Greens Will Stop at Nothing and Their Poster Monster. AMRW Truth. Zito. Booth Events. Old Geezers Are Coming For You .Burning Bush.

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Sent by a very dear friend and fellow memo reader.

What the attached reveals and what we should know by now -politicians and ideologues will do and say anything to get their way. Have you ever taken a close look at Greta, the child robot, whose entire persona reflects the tragic life that has been chosen for her, the sad world in which she lives? Do you honestly believe she came by all this garbage on her own? She was created to be the pitiful poster girl for Greens and with dead eyes.

These people will stop at nothing, even taking a live child and killing her insides in order to live a life of fear believing  she will have no youth, will not experience beauty, ride a bicycle and learn what falling off is all about.  She is trapped for life so Greens can create doubt and use her to raise money. 

Thanks Al Gore, you are nothing but a political climate whore. Make matters worse, he might have been our president. At least we had an interlude before Biden(Al Gore 2) was elected.

I am often asked, by raving liberals, don't I believe man is killing the earth? My response is never acceptable because I respond man certainly has made an impact and some bad choices which he ultimately corrects but most of the science leads to hysterical conclusions and thus remains questionable. They resent my unwillingness to swallow their poison pill.

I believe Greens would be better off asking deer what man's expansive ways, his driving of cars is doing to them.  I seriously doubt man will stop building houses and driving his pollution belching vehicles in deer deference..

 I am not indifferent,  I just ain't buying  "if it's new it has to be better. Everything new brings about another set of problems.  We went from horses to cars and that was a better form of transportation but now we face pollution.  I am sure we will make progress with EV's which will eventually eliminate gas engines and a new set of problems will arise.  

Frankly, I am far more concerned about Iran and will remain so until Biden stops believing diplomacy with thugs is the preferable answer.  And so it goes!

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Iran’s ‘Death Corridor’ Is Open for Business

JNS.org – Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as US President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event to impact the Islamic Republic’s international reputation took place in faraway Stockholm.

On July 7, a Swedish court sentenced a former Iranian regime operative, Hamid Nouri, to life in prison for his role in the massacres of political prisoners in 1988 at the close of the eight-year war between Iran and neighboring Iraq. Acting on a tip-off from the relative of one of his victims, Swedish police arrested Nouri when he flew into Stockholm in November 2019, retaining him in custody ever since. Last week’s court sentence marked the first time that an Iranian official had “been held accountable for mass atrocities,” according to Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

Nouri’s trial provided a harrowing glimpse into the systemic abuse of human rights in the Islamic Republic. A total of 58 witnesses testified against him, recalling the executions of some 5,000 left-wing and secular nationalist political prisoners. A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Nouri served as a jail guard at Evin Prison in Tehran and at Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj, where he aided the so-called “Death Commission” led by three judges—one of whom, Ebrahim Raisi, is now the president of Iran. Survivors of the massacres — many of them from the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) guerrilla organization — told macabre tales of torture and mass hangings. Nouri specifically was identified as one of the officials who manned the “death corridor,” the passageway that condemned prisoners walked down on their way to the execution chamber.

Nouri insisted throughout his trial that the charges against him were false, but the presiding Judge Tomas Zander disagreed, deeming that “nothing substantial has emerged which gives the court reason to question the investigation’s reliability and robustness” as he delivered the verdict. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime reacted immediately, condemning what it depicted as a politically motivated assault on the Islamic Republic’s judicial system. But such gripes mean little when the lasting impression left by the trial is that the same regime responsible for the 1988 atrocities remains in power today.

Indeed, the “death corridor” overseen by Nouri has now become a regional enterprise, as Iran continues to back its terror proxies in the Middle East, variously plunging Lebanon into a humanitarian crisis, preventing the emergence of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, fueling the vicious civil war in Yemen and zealously opposing any moves towards a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that would secure the Jewish state’s sovereign existence. Simply put, death is the primary currency of the Islamic Republic.

Iran has also ventured further afield into Europe and Latin America, where it has cultivated strong ties with Venezuela and other left-wing authoritarian governments. Additionally, Iran has always enjoyed a productive relationship with Russia with a significant military component—one that could now impact the war in Ukraine. As Biden prepared his departure for the Middle East, a White House press briefing disclosed that Iran was planning to provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in Moscow’s aggression against its southern neighbor. As National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan observed, Iran had already provided the same weaponry to its Houthi allies in Yemen.

