REPARATIONS IN THE DARNEDEST PLACES: Northampton, Massachusetts eyes reparations.
Archive for 2023
February 6, 2023
ANIMAL, OR VEGETABLE, OR WHATEVER. “It surprises, in the 21st Century, particularly among the Greens demanding solar power, that so many remain unaware that ruminants are solar energy storage systems. Solar power causes plant matter to grow; as plants grow, they turn that solar energy into matter. Grazers eat that solar energy converted to and stored as plant matter, processing it into muscle they then store and use to move around to live, work for us, make more ruminants, and to fertilize the ground wherever they go, nurturing more grass which, powered by sunlight, grows tall, storing more solar energy for another ruminant to store and make use of. Humans consume this stored solar energy when eating beef, venison, rabbit, etc., allowing us to move, think, live, create.”
To be fair, Greens aren’t very big on humans moving, thinking, living, or creating.
MATT MARGOLIS: Biden’s Story About the Spy Balloon Doesn’t Add Up; Here’s What Most Likely Happened. “The other problem with this story is that we know the Pentagon had been monitoring the balloon since it left China, and it had previous opportunities to shoot it down while it was over U.S. territorial waters when it crossed over the Aleutian Islands. The Biden administration most certainly knew what it was and where it might go, and the opportunity to shoot it down safely over the water was not taken.”
ROGER SIMON: Chinese Balloon Hovers Over Biden’s 2023 State of the Union.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, who is delivering the Republican response to President Joe Biden after his State of the Union address on Feb. 7, should open with the following question that is more imperative than ever.
What does China have on Joe Biden?
More than ever, America has a right to know.
When I started to write this, a Chinese spy balloon with a mysterious payload the size of three buses, we are told, was hovering over South Carolina. It was finally shot down over the Atlantic by our military, minutes after I finished my initial draft.
Our government knew about the balloon for a week and did nothing, hiding the presence of the balloon from the public, only to have it discovered by a local newspaper in Billings, Montana, that ran a picture.
The administration’s excuse for not shooting it down was that the payload might injure people, but for a good part of that week, the balloon was traveling over remote areas in Alaska, making that assertion ridiculous. It would have been safe even over Montana, where there are about seven people per square mile.
So I repeat: What does China have on Joe Biden?
Our president’s relations with the communist country have been a question for some time, even before he started officially running for the office of president.
Who can forget that he said the following in May 2019 about the regime that practices genocide on Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and just about anybody who raises his or her hand in defense of democracy:
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.”
Not bad folks? Evidently, he missed the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Nevertheless, Biden walked the foregoing back pretty quickly for obvious reasons, but I suspect he was then actually speaking from the heart—or the pocketbook, considering the amount of money his family—not to mention the University of Pennsylvania, home to the Penn Biden Center—have received from the People’s Republic.
Add it all up and it pushes or even exceeds a hundred million for Biden-related payments alone. Nobody knows exactly yet. Investigations are in progress and should now be redoubled.
The word for all this is “elite capture,” which the Chinese Communist Party has been practicing for decades, literally buying a fair percentage of our best universities, scientific institutes, corporations, entertainment, and more that we don’t know about or realize.
They exploited a weakness in the American character that Alexis de Tocqueville highlighted in his “Democracy in America” back in the early 19th country: greed. It’s not our best trait.
Roger says he’s emailed a copy to Sanders. We’ll see if she runs with it.
LIGHTNING DEAL: ABACKH Back Brace Posture Corrector for Women and Men. #CommissionEarned
GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: Arctic outbreak shatters records in Northeast, including -108°F wind chill.
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST MOSTLY FOR INDIE WRITERS: Book Promo and Vignettes by by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There is also a vignette challenge orchestrated by three commenters.
MANY SEEM TO BE MORE SELF-RIGHTEOUS: Are Mask Wearers More Self-Conscious Than Others?
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition mess.
JEFF JACOBY: We’ve been paying reparations for almost sixty years. That’s what LBJ’s War on Poverty was supposed to be,
DISNEY GOES IN FOR REPARATIONS: I miss the days of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.
You really do need to watch this. It’s bizarre. https://t.co/oZe9Qr9k62
— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) February 6, 2023
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS: Migrant students in NYC schools without proof of vaccinations.
CAN’T SAY HE’S WRONG: Ex-astronaut says ‘toxic’ NASA hasn’t learned from fatal mistakes — and may lose space race to China.
I mean, I doubt the China thing, because they really are a paper tiger. But if this goes on we’ll miss the race period. Us, civilization, the whole human race.
FIGHTING FOR TRUTH IS AS IMPORTANT AS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM: Journalism 101: on Russiagate.
You can’t have one without the other.
ALWAYS HAS; ALWAYS WILL: Gun Control Kills People.
WHICH IS WHY THEY’LL DO EVERYTHING TO CHEAT HER OUT: Popularity of Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni is a rebuke to EU bureaucrats and European MSM.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump’s watch is deflating fast.
THEY ARE UNDER THE BOOT OF CASTREAU: Canada’s government poised to move closer to ending free speech.
NO! Biden Admin Floats New Strategy To ‘Address the Climate Crisis’: Don’t Leave Your House.
I’d like the Biden Junta to contemplate my middle fingers. Behold. I have a matched set.
THEY ARE NOT WINNING. THEY WILL NEVER WIN. THEY CAN HOLD ON TIGHTER TO THE APPEARANCE OF POWER: Biden State Of The Union: “We Are Winning! Kind Of…”
But the appearance is not the thing.
THEY CAN TRY, IF THEY THINK THEY HAVE COMPLETE FRAUD CONTROL OVER THE VOTE: Michelle Obama For President 2024.
They won’t like what blows up in their faces. The most unlikable woman in the history of ever. Yeah, that will work out well.
CALIFORNIA HAS NOT HIT PEAK STUPID: California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools.
But will no doubt soon resume trying to.
START WHAT? WHOEVER WROTE THIS, OR BUYS IT AIN’T BEEN TO EUROPE IN A LONG TIME: To Solve San Francisco’s Drug Problem, Start Emulating European Traditionalism.
Longer than I’ve been in the states. Look, I went to college in a large, dirty Atlantic port city. Yeah, some of the depravities in San Francisco might benefit from better weather, but they aren’t inventing anything new. Not since Rome. It’s all a matter of knowing where to look, or being a tourist who refuses to see the bad or stays to the Potemkin areas. Seriously.