Thursday, December 31, 2020

Quotable Quote



“Perfection is an never-achieved objective.” — Fletcher



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Common Sense

                              Thomas Paine


“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire


Most of you, dear readers, believe in the power of words ... words to fight our oppressors. Your blogger tries to marshall these semantic soldiers to save our country from sinking further into perdition. But somehow, neither Fletcher nor any other scribe seems to be able to rise to Thomas Paine’s level of influence with his pamphlet “Common Sense.”


Is this because of the overcrowding of voices attempting to save us? Maybe ... but more likely it is the amount of control that our media moguls have over whose and which messages get mass circulation.


Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” story was disappeared by these media moguls right before the November election ... a frightening indication of their power.


Maybe we free voices should go back to passing out pamphlets like Thomas Paine? Or will the Masters of the Universe censor them too?


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Vaccination Progress

 


(Bloomberg link updated daily around 5PM EST) 

It looks like the vaccines are getting out to the states ... yet not into the arms of our most vulnerable ... see: Bloomberg Story. Why are things so slow in the states?


Afterthought: Holding vaccine in reserve for the follow-up shots seems misguided. Won’t much more vaccine be available in three weeks?


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New Year’s Resolutions

 


Here is what your humble blogger resolves to do in the coming year:


- Get a Moderna Covid vaccination

- Stay alive through the year

- Remain stalwart to conservative principles

- Have at least one original thought

- Love and support my family

- Better tolerate liberals

- Stay skeptical of what our media reports

- Exercise more, eat less

- In anticipation of the new wold order, learn Mandarin

- Avoid using the words “inclusive” and “diversity” in a positive sense

- Keep standing up for America


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New Yorker Daily Humor

 

It’s been a rough seven years.



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Headlines


Strong early-vote turnout gives Dems hope in Georgia runoffs

Half of U.S. states will raise their minimum wage in 2021 — and more pay hikes could be on the way

Trump campaign wants SCOTUS to consider Wisconsin election case

Rasmussen: GOP voters open to ‘fresh face’ in 2024

Can Biden be the next FDR?

U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in U.K.

Congressman Luke Letlow dies of coronavirus complications

Stacey Abrams sister rules against voter purge before Georgia runoffs

Boston removes Lincoln Emancipation memorial

Merkel pushes European Union-China investment deal over the finish line

Covid updates: U.S. needs to vaccinate 3 million people a day to hit vaccination targets, expert says

The fight to recall CA governor Newsom is being won

China confesses Wuhan coronavirus cases may be 10x higher than reported


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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Critical Race Theory



You can lead a horse to water but trying to make it drink can lead to rough consequences. — Fletcher


Your blogger has read that all these Critical Race Theory indoctrinations run by woke schools and companies to cleanse attendees of their “white privilege” are often having exactly the opposite effect ... see: New Discourses TractMany previously accepting individuals leave with a new resentment of those they now see as their oppressors ... not their equals.


Instead of squelching racism ... these indoctrinations are stoking it ... a result of liberals, once again, not understanding human nature ... and trying to force feed results.



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Karnak

 


The Answer: Outside the bubble


The Question: What was the finale like for the old-time bubble dancers? (Right before the curtain came down.)



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Quotable Quote



The meek often deal with their life’s failures by fantasizing about their inheriting the Earth.. — Fletcher


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Karnak



The Answer: Happy medium


The Question: Who did the jocular Seven Dwarf use for a fortune teller?


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Headlines

 


Congressional staffers eligible to receive coronavirus vaccines

House passes bill for $2,000 stimulus checks — leaving it up to GOP-controlled Senate

Jeffery Epstein’s last cell mate reportedly died last month from coronavirus

Rasmussen: 72% of Republicans see Trump as model for party’s future

Judge blocks voter purge in 2 Georgia counties

House overrides Trump veto of $740 billion defense bill, sends to GOP-led Senate

YouTube censors Dr. Ron Paul for questioning St. Fauci

California has worst Covid outbreak, tightest restrictions in U.S.

New York lawmakers approve sweeping eviction moratorium

China’s economy is still months away from a full recovery, business survey finds

WHO chief claims ‘Not enough evidence’that vaccine prevents infection’

Jon Ossoff raised nearly six times more in California than Georgia



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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Most Admired American



OK Pilgrim ... time to duck! President Donald J. Trump has just been found by the Gallup organization to be the Most Admired Man in America ... not Barack Obama ... not LeBron James ... not John Kerry ... not Andrew Cuomo ... not Tom Brady ... not even the Basement Boy who “bested” Trump in our other national poll .... the November election  (Joe Biden, that is).


So, dear readers, if you want to see your liberal friends’ heads spin around ... spewing green pea soup ... just pass along this marvelous  polling result. But stand back first!


