimilation and integration to reify Martin Luther King Jr.’s agenda of making race incidental, not essential, to the American mindset. Not so with today’s cultural revolution. It seeks to ensure that racial difference is the foundation of American life, dividing the country between supposed non-white victims and purported white victimizers, past and present. In the '60s, radicals rebelled against their teachers and professors, who were often highly competent and the products of fact-based and inductive education. Not so in 2020. Today’s radicals were taught not by traditionalists but by less-educated older radicals. (...) Yet the scariest trait of the current revolution is that many of its sympathizers haven’t changed much since the 1960s. They may be rich, powerful, influential and older, but they are just as reckless and see the current chaos as the final victory in their own long march from the '60s. [We Americans STILL haven’t resolved the issues of the 1960s, and we aren’t likely to do so any time soon, short of an actual shooting civil war. The only end I foresee is when our generation has died off, there might finally be “peace.” But, it won’t be the peace envisioned by either the 60s radicals or the 60s conservatives. It’ll be something hybrid that ignores our past completely. And, if one of us lives long enough to see it, we’ll be appalled. I have a vision of a decapitated Lincoln’s statue sitting in his Memorial with a small, hand-lettered sign identifying the stone corpse as “Ozymandias.” Ron P.]