China's Useful Idiots by Jimmy Quinn
Monday, November 30, 2020
‘Conservative’: A Term Up for Grabs By JAY NORDLINGER
‘Conservative’: A Term Up for Grabs By JAY NORDLINGER
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/conservative-term-up-for-grabs/
The Promise and Perils of Trump's Cultural Politics by Rich Lowery
The Promise and Perils of Trump's Cultural Politics by Rich Lowery
Random Thoughts for December 2020
Random Thoughts for December
2020
Robert A. Hall
Feel free to post or forward.
Health update: I’ve been about the same. Weight around 150,
hard to get down the 2500 calories I try for each day. FEV numbers have been
better. The osteo people tell me my bone density is better, but I have cracks
in my left ribs, probably from the lung removal 6/6. Still very tired, sleeping
10-11 hours a day. My surgeon thinks if they can get me off the anti-fungal I’m
taking since the lung removal, that will improve.
Been slammed lately. In one six-day period I did six My Life,
My Story interviews with vets by phone. This means I have to delete a lot of
the hundred emails I get everyday unopened. As of this writing, I’ve done 365
stories.
December 1. 90% of our Christmas shopping is done, 90&
of the Holiday newsletters sent out, tree up and decorated, most outside
decorations are up.
If you expect things to get better after January 21, 2021, I
wish you luck.
It feels like Americans have been fighting a rear-guard
action for decades. If we hold the senate, the we can fight on.
For the last four years, those in the Cult of Hillary have
been shouting “steal.” For the next four years, those in the Cult of Trump will
be shouting “steal.”
I notice the adult half of the country didn’t riot, loot and
burn after the networks called the election for Biden.
If Jesse Jackson says sex is racist, the liberals will die
out.
I though after the election the fund-raising emails, calls,
and text messages would drop off. Silly me.
I cannot get used to men wearing ballcaps at the table in
restaurants. If my DI came in and saw me eating with a “cover” on, he’d beat me
to death!
Tee shirt: I
had my patience tested. I’m negative.
I’ve decided to
live in the past. Things were nicer then.
Using the My Healthy Vet to send
messages to the VA feels like using a secret decoder ring when I was a kid.
I notice that all the Muslim
extreme regimes are celebrating Biden.
“It’s amusing to see people
swoon over Biden, particularly if one has long regarded him as a grinning intellectual
mediocrity with a core so hollow it could be rented out to recreational
spelunkers.” –James Lileks
Few things terrify me like a
package that says, “Easy open.”
“The UN is not so much the
United Nations, but the union, or assembled governments, many of which are brutal
tyrannies.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Quoted in National Review.
After January 20, will it be okay to sniff little girls’ hair again?
There is no use getting mad at a friend or relative for voting the wrong
way. Neither of your votes would have changed the outcome.
Man: God, when will I die?
God: Hadn’t thought about it. Would today be good for you?
You cannot judge the people of the past by the standards of todays. Chances
are if you had been born the scion of a Virginia plantation owner in 1840, you
would have worn gray and ridden with Jeb Stewart. We are all products of our times,
experience and genetic makeup.
I think “a while” should be a compound word.
Call me a cynic, but I find it hard to believe folks are spending
millions on TV ads because they want to save me money.
I’ve been up to the max 5000 followers on Facebook our times now. Each
time I go on and delete anyone I don’t know, who has less than three mutual friends.
I can never get to the bottom of the list. Somewhere around 3500 Facebook throws
up a roadblock and I’m back to the start.
“Much of academic life has become a Field of Dreams for the nutty.” -- Joseph
Epstein
There is an excess of certitude and a dearth of humility on both sides
of the political divide.
From a novel by Brad Thor: “The United States is cutting its own throat
with a politically correct knife.”
Lesson: You can’t just turn out your base.
If you think the nastiness between Trump and Biden supporters is bad,
you should read what partisans of the other guy said about Andrew Jackson and
John Quincy Adams.
National Review: Oregon has become the meth lab of democracy.
If Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” produces an effective vaccination for
COVID, will progressives refuse it?
