HMM: Nassau County Bill Allows Cops to Sue Protesters for Harassment. “The bill is controversial because it would hold protesters accountable for their actions at a demonstration. The legislation is aimed at discouraging protesters from engaging in actions and words that are designed to provoke a violent response from police.”
Archive for 2021
August 4, 2021
Every American, especially the ones with journalism degrees, understands the critical role journalists play in sustaining our democracy. If politics is the moral equivalent of war—and most experts agree that it is—journalists are the elite commandos operating behind enemy lines, risking it all so the rest of us don’t have to.
One shudders to imagine the wretched authoritarianism that might have befallen our great nation if, for example, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter had lacked the courage to spellcheck former president Donald Trump’s tweets. Nevertheless, the threat to American democracy persists.
Political journalists have yet to prove they are up to the challenge of covering Joe Biden’s norm-defying presidency. Instead, they cling bitterly to “objectivity,” the arcane notion that defined the journalism industry in the years before its largely blue-collar workforce could be replaced by educated intellectuals.
As Margaret Sullivan writes in the Washington Post: “Mainstream journalists want their work to be perceived as fair-minded and nonpartisan. They want to defend themselves against charges of bias. So they equalize the unequal. This practice seems so ingrained as to be unresolvable.”
Given the unique challenge Biden and his allies pose to the American democratic experiment, a “politics as usual” approach to journalism is not only inadequate—it is downright dangerous. Effective immediately, our nation’s journalists—whose heroism is beyond dispute—must stop covering this moment in history as if there’s anything “normal” about it. There isn’t!
Biden promised to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the virus continues to decimate the population. Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, elite enclaves frequented by Biden supporters, have become hotbeds of contagion. Democratic politicians have waged biological warfare on Washington, D.C., where the Democratic mayor continues to put lives at risk by ignoring safety protocols.
This is not normal. And they’ll admit that as soon as they’re instructed to do so.
READER BOOK RECOMMENDATION: The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat (Bumped)
You can see the full list of book recommendations here.
FIGHT THE POWER: Jefferson County parks & rec district drops concealed carry ban effort after ‘numerous’ public comments.
Foothills Parks and Recreation District (FPRD) Executive Director Ronald Hopp told Complete Colorado on Monday that the board of directors had decided to indefinitely table discussion of banning concealed carry of firearms by lawfully permitted citizens in Foothills facilities and outdoor spaces.
Complete Colorado initially broke, and exclusively covered the developing story.
Hopp said there will not be an agenda item on the August meeting or “any other board meeting in the foreseeable future,” citing numerous comments from the public.
“The Foothills Park & Recreation District’s Board had discussed various options, including the possibility of new policies, in response to recent gun-related incidents in both our facilities and parks, at least one of which involved the mishandling of a properly permitted concealed firearm,” Hopp said in a statement.
The ink from Gov. Jared Polis’ pen on Senate Bill 21-256, allowing FPRD to ban all firearms, including concealed carry, from its facilities had only been dry for three days when FRPD staff brought up the idea at its board of directors meeting on June 22.
Civil rights enthusiasts made themselves heard, and it worked.
IF THEY WEREN’T SO BOUND AND DETERMINED TO GET IT INTO MY VEINS, I MIGHT. AS IS? NO SALE: To Vax or Not To Vax…
Also for the record, right now I don’t trust a) the government, in all its organs, all its false glamour, all its empty promises. b) the medical establishment which is its handmaiden, and is represented by the scabrous lying Fauci of the serpent tongue who speaks out both sides of his mouth and sometimes other orifices. c) the lying media which ginned up the insanity of the last two years, whole cloth.
So, I don’t trust something the government really wants me to have in my veins. The fact they want it is reason enough for me to say no. The doctors who assure me it’s safe, and also that I must get vaccinated for something that — given some medical issues — I have 98.8% chance of surviving if I catch it are also not covering themselves with glory. (If I get one more “get vaccinated now” text from my PCP, he’s going to get a graduate degree in swearing in seven languages.) And I don’t trust the media to accurately — or at all — report any adverse reactions particularly among people with auto-immune issues. I also don’t trust them to stop trying to drum up the fear of a bug most people survive, or don’t even know they contracted.
