What's REALLY going on!-----Oh Dear, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie Touches the Third Rail – Reveals DC’s Biggest Secret… | The Last Refuge

Oh Dear, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie Touches the Third Rail – Reveals DC’s Biggest Secret… | The Last Refuge
"With congress saying they will not be returning to work next week, it appears Kentucky representative Thomas Massie has decided to use the opportunity to expose Washington DC’s biggest secret.  
Something 99% of American voters do not understand:

Oh dear, he’s telling secrets.  

You see, congress doesn’t actually write legislation.  
The last item of legislation written by congress was sometime around the mid 1990’s.  Modern legislation is sub-contracted to K-Street.  
Lobbyists write the laws; congress sells the laws; lobbyists then pay congress commissions for passing their laws.  

That’s the modern legislative business in DC..."

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Michigan's czarette pronounces!

BOVARD: Google Is Pulling Off A Massive Data Heist During The Coronavirus Pandemic | The Daily Caller

BOVARD: Google Is Pulling Off A Massive Data Heist During The Coronavirus Pandemic | The Daily Caller:

According to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s attorney general, Google is collecting data on students’ personal locations, websites they have visited, YouTube videos they watched and their voice recordings. Google is able to do this because more than half of the nation’s public schools — and more than 80 million people around the world — use free Google education apps like Gmail and Google Docs. More than 25 million students and teachers also use Chromebooks.

Never waste 'a crisis': IMF chief sees coronavirus as 'great opportunity' to create a green economy

Never waste 'a crisis': IMF chief sees coronavirus as 'great opportunity' to create a green economy
"Environmentalists have an unprecedented chance to turn their policy hopes into a global reality during the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund.
“You know, a crisis [is] never to be missed as an opportunity to do better,” IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said Monday.
Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist who took over as IMF chief last year, has a prominent role influencing how countries soften the economic blows delivered by the pandemic. 
She is also working on strategies to “jump-start economies” after the contagion passes. 
She favors a “coordinated fiscal stimulus that can generate a new momentum for the world economy,” crafted with an eye on climate change as well as the coronavirus crisis..."
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History for May 2

History for May 2 - On-This-Day.com
Catherine The Great (Ekaterina Alekseevna) 1729 - Russian leader Catherine II, Baron Von Richthofen (The Red Baron) 1892 - German fighter pilot, Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903 - Baby doctor, author ("The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care")


Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3, real name: Harry Lillis Crosby, Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey) 1936 - Singer, Lesley Gore 1946 - Singer


1863 - Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded by his own men in the battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He died 8 days later.


1982 - The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina's only cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died.

New Evidence: FBI Wanted to Drop Case Against Michael Flynn Until Peter Strzok Intervened

New Evidence: FBI Wanted to Drop Case Against Michael Flynn Until Peter Strzok Intervened:

New documents suggest that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had drafted a document dropping the case against incoming National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) — until agent Peter Strzok intervened.
The documents are emerging as the result of efforts by Flynn’s defense team to obtain exculpatory information from the prosecution to which they are legally entitled. Flynn’s former lawyers at Covington and Burling, who encouraged him to accept a plea deal with the Department of Justice, neglected to turn over thousands of pages of documents to the new team. It is not clear whether the FBI files are also among the Covington documents.

The way we were-----Dolly Parton: All Shook Up as Elvis

Boob-tube-----Vicki Lawrence on an infamous blooper on "The Carol Burnett Show" - EMMY...

Dems Snuck A $15 Minimum Wage Into The CARES Act — And We’ll All Pay The Price – Issues & Insights

Dems Snuck A $15 Minimum Wage Into The CARES Act — And We’ll All Pay The Price – Issues & Insights
"Buried in a story about the overly generous unemployment “bonus” that Democrats added to the CARES Act is the reason why they insisted on it in the first place — and why it will drag down the recovery once the lockdown ends.
While lawmakers were hammering out the massive $2 trillion bill, a key focus of which was to keep workers connected to their jobs through a loan guarantee program — Democrats insisted on a huge increase in unemployment benefits.
The result was a $600 a week bonus.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer was right to call this “unemployment on steroids.”
Well, guess what?
“The $600 payment aligns with working full time at $15 an hour – the minimum-wage level many Democrats in Congress support,” notes the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal reports that – thanks to this bonus – workers will get an average of $978 in unemployment benefits.
What’s more, “Labor Department statistics show half of full-time workers earned $957 or less each week in the first quarter of 2020.”
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham had it exactly right when he said that:
“You’re literally incentivizing taking people out of the workforce at a time when we need critical infrastructure supplied with workers. If this is not a drafting error, then it’s the worst idea I’ve seen in a long time.”
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Clarice Feldman - The urge to return to the feudal order did not die.

