Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Back In Business, Worst Ever. Are We Accommodating The Evil Desires Of Our Adversaries? The Pesach Connection. Can't Change Stupid. Much More.






Republicans have every right to bring up impeachment. Biden  failing to protect our nation from an invasion but they would not win and even if they could they fear making "Cackle Lady" president.

https://youtu.be/sHlVWRI0Tzo

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Finally:

The truth is clear: Joe Biden is the worst president ever. 
By Joe Vespa

This is what you get when you have a "president" whose brain is oatmeal and an evil political party that wants to destroy America as we know it propping him up. 

We’re having to fight with everything we've got just to protect our kids from those on the left who want to indoctrinate them with the worst, most sick things imaginable. You've seen the stories... Disney and these leftist "teachers" are totally out of control. We must fight them every step of the way to protect our kids. But we need your help. 

Unfortunately, that's not the only battle we face as our country teeters on the edge...

There’s a boatload of stories that need covering. The economy is being held up by matchsticks, and Joe Biden wants to make his energy crisis worse by crushing domestic production in the name of "environmental justice." The Supreme Court is about to have a justice who goes light on sentencing serious criminals, including sex offenders. The border is still not secure, and only getting worse by the day. Julio Rosas has been there to cover the chaos. Inflation is ravaging our economy. COVID is over, but the left won't let it go. They’re trying to get away with whitewashing their past decisions and behavior. Not to mention, Hunter Biden's corruption selling out our country on his father's name. 

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There are no ads—just pure conservative writing that will arm you with the truth and cut through the liberal media’s BS. Every penny is devoted to telling the truth liberals don't want you to know. Every penny is devoted to ensuring the decimation of Democrats and saving America. 

Don't forget Gigi Sohn. She’s Biden’s nominee for FCC commissioner and she’s hell-bent on silencing us forever. She will seek to regulate conservative media completely out of existence and collude with Big Tech to make sure the truth is censored Soviet-style. Liberal state media is a few small steps away. But we've been fighting to take her nomination down, and we may have a last-ditch chance to win... however, we need your help to keep fighting. 
 
By joining Townhall VIP, you become part of the Townhall army that is working to defend against liberal censorship and destroy the Biden radical leftist agenda before they can fully annihilate us or drag us into World War III.

Biden has totally lost it. He isn’t up to the task of being president - he’s too stupid, too slow, and too mentally diminished. We know it. The world knows it. That's why we need to fight to tell the truth and save America. But we need your help...
 
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Also, Let’s Go Brandon. 

- Matt Vespa
Senior Editor, Townhall.com
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Before surgery, on April 25, I sent out memos that had been written prior to surgery. The last was e mailed the day before surgery and I restarted May 21. So this is a bit out of date because, it too, was written before surgery.

There is an expression that if you do not know history we are inclined to repeat history.  This why tearing down statutes and erasing a nation's history is not only dumb it is dangerous.

Without knowledge of mistakes one is most likely to have nothing available as a reminder and thus, it is easier to slip back into  repeating the same errors of judgment and action.

Show me a nation that does not have a past they would like to forget etc.?  America's detractors brow beat us because they fear us and thus want to divide us and bathe us in feelings of guilt. We remain the world's best hope and that is why failed nations and political philosophies want to rid the world of America.  Match us against any nation that embraces socialism and/or communism and other ism's and the disparities are chilling.

Not to maintain our republic and the many freedoms it brings takes work.  When we drop the ball, we will soon lose something precious and which may no longer be retrievable. That is what or adversaries are betting on and we seem to be blithely  accommodating their evil desire's.

Palestinian Violence Once Again Catches Israel Unprepared

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Jenkins pleas, in an Op Ed, the mass media return to seeing, investigating and reporting on what is in plain sight before them and claw back their credibility:
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Media Bias and Hunter’s Laptop
The press won’t claw back its credibility until it admits why it buried the story.

