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-Obits-
55 Years ago on April 4th, 1968
[MississippiToday] The Great Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel,
by a Democrat.
It was interesting how quickly the Reverend Race Pimps joined the Democrat Party to become $$m rich and proclaim that the common constitutional following voters of the other political party the problem. Not the Democrat Party, they freely joined despite its 150+ years of well documented slavery and racism.

Question: How many DC Political Elites now, are still quietly in positions of DC Power? Supporting a collection of BLM/WOKE and other race dividing issues for power and $$$$$?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/05/2023 07:43 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The dems are really, at their leadership level, the party of fascists. Listen to their speeches, everyone is evil, except them of course.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/05/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Yesterday in Horrific Racist History

Of nappy-head Imus's woes
Sing, ghostses of Black sheep!
"Here goes...
Dat n---a barbaric!"
Hysterical cleric:
"Dude wisecracked doze playas was hoes!"
"Unbearable whiteness!"
"Despite his contriteness!"
"And frightening politeness!"
"Oh noes!"
Posted by: Blackbeard Brown3830 || 04/05/2023 23:11 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Paul Joseph Watson: This is why they do it.


About Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light.
Posted by: badanov || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Ick!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/05/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The 19 US states where you can still marry your cousin - despite the risk of children suffering genetic defects like extra fingers and toes
Blue states?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Studies show that children born of two blood-related parents have double the risk of congenital problems such as heart and lung defects, cleft palettes, and extra fingers.

Children of inbreeding are also twice as likely to be treated for an illness requiring antipsychotic medicines, like schizophrenia.

Yet despite the known risks of inbreeding in humans, 19 US states and the District of Columbia still allow marriages between first cousins. They mostly fall on the coasts and in the southern states.

First cousin marriage is permitted in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia,

Some states allow first-cousin marriages with some exceptions.

For instance, it is permitted in Arizona if both people are 65 or older, or one is unable to reproduce. In Maine, it is permitted if the couple obtains a physician's certificate of genetic counseling.

The practice of marrying close relatives and reproducing is relatively common in parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia, with roughly 20 to 50 percent of marriages being consanguineous, meaning, between two blood relatives.

Professor Alan Bittles, a genetics expert from Australia, posits that over 10 percent of the world population are either married to a biological relative or are the product of inbreeding, a total which he says is almost certainly an undercount.

Most of the scientific evidence pointing to the reproductive effects of inbred marriages have stemmed from relationships between cousins as they account for almost one-third of all marriages.

When two first cousins, relatives who share a set of grandparents, get married, their baby’s risk of congenital problems such as heart and lung defects, cleft palettes, and extra fingers doubles, according to a study that looked at 11,300 babies born to a range of ethnic groups in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the UK, which has higher levels of blood marriage in the city’s Pakistani community.

And the childhood death rate among children of first-cousin marriages was roughly 5 percent higher than the rate in nonrelated marriages.

Meanwhile, a separate study by Lynn B. Jorde of the University of Utah from the 1980s found that mortality before age 16 among descendants of first cousins was 9 percent higher than among offspring of unrelated parents.

An Egyptian study in 2013 reported that ‘stillbirths, child deaths and recurrent abortions were significantly increased among consanguineous parents’ compared with non-related parents.

The study looked at more than 8,100 patients in a Cairo children’s hospital. Over 93 percent of the patients who were deaf had parents who were related to one another. More than 76 percent of patients with mental retardation had related parents and 92 percent had limb abnormalities.

The children of two cousins are likely to have lower IQs and higher rates of mental retardation. A 2014 study published in PLOS One that examined the IQs of 408 children found that those who were the product of inbreeding were short between 10 and 25 IQ points compared to those whose parents were not related.

The children of first-cousin marriages are also more likely to experience mental health disturbances. A 2018 report in JAMA Psychiatry considered the rates of depression and anxiety in children of cousins who married in Northern Ireland.

The researchers from Belfast reported that children of first-cousin parents were three times as likely to be prescribed antidepressant or anxiolytic medications. And they were more than twice as likely to be taking antipsychotic medications to treat conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder compared with children of non-related parents.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The extra digits would come in handy for scaling walls and palming a basketball, so there's that...
Posted by: Raj || 04/05/2023 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Eleanor Roosevelt could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  as long as it's an extra middle finger, I'm in, cuz.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/05/2023 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Children of inbreeding are also twice as likely to be treated for an illness requiring antipsychotic medicines, like schizophrenia.

North Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia, with roughly 20 to 50 percent of marriages being consanguineous


Really does explain a lot about those regions, doesn't it?
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2023 9:36 Comments || Top||

#5  When your family tree is a stick...
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2023 11:01 Comments || Top||

#6  When your family tree is a stick,
There's a good chance you are a hick.
Your genetic mutation,
Is no preparation,
For trying to outthink a brick.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/05/2023 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  No West Virginia. The info does not seem to cover Uncle Daddies.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/05/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||

#8  What's the most popular holiday in states that allow that?

Halloween.

Why?

Pump kin.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Wanna see what inbreeding can eventually do? See the Wikipedia article on Charles II of Spain.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2023 14:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Halloween.

Why?

Pump kin.


Go to your room
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2023 14:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Too slow for an Arkansas virgin?
No kinfolks with which to be merging?
Now any old boar
Is a sow you'll adore
With the help of an Arkansas surgeon.
Posted by: Blackbeard Brown3830 || 04/05/2023 23:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Or vice versa, natch.
Posted by: Blackbeard Brown3830 || 04/05/2023 23:50 Comments || Top||


Economy
Almost $50 BILLION Annually Leaves Our Economy: Migrant remittances to Mexico and Central America are soaring
[American Thinker] With Joe Biden's border surge on, only the "experts" were surprised to learn that remittances increased to the countries that supply the illegal aliens to the U.S.

According to yesterday's Mexico Daily Post:

Remittances to Mexico from abroad jumped 11.2% year on year in February while dropping from the prior month, according to data published by the country’s central bank on Monday, April 3rd.

Remittances hit $4.3 billion in February, down from the $4.4 billion sent in January.

The number of transactions, made mainly from the United States, increased in February by 10.9% year on year, while the average amount per transfer grew 0.3% to $375.

In the first two months of 2023, remittances reached $8.9 billion, up 11.8% from the $7.8 billion posted in the year-earlier period.

...and...

Remittances to Mexico from abroad hit a record high of $58.5 billion in 2022.

This, to be honest, was kind of surprising, even to me, given that Mexico was not seen as a country that was supplying much of the ongoing border surge's illegal alien count.

The Mexican government was enabling it, of course but the nationals involved tended to come from Central and South America, rather than Mexico itself. The country had been badly hit by COVID, meaning many people were thrown out of work there and needed to rely on relatives abroad to send a lifeline, which may explain some of it. It's also true that not everyone who sends remittances to another country is an illegal alien — many legally present foreign nationals also send remittances to their families back home. But it's also a fact that the more recently an immigrant has arrived here, the more likely he is to send remittances to relatives back home. Let's just say that this new figure may raise questions about whether Mexico is being undercounted in Border Patrol data or signals that the migrant gains that were there, legal and illegal, had an outsized impact.

And if Mexico's sendings of immigrants and illegal aliens had this impact, the bigger question is what the impact looks like for other countries, particularly those that dispatch the greatest numbers of illegal aliens to the U.S. border. Many don't release proper data, but there are signs that the gains were gargantuan.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Money laundering in a world market.
Untaxed cash paid to day laborers, et.al.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2 
DC is great at inventing new taxes, here is a situation that they can jump on.

A 10% TAX/Fee for any cash transaction, money Wire Transfer made to another person (non-bank) in another country. With State ID required. With 80% of the proceeds required to be added into the US Social Society fund.

Plus the customary $10,000 fine for both Sender and handler violations
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/05/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
A "New Phase" Never Seen Before: Victor Davis Hanson On What Trump Indictment Means For America
[ZERO] With last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, the country has entered an unsettling new era characterized by chronic dysfunction, according to prominent conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson.

The New York grand jury’s indictment of Trump, the first ever of a current or former president, is "going to open up a new phase we’ve never seen before in the country that political differences are going to be adjudicated out by warring prosecutors," Hanson told The Epoch Times on April 3.

Hanson, a Hoover Institution fellow, in the interview, shared his perspective on the left’s strategy to undermine the republic, the simmering anger of half of the country, and the best way Trump could react to the criminal probes targeting him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:36 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The republic has been dead for a while. It's been an oligarchy of special interests for over two decades. They're all just playing old rituals out to keep the rubes in place.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  the best way Trump could react to the criminals probes targeting him.

Hoping he won't get Epsteined while in custody.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  This is some 3rd world stuff, oh, and Kentucky. The Philippines is famous for sending the last president to prison.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/05/2023 7:11 Comments || Top||


Alvin Bragg's Team Goes Into Full Damage Control Mode After Being Exposed
[WLT Report] Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s team has come under the microscope—that tends to happen when you levy bogus charges, in a historic first, against a former U.S. President.

The Manhattan DA’s office has gone into full damage control mode in the wake of a national spotlight cast on their personal lives, social media activity, and history.

