[AmericanThinker] Liberalism has been likened to a religious movement- a secular quest for heaven on earth. Like legitimate religions, it has its own tenets.
Thou shalt seek social justice. We’re all in this together. There is no reason we cannot live free of oppression and co-exist in a brotherhood of man and community of nations. Unfortunately, at the current stage of evolution of the human psyche, primal urges and self-interests persist in being irrepressible determinants of human behavior and the resultant social order.
Thou shalt embrace diversity. Diversity is our strength. Not really. Diverse forces flying off in their own direction weaken a society's locus. Strength lies in overcoming diversity. Whatever happened to the melting pot?
Thou shalt seek equity. Equal outcomes for all. Forget about merit, hard work, focus, discipline. Just be one of the chosen people. And if equity trumping merit results in mediocrity, so be it.
Thou shalt foster inclusivity. We must welcome the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the oppressed into the fold. White males, conservatives, gender fluidity deniers, rednecks, MAGA, and other irredeemables need not apply and must be excommunicated.
Thou shalt not worship false idols. There is but one god, and that is the Democratic Party. Our Founders, conservatism, Christianity, patriotism, family, and community, are the devil’s spawn.
Thou shalt advocate change. Injustices and oppressions must be dealt with and eliminated -- now! And should our activism lead to immigration chaos, inflation, increasing crime, homelessness, energy dependency, and ideological civil war, we must just accept these as consequences of seeking immediate gratification in pursuit of the moral high ground.
Thou shalt not abandon thy faith. Until adherence to its tenets start affecting you personally. If urban crime, migrant invasions, homelessness, and COVID mandates begin to impose on your lifestyle, time to move out to a rural red state -- taking of course your BLM poster and rainbow flag with you.
Thou shalt be united in purpose. Only groupthink can suppress the specter of nonconformity that might result from critical, independent thinking. Adhere only to the sermons of the MSM, which ignore or deny any adverse outcomes of the liberal scripture.
Thou shalt follow the science. The universe was created by the Big Bang. No, the Big Bang was a redistributive, not a creative, event. Masks will protect you from COVID.
hou shalt decry capital punishment. Unless it’s of viable fetuses. Dispensing with them facilitates the perpetuation of irresponsible behavior, cultural decay, and family breakdown that necessitates welfare dependency and party loyalty in the oppressed. And then there’s always Jeffrey Epstein, Vince Foster, etc.
Liberal activism, especially since the advent of woke progressivism, has evolved into an atheistic, fundamentalist "religion." Fundamentalism involves strict ideologic adherence, conformity, and maintenance of an in group-out group distinction. At its core are ideological lay preachers who confer eternal damnation onto those heretics and apostates who challenge its self-appointed role of secular clergy. Its apostles -- media, academia, HR departments -- are driven by self-righteous, prejudicial, vengeful hypocrisy. Liberal dogma knows no compromise. Nonconformists must be silenced, forcibly if necessary. Its dogma mirrors that of radical Islam: follow the teachings of Allah, or we will behead you.
Liberalism has embarked upon a crusade against a heretical Western culture, disingenuously rallying its faithful in a holy war to banish the apostasy of oppressive white male supremacy, which it intends to replace with its own realm as self-appointed messiah.
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Its dogma mirrors that of radical Islam: follow the teachings of Allah, or we will behead you.
And, like radical Islam, it's always trying to spread to other countries.
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There's a solar farm not far from where I live. Has the active, tilting panels that follow the sun.
I'm contemplating going past there during the eclipse to see if the mechanism gets confused.
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minimal impact
furthermore, it is during a period when electricity is considerably less than peak
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Any chance to bag on Texas. Especially now they have to power all the newcomers.
Ed, I hope the array self-animates and vows revenge for its creation, like some Steven King story or Legend of Zelda contraption.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]Yeah. No kidding. 10:00 buzz when your hide starts to sizzle from the sun.
It’s important to get the currently fashionable buzzwords into the grant proposal, then mention them again in all related publications. That’s been the nature of the science biz since I was a child, and probably longer.
[FoxNews] Pair of Ninth Circuit decisions ties the hands of Western cities when it comes to dealing with homeless camps.
Surging violence. Streets littered with human waste. Law and order giving way to death and destruction. The nationwide homelessness crisis has made this disturbing scene all too familiar, particularly in once-beautiful Western cities – all while progressive leaders sit back and watch.
But one Arizona judge has had enough. In a ruling with major national ramifications, Maricopa County Judge Scott Blaney issued an order last week commanding city officials to clean up one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments: the vast swath of downtown Phoenix that locals call "The Zone."
And now, the U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to address the underlying cause of the crisis that has struck not just in Arizona but nationwide.
Phoenix’s Zone is a scene of violence and filth – rife with gang warfare, arson, public intoxication and homicide. For well over a year now, hundreds of people – sometimes over 1,000 – have been camping out in tents in The Zone, turning the streets into violent sewers.
And it didn’t just happen. The Zone was created by city bureaucrats, who chose not to enforce laws against public camping and loitering. Their excuse has been that a pair of decisions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ties their hands – and the hands of city leaders throughout the Western states under the Ninth Circuit’s jurisdiction – when it comes to the homelessness problem.