By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

In his “free speech” campaign against Twitter, Elon Musk didn’t mention it but millions of Americans were thinking of it: the national media’s belated interest in the Hunter Biden laptop story that Twitter and other conventional and social media outlets previously suppressed.

As if waking from a coma, the Washington Post last week finally asked, “Why is confirmation of a story that first surfaced in the fall of 2020 emerging only now?” Alas, the paper entitles its editorial “an opportunity for a reckoning,” because, you know, opportunities can be turned down. And the Post does. Instead it justifies the suppression by saying that, because the press was the “unwitting tools of a Russian influence campaign in 2016,” it was “only prudent to suspect a similar plot lay behind the mysterious appearance of a computer stuffed with juicy documents and conveniently handed over to President Donald Trump’s toxic personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. ”

Skip past the overreliance on modifiers (mysterious, toxic, conveniently), a hallmark of bad argumentation and bad writing. Newspapers are supposed to be skeptical about everything but as an aid in pursuing the truth, not as an excuse not to pursue the truth.

The Post repeatedly invokes the word “hack” for the laptop disclosures as if unknown persons had posted information of unknown provenance on the web. This is not remotely what happened. An established news organization, the New York Post, had vetted digital records with a known backstory, described by named, credible sources, starting with the Delaware technician in whose repair shop Hunter reportedly abandoned the laptop.

The tabloid’s competitors had plenty of leads to confirm or disprove the story. Hunter and his father could be asked to deny it (which they never did). Recipients or people named in the published emails could be rung up, including the onetime Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski.

In addition, the press is not forbidden to don its thinking cap: Faking a laptop drive with hundreds of thousands of documents would be ridiculously disproportionate to any aim the Kremlin might hope to achieve. The Kremlin has easier ways to put fake information into circulation. This is the real lesson of those previous “Russian influence campaigns.” Occam’s razor strongly suggested that the laptop, if not every document on it, was exactly what it was purported to be—and intelligent journalists everywhere knew it.

The job of “newspapers of record” is to establish the truth or falsity of important matters in the public sphere, and whether the laptop was real or not certainly qualified. But instead of doing its job, the press preferred to line up behind 50 former U.S. intelligence officials who (without evidence, even they admitted) claimed the story was Russian disinformation.

This is where the Post editorial really falls down on the reality principle, the lodestar of our business. The media did so because the laptop story was plainly a threat to Joe Biden’s election. They’d seen this movie before—with James Comey’s late intervention in 2016—and “knew” Donald Trump’s re-election would be a disaster for the country. If you don’t see the same presumption already working overtime and on steroids in advance of 2024, you aren’t paying attention. This is why the “reckoning” the Post mentions is so urgent and the paper’s performance such a disappointment.

My own prayer is Mr. Trump won’t run and that somebody half-decent will, but I don’t lie to myself that the survival of the republic depends on my preferences being fulfilled. History has its own mind. Hard to describe as anything but neurotic, however, is a press that preferred an unsupported assertion about a Russian plot to the self-evident facts of the laptop case—or, for that matter, believed a badly typed collection of anonymous claims about Donald Trump and Russia (aka the Steele dossier) was the secret record of the greatest political conspiracy in history.

What seems closer to certain is that the rule of law and our democratic system are in greater danger when elite institutions work to discredit their outcomes than when self-proclaimed “deplorables” do. Our national press cowards, though, aren’t about to admit how much they strengthened Mr. Trump, almost re-elected him and made “stop the steal” credible to millions of Americans because, starting in 2016-17, they chose to oppose him with lies instead of the truth.

If the problem were one Washington Post editorial, nobody would care. But it’s not. Our media could use a period of intensive cognitive behavioral therapy to help it get back to seeing what’s in front of its eyes and reporting accurately. In those hopefully rare occasions when the press still feels it must lie (say, to defeat Donald Trump), at least it could be honest with itself about what it’s doing.
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If ever an op ed journalist made a valid connection Galston has surely done so:
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Passover and the Constitution
The Jewish festival teaches that liberty is only possible with tradition and order.
By William A. Galston


On Friday after sundown, Jews everywhere will gather in their homes to observe Passover. No doubt familiar themes will be discussed—the liberation from oppression in Egypt, the importance of memory, the duty to hand the story down from parents and grandparents to children, and—as the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks emphasized—the art of asking questions.