According to Jack Posobiec, the Soros-funded prosecutor’s office deleted their "Meet Our Team" bio page and scrubbed their far-left Twitter account:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:02 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They caught a lot of flack this week but that is not going to stop them. And it wasn't just from MAGA, it was from a whole lot of corners of society due thot the radical move of arresting a former President by the mob DC establishment.

They are just doing damage control and moving their players out of view after this latest radical leftist move against democracy.

They got away with stealing the oval office, and then locking up Trump supporters soon after. Now they have arrested a former US President. Next they are going to go after another 100 J6 Trump rally attendees.

The DC mob of Dems and RINOS and Deep State and the media conglomorate are now a formidable anti-Democracy force. And they are being guided by Obama, Hillary, Nancy, DNC totalitarian junta. leadership.
Posted by: Clem Pholuque8480 || 04/05/2023 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Chicago, Illinois goes full communist.

ABC- Chicago mayoral election results: Brandon Johnson wins race after Paul Vallas concedes
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Chicago Teachers Union/SEIU/"Mail-in Ballots"
Posted by: Clem Pholuque8480 || 04/05/2023 1:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Brandon Johnson was the chief sponsor of the Just Housing Ordinance, which amended the county's housing ordinance by prohibiting potential landlords or property owners from asking about or considering prospective tenants' or homebuyers' criminal history. Wikipedia
Posted by: Clem Pholuque8480 || 04/05/2023 1:27 Comments || Top||


#6  Biden's sneering smile when asked to comment is all I needed to know his involvement in this.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  It isn't a goatee, its a wire diagram of where his bone structure is located.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 10:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Pretty much nobody can describe what a goatee is without touching their chin with their thumb and forefinger.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Damage control mode does not look like this. They are setting darken ship.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/05/2023 20:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
'This Case Could Collapse Before it Gets to Trial' – Jonathan Turley Slams Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley on Tuesday appeared on Fox News to discuss Alvin Bragg’s indictment charging Trump with 34 felony counts.

The Trump indictment was unsealed on Tuesday during Trump’s arraignment.

Read the indictment here.

Trump was hit with a criminal charge for every payment he made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen in connection with the ’hush payments’ to the two women.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg went through the Trump Organization’s ledger and charged him down the line per payment to Cohen.

Every single payment to Michael Cohen was made in 2017 while Trump was president.

Bragg’s office copy and pasted the same charge 34 times and just switched out the check or voucher number.

Alvin Bragg didn’t explain what exactly he wants to convict Trump of in the charging documents.

Bragg told reporters he doesn’t have to tell anyone what the underlying felony is.

He’s just allowed to charged Trump with 34 felonies without explaining what the underlying offense was.

WATCH:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:44 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It won't. The fix is in. Trump will be found guilty,which is the point of this exercise. Get over people, there is no more US Constitution. It's gone. The law now is whatever the Deep State Sez it is.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/05/2023 11:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Still waiting to see what the "no one but Trump! DeSantis is a commie!" crowd will actually do...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Where is Bragg going to find 12 kangaroos for the jury?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  interestingly, per the DA's theory, the State of NY and the Federal Govt got more $ by having Trump reimburse Cohen for legal fees than by having Trump just reimburse Cohen for the NDA money given to Stormy.

The former was taxable income, the latter was a non taxable reimbursement.

So Trump broke the law by rigging the game so Cohen would pay MORE taxes????
Posted by: lord garth || 04/05/2023 15:07 Comments || Top||

#5  What am I going to do about this? I will vote for Trump. Just like Pinky in Pinky and the Brain, my response is entirely predictable. Nothing that Bragg does will have any impact on what I do. Paying ransom or buckling to Lawfare just rewards the extortion and results in more extortion. The more important question is, “What will independents do?”
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/05/2023 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm laughing my ass off at all the MSM and pundits that conspiracy was in the indictment. It wasn't so they are now backtracking and deleting tweets but the damage is done.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 15:31 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 Where is Bragg going to find 12 kangaroos for the jury?--Rambler in Virginia

That assumes that the trial starts before, checking calendar, November 5th... They might have to do something of substance instead of leaking rumors, horrible suppositions about the OrangeMan, if they go to trial.
Posted by: magpie || 04/05/2023 16:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Is fatso Bragg up for election as well on November 5, 2024? Know what I mean, Vern?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/05/2023 21:01 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How mobile phones have changed our brains
[BBC]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  50 years of cell phones.
Wonder where ADHD comes from?

Examining the association between media multitasking, and performance on working memory and inhibition tasks
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Saw an ad for cell phone radiation protection and detox caps on a main stream outlet; not a conspiracy site. Don't know.

Sure seems the closer the screen to the face the more likely the Attention Deficit, tampered by experience (how much time spent away from screens), and provoked by image speed and clutter.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||



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