Monday, August 31, 2020

Republican National Convention


Was a “modern day minstrel show” ... according to MSNBC ... see: Washington Times Article. This type of vile rhetoric paints this channel for what it is ... a sewer. And then its sewer rats turn around and dare say we “need to bring our country together.” Vile is not a strong enough word.


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Dilemma


I’m at a loss ... I can’t decide which sport to ignore more ... baseball, ice hockey, football or basketball!

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Zuckerberg

From Woodsterman blog



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Headlines


Judge orders jury trial in Sarah Palin libel suit against New York Times

IRS guidelines put employers on the hook for Trump’s payroll tax break

Tucker Carlson teases release of taped conversation between Michael Cohen and Chris Cuomo

Michael Moore warns: enthusiasm for Trump 2020 ‘off the charts’

Never mind Navalny, Germany won’t get tough with Russia

National Intel director will no longer give Congress in-person briefings on election interference

Mitch McConnell’s campaign hires Nick Sandman

Trump approval jumps nine points w/ black voters

5 ways Steve Bannon could beat the rap

Coronavirus cases climb in the Midwest as more states report growing outbreaks

Pelosi says $1.3 trillion in additional stimulus isn’t enough

NYT Brooks: Democrats ‘wrong side of order’ ...

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Today’s Poser


Why don’t any of our pollsters solicit the American voter’s head-to-head preference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ... since this is really what the November election will be all about?


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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Fractured Fairy Tales



Are you missing the Rocky and Bullwinkle show? Well, not as funny as I remember ...


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Today’s Poser


Have some black Americans stopped seeking racial equality and are now really demanding supremacy?


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Fractured Definition


Curtail — the wagger on a mongrel canine


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Headlines


Japan Prime Minister Shinto Abe says he’s resigning due to health reasons

S&P 500’s stunning summer rally points to best August since 1986

U.S consumer spending increased more than expected in July

Michelle Obama: White people have treated me like I don’t exist

Biden snags ‘Keep America Great’ domain in latest act of Trump trolling

Fed’s Harker says he would be OK with inflation creeping past 2.5%

Far-left lunatics attack Rand Paul and others leaving Trump speech

Kenosha, Wisconsin: Teenager Kyle Rittenhouse charged with murder

Pelosi says Dems will release Trump’s tax returns if they win White House

Hurricane Laura leaves damage in Louisiana and weakens into tropical depression

Russian nuclear submarine surfaces near Alaska, alarming American fishing vessels

FNC’s Wallace: Trump’s speech ‘surprisingly flat, far too long’


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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Nostalgia

From Gorges’ Grouse blog


Kitchen cupboard — my grandmother had one like this. That thing on the left is a flour bin and sifter.

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Fractured Definition


Hornswoggle — selling one a fake Louie Armstrong trumpet.

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Powerline Pic




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Today’s Poser


How can the lefty moonbats despise America so ferociously that they want to destroy it ... while, at the same time, worship at its hub, the D.C. swamp?



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Headlines


Unemployment claims fell slightly to 1 million last wee

Powell announces Fed’s new approach to inflation that could keep rates lower for longer

Hack PBS reporter: Standing for National Anthem is racist

PBS WH reporter sees dog whistle in paralyzed GOP candidate standing up

European Union too slow to help Belarus, Lithuania says

July pending home sales jump over 15% annually in July, as properties go under contract in record time

North Korea releases proof-of-life photos of Kim Jong-un

Boston protest urges vote for Joe Biden because he is ‘pro-life‘

‘It’s playing into Trump’s hands’: Dems fear swing-state damage from Kenosha unrest

Coronavirus live updates: WHO warns Europe faces ‘tricky moment’ as summer turns to fall

BLM riots break out again in Minneapolis after murder suspect commits suicide

Anderson Cooper peddles disproven claim Trump wanted to inject people with bleach

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Friday, August 28, 2020

Stilton’s Place




If Hell exists, Beelzebub has already set aside a locker for her.


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Media Wars


Why all the social turmoil of late? Obviously there is a holy war taking place between the left and the right ... highlighted by the media excesses. The left has the broadcast news, some cable channels, most of the print media and a good internet representation. The right has a few cable channels, talk radio and a slice of the internet that the Masters of the Universe allow then to enjoy. Does this seem like a fair fight ... particularly since our education, entertainment and sports systems are also players on the left?