This year, as I prepare for the arrival of my extended family, something new has struck me. The focus of this Jewish holiday, more than any other, is freedom. Indeed, Passover is called the “festival of freedom.” But the celebration of the holiday is called the Seder, which is Hebrew for “order.” We are required not only to do the right things but to do them in the right sequence. Our conversation always returns to what we must do and when we must do it.

This raises a classic issue—the relationship between order and freedom. Some schools of thought view them as antitheses—the more order, the less freedom, and vice versa. Libertarians want to minimize government constraints to maximize liberty. Anarchists carry this thesis to its inevitable, and self-refuting, conclusion.

In the Jewish tradition, by contrast, order makes freedom possible. In the absence of a framework—a law, a text, a tradition—we cannot act freely. Not only are we plunged into debilitating doubt, but our decisions also collide with those of others. The actions of others rarely coordinate harmoniously with our own. And when they don’t, all are prevented from acting as they choose. Without a framework of social order, every individual can seek freedom, but none can achieve it.

Judaism doesn’t embrace order that relies on force. Genuine and durable order requires a measure of unforced acceptance. The Talmud tells of a rabbi who interprets a phrase in Exodus to mean that God held Mount Sinai over the Israelites and said, “If you accept the Torah, well and good; if not, you’ll be buried under it.” As a modern scholar, Tzvi Novick observes, this is God as godfather, making Israel an offer it couldn’t refuse.

As the Talmudic story continues, another rabbi objects to this interpretation on the grounds that an agreement based on coercion can be declared invalid and that Jews can claim no special merit or insight if they accepted the Torah under duress. This objection undergirds the dominant interpretation of the Sinai episode: It was a covenantal moment in which the Israelites freely accepted the law God offered them.

This brings me, sadly, to the present. The covenant at Sinai isn’t the same as what the modern philosophical tradition calls a “social contract,” but there is a resemblance. The idea of public endorsement—the consent of the people—is common to both. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by a handful of men, but it was accepted by most of the delegates gathered in Philadelphia and was praised when it was read to George Washington’s troops a few days later. It was, as Thomas Jefferson wrote a year before he died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration’s signing, not an original argument but an “expression of the American mind.”

The consensual basis of the Constitution is even clearer: If it had not been ratified by special constitutional assemblies in the states, it would have been a piece of parchment with no authority.

The Declaration and the Constitution have long served as the framework of order, normative and institutional, within which the drama of America’s quest for freedom was enacted. When flaws in the Constitution become impossible to ignore, Americans have appealed to the Declaration to guide the Constitution’s correction, as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. did, and to public consent as the source of legitimacy for both formal constitutional amendments and for pathbreaking interpretive shifts such as Brown v. Board of Education.

Today, the erosion of this shared framework has deepened political divisions. Some “national conservatives” take the position that the Declaration of Independence set us on the path to a failed liberal individualism, while others claim that its abstract principles have nothing to do with the Constitution, which represents the continuation of the conservative British tradition. On the left, the Nation’s Elie Mystal declares that “The Constitution is kind of trash. . . . It was written by slavers and colonists, and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists.” No doubt many Americans agree with him.

As the consensual framework that gives order to American liberty frays, we become less secure in the exercise of liberty. We fear that others plot to take it away, and we squander our energy fighting one another rather than working to promote the common good.

It is not only the Jews who need an annual festival of freedom to remind them what makes liberty possible. We all do, before the withdrawal of consent from the sources of our order undermines the freedom we cherish.

Correction
An earlier version misspelled Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s name.