Afterthought: Maybe Gallup will have to go to mail-in balloting?


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Our Aristocracy

 


If you are not a front-line worker nor over 75 and yet you have been Covid vaccinated, consider yourself a member of this country’s aristocracy, — Fletcher


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2021 Predictions



 - New virus introduced from China

- Taxes will not go up

- RIP: Jimmy Carter, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Dole, Ayatollah Khamenei

- 5 key indictments in Durham Russiagate investigation

- Bear market correction led by Bitcoin, Zoom and Tesla

- Dems take one of the two Georgia Senate runoff races

- Hunter Biden will skate

- Joe Biden will resign or be removed from office using 25th Amendment

- Dr. Fauci wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction


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Fractured Definition

 


Contraband — the musical group led by Levon Helms ... users of under-the-counter substances ... during the time that they opposed the Sandanistas.


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Headlines

 


Trump backs down, signs stimulus package

Alibaba shares plunge about 8% for second straight session  as China ramps up pressure

ICE deports 185k illegal aliens in 2020

Mad Max: Trump ‘compromised’ by Putin — Biden must stand up to China, Russia

Governors on Covid-19 policies: ‘We were all trying to figure this thing out as we went’

UK expected to approve Oxford-AstraZenaca Covid vaccine this week

FBI had reportedly been warned twice about Nashville bombing suspect

Dr. Doom: Biden right on virus — Worst yet to come

2 House newcomers decline to say if they’ll back Pelosi

Oil rises after Trump signs relief bill

Adios to ‘The Squad?’

2021 a new decade that will start with memorable winter weather



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Monday, December 28, 2020

Quotable Quote

 


“We three kings of [the ‘O’ word] are ...”



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Bubbba the Red Nose Miner



You know Sneezy and Sleepy

And Happy and Grumpy,

And Dopey, Bashful and Doc.

But do you recall

The most famous tiny miner of all?


Bubba the red-nosed miner

Had a very shiny nose

And if you ever saw it

You would even say it glows


All of the other miners

Used to laugh and call him names

They never let poor Bubba

Join in any seven-dwarf games


Then one foggy mining day

Bashful came to say

Bubba with your nose so bright

Won't you be our mining light?


Then all the seven dwarves loved him

And they shouted out with glee

Bubba the red-nosed miner

You'll go down in history



(And stay away from Snow White!)




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Obvious Truth


                                  (note the jump editing)

Donald Trump’s greatest strength is that he is not a politician ... however, it also turned out to be his Achilles heel. — Fletcher


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Quotable Quote




Losers like to be with winners.— Fletcher


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Headlines

 


How state marijuana legalization became a boon for corruption

Unemployment benefits for millions expire as Trump rages

President Trump refuses to sign deeply flawed relief bill

Scientists demand that England go into strict lockdown immediently

Japan halts all foreign arrivals over British [Covid] variant

Amazon hires lobbyist brother of Biden White House counselor

NY Dem boss warns AOC not to challenge Chuck Schumer

World prepares for Obama-era chaos under Biden

United Kingdom to roll out Oxford/AstraZenaca vaccine in January

New Covid relief bill boosts tax breaks for charitable giving in 2021

Gun sales set a new record in 2020

Buck: I think GOP will support $2,000 check if pork is eliminated


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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Obvious Truth



The easiest and best way to discover truth is a critical appraisal of whom a particular judgment benefits. If it is the “truth-teller,” then it is often best just to stick out your tongue.  — Fletcher





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Obvious Truth



Turn-about is fair play. Restaurants, bars and other small businesses that defy state and local authorities over Covid shut-downs ... are just miniature versions of sanctuary cities. — Fletcher


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Obvious Truth

 


Politicians justify keeping the loaf by giving you the crumbs — Fletcher


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Headlines

 


Downtown Nashville explosion knocks communications offline

Trump again calls for $2,000 relief checks as Covid aid bill remains in flux

Gov. Cuomo gives Christmas pardons to illegal aliens and murderers

George Clooney trashes Trump as ‘charismatic carnival barker’

Democrats shatter fundraising records ahead of Georgia runoffs

Air Canada Boeing 737 Max ferry flight diverts after engine issue

Human remains found near site of explosion in Nashville

Ben Sasse criticizes Trump’s pardons ‘rotten to the core’

The cost of the pandemic: California fears that remote culture could fuel departures

China set to surpass U.S. as world’s largest economy in 2028, says report

Nearly 2.1 million votes cast in Georgia runoffs

Again Pope snubs Uyghurs in Christmas blessing


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Today’s Poser

 


If people are clinically dead only to be revived hours later ... do their souls do a u-turn and return to their bodies? Or do they spend the rest of their lives soul-less ... like most of our politicians?