“In the 2020 campaign, the media did not so much cover the Biden
campaign, they were the Biden campaign.” Charles C. Cook
I've often said
that, if Christian terrorists hijacked 4 airliners in any Moslem country,
flying them into important public buildings and killing thousands of Moslems,
every Christian in that (and every) Moslem country would promptly have been
beaten, looted, raped and murdered and every Christian home and business and
church (if they let them exist there in the first place) would be burned. So
any anti-Muslim acts in this country since 9/11 are extremely mild, rare and
restrained. -PM
Get the collection! My
“Random Thoughts” from 2009 through July, 2013 are collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's
Journal: Random Thoughts on Life, Liberty, and Leadership by Robert
A. Hall
The Old Jarhead’s
Journal is a collection of Random Thoughts on politics and life and
Conservative Political Essays, mostly published on the author’s blog, including
the essay “I’m Tired” which went viral on the Internet in 2009, “The Hall
Platform,” “This I Believe,” and “Why I’m a Republican.” While they will be of
interest to conservative thinkers, they are collected here in book form as a
service to readers who wish to give a copy to favorite liberals and watch their
heads explode. All
royalties are donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
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His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com. He currently works
part-time as a writer-editor in the My Life, My Story program as the Madison VA
hospital, interviewing vets and writing up their life histories. During the
crisis he is working from home.
Reports: CIA officer, fmr. SEAL Team 6 member killed in Somalia
Reports: CIA officer, fmr. SEAL Team 6 member killed in Somalia
Liberals Want You Demoralized, So Don’t Be
Liberals Want You Demoralized, So Don’t Be
Excerpt: The next guy who tells me his sad feelz are so intense over the election that he’s not going to vote in Georgia or anywhere else ever again cuz all is lost and blah blah blah is getting slapped. Hard. I’m getting tired of loser talk, and I won’t have it. This is for the benefit of the weak-hearts: Oh no, did you have a set-back? Did stuff not work out the way you wanted? Is it – gasp! – hard? Too bad. Man up. Or woman up. Or genderfluid up. Just stop bawling like Brian Stelter over his cousins when he gets passed a bowl of mashed potatoes and get your head right. We’re in a fight. Fix your bayonets and follow me over the top.
US carrier Nimitz moves to Persian Gulf after top Iranian nuke scientist assassinated
US carrier Nimitz moves to Persian Gulf after top Iranian nuke scientist assassinated
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Letter to the Wisconsin State journal:
Socialism always leads to coercion -- Robert Hall
Letter to the Wisconsin State journal:
I read with amusement Sunday's letter to the editor, "Americans should embrace socialism." Clearly the letter writer has lived and enjoyed the fruits of free markets in a capitalist country and never lived in a truly socialist country. Socialism always starts with golden promises and ends with bloody coercion. See Venezuela, praised by Bernie Sanders a few years ago as a place where the American dream was being worked out. People point to the Scandinavian countries, but they are not really socialist. They are free-market democracies with large social welfare programs, paid for by individual taxes. High business taxes would drive jobs out of the county. Under socialism and communism, people have to be coerced to do things the leaders think is good for them.
Robert Hall, Madison
Hundreds of Transnational Organized Crime Group Members Arrested in US-assisted Operation
Hundreds of Transnational Organized Crime Group Members Arrested in US-assisted Operation
FBI’s 2019 “Hate Crime” Statistics Show Islamophobia Decreases Again
FBI’s 2019 “Hate Crime” Statistics Show Islamophobia Decreases Again
Excerpt: Once again, despite the fake news media and terror-linked CAIR reporting every sneeze near a mosque as a hate crime, there were fewer incidents, offenses and victims of anti-Islamic hate crimes in 2019 - a decrease of more than 6%. That’s coupled with a growing Muslim population. Conversely, hate crime attacks on Christians rose nearly 20% and hate crimes against Jews increased more than 14% - with Jews 5x more often a hate crime victim than Muslims.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Vermont Governor Directs Schools To Interrogate Students About Their Family’s Thanksgiving Activities
Vermont Governor Directs Schools To Interrogate Students About Their Family’s Thanksgiving Activities
Blinded by a Blizzard of Data
Blinded by a Blizzard of Data
Excerpt: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. While this warning is never terribly far from the political surface, it should be axiomatic whenever anyone starts talking about Covid data. It has been years since a common pool of data has been so thoroughly mishandled by all sides, and this is sure to continue at least until a vaccine has been developed and delivered. The surest sign that someone is playing fast and loose with statistics in order to push a particular point of view is the absence of context. And regardless of one’s position on the need for Covid lockdowns, one thing is clear: since the outset, the media have quoted Covid statistics with a consistent absence of context. The result has been to turn people who believe Covid is a significant danger into quivering cowards, and to cause people who believe Covid isn’t all that dangerous to dismiss the warnings entirely. [One of the things I look to AIER for is making sense of statistics because that’s what they do for a living. They’ve done a wonderful job of it with this piece. Read, and you will understand recent history (and the news media) better than you do now. I added emphasis. Ron P.]
