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• GOODER AND HARDER, CA: California Is Set to Approve Government-Subsidized Loans of $150,000 to Help Illegal Aliens Purchase Homes in the US.
• What could possibly go wrong?

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History for August 28

History for August 28 - On-This-Day.com 

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828

• 1833 - Slavery was banned by the British Parliament throughout the British Empire.
• 1907 - "American Messenger Company" was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company's name was later changedto "United Parcel Service."
• 1922 - The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. The Queensboro Realty Company bought 10 minutes of time for $100.
• 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people attended.
• 1998 - The Pakistani prime minister created new Islamic order and legal system based on the Koran.

'I can't stop laughing': New Trump ad plays Obama's own words from DNC stage * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'I can't stop laughing': New Trump ad plays Obama's own words from DNC stage * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Barack Obama appeared last week at the Democrats' convention in Chicago and gave his usual shouted, threatening warnings. "We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos," he shouted. "We have seen that movie before and we all know that the sequel us usually worse." Now President Donald Trump is using those very words in a campaign ad.

The way we were-----20 Things From The 1970s, We Can No Longer Do!

Kamala : 220 Million Dead From COVID

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #609

To make the current craze of demonizing carbon dioxide even more absurd is that carbon dioxide is essential for photosynthesis, the mechanism by which green plants grow, and become the food source of all complex life on Earth - By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

...Yet, the popular political belief in western Europe, North America and the anglicized world is that carbon dioxide, essential for photosynthesis, is a pollutant that will kill life on Earth.

Atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen gave a blunt assessment of this absurd belief in a speech...his address 

“Hopefully, we will awaken from this nightmare before it is too late. 

In modern history there are several examples of political movements claiming a scientific basis. 

From immigration restriction and eugenics (in the US after WWI) to antisemitism and race ideology (in Hitler’s Germany) and communism and Lysenkoism (under Stalin). 

Each of these claimed a scientific consensus that allowed highly educated citizens, who were nonetheless ignorant of science, to have the anxieties associated with their ignorance alleviated. 

Since all scientists supposedly agreed, there was no need for them to understand the science. 

Indeed, ‘the science’ is the opposite of science itself. 

Science is a mode of inquiry rather than a source of authority. 

However, the success that science achieves has earned it a measure of authority in the public’s mind, and this is what politicians frequently envy and attempt to appropriate...

From 2018, it's WAAAY worse today!!-----30,000 Six-Figure Illinois Educators Cost Taxpayers $3.7 Billion

The payouts are so large, by our calculation, the equivalent of $1 out of every $3 in individual income tax is paid out to retired teachers.

• For 30,000 Illinois educators, the new “minimum wage” is $100,000+. Nearly 20,000 of these employees are currently working, while the other 11,766 are retired – pulling down six-figure pensions...

In Illinois, some of the worst performing school districts award the largest salaries – and it hasn’t helped student scores...

Consider these examples:

• Troy Paraday made $407,145 as the superintendent of Calumet CSD 155 even though enrollment is just 1,200 students. Meanwhile, the kids are struggling. Nearly 70 percent of are from low-income families and just 16 percent are considered ready for the next level. Paraday’s paycheck is up from the $384,138 last year.
• Joyce Carmine, former superintendent of Park Forest SD 163, retired on a first-year pension of $290,526 (2017). Last year, Carmine earned the #1 salary in the entire system with a massive salary increase from $81,382 (2000) to $398,229 (2016). She earned this largess even though less than one out of four students in her district were considered ready for the next level and 88 percent of students were considered low-income.
• Gregory Jackson received $340,405 (up from $325,208 last year) as the superintendent of Ford Heights SD 169. Why is Jackson making a massive salary when just one in five children in his district passed the statewide PARCC exam? Further, there are just 434 students in the district, and 97 percent are from low-income homes.
• Arthur Culver made $265,000 as the superintendent of East St. Louis SD 189, even though just six percent of students are considered ready for the next level and 96 percent of students are from low-income homes...

The energy ideology on which the U.S. has 'wasted' $1.5 TRILLION * WorldNetDaily * by Norman Rogers, Real Clear Wire

The energy ideology on which the U.S. has 'wasted' $1.5 TRILLION * WorldNetDaily * by Norman Rogers, Real Clear Wire: 

Fossil fuels are not dirty. Modern natural gas or coal plants are environmentally pristine. CO2 is not a pollutant, but an aerial plant food that is greening the Earth. CO2 makes plants grow faster with less water. Wind or solar electricity is not worth what it costs to create it. It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That is a generally accepted economic principle. If the government requires a utility to purchase some amount of electricity at some price, that is not a free market. That is central planning. Central planning has a role, but it rarely works as well as the voluntary exchange of goods and services. Central planning creates unexpected twists and turns and often results in low productivity.

Man Fakes Death by Hacking Gov’t Database to Avoid Child Support

Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out

Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out

• As fears of a nuclear apocalypse and World War 3 abound, some prospective homebuyers in the US may want to reconsider the locations they’re looking for property in...

Lunch video-----Crew-member Explains How They Escaped Bayesian| SY News Ep376

Noon-toon

 

Tim Walz's China Obsession Is Worse Than You Think

Tim Walz's China Obsession Is Worse Than You Think: 

The lesson was on the Chinese Communist Party’s system of government that has caused mass starvation, poverty, and death, including forced abortions demanded by its one-child policy — which was the law of the land as recently as 2016.