Yet:

Proof you can't change stupid:

 


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"When you take kids who do not have a father present during their upbringing, the chance of them dropping out of school, getting involved in trouble with the law, having other difficulties, increases dramatically".

Gov. should not raise children but should be helpfull to create conditions that parents are able to raise their children and be responsible for them.๐Ÿ€


https://americanactionnews.com/politics/2022/04/12/gov-ron-desantis-signs-new-bill-in-florida-to-address-crisis-of-fatherhood/
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It is truly sad that we have so much crime in America and it is not because we have freedom to buy guns. It is also good that so any of these criminals are uneducated and dumb making it easier to hail them into courts.  Then the issue goes down hill again because many of the liberal Soros supported district attorneys allow them to go back out on the streets to kill or whatever again and again and again.

Crime
A Portrait Painter Helped Police Nab the Suspected NYC Subway Shooter, Crediting His Artist’s Eye in Spotting Him on the Street
By Katya Kazakina
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Soft Landing: Larry Summers On Inflation, Debt, And A Looming Recession
interview with John H. CochraneNiall FergusonH. R. McMasterBill Whalen, Larry Summers via GoodFellows: Conversations From The Hoover Institution

The GoodFellows return to economics this week, coinciding with news of America’s worst inflation in over 40 years. Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary and Harvard University president emeritus, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane to discuss Federal Reserve policy, government spending, and the war in Europe as contributors to America’s economic woes. They also cover the soaring national debt, a possible supply-chain crisis, economic competition with China, plus academic freedom under fire in elite universities.

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Racism in US Mideast Policy

By Stephen M. Flatow

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Yup,weird (WRID) alright!

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U. of Minnesota tackles the problem of racist babies

by: Free Press International News Service 


Analysis by Joe Schaeffer


The University of Minnesota is determined to eradicate the systemic racism of white babies.


Seriously.


Dr. Gail Ferguson is an associate professor at the university's Institute of Child Development.


Ferguson is apparently the lead driver of the institute's "Whiteness Pandemic" project. On April 11, she wrote an essay for The Society for Personality and Social Psychology that captures just how insane higher education has become in the United States today:

 

Inaction in response to systemic racism reveals the Whiteness Pandemic. Whiteness, here, refers not to skin color — after all, not all the convicted officers were White — but to the culture of Whiteness characterized by colorblindness, silence, passivity, and fragility around race. The central pathogens of the Whiteness Pandemic are color-evasiveness (avoidance or denial of race) and power-evasiveness (denial of racial oppression), which are passed on intergenerationally, especially in White families.


Imagine for one second using the term "pathogen" to describe a racial minority in any way. Yet this grotesque dehumanization of white people is perfectly acceptable language at the University of Minnesota. Ferguson continues:

 

The intergenerational transmission of the Whiteness Pandemic in families helps to explain why U.S. racism is so intractable. Color-evasiveness and power-evasiveness are especially common in the racial socialization approach of White U.S. parents and they also characterize the less advanced phase of Dr. Janet Helms’s White Racial Identity Development theory—which we call WRID for short. WRID’s two phases are:


Phase 1: White individuals in this phase show obliviousness, denial, avoidance, or ambivalence about race and racism, and/or bias against racial groups.


Phase 2: White individuals in this phrase seek to abandon racism, including White privilege, and show antiracist desires and/or actions to dismantle systemic racism and promote racial equity.


Our study investigated WRID and racial socialization among 392 non-Hispanic White mothers in the Minneapolis metro area within 1 month of [George] Floyd’s murder, an event that no Minnesotan could have been unaware of due to the significant community unrest and ubiquitous media coverage. How would White parents respond personally? Would Mr. Floyd’s murder in their own city be enough to get them to talk with their children about racism and antiracism?