Clarice Feldman - The urge to return to the feudal order did not die.

Barry Shaw

In America, Democratic Governors and Mayors tell you to remain in lockdown except for essential journeys. 

They order you under threat of arrest.
But we have seen this does not apply to the Democrat elite. 

• NY Mayor de Blasio was caught on camera walking with his wife in Central Park.
• Now Politico snapped former President Barrack Obama golfing at an exclusive Virginia course last Saturday.

Everyone else was locked down at home, but not Obama.
This as his wife, Michelle, was instructing the common folk, "We urge you to stay home except if you need essential healthcare, food, supplies to to go to your essential work."
Notice how they have special rules for you, but not for themselves.
Why do I stumble across examples of glaring Democratic double standards and hypocrisy several times a day?

• Laurie Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, was caught getting her hair done after the city had ordered the closedown of salons and beauty parlors.
• When pulled up about it she protested arrogantly, "I'm the public face of this city. I appear on television. I am in the public eye."

In other words, "I'm more important than you. So shut up!"
People in power abuse their power.
It's disgusting!"

EXCLUSIVE: Steele Gave New Details About Clinton Ally’s Interest In The Dossier | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Steele Gave New Details About Clinton Ally’s Interest In The Dossier | The Daily Caller:

Former British spy Christopher Steele testified in March that a longtime ally of the Clintons contacted him in summer 2016 about his investigation into Donald Trump after learning about it from one or more Obama administration officials.
Strobe Talbott, the former president of the Brookings Institution, contacted him in the months leading up to the 2016 election inquiring about an investigation he was conducting at the time into Trump’s possible ties to Russia, Steele said in a sworn deposition on March 18.

From 2019, much worse today!-----$5.2 Trillion Of Government Pension Debt Threatens To Overwhelm State Budgets, Taxpayers

Does NOT include retiree health insurance or ballooning municipal debt/borrowing!
$5.2 Trillion Of Government Pension Debt Threatens To Overwhelm State Budgets, Taxpayers

• Government Pension Liabilities May Total $5.2 Trillion Nationwide

"Pension Tracker, a project of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research led by former California State Assemblyman Joe Nation, Ph.D., is out with its updated assessment of the nation’s unfunded state and local government pension fund liabilities. 
It’s not a pretty picture—especially if you live in Alaska, California, Connecticut or Illinois where your per household pension debt ranges from $102,084 to $76,398...
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The STASI STATE has arrived!-----THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

Instapundit Blog Archive THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED.

Alternatively, such horrific examples could be made of the offenders here that the Bureau will be scared straight for a generation. 
But I think that’s even less likely than abolishing the Bureau.
UPDATE: Yep.


Plus:

ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe there’s a lesson there?

Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

Lunch video-----The Paris Agreement: An Exposé, Tracing the History Behind the Climate P...

Mirrors and Mazes: Dr Howard Brady

*The Paris Agreement* "A mini-series recounting how the UN and IPCC gradually entangled the world using climate change. The deadline to deliver the Paris Agreement had finally arrived...

The style of this series is simple, but effective, supporting a narrative that has been expertly prepared and weaved together to cut straight to the heart of the climate debate, past all the fuzzy and emotional talking points that now characterise it..."

Noon-toon

Mag: Sex Misconduct Allegations 'Swirling Around Biden' for Years

Mag: Sex Misconduct Allegations 'Swirling Around Biden' for Years:

A 2008 column in the far-left magazine CounterPunch accusing Joe Biden of “loutish sexual advances” in the U.S. Senate has become a lightning rod in the debate over Biden and his former staffer Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault in 1993.
The article, written by the late Alexander Cockburn, lamented then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s choice of Biden as a running mate in August 2008. Biden, in Cockburn’s view, was an empty and worthless swamp creature, a D.C. insider chosen purely to improve Obama’s electoral odds who would ultimately stifle any progressive agenda for the candidate of “Hope and Change.”

Be afraid, very afraid!-----The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here - Reporting by Matt Taibbi:

• As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet

"Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type – ran an in-depth article of the problems free speech pose to American society in the coronavirus era.
The headline:

Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

"In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong."

...They went on to list all the reasons that, given that we’re already on an “inexorable” path to censorship, a Chinese-style system of speech control may not be such a bad thing. 