Kind reader, is it possible that this turmoil is a result of this Teutonic shift in how the people are staying informed? No longer do they shuffle out front to pick up their morning newspaper. Instead they go on the internet to watch what actually happened yesterday. They are less and less using someone else, like Walter Cronkite, to tell them “that’s the way it is.” And this is because slowly the realization is spreading that there are other ways that it is.

And so what happens? The left media in particular, seeing their influence waning, become even more strident and biased in their reporting ... trying to hold onto their revenue streams by corralling viewership and readership ... and doing a credible, albeit ultimately losing job.

Why ultimately losing? Simple, kind reader, they too often are not being honest with the American people. All it took was an orange-haired president continually pointing out “fake news” for this realization to begin to sink in. When hoaxes turn out to be hoaxes the scales begin to fall from some perceptive eyes.

The right has not won yet ... but right is right...  and eventually the media, which most closely reports the facts, will win.

For sure, the truth will out.


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Trump


For those of you, without hate in your hearts, here is President Trump’s acceptance speech last night. (Early on, notice the agitators’ sirens, car alarms and bull horns in the background ... attempting to disrupt things.)

To me, his address was a little long, droning and repetitious ... but, again, that’s Trump Teleprompter style. But the sentiments, assessments and promises were right on.



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Quotable Quote


Asking for logic in an era of illogic is as futile as trying to get Donald Trump not to punch back. — Anon.

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Headlines


First she renovated the Rose Garden. Then Melania spruced up her husband.

CDC quietly revises guidance on coronavirus testing for asymptomatic people

Jacob Blake’s mother denounces rioters

CNBC poll: Trump approval rising in battleground states

Lincoln Project co-founder predicts Trump will lose New Hampshire

U.S. core capital goods orders slow in July from prior month, while durable goods orders surge 11.2%

Crooked Hillary: In close race Biden ‘shouldn’t concede under any circumstances’

CNN Primetime: Biden needs to stop ignoring riots —- ‘This is blind spot for Democrats’

Kenosha police: 3 shot, 2 fatally, during Wisconsin protests

Hurricane Laura is now forecast to intensify to catastrophic Category 4 as it nears U.S. Gulf Coast

Taxes in New Jersey set to increase even more

Trafalgar Group poll: Trump leads Biden by one point in Wisconsin

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

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Madison Cawthorn at the 3rd night of the Republican Convention. He is running for Congress from North Carolina.

Poland



Gdańsk, Poland ... again

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A Mother Speaks


Sanity returns — Jacob Blake’s mother speaks from her heart about her son’s shooting in Kenosha. Wisconsin ... to Don Lemon on CNN.


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Think Hard!


Think hard pilgrim! Is this guy right? Will such words beget more bloodshed? Or usher in social justice? Think hard!

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Today’s Poser



“He is a snot-nosed, entitled kid from Kentucky.” — Joe Lockhart (Bill Clinton’s former snot-nosed press secretary)


Will Covington’s Nick Sandman, like Parkland’s David Hogg, be offered admission to Harvard?


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Headlines


It’s Nikki Haley vs. Don Jr. for the soul of the GOP

JPMorgan will have staff cycle between office and remote work in a move that may remake Wall Street

President Trump leads Biden by 10 points among independents

BBC scraps patriotic lyrics for broadcast after BLM pressure

FDA chef issues mea culpa for his plasma treatment claims

Citigroup raise S&P 500 outlook, says Fed will do ‘whatever it takes

Wisconsin National Guard deployed to Kenosha

Kenosha residents, business owners fire warning shots

Poll: No convention bounce for Biden, who maintains big lead over Trump

Home prices show signs of recovery, rising 4.3% in June, according to Case-Schiller index

Carrier Ronald Reagan patrols South China Sea, carries out air operations

Video shows Jacob Blake brawling with cops before shooting

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Bulls and Bears


Had a conversation with a stock-savvy classmate on Monday. Asked him if he thought our stock markets were hitting record highs because the Wall Street pros thought Trump would win in November? His response was that it was more likely due to the enormous liquidity being pumped into our economy by the Federal Reserve Bank because of Covid. (Money has to be put to work somewhere.)

This is certainly likely ... since we saw this same stock market rise during the Obama administration due to about $10 trillion of liquidity injected during the Fed’s three phases of Quantitative Easing  ... combined with essentially zero interest rates.

