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[American Thinker] The evidence seems to show that Black people themselves appear to not want to be helped. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. So, are Black voters in these areas insane? They keep voting for the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, and Kweisi Mfume, but expect these serial grifters to suddenly start working for them.
In my eyes, that puts the blame squarely on both parties, the politicians and the voters who keep sending them back to their offices. Is it because the way things stand now, those voters are cozily wrapped up in their blanket of victimhood? Is it so comfy in there receiving their government subsistence handouts that they can’t be bothered to get out and do something about it? Is the alternative to this abusive, co-dependent relationship — personal responsibility, hard work, and entrepreneurialism — just too difficult to face?
My prediction for all of these cities that I’ve mentioned, and any other Democrat-run major cities around the country, is that if a Biden/Harris ticket sets up shop in the White House, in four years’ time those cities will look much the same as they do now, except with four more years’ worth of decay, addiction, and violent crime. But those citizens can comfort themselves that they still have someone else to blame for their problems.
#1
After 60 years of the Great Society programs and trillions of dollars? Those who won't help themselves. The poor are neither inherently angels nor devils. They are what they make of themselves. It's call human free will. Something the socialist reject and thus all their failures.
#2
Im pretty sure LBJ opened the free lunch counter but they made it a restaurant 24/7. The path since then has been an unbroken chain of stupid choices made based on a need to pretend they aren’t white, dont want to act like whites, and don’t need to behave by the same standards. Frankly now that none of that has turned out well they are just down to gangster threats and corrupt city colonies.selling phony voters. I don’t see a path back to unity anytime soon.
#5
Destroy (polluting) heavy industry that doesn't require an advanced degree ...and... Instant Poverty! No Jobs equals No Money equals Poverty. Complicated, isn't it?
[NotTheBee] IS there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated - like a bar code they can download to their phone? There ought to be.
#4
Not possible to counterfeit these. No. Not possible at all. And Yang is a "tech enterpreneur?" Srsly...
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#5
Scanned by barcode. Skynet smiles.
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#6
He and those agreeing with him can 消え失せろ
But I think really this and other items(gun/AR-15 controls) are all a tactical negotiation mind game.
Play it big demand hint big and then trim back to a point they really wanted to begin with. Leaving everyone feeling they have won a little concession.
[Aljazeera] WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is facing extradition to the US from the UK.
The US has charged him with hacking government computers and espionage after he obtained and published hundreds of thousands of classified documents between 2010 and 2011.
Assange was arrested in April 2019 by UK police from the embassy of Ecuador in London, where he had been granted asylum since 2012.
A decision on his extradition is expected to be announced on January 4.
[Townhall] There was a time where there appeared to be a lot of hope for China and its relations with the West. However, the current Chinese leadership has chosen a course so boldly and clearly, that, barring a major change in policy has put it on course for war with the West.
There was hope in the not so distant memory for China. Economic openness was coming and the government, while essentially fascist rather than communist, for a long while turned at least a bit of the other cheek as Christianity exploded in that nation. Some thought the explosion of Christianity, with economic freedom, would make a new day for China. However, China chose another path in persecuting the church on a level not seen since Mao, tightening their controls on their people, and continuing their one child policy.
To embrace Christianity and classical liberalism would be to admit the fault of the slaughter in Tiananmen Square, a stretch for any thousands year old civilization let alone one that has yet to embrace the ethic of self-reflection, a prostrating nature, and forgiveness of others.
China, like many European nations, actively embraces secular leftism...with a healthy dose of retaining thousands of years of behavior regarding superiority and deception. This its leaders did instead of choosing the entrepreneurial spirit and Christian life. The one child policy of China, which mimics the embrace of abortion but on a more public scale, has only hurt China to where millions of naturally aggressive young men do not have the positive outlet of creation’s beauty that tames them in marriage. When there are tens millions of more men than women of the same age in a nation, those men will strike out with vengeance.