Given its serial offenses across nearly half a century, Iran can hardly be looked upon as a reliable partner in negotiations. When it does parley, as was the case with the 2015 nuclear deal, its representatives have proven themselves adept at extracting the concessions that allow them to append their signatures. With the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, the technical name for the 2015 deal) intact, Iran can look to a “sunset clause” that would enable it to freely develop a nuclear weapon early on in the next decade. Without it — as has effectively been the case since the United States withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 — the regime has continued with its clandestine nuclear activities and now possesses 95 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent purity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA.) That’s enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon, according to experts, though the delivery system is still being worked on.

Biden has been decidedly more circumspect than was the Obama administration, which negotiated the original deal, when it comes to Iranian intentions. Yet the White House still holds out hope for a diplomatic resolution of the tensions with Iran, even if, in the same breath, it concedes that there is little possibility of that outcome. Journalists who accompanied the president to Israel engaged in forensic comparisons of Biden’s statements with those of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on the subject of Iran’s ongoing nuclear development. Lapid was crystal clear that continued development would be dealt with through force, while Biden, in the words of The New York Times, “stuck to talking about blocking Iran from obtaining a weapon — not a program that might be intended to develop one.”

Biden has used a more general formula with Iran that was also articulated by Obama; namely, that “all options” remain on the table when it comes to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Yet for the time being, what’s clearest of all is that the Biden White House is happy to keep an air of vagueness over its Iran policy. And it is likely betting that Israel’s desire to use Biden’s good offices to secure a formal peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, alongside the peace deals already reached with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, will temper any protests from Jerusalem about US Iran policy.

The result is that, for all the rhetorical heat radiated towards Iran during Biden’s Middle East tour, its “death corridor” remains open for business. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1980, successive Western governments have kicked the can down the street in the hope that future administrations will succeed where they failed in reining in Tehran. Now that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown us where such appeasement can lead, will the West make the same mistake again? So far, the American answer seems to be: “maybe.”

Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS.  

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 ALASKA & OIL

 

A supply for 200 years- on frozen land-- seems to me a lot better than in the water as we had off the coast of Texas. 

From one of our Residents 

My daughter and son-in-law were in L.A. a while back from their home in Anchorage. He was a foreman in the oil fields at AMWR. 

He has to fly his own plane to get to the job where he spends months at a time in the most God forsaken place this side of Siberia . He confirmed everything that is in this story, and brought dozens of pictures for proof. 

Our environmentalist friends have forced gas prices up to an impossible rate, forcing us to buy oil from our enemies, for whatever reason that simply isn't true. There is enough oil in AMWR to supply the US at our present rate of usage for more than 200 years. The space that AMWR occupies in Alaska is equivalent to a postage stamp in the Mojave Desert . 

If you won't mind paying $5.00 a gallon in the very near future try to make sense of the following: 

Something you should know: Oil!!

This is the best presentation on ANWR I have seen. 

I would like to add a little more information. A new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles from the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. I did not know this. 

Second the wildlife love the pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter. 

Maybe another question should be asked. FIRST do you know what ANWR is? ANSWER: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

Now A comparison 

And some perspective?

NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED 

DEVELOPMENT AREA IS? 

(it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")

THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS,

LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU

WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR

and they are right these ARE

photographs of ANWR

 

ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY

SHOULD WE DRILL HERE

(AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL

PLACE?

WELL THAT'S NOT EXACTLY

THE TRUTH

Do you remember the map?

The map showed that the proposed

drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal

Plain Do those photographs look like a

coastal plain to you?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE

THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE

WANTING TO DRILL!

THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED

EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY

LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER

 

AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY

LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER

 

HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN

SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH

 

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA

WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT

DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.

OH AND THEY SAY THAT THEY

ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT

ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE?

HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE

SUMMER) OF THE

"DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION

CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND

PRUDHOE BAY *

DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU

REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?

HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING

THE WINTER.

HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY

HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR

PRUDHOE BAY *

*The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S.

Domestic oil production

NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT

THE DEMOCRATS ARE

LYING ABOUT ANWR?