Still, Walz was in love with the totalitarian government and its ability to level the playing field — disregarding the fact that it did so by making everyone equally miserable, as communism inevitably does wherever it’s tried.

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:

1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans. 

3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’ - Jon Miltimore

During his speech, which lasted nearly two hours and was interrupted nearly 60 times by cheers, Hitler touched on a theme he’d repeat in future speeches, stating he did not believe that “ever on earth could a state survive with continuing inner health, if it were not based on inner social justice.”

In his recent book Hitler’s National Socialism, Rainer Zitelmann makes it clear that “social justice” (soziale Gerechtigkeit) was central to Hitler’s social objectives...

• Hitler was not interested in a state or society that simply treated people equally, or a state that simply left individuals alone...
• Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s longtime press chief, noted that Hitler supported “the abolition of all privileges” and a “classless” state.
• To this end, Hitler expressed his desire to “tear down all the social barriers in Germany without compunction,” 

In other words, privilege was so pervasive in Germany that Hitler would root it out by destroying the entire class structure. ‘Tear Down the Walls which Separate the Classes’

• If any of this sounds familiar, it should...

All you need to know!

 

Kamala Harris Wants Your Kids in Public School, and She Wants Them There NOW - Paula Bolyard

But the Left—which includes Kamala Harris—hates school choice because every time a parent chooses to send their children to a non-public school, they lose the ability to indoctrinate that child forever.

• They can no longer secretly trans those kids 
• or induct them into the sexual revolution at the tender age of six. 
• They also can't teach them that 2+2=5.
• The Left's primary weapons in the war against school choice and homeschooling (it's the same war) are lies and dissembling...

#1 This day 1984-----Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (Official Music Video)

One Abhorrent Moment From the DNC Snuck Under the Radar — Until Now Mia Cathell

A top Kamala Harris surrogate bashed the Bill of Rights as "that little piece of paper" and urged Democrats to "reimagine democracy" on Day 1 of the DNC.
Kelley Robinson, president of the far-left Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and a prominent supporter of Kamala Harris, made the appalling comments during a daytime session addressing "how defeating Donald Trump and the Project 2025 agenda rests on the engagement of the LGBTQ+ community."

• "We can't just worry about protecting democracy. In this moment, we've got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center," Robinson, appearing on the panel dubbed "DNC's LGBTQ+ Kickoff," exhorted.
• "And I think for us right now is about reimaging freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our founders actually put down on that little piece of paper...

"Anti-racist"?

 

WATCH: 'We're not getting squat': Senator probing Trump assassination attempt shreds FBI and Secret Service * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

WATCH: 'We're not getting squat': Senator probing Trump assassination attempt shreds FBI and Secret Service * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

"We're not getting squat … from the Secret Service or the FBI," Sen. Ron Johnson, who sits on the bipartisan Senate committee investigating the incident, told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel.

"The Secret Service, you know, FBI are basically dragging their feet, they're stonewalling us. We've gotten some transcribed interviews, but the documents we request request are heavily redacted, they're delivered, you know, the day of the interview so we really can't use the documents to conduct the interviews effectively."

China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape - THE DAILY CALLER - Nick Pope

The Chinese government announced on August 15 that it will restrict exports of antimony, a critical mineral that dominates the production of weapons globally and is essential for producing equipment like munitions, night vision goggles and bullets that are essential to national security...

• Perpetua Resources, an American mining company, has been navigating red tape for years to develop a mine in Valley County, Idaho, that could decrease reliance on the Chinese supply of antimony, but the slow permitting process is getting in the way, energy experts told the DCNF.
• It can take years to secure all the necessary approvals and permits to develop a mine like the one Perpetua Resources is trying to operate...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 27

History for August 27 - On-This-Day.com 

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770

• 1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.
• 1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)
• 1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
• 1999 - The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.

U.S. senator sounds alarm on Democrats' not-so-secret weapon to win 2024 presidential election * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

U.S. senator sounds alarm on Democrats' not-so-secret weapon to win 2024 presidential election * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

Will illegal immigrants and noncitizens be voting in and swaying the upcoming 2024 presidential election? A top U.S. senator is sounding the alarm about the strong possibility or even likelihood. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Budget and Judiciary Committee appeared Sunday on the Fox News Channel and said: "We've seen it in various jurisdictions around the country. There are a handful of states including, I believe, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama who have done some investigating into their own voter registration files, and they've found a lot of noncitizens including a whole lot of illegal immigrants registered to vote."

The way we were-----Myth and Reality: Polish Cavalry in 1939

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The Associated Press, instead of calling out the rank hypocrisy and sheer gall of Harris pretending to be an outsider, is churning out stories like this:

We deserve better propaganda.

• How Harris is "having it both ways" should NOT be a mystery to the AP:

Squatters Take Over Multi-Million Dollar Mansion Next Door To LeBron James | The Daily Caller

“American Squatter,” exposes the dirtiest secret in the housing market: squatters are king. And they can take over anywhere — even in tony Beverly Hills. -Gage Klipper

• You worked hard your whole life. 
• You saved for a down payment and bought your dream home. 
• The neighborhood is great, and you never have to worry about crime. 
• The only thing your local police department has to do is hand out the occasional parking ticket.
• You did everything right — and you thought you were safe from the scourge of squatters who can only take over in “bad neighborhoods.”
• You were wrong....