[Townhall] All across the country, millions of Americans are on the hunt for ammunition, either for self-defense, target practice, shooting sports or hunting. Sporting goods stores and small mom and pop businesses have had to severely limit how many rounds of ammo a person can buy at one time. Some have even went so far as to limit ammo solely to those who are purchasing a new firearm because of the shortage.
Rumors have swirled through the Second Amendment community, particularly online, about Vista Outdoors, the parent company of Federal, Remington, CCI, and Speer Ammunition. Some have said that Vista Outdoors has ceased manufacturing ammo all together while others have insisted the company is picking and choosing who to sell ammo to.
Vista Outdoors' President of Ammunition, Jason Vanderbrink, decided to address — and squash — the rumors once and for all.
#1
Dem administrations are always the best salespeople for ammo. The demand is on steroids this go-around. You'd think people were anticipating a spate of lawlessness and civil war or something.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] The coming vaccine fiasco is going to be yet another example of our idiotic ruling class' utter incompetence and total paucity of wisdom. It is clear that there is going to be a huge backlash in the form of people refusing to take the vaccine. The vaccine may actually be quite good – real doctors (not fake doctors like Lady McBiden) have told me it is. I have no dog in the fight, since my bloodstream surges with powerful antibodies that have already defeated the puny COVID virus and render me invulnerable to its .05 percent death rate for my demographic. But other people could use a vaccine, and yet tens of millions of them won't believe the vaccines are safe and/or effective entirely because the Establishment is stupid.
Here's how the Establishment is stupid. It decided that we citizens were stupid and acted accordingly.
[WND] Now that House Democrats have impeached a president without alleging a crime, Joe Biden should "beware of Nemesis" if Republicans maintain the Senate and regain the House in 2022, warns Victor Davis Hanson.
"Biden’s hubris and that of the media/Democratic Party fusion almost guarantee such divine retribution," he said.
Hanson noted Biden's campaign and its media allies hid "his apparent cognitive decline and his family's financial entanglements."
"From April 2020 on, a virtual news blackout surrounded Biden. His rare interviews were scripted. Biden communiques were teleprompted. Press conferences were either nonexistent or revolved around his favorite milkshake or his socks. Mentions of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine were taboo. It was sinful to reference reports of a Hunter Biden email allegedly detailing a 10 percent distribution of such revenue to the 'Big Guy' — presumably Joe Biden."
However, he pointed out, Biden will not be able to avoid scrutiny forever.
"He will soon face unscripted meetings with foreign leaders. He will have to meet dozens of movers and shakers each week. Is he or the nation prepared for the consequences of his return to normality after nearly a year of media fawning and forced isolation?"
#18
O' man Sniffer,
Dat ol' man Sniffer,
He mus'know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin'
He keeps hair-pluggin'
He keeps on pluggin' along.
Long ol' Sniffer forever keeps pluggin' on...
He don' plant tater,
He don' plant cotton,
An' dem dat plants 'em
Is soon forgotten,
but ol' man Sniffer,
He keeps hair-pluggin' along.
Long ol' Sniffer keeps hearing dat song.
You an' me, we sweat an' strain,
Body all achin an' racked wid pain.
Tote dat mask!
Lif' dat Purell!
Git a little air
An' you land in jail.
Ah, gits weary
An' sick of cheatin'
Ah'm tired of COVID'
Ain't skeered of dyin',
But ol' man Sniffer,
He keeps hair-pluggin' along!
#19
" I don't think they can create an Animatronic AI Joe model that can speak as stupidly" It has already been done. The real Joe sleeps with the fishes.
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[LA Magazine] A combination of pandemic panic, an aging population, Trump’s immigration policies, and tax fatigue may be adding up to slower population growth in California.
As the Associated Press reports, a new population estimate released Wednesday by the Department of Finance found that 136,000 more people left California than moved here from July 2019 to July 2020. That makes three consecutive years of net migration out of the state.