REMEMBER WHEN

AL GORE SAID 

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO

ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES

TO $5.00 A GALLON?

WELL AL GORE

AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST

REACHED THEIR GOAL!

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE

DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN LYING,

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO

ABOUT IT?

YOU CAN START BY FORWARDING

THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW

THE TRUTH.

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Now for a little clarity regarding the Climate Policy Debate.

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The West’s Climate Policy Debacle

Utopian energy dreams are doing great economic and security damage.

By The Editorial Board

Soaring oil and natural gas prices. Electricity grids on the brink of failure. Energy shortages in Europe, with worse to come. The free world’s growing strategic vulnerability to Vladimir Putin and other dictators.

These are some of the unfolding results in the last year caused by the West’s utopian dream to punish fossil fuels and sprint to a world driven solely by renewable energy. It’s time for political leaders to recognize this manifest debacle and admit that, short of a technological breakthrough, the world will need an ample supply of carbon fuel for decades to remain prosperous and free.

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Consider the costly consequences of misguided climate regulation, subsidies and mandates:

• People even in affluent countries are learning they can no longer take reliable electric power for granted. Texas’s grid operator this month told residents not to use major appliances to avoid rolling blackouts amid a heat wave that brought wind power to a near standstill. Sluggish wind power also contributed to a week-long power outage amid freezing temperatures in February 2021.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation recently warned that two-thirds of the U.S. could experience blackouts this summer. Blame shrinking baseload power generation, which has been replaced by unreliable renewable energy. Regulators can’t command the sun to shine or wind to blow.

A third of the nation’s coal power and 10% of its nuclear capacity has shut down over the past decade owing to stricter environmental regulation and competition from cheap natural gas as well as heavily subsidized renewables. Natural gas generators have picked up some of the slack. But they are under stress from having to ramp up and down to balance intermittent renewables.

Ironically, grid operators are having to keep coal plants scheduled to retire on life support. Super-green California plans to buy electricity from diesel generators when supply is tight. Grids in Texas and California are teetering, with renewables making up about a third of generation. And President Biden wants the national grid to run on carbon-free power by 2035, as if he can command it to be so.

• The rushed green transition is driving up energy prices across the board. Peak-time electricity wholesale prices this summer are projected to more than double in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, according to the Energy Information Administration. Blame the left’s war on pipelines, which has constrained natural gas production even as demand grows.

Surging energy prices are causing some steel and aluminum manufacturers to idle plants. In desperation, manufacturers are urging the Biden Administration to limit liquefied natural gas exports to Europe to lower energy prices, though Europe needs the LNG to avoid freezing this winter.

Retail consumers in much of the U.S. have largely been shielded so far because states limit utility rate increases. But average residential electricity prices in Texas’s deregulated power markets have climbed 70% over the past year. Americans can look forward to similar increases in the years ahead—either that, or utilities will go bankrupt as many have in Europe.

• Supply shortages. When European power prices soared last summer as wind power slowed, Mr. Putin took advantage by slowing gas pipeline deliveries. That pushed up prices even more, causing some European manufacturers to suspend production. Now Mr. Putin seems ready to cut off all gas supplies.

Europeans are drafting emergency plans to ration supply to manufacturers. But German leaders are still shutting down their three operating nuclear plants by year’s end. To quote the final word of “The Bridge on the River Kwai”: “madness.” Germany must resort to burning coal and oil, as its trillion-dollar investment in wind and solar can’t make up for Russian gas.

Berlin is contemplating a bailout of power retailer Uniper. The French government recently announced plans to nationalize its financially struggling nuclear giant Electricite de France SA . The U.K. this spring announced a government takeover of National Grid’s transmission system to manage its chaotic shift away from fossil fuels.

During Australia’s power crisis last month—the culprit again was too many coal plant retirements—its grid operator suspended wholesale markets and imposed price controls. Failed climate policies are becoming an excuse for more government control of energy production.

• Empowering dictators. Europe’s climate obsession made itself vulnerable to the Kremlin, but Mr. Putin isn’t the only dictator smiling at the West’s energy woes. President Biden had to beg the Saudis for more oil production, and his Administration may ease sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro for more barrels of production. Iran may be liberated to export oil next.