In fact, they argued, a benefit of the coronavirus was that it was waking us up to “how technical wizardry, data centralization, and private-public collaboration can do enormous public good.”

Perhaps, they posited, Americans could be moved to reconsider their “understanding” of the First and Fourth Amendments, as “the harms from digital speech” continue to grow, and “the social costs of a relatively open Internet multiply.”

This interesting take on the First Amendment was the latest in a line of “Let’s rethink that whole democracy thing” pieces that began sprouting up in earnest four years ago..."
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Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history - Washington Times

Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history - Washington Times
"...The response to the coronavirus is hyped. 
And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed.
In fact, COVID-19 will go down as one of the political world’s biggest, most shamefully overblown, overhyped, overly and irrationally inflated and outright deceptively flawed responses to a health matter in American history, one that was carried largely on the lips of medical professionals who have no business running a national economy or government.
The facts are this: COVID-19 is a real disease that sickens some, proves fatal to others, mostly the elderly — and does nothing to the vast majority.
...The data to keep America closed and Americans closed in simply doesn’t exist.
If truth be told, it’s questionable it ever did.
The scientists leading the coronavirus shutdown charge predicted in March that in America, between 100,000 and 250,000 would die. 
They based those estimates on computer modeling.
But at the same time they were basing those estimates on computer modeling, they were acknowledging that computer modeling is inaccurate and errs on the side of hype.
“I’ve never seen a model of the diseases I’ve dealt with where the worst-case actually came out,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, during a CNN interview in March. “They always overshoot.”
Catch that? 
Fauci’s message: Computer models are flawed and inaccurate and always overestimate the problem.
...Since, about 56,000 have died in America due to coronavirus — or have they? 
Again, the facts are flimsy..."
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We still can't go outside...

What they WILL DO when back in power!-----Unreported: Democrat bill would use taxpayer money to ‘bring deported criminals’ back’ – World Tribune: Window on the Real World

Unreported: Democrat bill would use taxpayer money to ‘bring deported criminals’ back’ – World Tribune: Window on the Real World
From Feb. Bill not passed...yet!
"A new immigration bill being pushed by Democrats would not only decriminalize illegals entry into the U.S. but would use “taxpayer money to bring deported criminals back into America,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday.

The New Way Forward Act is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
The bill would entirely remake our immigration system with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move to the United States, and settle here permanently, with impunity.”

The proposed legislation “decriminalizes illegal entry into America, even by those we’ve previously deported,” Carlson said. “According to a document promoting this bill, criminalizing illegal entry into America is quote, ‘white supremacist.’ ”...

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#1 This day 1957-----Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (best version)

Minneapolis Neighborhood Begins Broadcasting Islamic Call to Prayer over Loudspeakers

Minneapolis Neighborhood Begins Broadcasting Islamic Call to Prayer over Loudspeakers
"...A cultural line has been crossed.
According to the Star Tribune, “the Muslim call to prayer will be broadcast the traditional five times a day in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, beginning with the start of Ramadan this week and continuing through the end of the religious holiday in May.
...the implications of this broadcast call to prayer...are ominous.
...what exactly is it broadcasting?
The adhan, prayed in Arabic, repeats “Allahu akbar” six times, “I testify that there is no god but Allah” three times, and “I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” twice.
Dr. Gavin Ashenden...observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism.
It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar...
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Doesn't seem to be much difference...except for California's destroyed economy.

5 Michigan businesses are suing Whitmer, claiming her executive orders violate constitutional rights | wzzm13.com

5 Michigan businesses are suing Whitmer, claiming her executive orders violate constitutional rights | wzzm13.com:

LANSING, Mich. — Five different businesses in Michigan have come together to sue Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Robert Gordon, according to WXYZ in Detroit. The lawsuit claims the executive orders that the governor has put into place during the coronavirus pandemic have "violated the constitutional rights of several businesses." WXYZ said the lawyers for the plantiff's announced the lawsuit on Tuesday.

Madeline + Train = Sheer Delight

Let us not forget who will be forced to repay the terrible debt we are leaving to our children.

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History for May 1

History for May 1 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764 - Architect known for his design of the United States Capitol and the Baltimore Basilica, Kate Smith 1909 - Singer, Glen Ford 1916 - Actor ("Gilda", "The Courtship of Eddie's Father")


Jack Paar 1918 - Radio and television comedian, talk show host ("The Tonight Show"), Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright, Scott Carpenter 1925 - One of NASA's original seven astronauts


1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.


1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"