While more residents may have moved away than moved in, the total population of the state still increased by a net of 21,200, up to a total of 39.78 million, by far the largest population of any state in the nation.
California’s last two major population constrictions happened in the 1990s when the end of the Cold War brought aerospace spending to a trickle, and again as the Great Recession of the 2000s got underway.
The causes behind the current era of emigration are not entirely known, but a number of factors may be playing into the trend.
Housing affordability is cited by many as a reason to flee the Golden State. The state’s median home price reached yet another record high this fall, hitting $712,000 in September.
"I knew for sure I’m never going to own a home. So I talked to my girlfriend, and that was our defining moment," software salesman Colin Jordan told The New York Times earlier this year about his reasons for moving out of the Bay Area. "I said: ’I want to buy a house and start a life. Will you move with me?’"
The couple now own a four-bedroom home in Arizona. And they’re far from the only California transplants that have taken up in the Sun Belt.
#3
Uncontrolled immigration, diasporas, refugee camps, border wars, purges, plagues & famines; people must be kept moving and penniless. If not in a continual state of turmoil and poverty, they will take root and control the land. In doing so, they will gain power and attempt to determine their own destiny.
#4
1) Raise taxes on the rich.
2) When the rich have all fled, raise taxes on everybody and everything else.
3) When they can't pay any more, go to the Feds and demand a bailout because of their 'bad luck'.
Mike
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[Newsweek] The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted disparities throughout our country in issues from health care to education. As we seek to address these disparities, we need to prioritize closing existing gaps in access to high-speed internet, particularly for rural and underserved communities. ......and a pony.
When it comes to education, far too many of our nation's students are living without basic broadband internet connections. Today, this lack of access adversely impacts more than 20 million Americans, including 600,000 in my home state of South Carolina. After the onset of COVID-19 closed schools and libraries that typically provide free internet access, 40,000 students in the Palmetto State faced academic challenges due to at-home connectivity issues.
While my state tried numerous solutions, including setting up hot spots in rural areas and using public access television to deliver lesson plans in certain locations, we clearly need to do more as a nation to strengthen connectivity for Americans from all regions and walks of life. According to one report, 16.9 million American children lack the home internet access needed to learn remotely, opening a nationwide "homework gap." This widespread problem disproportionately impacts those living in rural and economically disadvantaged communities throughout the country. With many students in these areas still learning virtually full-time, the problem has been compounded.
This is simply unacceptable in 21st-century America.
#1
A modest proposal: little Violet Beauregarde doesn't need another pony or a high speed internet connection or more Google spyware / free apps installed on her MacBook Pro. She needs books. And a few notebooks and a box of pencils.
In particular she needs books on grammar and algebra and trig and history.
Old books, thick books, no-BS books that teach in great detail and clarity without any virtue signaling or identity garbage.
Save the ponies for Grandpa Joe to sniff. Enough high-tech make-believe learning. There's a reason that the high-achieving homeschooled kids run rings around kids from even the best and priciest prep schools, despite not having even 1/5th the per capita resources.
#7
Starlink is stupidly overpriced. This taxpayer is not interested in buying subsidizing it for people who can't manage their own fincances. Make a collection of all the existing cut and paste school papers available at the library and let the kids photocopy and hand in as their own. Much less bandwidth required, and hey, they learn where the library is...
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#8
Would be a great idea except the libraries are closed to the public. In south Georgia, you call and ask for a specific book; then you go to the library and they bring the book out to you!
#9
M. Murcek - Look at the FCC filing. You paid the subsidy already.
It won a rural subsidy in many regions.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/spacex-gets-886-million-from-fcc-to-subsidize-starlink-in-35-states/
#10
Price subsidized for test period is $500 for the dish and $99/month for service.
When all sats are online it will average 1GB down and something big up
Right now it's 80M to 160M down and about 10-30M up.
#12
I'm sure the next thing we'll hear is that Roblox is filled with way too many whipeepo.