Do Western leaders recognize or care that their climate monomania is endangering living standards in democracies and empowering authoritarians? Historian Arnold Toynbee argued that civilizations die from suicide, not murder. The West’s climate self-destruction may prove him right.

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Asks the puppet's handlers who pull his strings Having said that Biden is not without blame. Never made a right decision when faced wth a major issue since birth.

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Why Biden Is Putting Us In Danger

Nobody says he cares more about working people, national security, and the Western alliance than President Joe Biden. Why, then, is he putting them in jeopardy?

By Michael Shellenberger

On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden Administration’s policy of sending American oil to China and other nations. “When it comes to the oil, it is something that oil companies decide… The Department of Energy can't dictate what oil companies do with the oil they purchase or where they ship it to sell.”

But the United States Department of Energy (DOE) does decide to whom it will sell oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). “A total of 16 companies responded to this notice, submitting 126 bids for evaluation,” noted DOE. A dozen won contracts. One was Unipec America, the trading arm of Sinopec, the China Petrochemical Corporation, which is wholly owned by the Chinese government.

There is no evidence that DOE went out of its way to sell American oil to Unipec, and little reason to believe that the U.S. could have refined that oil into gasoline, diesel, and other products had it remained in the U.S. After all, U.S. oil refineries are operating at 94% capacity. The DOE sold the oil to the highest bidders. And it was a coordinated release with international partners, including China, which also released oil from it strategic reserves. Indeed, Bloomberg and others oil market analysts predicted back in November that some U.S. SPR oil would go to China and India.

But the reason our refineries are at maximum capacity is because Biden revoked a permit for a massive refinery expansion in the U.S. Virgin Islands in March and halted its operations entirely in May. And where the U.S. released 50 million barrels of oil in 2021 and 180 million barrels of oil in 2022 so far, China has only released 7.4 million barrels of oil, which is just a half day's consumption. Is that because China is oil-poor? No. It has equal-sized petroleum reserves to the U.S.

In fact, despite promises in November and again in January to release oil from its reserves, China has instead been increasing its reserves. And there is no evidence that any non-Chinese firms, much less American firms, bought any of its released reserve oil, which undercuts the Biden Administration’s claim that the SPR release was being reciprocated.

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But the real drama is about to start. Today, Russia cut off all natural gas flowing through the Nord Stream pipeline to Europe as part of routine maintenance. Russia is contractually committed to turning the gas back on 10 days later, but many analysts, heads of state, and government officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t turn the gas back on in 10 days. Why? So he can increase prices, increase Russia’s energy revenues, and pressure Europe to stop supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia. France’s economy minister yesterday called a complete cut-off “the most likely” scenario. In the past, when Nord Stream was under maintenance, Russia rerouted gas through other pipelines. This year, it did not.

The consequences of a full Russian gas embargo would be devastating. German industries are already “in danger of permanently collapsing,” warned the head of Germany’s trade unions. Britain has warned that, in order to protect its own citizens, it may cut off natural gas supplies to Europe. If Putin cuts off the gas, Europe would be forced to ration energy, and bail-out both electric utilities and energy-intensive companies.  

Higher energy prices are already hurting American firms. Last month, the second-largest aluminum mill in the U.S., which accounts for 20% of the US supply, laid off 600 workers because electricity prices had tripled since the beginning of the year. And in May, midwestern factories owners told federal regulators they were at risk of closing because of “unjust and unreasonable” electricity costs, which are near their highest level ever.

Biden has long been a champion of the American worker and the Western alliance that covers Europe as well as Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Biden last week made a stirring case for manufacturing jobs and labor unions at a rally in Ohio. A few days earlier, after he was asked how long Americans should expect to pay higher gasoline prices, Biden said, “As long as it takes so Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.”

The obvious thing for Biden to do is massively ramp up oil and gas production in the U.S. both for domestic use and export. It would be a win for American energy firms and workers, as well as for our allies in Europe and Asia. After all, natural gas prices are eight times higher in Europe than the U.S. And yet Biden refuses to do so. Instead he is going to Saudi Arabia to request they pump more oil.

In a Washington Post oped published yesterday, Biden admitted that the Saudis’ “energy resources are vital for mitigating the impact on global supplies of Russia’s war in Ukraine.” But he also claimed, "From the start, my aim was to reorient — but not rupture — relations..."