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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Karnak



The Answer: 2020 hindsight


The Question: What will we call the mass mooning of the old year that should occur on January 1, 2021?


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Powerline Pic



And it worked!


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Fractured Definition

 


Truth — What is left over after all the BS has been spread on the garden of bad ideas.


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The Presidential Election


In your blogger’s estimation, there are four tranches of those reacting to this past presidential election ... roughly in equal proportions:


- Those who believe that the election was stolen with massive frauds perpetrated by the Biden campaign ... and this needs to be reversed ... or else our elections will be forever corrupted.


- The “you cant fight city hall” group who believe the election was stolen but resistance is futile because of the biased media and courts.


- Those who naively believe that the election was fair and square with little if any fraud.


- Those who believe the election was likely rigged ... but are loath to admit it out loud. They think such chicanery was justified to overthrow the evil twittering Trump. Unfortunately,  two small men, former AG Barr and Chief Justice Roberts, seem to be in this camp.


I am firmly in the first group. Ridicule me if you must, you are only cutting your own throats. And my guess is that, if you gave sodium pentothlal to all American voters, well over half at least would agree that Biden stole this one from an immensely popular Trump ... no small feat!

  


For those of you kind readers locked in the last two categories, see: Woodsterman Video.



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Quotable Quote


Judging a book by its cover is not just acceptable, ... it is necessary if you can’t ... or won’t ...  read. — Fletcher


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Headlines

 


‘Intentional’ explosion rocks downtown Nashville

Congress sends Covid relief bill to Trump, but it is not clear if he will sign it

Hunter Biden reportedly ‘in the process’ of divesting 10% stake in Chinese firm

Democrats led by Marc Elias ask Pelosi to overturn Iowa house race

Japan adopts green growth plan to go carbon free by 2050

U.S. to require travelers from the U.K. to test negative for Covid, CDC

Biden calls for free community college

Bill De Blasio announces police home checks for U.K. travelers

Trump campaign suffers another legal setback in Wisconsin

China’s vaccines are set to help less wealthy nations, but face trust issues 

WHO changes definition of herd immunity

9-year old YouTuber is top earner of 2020 with $29.5 million


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Friday, December 25, 2020

Dominion

 


Dominion Voting Systems is threatening to sue almost anyone who disparages it ... see: Breitbart Article.


Now someone of stature told me many years ago never threaten to sue anyone. If you must, just go ahead and sue them ... or keep your moth shut.


And, one of the biggest critics of Dominion, Sydney Powell, has already taunted Dominion to sue her. This is because this would open the door for her to start the discovery process ... something Dominion might not want to suffer.



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The Oracle at Mar-a-Largo


Watch out pilgrim ... here comes a heresy!  President Trump is an oracle and a truth teller ... a compulsive seer... often contradicting the conventional trope that is claimed inviolate ...  and he so angers those that benefit from these fictions, that they call him a liar. 


Like, for instance, Trump has wisely said: “If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.” or “Why should we spend billions protecting Germany from Russia when they just built a pipeline to buy natural gas from Russia ... and not from the U.S.?” or  “China is not our friend!” or “You want to build a better world at the cost of destroying America ? ... no, that’s not right!” or “Why should I believe in man-made global warming when all your computer models have been so wrong?”or “Why do Mideast peace deals require Palestinian approval?” or “The Iran nuclear deal was the worst agreement ever struck by the U.S.” and so on ...


The lefty media recognized early-on this Trump tendency to blurt out the truth (watch the movie”Liar”)  and branded him a serial liar in order to try to blunt these truths. But most clear-thinking Americans see through this media smoke-screen and realize the veracity of many of Trump’s blurted revelations ... and that is why he is loved by millions ...  for exposing the convenient, self-serving lies spoon-fed to us by America’s lefty elites.


It looks very much like Trump will be a one-term president. But, assuming Biden is not as stupid as he appears, it is doubtful that Trump’s truths can be unsaid. The American people and, presumedly a few Democrats, have seen the good things that Trump has done ... and will not reverse them.


If they do, then they will not only be destroying America ... but their once-great party too.



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Christmas Vacation




Hawaiian fun! Michelle is obviously off the arugula ... see: Powerline blog entry.


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Headlines

 


Locked-down California runs out of reasons for surprising [Covid] surge

Trump’s attack on Covid relief bill could lead to government shutdown, lapse in unemployment aid

Andrew Yang prepares for run for mayor of New York City

Democrats rally around Trump’s call for $2k stimulus checks

California conservatives rebuke pardon of Duncan Hunter

UK and EU expected to announce Brexit trade deal today

President Trump pardons Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Charles Kushner

Fauci: U.S. close to normal by fall with vaccine ...

