Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Neil Oliver: 'For the Sake of Freedom...' - Louder With Crowder

Neil Oliver: 'For the Sake of Freedom...' - Louder With Crowder
Neil Oliver is not a scientist. He's a Scottish news presenter. He doesn't give statistics or cite studies not approved by Facebook's "fact" checkers. He's just a dude -- or I guess a "bloke" -- giving his opinion on something that concerns him. I'm actually surprised the UK didn't have him arrested mid-sentence for "misinformation." Since here in America our president is launching a new round of panic porn to scare citizens, I feel Oliver's monologue is something for all of us to listen to and consider.

History for August 3

History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ernie Pyle 1900
  • 1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
  • 1777 - During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle.
  • 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.
  • 1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
  • 1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.
  • 1958 - The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as "Operation Sunshine."
  • 1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

Monday, August 02, 2021

Dr. Fauci rejects idea that wearing or not wearing face mask is a matter of personal liberty: 'I disagree' - TheBlaze

Dr. Fauci rejects idea that wearing or not wearing face mask is a matter of personal liberty: 'I disagree' - TheBlaze

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, rejected on Sunday the idea that wearing or not wearing a face covering is a matter of personal liberty.

Senator Ron Johnson says Americans lost trust in CDC, Fauci - TheBlaze

Senator Ron Johnson says Americans lost trust in CDC, Fauci - TheBlaze

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) delivered a scathing castigation on how Americans are losing trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies. The Republican lawmaker also went on the offensive against Dr. Anthony Fauci and school unions during an appearance on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."

The way we were-----F-14 Tomcat: Demonstration by Dale Snodgrass :: 1996 Cleveland National ...

It's Coming!

How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda | Intellectual Takeout

How to Tell the Difference Between Real Education and Propaganda | Intellectual Takeout

"The other day I ran across a passage from That Hideous Strength which seems oddly applicable to our time. A dystopian novel written by C. S. Lewis at the close of World War II, That Hideous Strength finds one of its main characters, Mark Studdock, working for N.I.C.E., an organization which pulls the strings in a controlling, totalitarian society.

Studdock is assigned to write propaganda articles for N.I.C.E., an assignment which he objects to when he receives it from his boss, Miss Hardcastle. Studdock argues that it won’t work because  newspapers “are read by educated people” too smart to be taken in by propaganda. The story continues:

‘That shows you’re still in the nursery, lovey,’ said Miss Hardcastle. ‘Haven’t you yet realized that it’s the other way round?’
‘How do you mean?’
‘Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.’

Reading this, I couldn’t help but ponder how much of the American public thinks like Studdock...Read all.

Local government is crooked too!!!-----Shiawassee County commissioner resigns as chair after COVID-19 payouts to top officials - mlive.com

Shiawassee County commissioner resigns as chair after COVID-19 payouts to top officials - mlive.com
"SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, MI -- The Shiawassee County Board of Commissioners never got a chance to remove Jeremy Root from his position as chairman of the board during their special meeting Sunday, Aug. 1.
Root did it himself, resigning his chairmanship but not his position as a commissioner, after a failed attempt to give COVID-19 relief funds to elected officials, including $25,000 to himself.
...“You’re not just an embarrassment to Shiawassee County, you’re an embarrassment to the country,” said Daniel Law, a member of the Owosso City Council. “This whole county government needs major reform … The integrity of the board is gone. There is no way to return it.”...Read all.

Gay rights activist exposes how CDC study justifying new face mask guidance is 'skewed': 'Too politically correct' - TheBlaze

Gay rights activist exposes how CDC study justifying new face mask guidance is 'skewed': 'Too politically correct' - TheBlaze

A prominent gay rights activist known for his AIDS/HIV activism revealed Friday how the central study the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to justify its new mask guidance may be flawed.

Oh, goody! We can always trust the IOC!-----IOC admits transgender athlete policy outdated, will change after Tokyo Olympics

IOC admits transgender athlete policy outdated, will change after Tokyo Olympics
"TOKYO — International Olympic Committee officials admitted here at a roundtable with reporters that the guidelines governing the participation of transgender women in Olympic sports are outdated.
They also confirmed that the IOC will announce a new policy soon after the Tokyo Games.
...Experts who spoke with Yahoo Sports, some of whom have consulted with the IOC, identified two main shortcomings: That testosterone-related rules were too lenient, and that one set of guidelines should not apply to dozens of different sports...Read all.