Now that we effectively have zero interest rates back again, this is another inflator of stock prices. The prevailing interest rate is what one uses to discount the future corporate earnings stream to establish its stock price ... and forever zero rates thoeortically justify infinite stock prices. Calm down pilgrim ... it’s just theoretically ... we’re living in the real world ... and nothing is forever.

But, somehow I have to believe that if it becomes obvious  the Biden/Harris ticket will be clear winners (and the fake Indian as Treasury Secretary), we would not be hitting new stock market  highs ... more liquidity or not.


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White Extremists


“Injustice is a small price to pay for social justice.” — Anon.

White extremists in Minneapolis attack a photojournalist for filming their peaceful protest ... see: Powerline Post. Oops, I’m sorry ... it’s the other way around.

There is something strange going on when seemingly rational people (very often females) become so out of control and hateful. Equality has been hijacked by inequality. Comity has morphed into rage. Is there a sea change taking place? And the sea creatures reduced to dispair? At some point, hopefully soon, sanity will prevail ... but at the cost of some ... possibly many ... lives being forever disrupted or destroyed.


Afterthought; The word “banshee” comes to mind.


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Today’s Poser


Why do many things seem to move from conservatives toward the wrong-headed liberals ... FoxNews, Supreme Court justices, the Drudge Report, etc. ... how come so seldom does it go the other way?


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Headlnes


More than two dozen ex-GOP lawmakers join ‘Republicans for Biden’

Trump aide Kellyanne Conway to leave White House as she cites need to focus on her family

Blue states have worst coronavirus death rates by far

At least 60 shot, 5 killed, over weekend in mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

Trump cites school choice, China as second-term priorities

U.K. denies report it will scrap digital tax to reach a U.S. trade deal

Violent protests erupt in Kenosha, Wisconsin after police shooting

Barack Obama: Joe Biden’s goals ‘not that different’ from Bernie Sanders

Pelosi defends supporting Joe Kennedy in Democrat primary

Coronavirus live updates: WHO says 172 countries in on global vaccine plan, China e-commerce giants see a boost

Like losers John Kerry and George McGovern, Biden doesn’t get a bump in post-DNC polls

Detroit absentee ballot chaos: ‘So inaccurate we can’t even hope to make it right’ ...


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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Life’s Mysteries


- Why is Kim Kardashian famous ... there are lots of women with big butts?

- If kneeling is a sign of obedience and respect, why, when done during the playing of the national anthem, is it just the opposite?

- Why is Donald Trump’s hair orange?

- Why 72 virgins for martyred jihadists  ... why not 83 or 37?

- If all life is sacred to Hindus, how can they eat anything?

- Who killed Seth Rich? And why?

- Why are there no pictures of a pregnant Michelle Obama?

- If aliens are visiting us in UFOs, how come they don’t land and say hello?

- Where has all the comedy gone?

- How many push-ups can Joe Biden do?

- Who was the first person to eat an oyster?

- Is rap really “music?”


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Headlines


Meadows: Trump doesn’t know much about QAnon

House passes bill to put $25 billion into USPS and even see changes amid uproar

Goldman Sachs: Almost a quarter of temporary lay-offs could become permanent

Portland: Rioters bring own guillotine

American envoy joins Taiwan president at military memorial

Trump’s sister says president has ‘no principles’ in secret recordings

Trump raises the possibility of ‘decoupling’ U.S. economy from China

*BBC* fact-checks Biden for Charlottesville ‘very fine people’ hoax

‘Not just a low-wage recession’: White-collar workers feel coronavirus squeeze

Daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. fall below 50,000 for seven straight days after summer surge

Thanks to de Blasio: New York City is being abandoned

Portland rioters threaten people n homes: ‘Come out into streets’

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Quotable Quote


“The only absolute while alive is a vodka.” — Anon.


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Monday, August 24, 2020

New Newspeak



Sometimes I, like George Orwell, believe that liberal brains are mis-wired and they are “unable to process.” It seems that they have an uncanny way of offering up arguments that, by their mystical quality, sound possible ... but fall apart upon closer inspection. The following is a comment on a recent blog post here that has Swiss cheese holes all through it:

People yearn for simple ways to describe complex issues. In the political realm, unlike science, the simplest solution is too often a short term fix, which fails in the long run due to those pesky unintended consequences.

This is Trump's appeal: He offers simple solutions. A Wall to stem illegal immigration, Tariffs to punish China, Hydroxychloriquine, cancelling Treaties, on and on. The ramifications of his actions are beyond his ability to process. It will take a long tome to fix the mess he has created.”