CDC: More than 1 million Americans got Covid shots

Alibaba shares fall after after reports of an anti-monopoly probe by China

FY 2021 appropriations bill reduces ICE funding by $107 million

NBA ratings go up after social justice messaging comes down


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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Karnak



The Answer: Food desert


The Question: Where do you find sand-wiches and camel burgers?


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Christmas Music

 


The Christmas season brings many voices from the grave or near-grave singing old holiday favorites ... Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, Ertha Kitt, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Perry Cuomo, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Rosemary Clooney ...


These crooners are so tied to the Christmas song that they made famous that theses songs don’t need to be listed. The persistence of memory.


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Merry Christmas



Anyhow!


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Obvious Truth

 


If all of Biden’s valid 2020 votes for president were to fit into a ingle thimble, I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised. — Fletcher


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Headlines

 


Dominion worker sues Trump campaign and conservative media

Trump calls relief bill unsuitable and demands  Congress add bigger stimulus payments

President Trump grants 15 pardons and 5 commutations

Billions going to foreign aid in spending bill

Biden blasts Trump for handling of cyber attack

Pfizer to supply U.S. with 100 million more Covid shots by July

DOJ sues Walmart alleging role in opioid epidemic

Georgia poll: Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff lead GOP incumbents

Trump nominates Hope Hicks, Ric Grinell to government posts

Covid updates: France to reopen borders to UK travelers, CDC says new Covid strain could be in U.S.

AG Barr says Durham investigation is ‘making good progress’

Biden to dismantle U.S. agreements with Central American


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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Today’s Poser



How many battleground state ballot drop boxes (or politicians) did Mark Zuckerberg’s half-billion dollar “donation” buy during this past election?


See: NewsMax Story.


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Mass. Ackwaeds, Again!



The idiot power-that-be wokers in Massachusetts have done it once again. They are elevating prisoners ahead of we general elderly in line to get the Covid vaccine. Makes Mass-Ackwards sense to me! Stee: WBUR Story.

 

Oops, gotta go ... I’ve decided to rob a bank this afternoon.


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Karnak




The Answer: Cancel Culture


The Question: What is growing in a Petri dish that contains Nancy Pelosi’s spittle?



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Headlines

 


Italian data regulator opens formal procedure against TIKTOK

Researcher says Tesla stock is too expensive and in bubble territory

President Trump signs executive order requiring classical architecture for federal buildings

Billions going to foreign aid in coronavirus relief bill

Poll: Majority want Pelosi out as House speaker

U.S. plans to study allergic reactions from Pfizer’s Covid vaccine

AG Barr: No plan to appoint Hunter Biden special counsel 

Congress opens the door for another migrant wave

Sweden edges closer to NATO membership

Covid updates: U.S. surpasses 18 million cases: WHO says Covid mutates slower than seasonal flu

Relief checks set to hit bank accounts next week, says Mnuchin

Japan approves record $52 billion military budget to counter China


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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Obvious Truth



You can read it in their faces ... the vast sums of money available from China, Russia, the Middle East, Big Tech and Wall Street meant to corrupt politicians (the media, the Deep State, sports, entertainment and our universities) ... along with the myriad innovative quasi-legal ways now employed to transfer this pelf ... foundations, book sales, cozy business deals, etc. ... in exchange for unAmerican favors ... is obviously a temptation hard to resist except by the most stalwart of our country’s patriotic men and women. — Fletcher


Afterward: Try to name a handful of these patriot pelf resisters. (Are you sure?)


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Big Tech



The headline says it all:

Google and Facebook reportedly agreed to help each other against potential antitrust action


What could be greater evidence of an an overt violation of antitrust laws than such a collusion to thwart such an action ... see: CNBC Article. Where is our trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt when we need him?


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Obvious Truth


The theft of this past presidential election was our ruling class’s vengeance against the American people who had the audacity to think that they ran things. — Fletcher


Afterward... watch: Woodsterman Video.



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The Skids



As in the USA, you know when your country is on the skids. It’s when virtue signaling becomes more prevelant than virtue. — Fletcher


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Headlines



Congress strikes stimulus deal after days of frantic talks

Experts expect vaccines to protect against UK’s fast-spreading Covid virus

Rockets target U.S. embassy in Baghdad

Exclusive — Rand Paul: Masks ‘are all about submission’

CDC panel: Frontline workers, 75--plus seniors should get Covid shots next

“Out of control” Coviid strain makes UK a global pariah as countries impose travel bans

Judge upholds his decision to livestream George Floyd trial

Donald Trump denies considering martial law to rerun 2020 election

Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pennsylvania election results

Millionaires are bracing for tax hikes next year, CNBC survey finds

Most Americans say attending Christmas gatherings is worth the risk

Nunes: FBI was lying to Congress


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