That’s simply not true. In 2019, at a debate, Biden said he would “make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.” Pariah literally means someone with whom you've ruptured relations. As such, Biden’s sending the signal that foreign governments upon whom we depend for energy can kill a Washington Post journalist without fearing an interruption of business relations.

Why is that? Why is Biden sacrificing America’s workers, its allies, and its national security rather than simply increase oil, natural gas, and gasoline production? What, exactly, is going on?

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State legislative races hold the key to where the country is going

By Salena Zito

ETNA, PA. — Lori Mizgorski says the only way anyone running for office can understand what voters are concerned about is going to where they are and asking them. That’s why she spends every moment she can spare knocking on doors in the newly-drawn Pennsylvania 38th Senate district or attending community events.

“Most importantly, listening,” she said about this work. “Voters want to know that you hear what they are saying about what is going on in their community — they don’t want you talking to them about yourself or using some talking points from some script,” said Ms. Mizgorski while walking along the business district on Butler Street in Etna, a community just north of Pittsburgh.

Ms. Mizgorski, a Republican and the current state representative for the 30th legislative district who is seeking this Seante seat, added that you can’t tweet your way into office: “You’ve got to be able take the hard questions face-to-face; it is humbling at times, but if your job is to represent your district and not your party, this is how you do it.”

Ms. Mizgorski is like hundreds of Republican challengers across the country running for state legislative seats held by Democrats — arguably the most important seats in the country, but ones the national media is overlooking.

Millersville University political scientist Terry Madonna explains that this is where policy is formed for the state: “It is where education funding comes from, roads and bridges and all of the other granular things that impact a person every time they walk out their front door and into their community.”

These are also the races where hearts and minds are won — if whoever wins them remembers why they were elected. It’s also where a party’s bench is made. Remember that Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois just four years before becoming President of the United States.

Mr. Madonna adds that good candidates in these races are often more pragmatic and localized than polarizing, “so if the candidate is part of the community and is very engaged with local issues and stays out of using national political talking points, they can earn the voter who might not share their same party affiliation but do share their concerns about the community.”

If Ms. Mizgorski and other Republicans are successful in places that look like Etna, Shaler, Aspinwall, Sharpsburg and Upper Lawrenceville, where the working-class neighborhoods intertwine with cozy suburbs and small businesses, the predicted red wave will likely be significant not just this year, but for many years to come.

It went underreported in 2020 how poorly Democrats did in state legislative seats across the country. In this region alone, while most people paid attention to Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump, down-ballot Republicans had a very good night, handing Democrats humiliating losses in state legislative seats in the southern, northern and eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh.

State Sen. Devlin Robinson, whose district includes Mt. Lebanon, said after Mr. Trump’s disastrous first debate in 2020, internal polling showed he was down 19 points to Democrat Pam Iovino: “Yet when I was out talking to voters, that’s not what I was hearing. Look, when you run for local office, you run on the things that voters care about and don’t get caught up in the national divisiveness.”

Mr. Robinson ultimately prevailed, as did state Rep. Rob Mercuri, who now represents a North Hills seat. He was assured the upper-middle-class suburban district would not support a Republican — especially one running against a female Democrat.

And yet he won quite comfortably.

 

Mr. Mercuri said people told him they wanted a change: “Trump lost my district by 1,000 votes, and I won by 4,000. It really mattered how you talked about local issues — public schools, community investments, business help — and I knocked on over 12,000 doors during the pandemic; we did them respectfully, but we tried to meet everybody — and I know Lori [Mizgorski] is doing the same thing. She’s at the county fair; she’s at the township picnics, and people see she is a very, very relatable candidate.”

Ms. Mizgorski, a mother of three, is involved in her children’s sports and school activities; her husband, a Marine veteran, is also active in the community. She got her start in local politics as a volunteer.

In 2020, candidates like Mr. Mercuri and Mr. Robinson also won despite powerful figures like Attorney General Eric Holder, who raised millions of dollars to help elect Democrats to state legislatures in 13 key states, including Pennsylvania. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg did the same with a chunk of his personal fortune.

The result?

Republicans won those targeted seats as well as ones they had no money to compete in. It turns our voters can’t always be bought. And it means far less to them whether there is a D or an R next to a candidate’s name than many politicos would have you believe.

