Thursday, April 06, 2023

AM Fruitcake


 

History for April 6

History for April 6 - On-This-Day.com
Vince Flynn 1966 - Author
  • 1789 - The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the Federal Hall in New York City.
  • 1830 - Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when Mexico would not allow further emigration into Texas by settlers from the U.S.
  • 1875 - Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the multiple telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time.
  • 1896 - The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
  • 1903 - French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.
  • 1917 - The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side.
  • 1938 - The United States recognized the German conquest of Austria.
  • 1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.

Wednesday, April 05, 2023

'Country Music Is Dead' Trends After Kelsea Ballerini's CMT Awards Performance Goes Terribly Wrong

'Country Music Is Dead' Trends After Kelsea Ballerini's CMT Awards Performance Goes Terribly Wrong

Ballerini and others responsible for the CMT performance seem to have no qualms about thumbing their noses at country fans in the worst way at the worst time. It is sad that country music is slipping into the grasp of the far left, but it should also remind conservatives of the importance of fighting back hard in the culture war.

The way we were-----87 Dead Bodies in this Block

Eastern Oregonians are fed up with the direction of the state.

Brown-shirt goons of the leftist/democrat party!-----Canadian Cops Watch As Radical Trans Activists Assault Lone Man Defending Kids | The Daily Wire

Canadian Cops Watch As Radical Trans Activists Assault Lone Man Defending Kids | The Daily Wire 
"Canadian police officers appeared to simply watch — and one appeared to smile — as radical trans activists approached and then eventually assaulted a lone counter-protester wearing a sandwich board sign that read, “Children can’t consent to puberty blockers.”
Video of the incident was shared by Chris Elston (@BillboardChris), who said that he was assaulted twice at the protest, and that police did nothing. 
When pressed to respond, police officers suggested that he might have cut his own nose — or that he had incited the trans activists to violence by showing up with a sign that they did not like...

Grand Valley State University students protest for higher, ‘livable’ campus wages

Grand Valley State University students protest for higher, ‘livable’ campus wages
"...At GVSU, student wages currently range from $10.10 to $17.70 per hour, according to the university’s website
A student’s hourly rate is calculated based on their job duties, skill level and required experience.
Many students are forced to work a job on campus because they don’t have transportation to get to off-campus jobs, where they are more likely to earn higher wages and be allowed to work more hours, said Marley Tommola, a junior from Holland.
...The issue of student wages was raised during public comment at the Feb. 24 GVSU Board of Trustees meeting, where four students from GVSU’s Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) group spoke to trustees about increasing student wages on campus...

Comer: Four Biden Family Business Associates Cooperating with Probe

Comer: Four Biden Family Business Associates Cooperating with Probe

Four Biden family business associates are cooperating with the House investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said Monday. Comer is investigating Joe Biden and the Biden family for nine violations, including money laundering and wire fraud. The probe has encompassed subpoenaing bank records and demanding cooperation from family business associates.

Honolulu Walmart Closes Forever! Hawaii's Retail Crisis!

Teaching about evils of communism will offend Asian Americans? - The Joe Messina Show

Teaching about evils of communism will offend Asian Americans? - The Joe Messina Show 
  • Virginia Democrats recently voted no on a bill that would have required schools to teach about the danger of communism and the suffering of its victims after a teachers’ union claimed such a curriculum would incite anti-Asian hate.
  • The bill, HB1816, requires Virginia’s governor to recognize Nov. 7 as Victims of Communism Day, all public elementary and secondary schools in the commonwealth to honor victims of Communism on this day, and teach a curriculum about the evils of communism...

Lunch video-----The Misery of Climate Misery

Noon-toon


 

Chinese Spy Balloon Collected Intelligence from U.S. Military Sites

Chinese Spy Balloon Collected Intelligence from U.S. Military Sites

The Chinese spy balloon that traversed across the continental U.S. before President Joe Biden had it shot down collected intelligence from sensitive military sites, at times doing figure eight formations to hover over certain sites according to a report.

The balloon gathered intelligence from “several” military sites, despite the Biden administration insisting that measures were taken to prevent that from happening, NBC News reported Monday, citing two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official.

"...irreversible alterations..."


 

The "people" (and outside money!) have spoken...and we're sliding into European malaise.-----Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, swinging court toward abortion rights

Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, swinging court toward abortion rights
(Reuters) -Wisconsin voters on Tuesday elected liberal Janet Protasiewicz to the state Supreme Court, flipping control to a liberal majority ahead of rulings on an abortion ban and other matters that could play a role in the 2024 presidential election.
...More than $42.3 million had been spent as of Monday, according to a WisPolitics.com review, far outstripping the previous record of $15.2 million.
The Associated Press called the race in favor of Protasiewicz. 
With 62% of the votes counted, Protasiewicz had 56.4% of the vote to 43.6% for Kelly, a lead of nearly 144,000 votes...

Sign of the the times to come!


 

Much here, read all!-----Banana Time for the Rule of Law

Banana Time for the Rule of Law - By Roger Kimball
  • When agents of the deep state hector you about “the rule of law,” laugh in their faces.
"The Czech novelist Milan Kundera published The Joke, his first novel, in 1967. 
It traces the fortunes of Ludvik, a young student, after his politically correct girlfriend shows the Communist authorities a postcard he had written to her as a joke: 
  • “Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky! Ludvik.” 
As a result of this whimsy, Ludvik finds himself expelled from the Communist Party, the university, and is eventually conscripted to work in the mines.
  • That’s the way things are in totalitarian societies. 
No jokes allowed, especially not jokes told at the expense of the regime.
Thus it is that North Korea banned sarcasm and irony.
Poor Ludvik suffered for his joke. 
But he got off easy compared to Douglass Mackey, a social media “influencer” who wrote under the pen name “Ricky Vaughn.”...