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#13
My house outside Lawrenceburg Indiana, 25 minutes from Cincinnati has no internet except by cell. My house is on the top of the valley, if it was at the bottom I would have no cell service either. No cable companies will install due to distance from main road, I live on a secondary road.
This actually is a real problem.
Real books not hand outs would help but public schools only send out handouts.
Money has been appropriated to solve this issue but it somehow doesn't make it to the people who need it.
(I have running water because I paid to drill a well).
I am fortunate that I am wealthy enough to afford cell service for my internet, Jetpack from Verizon, but it's not cheap. Others not so fortunate are at a disadvantage.
People who have chosen (or not) to live in rural communities are not to blame that America has become so dependent on the internet. Reasonable accomodations should be made for them in light of the money thrown at inner city families.
[American Greatness] It was all worth it, these principled conservatives will tell you, because conservatism had to be destroyed in order to save it from Trump
The biological entity known as Joseph R. Biden will be inaugurated on January 20. Success has a thousand fathers‐and one of them is a conservative publication where many principled conservatives spend their days tearing down the most conservative president in generations.
I therefore would like to congratulate National Review and its principled conservers of conservatism on a job well done. At long last, your efforts to undermine Donald Trump and make yourselves irrelevant have borne fruit. For National Review this has always been less about policy and more about "personal and moral character." With Joe Biden, National Review can finally have a man of real character in the Oval Office. Mission accomplished, guys.
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[National Reviewe] As if we needed another reason to lose faith in the expert class, here is a medical ethicist in the New York Times discussing the CDC’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine:
Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter,” Dr. Schmidt said. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
This is what happens when “science” and the racial identitarianism of the modern intellectual Left collide. “Historically,” says the Times, the committees tasked with deciding this sort of thing relied on “scientific evidence to inform its decisions.” Nowadays, members are “weighing social justice concerns as well.” It would be merely obscene if ethics professors were theorizing about saving — or, rather, not saving — lives based on race. How long before half-baked social science is being used by technocrats in positions of power and influence to ration medical care? You know who else is a “medical ethicist” at the University of Pennsylvania? Ezekiel Emanuel, a Biden adviser on medical issues, who believes human beings are bits of GDP that have no real purpose once they hit a creaky 75 (with an exception made, no doubt, for the 78-year-old president-elect). Emanuel and Schmidt, in fact, co-authored a textbook titled, “Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare.”
The CDC data, by the way, show it would save the most American lives to prioritize Americans over the age of 65 rather than essential workers. Emanuel might object because people are approaching the end of their usefulness. Schmidt might dissent because they may skew too white.
#1
Ever notice who the real racists are? They're the ones always dividing the population into discrete groups by race to play a power game of one flavor or another.
#2
Well. Go revise your will. Make it your intention to leave all your earthly resources to the most odious organizations available if you die of CV after being denied the vaccine. Then have your lawyer send a "get cracking" letter to the kids...
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#4
I always have believed that those that advocate a certain philosophy should lead by example. Therefore, Mr. Schmidt, you deny yourself all health programs so that you die first.
#8
From what I've been hearing, and it is here-say so I omit it, if people are really excited to be first, more power to you. Just gonna sit over yonder under that shade tree and contemplate rather just getting the covid.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NotTheBee] IS there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated - like a bar code they can download to their phone? There ought to be.
[Townhall] There was a time where there appeared to be a lot of hope for China and its relations with the West. However, the current Chinese leadership has chosen a course so boldly and clearly, that, barring a major change in policy has put it on course for war with the West.
[LA Magazine] A combination of pandemic panic, an aging population, Trump’s immigration policies, and tax fatigue may be adding up to slower population growth in California.
[Newsweek] The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted disparities throughout our country in issues from health care to education. As we seek to address these disparities, we need to prioritize closing existing gaps in access to high-speed internet, particularly for rural and underserved communities.