Always trust "researchers". Always!! Specially them smort-people government studies!

 

Lunch video-----Every American Needs To Hear This Speech

"If every high school principal said this, it would change students' lives and would change America. 
So what exactly should every high school principal say? 
Dennis Prager explains."

Noon-toon

 

Forgotten Fact Checks: Fauci, Rand Paul, Cuba, and More | National Review

Forgotten Fact Checks: Fauci, Rand Paul, Cuba, and More | National Review
The National Institutes of Health, the department in which the NIAID is housed, has funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that by any reasonable definition should be categorized as gain of function research. As Dr. Richard Ebright, an expert on laboratory safety put it:

"Poverty" scam.


Obedience Fatigue

Obedience Fatigue
"Americans are an obedient people, especially when summoned in response to a national crisis. 
Citizens bought war bonds to support U.S. soldiers fighting enemies overseas...
...Obedience, however, depends on a fragile bond of trust, and our national leaders have recklessly tested the limits of that bond during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
The limits, although elastic, are nearing the breaking point.
In the guise of fighting a public health emergency, the public has endured a de facto national quarantine (even for healthy adults), business closures (many of them likely to be permanent), the shuttering of schools, bans on worship services, social distancing mandates, and of course the now-ubiquitous—but previously unheard of—command to wear face masks in public.
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, who as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases serves as the nation’s COVID czar, began the flip-flopping in early 2020, when he mandated the wearing of masks, after previously opining on the news show 60 Minutes that “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” 
  • In fact, Fauci went even further, suggesting that mask-wearing could be counter-productive for the general public. 
  • ...Fauci even suggested that the public would be safer wearing two masks in public (contrary to CDC guidelines), before quickly reversing himself and admitting that “There’s no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.”
...But the COVID-19 debacle is not yet over. 
Fauci refuses to give up the influence he has held for over a year. 
Requiring or recommending the public wear masks—even at outdoor events and even after being fully-vaccinated—has moved beyond any semblance of “science,” and is now purely an instrument of social control. 
Benjamin Franklin famously remarked that “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”...Read all.

#1 Movie this week 1959-----North by Northwest - Original Theatrical Trailer

San Francisco Tenants Being Paid to Leave Apartment Expose Problems with California's Rent Control Policies

San Francisco Tenants Being Paid to Leave Apartment Expose Problems with California's Rent Control Policies
"A wealthy San Francisco couple notched a record nearly half-million-dollar buyout to vacate their luxury apartment of three decades, underscoring the lengths some landlords will go to to get rid of long-term tenants in a city with strict rent control and soaring market rents.
The $475,000 voluntary buyout is considered to be the largest in city history and reflects the high value of the apartment.
...That means landlords can only raise rent on some properties a certain amount each year, with the current increase pegged at under 1 percent...Read all.

#1 This day 1954-----The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom

Inverting criminals????-----New FBI Initiative Will Put "Hate Crime" Quotas On Local Law Enforcement - National Justice

New FBI Initiative Will Put "Hate Crime" Quotas On Local Law Enforcement - National Justice
  • The Department of Justice and the FBI have a message for local police departments: start charging more white people with hate crimes or invite an investigation.
  • Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta told an assembly of FBI agents yesterday that they are now tasked with hounding police departments in their district if they do not register any "hate crimes."
  • Gupta and FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division Jay Greenberg have declared "hate crimes" by "racially motivated violent extremists" (a euphemism generally reserved for right-wing white men) to be a national threat priority -- a rare designation.
According to Greenberg, the FBI will be increasingly specialized in pursuing "hate crimes" through increased training in the matter, an aggressive media campaign designed to recruit victims in "underrepresented and targeted populations," and putting federal pressure on local law enforcement to charge and report hate crimes when they otherwise wouldn't...Read all.

"Free" money!

 

'Come and get me': Defiant Republicans react to 'insane' orders for Capitol Police to arrest House staff who refuse to comply with mask mandate - TheBlaze

'Come and get me': Defiant Republicans react to 'insane' orders for Capitol Police to arrest House staff who refuse to comply with mask mandate - TheBlaze
Members of Congress received a bulletin from Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger, which declared that face masks must be worn "at all times" on the House side of the Capitol complex. The new mask mandate states that everyone must wear face masks starting Thursday, even those who are fully vaccinated. The letter states that Capitol staff and visitors can be arrested for not wearing a mask.