#1 This day 1965-----Freddie & The Dreamers "I'm Telling You Now" on The Ed Sullivan Show

WATCH: Critical Race Theory Must Be Defeated To Achieve Equal Protection

WATCH: Critical Race Theory Must Be Defeated To Achieve Equal Protection - Posted by William A. Jacobson
  • “Having children look at their peers in third grade and think of them as members of a group identity rather than just the kid I play with is so destructive to society.
  • “Critical Race Theory has certain tenants, certain basics, such as we are a systemically racist society, that apparently neutral, legal, and other mechanisms of forced discrimination.”
Here’s the first clip:


He continued:
“...Those concepts are all being taught in elementary school and high schools and universities and everywhere,” Jacobson added.
“And it is true, as much as we’ve covered this we’ve never found a third grade book called ‘Introduction to Critical Race Theory’ and that is not how it works.”

ChatGPT this AM. No one knows. No one cares.


 

Boston Children's Hospital co-director of gender surgery center calls for more 'gender-affirming care' clinics, predicts 'increased flux' of minor patients - TheBlaze

Boston Children's Hospital co-director of gender surgery center calls for more 'gender-affirming care' clinics, predicts 'increased flux' of minor patients - TheBlaze

In a recent article, Boston Children's Hospital's co-director at its Center for Gender Surgery, Oren Ganor, called for more "gender-affirming care" clinics, predicting an "increased flux" of minor patients, Fox News Digital reported. Ganor, a pediatric plastic surgery specialist, co-wrote an article with medical school student Shawheen J. Rezaei in March titled "Streamlining Interstate Access to Gender-Affirming Surgeries."

It's a scan against the people!-----Big Tech hires DOJ lawyers as DOJ investigates — the revolving door must end

Big Tech hires DOJ lawyers as DOJ investigates — the revolving door must end - Glenn H. Reynolds
  • Big Tech firms are hiring lawyers away from the Department of Justice as the DOJ investigates them for antitrust violations.
"The Department of Justice is investigating Big Tech companies for antitrust violations, and it’s basically a case of DOJ vs. DOJ.
That’s because in preparation for just this sort of thing, firms have lawyered up — with hundreds of attorneys hired away from DOJ.
Big Tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and HP — have hired at least 360 lawyers from the Department of Justice since 2011, found government watchdog American Accountability Foundation...
Government employees retire early, of course, and often go on to other jobs...

AM Fruitcake


History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com
Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)
  • 1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
  • 1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.
  • 1892 - In New York, the Ithaca Daily Journal published an ad introducing a new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty called a Cherry Sunday.
  • 1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular production of balloon tires.
  • 1930 - Mahatma Ghandi defied British law by making salt in India.
  • 1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
  • 1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Trump Indictment - TheBlaze

Trump Indictment - TheBlaze

If anyone knows what’s going on in the American political system, it’s the author of "American Marxism," BlazeTV host Mark Levin.

Levin sat down with a Fox News panel to discuss former President Trump’s indictment and the all-out attack on the Republican Party by the left.

The way we were-----The GM "X-Body" and the U.S. Automotive "Malaise."

'NOT ON MY WATCH': Biden says he has news for 'MAGA Republicans'

Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Worked For 'Kamala Harris Campaign', Now Serves As President of Company that Has Biden-Harris Campaign As Client | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott

Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Worked For 'Kamala Harris Campaign', Now Serves As President of Company that Has Biden-Harris Campaign As Client | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott - By Anthony Scott 
"The Gateway Pundit previously reported New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is presiding over President Trump’s Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ case.
  • Judge Merchan previously oversaw the tax fraud cases of the Trump’s Org and the Trump Org’s former CFO Allen Weisselberg.
  • Trump is not a fan of Merchan and took to Truth Social last week and wrote “Juan Manuel Merchan, was hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who “railroaded” my 75 year old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg.”
  • Merchan has been described as a life long Democrat and a bombshell discovery of his daughter’s LinkedIn account reveals his daughter is not just a Democrat but a Democrat who previously worked on Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign.

EV batteries can’t survive a scratch — Reuters

EV batteries can’t survive a scratch — Reuters - By James David Dickson
  • If cost and range anxiety weren’t enough of a problem, EV collisions will be costly
After losing power for 10 of 14 days between the ice storm of late February and the thundersnow of early March, Cathleen Russ of Royal Oak testified to Michigan lawmakers that she “would not accept an EV right now if you gave me one.”...With no reliable way to charge the vehicle, she would have been paying for Uber rides to and from work.
A report in Reuters last week points toward another problem for the electric vehicle: durability after a crash
Specifically, the electric vehicle’s battery is a problem.
For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents, forcing insurance companies to write off cars with few miles - leading to higher premiums and undercutting gains from going electric.
  • ...“If that’s not bad enough, customers are now having to face the fact that a minor fender bender could lead to the loss of their entire vehicle,” Hayes said. “Who knows what this is going to do to insurance rates? At what point will we admit this was a bad idea and stick with reliable and effective technologies?”...

EXCLUSIVE: March Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Jump to 161K After Two-Month Decline

EXCLUSIVE: March Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Jump to 161K After Two-Month Decline

The short-term decrease in migrant apprehensions that followed the new Biden administration immigration policy changes came to an abrupt ending in March when agents apprehended more than 161,000 migrants along the southwest border with Mexico. The nearly 25 percent jump in March follows two months where agents averaged just under 129,000 migrant apprehensions.