I don’t trust them. At all. So why would I do what they want me to do?
YOU CAN’T. THERE IS NO SENSE. THEY JUST LIKE HITTING US: COVID overview Part I: trying to make sense of the whole “masks for the vaccinated” thing.
(And follow her through to part II. It’s worth it.)
IT’S A VERY CUNNING FORM OF STUPIDITY: The Magical Stupidity Of Thinking “Wage Slavery” Is A Thing.
VERY MUCH NOT, BUT DON’T WORRY. CHINA SUCKS AT THIS: China Picking Up Where US Leaves Off Not A Good Thing.
FAVORED PETS OF THE REGIME: Fourth Capitol Police Officer Suicide Raises Questions.
Also stupid as rocks, since they haven’t figured out they’re putting themselves in the middle of a family fight. I mean, even police officers fear “domestics.”
MY MAIN QUESTION BEING: EPSTEINED? Fourth Capitol Police Officer Suicide Raises Questions.
WE HAVE A DEMOCRACY LIKE LIZZY IS AMERINDIAN: Elizabeth Warren Tells Teen Vogue: Abortion, Voting are ‘About the Functioning of Our Democracy’.
Also, is it too late for retroactive abortion since she supports it so hard? Because a lot of us think she’s not very happy, what with trying to be another ethnicity and all. We think it’s a quality of life issue. She’s not very happy and never has been. She should be kept comfortable, while the nation has a talk about her…. Though mind you, just making her retroactively born in Cuba is just as good. We can drop her off. We’ll even give her a parachute.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: Report: UN-Funded Palestinian Teachers Promote Antisemitism, Glorify Jihad Terrorism.
BUT MURDERING ELDERLY? THAT’S FINE: Biden Says Cuomo ‘Should Resign’ After Bombshell Report Showed He Sexually Harassed Women.
ARISTOS, ARISTOS A LA LANTERNE: Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Halting Texas Illegal Migrant Transport Ban.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AN AMERICAN: Olympic Gold Medalist Tamyra Mensah-Stock: ‘I Love Representing the U.S.’.
HAVING A HONEYMOON WITH A USURPER IS LIKE HAVING A HONEYMOON WITH A RAPIST: ‘Honeymoon Officially Over’: Biden’s Job and Economy Approval Ratings Drops in Two Polls.
Any honeymoon was as real as the FICUS (Fraud In Chief of the US) having the most votes ever in history.
August 3, 2021
MICHAEL WALSH: A Ministry of Fear Rules America.
Back in 1943, the British novelist Graham Greene published “The Ministry of Fear,” a thriller set in World War II London involving mercy killings, exploding suitcases, seances, Luftwaffe air raids, outright murder, insane asylums and undercover Nazi spies. It was successfully made into a movie the following year starring Ray Milland as the troubled protagonist, and directed by Fritz Lang, himself a refugee from Hitler.
Both novel and film capture the paranoid atmosphere during that troubled time, with danger lurking even in something as innocent as a cake. Whom or what can you trust? As the world falls apart, and the future is shrouded in threat and mystery, society devolves into a dog-eat-dog struggle for survival, in which neither the old verities nor the old pieties obtain any longer.
Welcome to America, 2021. In just a few short months since the mysterious elevation of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., inexplicably elected the 46th president of the United States, our country has undergone a stunning rapid devolution from a confident, economic powerhouse to a shabby debtor nation afraid of its own shadow.
Read the whole thing.
WATCH DEMOCRATS ENDORSE THE WALL: 54% Of Hispanic Voters In California Say They Would Vote To Recall Newsom.
I BELIEVE IN THE SCIENCE: Experts Warn Of New ‘Cuomo’ Variant That Is Dangerous To Young Women, Fatal To Elderly.
RALPH NORTHAM SMILES: Neighboring Democratic govs call on Cuomo to resign amid sex harass probe report. “In a terse statement, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, and Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee — all Democrats — said they were ‘appalled at the findings of the independent investigation by the New York Attorney General. Governor Cuomo should resign from office,’ they added.”