Big Tech Rigs an Election
Big Tech Rigs an Election
Excerpt: Whatever the result of the 2020 presidential election, we can’t say Robert Epstein didn’t warn us. Robert who? you ask. Exactly. Epstein, a Democrat, is also a Harvard-educated behavioral psychologist and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. He’s also the guy who long ago sounded the alarm about the threat posed to our republican form of government by Google and its Big Tech brethren. None of this comes as a surprise to our Mark Alexander, who’s been following Dr. Epstein’s work for years. In mid-2019, Epstein testified before Congress, and the substance of his testimony lent support to what every fair-minded person who’s ever done a politics-related Google search has long suspected: “Data I’ve collected since 2016 show that Google displays content to the American public that is biased in favor of one political party — a party I happen to like, but that’s irrelevant. … Democracy as originally conceived, cannot survive Big Tech as currently empowered.” Too bad no one on Capitol Hill took him seriously. {We all saw it, many complained about it, but nobody did anything to stop it. So, who do we blame for it, now? How do we prevent it in the future? Change Section 230! Ron P.]
Friday, November 27, 2020
Portland
A discussion with an officer from back in September. The respect I have for this man and the others like him is enormous... and my sympathy with the frustration they must feel all the time. A lot of people should watch this.
Del
Photos: Iran’s father of its nuclear program assassinated in explosion and shooting
Photos: Iran’s father of its nuclear program assassinated in explosion and shooting
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Tom Cotton: Biden DHS Nominee Mayorkas Disqualified to Lead Agency for Selling Green Cards to Chinese Nationals
Tom Cotton: Biden DHS Nominee Mayorkas Disqualified to Lead Agency for Selling Green Cards to Chinese Nationals
African Lives Being Sacrificed on the 'Altar of Green Energy'
African Lives Being Sacrificed on the 'Altar of Green Energy'
New ‘Study’ Claims ‘Far-Right Terrorism’ is ‘Bigger Threat to West Than Islamic State’
New ‘Study’ Claims ‘Far-Right Terrorism’ is ‘Bigger Threat to West Than Islamic State’
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’
Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’
For Anti-Racism, San Diego Schools Will Teach Black, Hispanic Kids Less
For Anti-Racism, San Diego Schools Will Teach Black, Hispanic Kids Less
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Media Suppression of 8 Key Stories 'Stole This Election' for Joe Biden
Media Suppression of 8 Key Stories 'Stole This Election' for Joe Biden
BY TYLER O'NEIL NOV 24, 2020
According to an explosive new study the Media Research Center (MRC) released on Tuesday, the legacy media’s suppression of eight key election-related news stories effectively handed the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. According to a poll conducted by The Polling Company on behalf of MRC, a whopping 17 percent of Americans who voted for Joe Biden would not have done so had they been aware of just one of these stories. (I have often explained to high school kids in discussions about how our system works that democracy works best when the informed electorate go to the polls, understanding reasonably well what the issues are and what the candidates represent. The responsiblity of the media in a democracy is to provide full and balanced information to the people. When the media misinform the people, the voters make their decisions based on bad data, and that leads to a bad outcome. And guess what? We've just had the perfect example of that! These data are enough to make a person cry..... or scream in rage. --Del)
Is America doomed to split apart
Is America doomed to split apart
EXCERPT: In a situation like we are in today, with America polarized and the Establishment and its serfs dedicated to an agenda of oppression aimed directly at the patriot faction – oddly, the people who are so eager to rule this country also tend to hate this country – can we even survive as a nation? Should we? (Non-fiction reflection of the author of the Kelly Turnbull novels about the chances of America splitting apart. --Bill)
Newsom
Dear Sirs:
California Governor Gavin Newsom is being pilloried as a hypocrite, and rightly so, for not following his own Coronavirus guidelines while dining at an exclusive French restaurant. But here is another way to look at it: Governor Newsom valued a special dining experience with friends and colleagues more than the possibility of catching the virus, very small, and if he did catch it that he would become very sick and possibly die, even smaller. In other words, he made a personal decision based upon his personal risk assessment. Fine with me as long as all the rest of us riff raff, wherever we may live, can do the same. Patrick Barron20 McMullan Farm Lane West Chester, PA 19382610-793-3605
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/al-qaeda-leader-elimination-tehran-embarrasses-joseph-puder/
The Al-Qaeda Leader Elimination in Tehran Embarrasses Iran