The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse - American Thinker

The Three Horsemen of the Bidenapocalypse - American Thinker--By Clarice Feldman

"In the Bible, there were four horsemen of the apocalypse -- sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague. 

In the Biden Administration, there are three events spelling the doom of this administration and the Democrats: open border policy, inflation, and coercive unscientific public health measures. ..

  • The Immigration Debacle

It’s only going to get worse for the administration...

  • The Biden Inflation

You also have to be an idiot to believe that cheap borrowing and flooding the nation with federal funds will not lead to inflation, especially when coupled with regulatory actions certain to raise prices. Or to believe that it will be of short duration...

  • ...Coercive (and Inconsistent) COVID policies 

Is your head spinning from the CDC diktats? It should be. Jim Treacher summarizes the reasons why.

We got some new COVID-19 rules yesterday. They were different than the rules we got the day before that, and I assume they’re different than the rules we’ll get tomorrow.

To recap:

  1. Absolutely do not wear a mask
  2. You must, must, must wear a mask or you’re killing Grandma
  3. Don’t leave the house or you’re killing Grandma
  4. If you can’t avoid leaving the house, stay at least six feet away from any other human being you see or you’re killing Grandma
  5. Wash your hands 20 times a day
  6. Do not touch your face or anything else, ever
  7. Get vaccinated so you don’t have to wear a mask
  8. You have to wear a mask even if you’re vaccinated
  9. When the above rules change, and then change back, and then change back again, shut up about it or you’re a stupid MAGA-head
  10. Don’t forget to vote Democrat.

...Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital has listed 12 principles of public health policy all of which are in contravention of the administration's policies.   

#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health measures. #totalharms collateralglobal.org @collateralglbl

#2 Public health is about the long term rather than the short term. Spring #COVID19 #lockdowns simply delayed and postponed the pandemic to the fall. thelancet.com/journals/lance… @JohanGiesecke ...Read all!

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com
Victoria Jackson 1959 - Actress, comdian
  • 1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
  • 1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
  • 1921 - Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series.
  • 1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
  • 1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
  • 1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

Sunday, August 01, 2021

'You sound like an idiot': Chris Cuomo throws down with Italian restaurant owner who posted sign mandating patrons be 'UNvaccinated' - TheBlaze

'You sound like an idiot': Chris Cuomo throws down with Italian restaurant owner who posted sign mandating patrons be 'UNvaccinated' - TheBlaze
He delivered a highly animated interview Monday trying to bait freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida into a verbal fight, which failed to launch due to Donalds' calm, cool handling of the host's combative tone. And Cuomo was back for more action Wednesday, going head to head with Tony Roman, owner of Italian restaurant Basilico's Pasta e Vino in Huntington Beach, California, who posted a front-door sign requiring that patrons provide "proof of being UNvaccinated."

The way we were-----The BRUTAL Execution Of Benito Mussolini - Italy's Dictator

Elections Have Consequences

"Wyoming is the most Republican state, and life here is completely normal.
This video is dedicated to people in Sydney who voted their way into tyranny."

Report Reveals Huge Double Standards For Bringing Rioters To Justice

Report Reveals Huge Double Standards For Bringing Rioters To Justice
  • The sheer similarities and differences between the treatment of the 2020 rioters compared to the treatment of the January 6 riot rioters are shocking.
"One would think a major report from a group representing America’s top law enforcement leaders analyzing the widespread riots of 2020 would have garnered significant media attention. 
One also would think such a report would garner widespread discussion after the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capital due to the parallels between it and the 2020 riots. 

Given our hyper-partisan environment, however, one would be woefully wrong.
Specifically, back in October 2020, the Major Cities Chiefs (MCC) released a comprehensive report full of data from dozens of cities that provides deep insights into the 2020 riots that plagued America after George Floyd’s death in Minnesota. 
...A core foundation of our country rests on the people believing there is equality under the law. 
The dissimilar treatment of 2020 rioters and January 6 rioters is fracturing that foundation more with each passing day. 
As Abraham Lincoln wisely noted, a divided house cannot stand...Read all.

Postal workers' union opposes Biden's plan to mandate vaccines for federal employees - TheBlaze

Postal workers' union opposes Biden's plan to mandate vaccines for federal employees - TheBlaze
Ahead of President Joe Biden's expected announcement of a new requirement for federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the AFL-CIO-affiliated American Postal Workers Union said Wednesday it opposes vaccine mandates.