Those rulings – one called Martin v. Boise and the other Johnson v. Grants Pass – say that the Constitution’s "cruel and unusual punishment" clause forbids the government from arresting people for sleeping on the streets if they do so "involuntarily."
That might seem plausible at first, except the decisions define "involuntary" to mean that any time there aren’t enough beds available in city-run homeless shelters, anyone sleeping on the streets is doing so "involuntarily."
That’s nonsense. A person acts "involuntarily" if he can’t help it – not if the government fails to give him a handout. By the Ninth Circuit’s logic, someone who drives home drunk from a bar did so "involuntarily" because the government didn’t hire him a cab.
To be fair, both of those rulings said cities can still enforce laws against camping on the streets. "Even where shelter is unavailable," the Martin decision declared, "an ordinance prohibiting sitting, lying, or sleeping outside at particular times or in particular locations might well be constitutionally permissible."
Nevertheless, bureaucrats nationwide have found the "involuntariness" rationale so confusing that some can’t figure out how to address their local homelessness problems—and others have seen the rulings as a handy way to evade responsibility. As Judge Blaney put it, "city officials that wish to do nothing while such encampments grow and fester" have viewed the Martin and Grants Pass cases as "convenient excuse[s]."
The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider whether to review those Ninth Circuit decisions – and a coalition of business owners, police, city officials and taxpayer advocates have joined forces to urge the justices to do so.
The business and property owners who sued Phoenix for illegally operating The Zone submitted a brief arguing that Martin and Grants Pass "have caused widespread confusion and uncertainty," which has "led to a dramatic increase in both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness" – and the California Police and Sheriffs’ Associations agreed; they’ve filed a brief pointing out that those rulings "are infinitely more confounding from the perspective of the officer on the street."
Even Phoenix’s own lawyers have filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to set clear rules about what cities can do about homeless encampments.
What’s more, Judge Blaney himself has begged the Supreme Court to intervene. "The Martin and Grants Pass decisions created an unworkable mandate based upon questionable legal analysis," he wrote in his ruling. "To the extent that a state trial court judge could have any influence on the United States Supreme Court… this judge would respectfully urge the U.S. Supreme Court to review [these decisions]."
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Guys like Newsom were derelict in their failure to appeal the Ninth Circuit decisions to the Supreme Court when they were first made. Instead, they founded the Homeless Industry and defrauded the taxpayers of untold billions of dollars to "provide services" for the homeless. Newsom and company don't want the homeless off the streets because they're making too much money from the problem.
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Given that not all jurisdictions are bound by a decision by a particular circuit court, the headline's just a tad optimistic. It doesn't explain what's happening in all the other US cities like Milwaukee, Baltimore, Detroit, NYC, etc. Even fuckin' Manchester NH has hundreds of more or less permanent bums 'homeless'. And who's to say that even if SCOTUS overrules the Ninth here, local officials just keep their thumbs in their ass and do nothing?
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This pretzel was brought to you originally by the 'progressive' Federal Judiciary. Had they left in place loitering, vagrancies, and other codes that worked for hundred years plus, a lot of this would not be happening.
Perhaps. We’ll be able to trade speculation for knowledge soon enough, one way or the other.
[IsraelTimes] Riyadh will continue to pay lip service to proposal conditioning peace with Israel on Paleostinian state, but those involved in effort say kingdom ready to normalize ties for less
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is quietly setting aside the Arab Peace Initiative that it sponsored more than 20 years ago, and is readying for the possibility of normalizing relations with Israel without first securing the establishment of a Paleostinian state, three officials familiar with the matter have told The Times of Israel.
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They're afraid USA will not protect them from Iran.
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Given Putin's own statement, if the West had done nothing with this Anschluss, the Baltic States would be next. That would end in a thermonuclear exchange. The are other players other than us. This is a lot cheaper in that scenario and degrading any capabilities to push it further.
[BEE] DETROIT, MI — As he joined striking members of the United Auto Workers union on the picket line, President Joe Biden expressed his strong support for their efforts, insisting automakers provide all factory employees with 300 days of annual vacation just like he receives.
"This is about fairness, folks!" Biden said in remarks as he met with auto workers. "It's outrageous that these men and women have to come to work every day. Me? I get almost...I get....I...I get almost...almost...every...all of the days...of them off. And I'm the President of the United States. If I get 300 million billion...million...days off every year, so should they."
The vibe among the assembled workers on the picket line reportedly ranged from "meh" to "That guy's the president?" as the workers continued to hold out for higher wages and improved benefits. "We didn't really know who he was," said Ford factory worker Roger Hughes. "We just thought he was some crazy old guy who wandered over into our picket line. Turns out he's the leader of the free world. Who would've thought?"
Despite Biden's support, the workers failed to see a correlation between their situation and his. "It's not the same thing," Hughes said. "We actually want to work while making enough to buy eggs and maybe some coffee. He just goes on vacation all the time and hangs out on the beach. Not the same thing."
At publishing time, Secret Service agents were searching feverishly for President Biden after he wandered away from the picket line and followed an ice cream truck down the street.
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
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[BEE] DETROIT, MI — As he joined striking members of the United Auto Workers union on the picket line, President Joe Biden expressed his strong support for their efforts, insisting automakers provide all factory employees with 300 days of annual vacation just like he receives.