Excerpt: Arch-Terrorist Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known by the name Mohammad al-Masri, a leading member of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, was assassinated, apparently by Israeli agents, in Tehran, Iran, at the request of the U.S., or more specifically the CIA. The timing of the revelation was aimed to embarrass the radical Shiite-Muslim Iranian regime, just as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was about to deliberate on renewing the embargo against Iran. Moreover, exposing the fact that the Ayatollahs of Iran sheltered a leading al-Qaeda terrorist implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. and other terrorist operations, should have given the UNSC pause to think about it. The Iranian regime, keeping the secret of harboring a notorious Sunni-Muslim, whose al-Qaeda organization targeted and murdered fellow Shite-Muslims, was bound to outrage many ordinary Iranians.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Away He Went - The Gallant Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QARPg9WAPuY&fbclid=IwAR05cD-K_ziegfHhWKGBvl5jsM9wznITLp4RqsHWy4QEW88elq2BTQBycck
Trump authorizes Biden presidential transition to begin through the GSA but vows to continue challenge
Trump authorizes Biden presidential transition to begin through the GSA but vows to continue challenge
Powerful system controlling cultural institutions tries to impose far-left agenda on US
Newt Gingrich: Powerful system controlling cultural institutions tries to impose far-left agenda on US
Excerpt: Last week Senate Republicans released a supplement to their recent report on Hunter’s Biden’s overseas business dealings. The five-page addendum shows millions of dollars in wire transfers further tying Joe Biden’s son to the Chinese government. I bring this up not to focus on Hunter or Joe Biden, but rather to note that if this story was about one of President Trump’s sons, then it would be on the front page of every major newspaper. But it was hardly covered, because the left-wing media are overwhelmingly hostile to the president — as are the social media companies that now have nearly monopolistic control over the flow of information. (...) Of course, the liberal media and Big Tech are also hostile to Republicans and conservatives in general, not just to Trump. Add academia, Hollywood, and the majority of political elites to the mix, and you have the ingredients for a powerful system in control of our cultural institutions, trying to impose a radical, far-left agenda on the American people.
PATRIOT CONFRONTS MASKLESS NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR AT A RESTAURANT
PATRIOT CONFRONTS MASKLESS NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR AT A RESTAURANT
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Nothing to see here…
I think this is a remarkably nonpartisan commentary on the situation, and I really agree with the writer 100%.
Del
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https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/world/nothing-to-see-here
Nothing to see here…
BLM Co-Founder Calls on Biden to Back a Crazy Progressive 'Civil Rights' Bill
Read over what this BLM leader (and proud Marxist) really believes in and wants to make happen. Check out the details of removing from law enforcement every single tool other than (oddly) firearms and batons, and even body cameras. (Why in hell would you NOT want body cameras to document exactly what went on?) She really believes in the perfection of human beings, so there will be no need for police or jails, and no jail will exist within 10 years.
One has to wonder what she thinks will happen in places like Chicago, where many hundreds of Black people die every year from Black-on-Black violence, if there are no police and no jails. One has to wonder how she can walk and talk like an intelligent person and believe so passionately in utter fantasy. And she is demanding a meeting with Biden and Harris to collect on the "debt" they owe to BLM for getting them elected. (Allegedly, that is- personally I don't believe that BLM somehow convinced huge numbers of Black people to vote for Biden who otherwise would have either voted for Trump or not voted at all. The Black vote has gone 95% to Democrats from before she was born, and in this election more Blacks voted GOP than ever before.)
I can hardly wait to hear about the meeting she is demanding and what Biden and Harris will promise her.
Del
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BLM Co-Founder Calls on Biden to Back a Crazy Progressive 'Civil Rights' Bill
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Has Barack Obama Really Experienced Systemic Racism? | Larry Elder
Has Barack Obama Really Experienced Systemic Racism? | Larry Elder
Friday, November 20, 2020
Bill Maher
I am not a Bill Maher fan, but even he sometimes exhibits some common sense:
Best regards,
Larry GreenbergWhat Schools Should Teach About Race & Slavery - The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com
Except: So, then, what should American schools teach about race?
They should, of course, teach students about slavery and racism. But, if truth and moral clarity are to matter, students must also learn that slavery was universal. They would therefore learn about Muslim-Arab slavery, slavery among Africans, slavery among Native Americans and Native South Americans, and slavery in Asia and India.
They would learn that it was the West – beginning with England and America – that abolished slavery. And they would learn that the abolitionists were overwhelmingly religious Christians, animated by the Bible and Judeo-Christian values.