Ferguson indicts white mothers for racial crimes against the new America:

 

We found that the majority of White mothers were racially silent (53%), making no mention of Mr. Floyd’s murder nor any community events that followed, signaling that the murder had no impact of their families. Their racial silence was meaningful, because these mothers also had significantly lower multiculturalism scores and lower psychological distress than their peers. The apathy evident in their racial silence immediately following Floyd’s murder in their own city may have served as a coping mechanism to lower race-related distress....


In sum, our study demonstrated the insidious intergenerational transmission of the Whiteness Pandemic, which was not slowed by close proximity to a high-profile race-related police murder.


This is racial hatred at its most seething level being aimed at mothers and children, and it is being promulgated by the flagship university of the Gopher State.


A June 2021 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune is titled "New St. Paul nonprofit wants to nip racism in the bud through early childhood education." "The organization, Before Racism, is developing anti-racism curriculum for 1- to 5-year-olds," the subhead explains. Cue the Cultural Marxism aimed at vulnerable children:

 

The next frontier for preventing racism and bias starts with the littlest Minnesotans.


That's the premise on which Bill Svrluga is basing his new St. Paul nonprofit: an early childhood education program to block prejudice before it takes root, in Minnesota and across the United States.


"Minnesota could be a leader in this kind of new frontier," said Svrluga, who is white and has run a nonprofit consulting company for years. "The return on the investment of working on preventing [racism] vs. turning it around is pretty clear. Changing minds and hearts is hard to do."


Children aren't born racist, Svrluga said. But they start to notice differences and develop judgments at a young age.


"The Vision" page on Before Racism's website could not be more forthright:

 

"Preventing the development of overt and covert racism in very young children ages 1-5 with a particular emphasis on white children."


Two University of Minnesota staffers are on the advisory board for Before Racism, including Sheila Williams Ridge, director of the Shirley G. Moore Lab School at the Institute of Child Development. Among other advisors are the President Emeritus of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the CEO of YWCA of St. Paul, and a former Senior Vice President for Twin Cities United Way.


The Star Tribune piece sheds more light on the total lunacy running rampant on campus at UM:

 

At the University of Minnesota, Charisse Pickron is researching the ability of infants to differentiate and categorize faces by race, which could be a precursor to later social biases and judgments.


"Children notice race and it's not something that has to be explicitly taught," said Pickron, a research associate at the U's Institute of Child Development.


She's found that babies from 6 to 9 months old are clearly shaped by their environment — such as who their primary caregiver is — and that even at that point they have a hard time distinguishing faces of people of an unfamiliar race, such as a baby raised by a white woman who is met by two women of color.


"That doesn't mean that a 6-month-old is necessarily racist, but it does mean that this is an age period where having experience with a wide group of people is probably really valuable," Pickron said. "It's not a malicious intent. It's what are children being exposed to, who do they see and who do they learn from."


Not necessarily racist? At six months old? This is an assistant professor of a major American university speaking. In October 2021, Ferguson's vile anti-white belligerence was given a platform at The Minnesota Post. Her target: white children at the youngest of ages:

 

Research shows that infants as young as three months show racial preferences that grow into racial discrimination by elementary school without intervention.


At least she doesn't call white people pathogenic here as she browbeats them into the ground:

 

A white person has a healthy white racial identity when they are fully aware of systemic racism, acknowledge their own racial privilege and role in perpetuating racism, and are committed to self-reflection, self-education and other antiracist actions. White parents seeking this personal growth can join a local chapter of an antiracism organization or use an antiracism workbook.


Race matters in the United States because racism still exists. Parents, especially white parents, can play a role in addressing racism because of the power and privilege they hold in our racialized society. Taking time for honest self-reflection and explicit conversations with children about race and racism (including your own) is, in and of itself, an important act of antiracism.


The University of Minnesota receives taxpayer funding to promote racial hatred against white families and white children. The university is asking for just shy of $1 billion in state funding for the 2022-23 biennial budget. Whatever money is allocated will help keep material like this on UM's Whiteness Pandemic website page:

 

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.

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Is this too racial for you hypocrite liberals?


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