 A few observations:

- William of Ocean did not say the his “razor” only applied to science. He obviously meant that the simpler solution applied across the board.

- How does this commenter know that Trump’s solutions will fail in the long run ...  does he have a Magic 8 Ball? And does his observation imply that they are working at least in the short term? The wall and Trump’s standing up to China are seminal events that, I predict, will make the history books.

- Trump’s jettisoning of the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal was legit because they were NOT treaties since they had never been ratified by Congress. The remake of NAFTA WAS ratified by Congress.

- Are these Biden solutions also short-term: the Green New Deal, huge tax increases, open borders, eliminate cash bail, defund the police, no fracking, Medicaid for All (including illegals), more regulations, gut our armed forces, eliminate prisons, rewrite our history, more regulations, voting from prison, scuttle tariffs, Socialism, etc.?


Bottom line: With many of these cockamamie Democrat proposals, there is no long-term ...


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Audacity of Accusation


In a contest, if one side is allowed to cheat and the other not ... in fact is then accused, with audacity, of cheating, the other side has a much more difficult time prevailing. This doesn’t mean that they can’t, but it is quite unlikely. That is why Donald Trump’s winning the presidency in 2016 was almost miraculous ... given the extensive Obamagate conspiracy against his campaign and then his presidency.

And Trump would be foolish to expect anything less from Biden and the slimy Democrat operatives this time around.


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Headlines


Biden’s convention embraced racial justice. BLM leaders saw it mostly as lip service.

S&P 500’s return to a record doesn’t tell the full story, with 60% of stocks still with losses

Dr. Birx says it’ll be safe to vote in-person in November

Trump: Democrats at DNC removed ‘God’ from pledge of allegience ‘on purpose’

Trump calls out FDA Chief, suggests agency is slow-walking Covid clinical trials

China’s Achilles heel: What Japan’s 1980 boom and bust can tell us about the Chinese economy

John Brennan says he isn’t under criminal investigation after 8-hour interview with attorney Durham

School Act would assure education money ‘follows the child, not the system’

Biden says he’d lock down country if spread of coronavirus warranted it

New York City May take a decade to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, says developer Don Peebles

WH National Security Advisor calls the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Novalny “extraordinarily concerning”

California wildfires some of the largest in state history

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Click on: California Electric Grid is Near Collapse ... and the moonbats are bound to blame Trump.

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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Semantic Kindling


A very perplexing thing about political combat is why some simple messages cut through the oppressive fog of demagoguery to capture the day ... Willie Horton, Hope and Change, read my lips, morning in America, etc. Why such semantic kindling spontaneously combusts is beyond my small mind ... but it usually happens late in every election. Watch for it! I’m sure it’s coming!


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Two Wild and Crazy Guys




Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd ... back when SNL was funny

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Perfect and Imperfect


We had a perfect man become a perfect president.



And a perfect man become an imperfect president.



Then we had an imperfect man become a perfect president.



Are we now going to fill out our dance card and have an imperfect man become an imperfect president?



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Sniffer-in-Chief?



One wag said that Biden’s greatest coronavirus fear was that it robbed you of your sense of smell.


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Headlines


Biden is already forming a government. Here’s what his cabinet looks like.

Struggling retailers rush to file for bankruptcy as fears of a second wave of coronavirus linger

Chicago mayor bans protests — but only on her own block

Poll: Trump, Biden statistical tie in Pennsylvania

Duckworth calls Trump ‘coward in chief’

July home sales spike 24.7% as prices set a new high

Judge orders new election in Patterson, NJ after voter fraud charges

Virus cases falling so low in L.A. that schools could reopen soon

Greta Thunberg climate movement targets Angela Merkel

$50 billion of cryptocurrency moves out of China hinting at capital flight against Beijing’s rules

Steve Bannon pleads not guilty in Manhattan federal court

Report: Belarus flies in Russian crews to take over state media

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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Storms Abrewing

Sunday morning update


Tropical storms Marco and Laura (on right). Laura could become a category one hurricane.

Words of Wisdom



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Woke Up


Are you pissed at all these snowflakes rioting and pillaging? Well, spend a few moments watching a video of these woke come-uppances. And, be careful ... grinning too much can break your face: from Feral Irishman blog.


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Powerline Pic


AOC in distress again ...