They would learn that, unlike the slaves under Arab-Muslim rule, most black slaves in America were allowed to have children and form families. They would read Herbert Gutman’s The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925, about which The New York Times wrote when it was published in 1976: “Gutman has performed an immense service in burying the idea that slavery destroyed the black family.” For the record, Gutman was a professor of the left and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
They would learn that the tens of millions of African slaves under Islamic-Arab rule were not allowed to form families (most males were castrated). They would learn that while about 340,000 African slaves were transported to America, 12 million were transported to Brazil.
They would learn that far more blacks – about three million from Africa and the Caribbean – have come to America willingly than came as slaves.
Senate committee calls for large cuts in Marine Corps end strength
Senate committee calls for large cuts in Marine Corps end strength
By Philip Athey
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Proposed Biden Gun Tax Could Top $34 Billion
https://freebeacon.com/
Proposed Biden Gun Tax Could Top $34 Billion
Report: 20 million ARs, 150 million ammunition magazines would be taxed under Biden proposal
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
In 2018, Government Restrictions on Religion Reach Highest Level Globally in More Than a Decade
In 2018, Government Restrictions on Religion Reach Highest Level Globally in More Than a Decade
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Women's sports
Interesting in that it's a female presenting clear, factual evidence that women do not have the same physical capabilities as men. Maybe the people in Congress and elsewhere who insist women can be in combat infantry should have to watch this. Several times.
Del
The Trump CT Scanner
The Trump CT Scanner
Donald Trump has forced elites to reveal to the nation what they were—and perhaps had always been. And the resulting penetrating imagery showed their own malignancy.
Total dissection of TDS. And what all this has revealed about the people who used to be "Liberals" (when that meant prizing Free Speech, respect for others, open dialogue, compromise, courtesy, and sticking to the ideals of openness and honesty). What are the simplest contrasts between Left and Right today? Left- "speech we don't like is HATE SPEECH" and we can shout it down Right- I may hate what you say but defend to the death your right to say it Left- when we don't get what we want, we demonstrate with great vigor, and if that brings on violence, property damage, and looting, that's just how it goes Right- there is never any excuse for violence, destroying property, or looting Left- when Biden is in power, we need to go after all the people who supported Trump, worked for Trump, etc, and expose them, penalize them, make sure they suffer for their crimes Right- once Trump took power, no one said a word about going after anyone who worked for Obama No one is boarding up their business in fear of the Right Wing crowd coming through the streets to smash businesses and light up police stations. Maybe there's some meaning there? Everyone with a clear mind at all can see what today's Left has become. Heaven help us when they are in power.--Del
What American Schools Should Teach About Race, Racism and Slavery
What American Schools Should Teach About Race, Racism and Slavery
Monday, November 16, 2020
Pollster: It's Curious How Biden Underperformed Hillary Clinton In Every City...Except These Four.
Pollster: It's Curious How Biden Underperformed Hillary Clinton In Every City...Except These Four.
White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
A very interesting discussion of the topic. (Note: the magazine has authors from the UK contributing, which is why you see an odd looking date on this article- in the US that would be 6/26/20)
The writer makes a really excellent case for that freedom of belief means or should mean, and how pushing what amounts to a particular view of the way people interact violates it.
Del
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https://areomagazine.com/2020/
https://areomagazine.com/2020/
White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
GOP congresswoman-elect who fled Soviet Union: 'Not pretty when socialism runs out of money'
GOP congresswoman-elect who fled Soviet Union: 'Not pretty when socialism runs out of money'
Karma
Karma
The video you are about to watch will be the most satisfying minute and twenty seconds that you will spend today, at least as far as politics go. It is labeled "instant karma," and that is the perfect title. I am very tempted to label the man who grabs the Trump banner, speeds off, and immediately crashes into a light pole an insulting body part, but his self-righteous suppression of the "visual speech" of Trump-supporters makes that obvious. The best part is the immediate appearance of a police cruiser, and the officer being informed that it is all recorded. This may be ten days old, but it will never get old for me.
I recommend viewing this with whatever beverage gives you comfort appropriate to the time of day. Just don't have your mouth full when you hit "play.
The Trump CT Scanner
The Trump CT Scanner
Excerpt: These lists of liberal would-be list makers could be expanded, but again they have reminded us that it is not we conservative maniacs, but they, the caring left-wing folk, who wish to destroy the lives of people with whom they disagree. Arch-Trump critic, CNN moralist, and now “ruined” Jeffrey Toobin, author of the True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump, was until recently best remembered for suggesting that the life of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be destroyed (“If you sexually assault someone in high school, your life should be ruined”). Although now Toobin himself has been fired from The New Yorker for exposing himself and masturbating while on camera during a Zoom video conference on “election simulation.” Perhaps Toobin became too excited, in his rhapsodic distaste for Trump, to refrain from what used to be called in most states the “true” crime of “indecent exposure” that requires, inter alia, inclusion on a sex-offender registry for up to 10 years. (...) In our new ecumenical creed, inciting division to promote “unity” means calling nearly 73 million American voters liars, haters, and dividers. [Hanson has pulled no punches in this piece. Worth reading. Ron P.]
Lawyer Indicted on Multiple Felonies? If You’re Connected on the Left, the State Bar Doesn’t Care
Lawyer Indicted on Multiple Felonies? If You’re Connected on the Left, the State Bar Doesn’t Care.
Joe Biden advised against Osama bin Laden raid, Barack Obama writes
Joe Biden advised against Osama bin Laden raid, Barack Obama writes
Sunday, November 15, 2020
UN watchdog warns Iran again violating nuclear deal with world powers
UN watchdog warns Iran again violating nuclear deal with world powers
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research
https://apple.news/AICcuTSL7Qj6_wO7Smc74FA
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research
OK, you start a charity with an obviously great goal, more and better cancer research. You raise almost $5MM in donations based on your name and.... pay out 64% of the money salaries and another 20% on travel and conferences. And 0% on any grants to researchers. The group's president was paid $650K in the two years, and one really has to ask what in hell he was doing that made him worth that compensation when the charity was not handing out a dime to anyone to get some work done. If this is how Joe and his wife allow things to be run after lending their names and prestige to what is supposed to be a charity doing good works, I am extremely nervous about what the future holds for federal spending. --Del
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
Excerpt: The reputation of Marine basic training is that it is tough going but this really does take it to another level. All respect for those who volunteered for this! Also, this is an environment where those in charge do not mess around. There was surely close to 100% compliance, as compared with, for example, a typical college campus. What were the results? Incredibly, 2% of the CHARM recruits still contracted the virus, even if all but one remained asymptomatic. “Our study showed that in a group of predominantly young male military recruits, approximately 2% became positive for SARS-CoV-2, as determined by qPCR assay, during a 2-week, strictly enforced quarantine.” And how does this compare to the control group that was not subjected to the strict regime? [You’ve got to read this article based on a study published days ago in the New England Journal of Medicine for yourself. If I simply tell you, you won’t believe it. Ron P.]
Book recommendation
1491: New Revelations
of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Reading
this terrific book should be worth three college credits in archology or
anthropology. It was long, but I couldn’t put it down. The author is a writer,
not an academic, so not given to turgid prose and with no agenda axe to grind.
When I was in school, the “settled science” was that the Indians arrived in
north America via the land bridge from Siberia. (Mann calls them Indians
because that is what he says they mostly call themselves.) He reports research
that places them here much earlier. The book also destroys several other myths.
There were great cities in the Americas to rival anything Europe had, through
only Cahokia is north of the Rio Grande. Everyone knows about the Maya, the
Inka and the Aztec. There were other empires that rose and fell before the
first Europeans arrived with their diseases. Many fell to conquest by other Indian
empires. The Indians were colonialist conquers as much as the European, Asians,
etc. Others appear to have fallen victim to climate change—without SUVs! “Super
El Ninos” in the Pacific caused droughts that lasted for years. Cahokia seems
to have ben a victim of it’s own success, with expending crop areas changing
the climate and causing drought. This book is well worth reading.
Sweden: Muslim migrant circumcises nine boys with a soldering gun, gets probation, community service, $6,380 fine
Sweden: Muslim migrant circumcises nine boys with a soldering gun, gets probation, community service, $6,380 fine
Friday, November 13, 2020
Georgia
https://townhall.com/
EXCERPT: The Georgia Team now knows the Democrats’ moves. It needs to file multiple lawsuits within the next couple weeks and start demanding remedies for these abuses. It further needs to be organizing a massive poll watcher contingent to observe – and to have orders in hand before election day that they be allowed to observe properly. Also, we need court orders barring any more “Uh, we stopped counting tonight” shenanigans. Further, they should absolutely demand a court order allowing GOP experts a chance to review the Dominion election machine software to ensure they are no surprises therein. How can Democrats be against this transparency if they have nothing to hide?