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Interesting Chart



Hmmm ... hydroxychloroquine?

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Headlines


It’s Kamala’s party now

U.S. weekly jobless claims jump back above 1 million

Continued school closures are linked to union influence, not science

Portland riots continue during DNC, ICE offices, police attacked

Russian opposition figure Navalny in coma after poisoning

Coronavirus live updates: Teachers threaten strikes in Detroit and NYC, WHO warns of resurgence in Europe

At least two DNC meetings ship ‘under God’ in pledge of allegiance

Kamala so woke: ‘There is no vaccine for racism’ ...

U.S. will trigger ‘snapback’ mechanism to reimpose Iran sanctions

U.S. and China to hold trade talks in the coming days, Chinese commerce ministry says

After 400+ canceled orders, Boeing receives first 737 MAX order for 2020

Barack Obama abandons hope and change in DNC speech

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Friday, August 21, 2020

Just My Opinion


I hear many say that the people of Iran are good. ... it is just their leaders who are evil. Well, as much as I would like to concur with that rationalization, I can’t. The people of Iran have by their once vote and by their continued complacency allowed their country to become what it is today ... the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism. This is just like the people of North Korea, Russia, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Chicago, New York, Portland and many others have made their corrupt beds and now unhappily are tucked into them.

If a citizenry allows idiot dictators to rule them, then they deserve being pariahs. And yes, dear reader ... anticipating some of your snarky comments ... if I sense that Donald Trump is taking America in an autocratic direction, I will not be an accomplice in such a degradation. And although Trump’s enemies ... including the pipsqueak press and some of you, kind readers, do so avow ... I have yet to sense such a turn.

If such a circumstance presents itself ... and I am sensitive to this possibility because of all the feral abuse that he has suffered, it could be a predictable reaction ... I still will raise my pen in protest.

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Free Speech

By Norman Rockwell

I would like to believe that part of the appeal of this blog is that it stands up for free speech ... and doesn’t squelch dissenters in the comments section. I would guess about 90% of the comments here disagree with my post’s arguments ... usually responded to by my counter-thoughts. This is what keeps things free and interesting ... and eventually can iterate to truth.

Much of the internet today does not permit such free-wheeling dialog. Twitter, reddit, Facebook, etc. are becoming increasingly restrictive in the degree of woke dissent they will permit. What good is that after all? These social media sites become echo chambers and not sounding boards. Worthless! And, in my opinion, sadly anti-American.


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Fractured Definition


Monocle — French for “my uncle”


Liberal Logic

From Woodsterman blog



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Headlines


Manafort worked with Russian Intel officer who may have been involved in DNC hack, Senate panel says

Left outraged by AOC’s bit role at Democrat convention

S&P hits all-time high

Pressley calls for ‘unrest in the streets’ over GOP ignoring American needs

Trump pardons Susan B. Anthony for crime of voting as a woman

Coronavirus live updates: CDC to monitor sewage systems for virus, schools likely years from return to ‘normal’

CNN: ‘Offensive’ to question Biden’s health

Democrats schedule ‘urgent hearing’ on ‘postal system sabotage’

Michelle repudiate Barack’s core tenet of politics in urgent plea to boot Trump

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund reports $21 billion loss after ‘volatile’ first half of year

Cuomo calls it the “European virus” at DNC

Virginia Democrat, NAACP leaders face felony charges in monument destruction


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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Q-Anon

Q-Anon trying to burn down a Portland police station

It is predictable ... whenever the Masters of the Universe decide to silence any group ... in this case, Q-Anon ... that such group will be of a conservative bent. Somehow the radical left ... ANTIFA, George Soros, BLM, Southern PovertyLaw Center, CNN, etc. ... escape such Orwellian censorship. Dear readers, please check out some details of this “radical right” crackdown: The Guardian Story ... and thank Allah that we have now been saved from viewing such conspiracy theories.

However, I do find it funny that I had never heard of Q-Anon until my ever-alert liberal friends clued me in.


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Today’s Poser


How come ‘virtually’ all the speakers at the Democrat Nomination Convention have not touched on our China challenge, the riots in our streets, “redirecting”  police funding, soaring US crime rates, homelessness in blue cities, Middle East peace progress, ISIS destruction, Iran sanctions, the Afghanistan pullout and our military’s rebuilding? All that we have heard is how evil Trump is ... and what a visionary Biden is.  Are none of these other things worth talking about?


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