In short, despite having all the money in the world to spend on persuading (or shaming) voters to vote for Democrats, the messages they used to did not appeal. In fact, in many cases, the left-wing message was so over-the-top it drove independents and anti-Trump Republicans to show up for local Republicans.

In 2010 Republicans made significant gains in state legislatures and won even more in 2014; those wins were a reaction to a personally popular president — Barack Obama — whose policies were not so popular. When Mr. Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Democrats controlled both chambers of 27 state legislatures; by the time he left, they controlled both chambers in only 13 states.

If the polling numbers for the Democrats don’t stop dropping, Joe Biden will be on track to do even worse.

The people who live in the rows of tidy middle-class homes in tree-lined suburbs, and who run the small businesses along the Main Streets or the light industrial complexes along the river, will make a choice this fall: Either go with the status quo — which every poll in America tells us they are deeply disappointed with — or with someone whose message actually responds to their concerns.

If you listen to them, they’ll tell you that what’s happening in both Washington and Harrisburg has got to stop. If that holds true, then as the 38th goes, so goes the nation

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This from a dear "old geezer" friend and fellow memo reader who knows of what he speaks. We are gearing up to take our nation back from you whimps and intellectual elites.  We have listened to your pitiful story about once you were freed you could not accept the responsibility that came with freedom, how your education void prepared you to believe in the lie called the free lunch, Socialism and Communism. Everything you proposed has failed. You have been selling snake oil for almost a century and where has it bettered what the Founding Father's created?

We have had it and now you are going to get the taste of what "deplorables" are prepared to serve.

Yes, we like our police, we prefer law and order,  we are willing to adhere to the ecisions of SCOTUS, we are sickened by your theft ,slash and grab tactics, your lawlessness, turning or streets into bathrooms and you know the rest. If you do not like the hand you have dealt go somewhere else.  You will not be missed.

Democrats and Mainstream Media Just Don't Seem to Get the Supreme Court's 'Legitimacy' 

By Rebecca Downs

+Fear cannot take American Dream away unless you let it |

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The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. 

They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers" getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days, and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God, and have grown old together.

Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.

In school we studied English, history, math, and science, which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don't know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.

We are probably considered old fashioned and out-dated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam. We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag.  We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books, and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America.

Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country, and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.

It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama, and now Biden, and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the "Hope and Change" which in reality was nothing but "Hype and Lies." You youngsters have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don't like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or "Climbing the Social Ladder" to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the "Great Lie" in 2008 and 2020 are now having buyer's remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn't have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the 'Kool-Aid.' Now you're paying the price and complaining about it; no jobs, lost mortgages, higher gasoline prices, higher taxes, inflation, shortages, and less freedom.

This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty, and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.

Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in the mid-term 2022 and in 2024 elections we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like, but we get where we're going, and in 2022 and 2024 we're going to the polls by the millions.

This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters etc. It belongs to "We the People," and "We the People" plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren.

So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the "Gray-Haired Brigade."

Footnote: This is spot on. I am another Gray-Haired Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Gray-Haired Geezers all over this once great county.

Can you feel the ground shaking??? It's not an earthquake, it is a STAMPEDE!

In God we STILL  trust!

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What students? National teachers union convention promotes radical agenda

America's public schools have become a laughingstock across the world.

By A.J. Kaufman 

AFT President Randi Weingarten speaks at the American Federation of Government Employees annual conference in February 2020. (AFGE/Flickr)

It’s the heart of summer. And when teachers aren’t enjoying a three-month taxpayer-funded vacation, they’re updating their leftist agenda at a four-day extravaganza.

Proposed “resolutions” under consideration at the 87th annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) rendezvous ran the gamut of left-wing claptrap.

The nation’s second largest teachers union reviewed an exhaustive list of boilerplate progressivism on an array of topics — support for critical race theory, abortion, gender identity instruction, opposition to fossil fuels, and much more — that’s indistinguishable from the Democratic Party platform.

The annoying word “equity” is all over the grievance-filled document that contains nothing about reading, writing, or the concerns of most Americans.

The list of propagandistic resolutions are overseen by AFT President Randi Weingarten, a repugnant leftist who should be brought up on child abuse charges for pushing to keep government-run schools closed as long and often as possible since March 2020.

The agenda also called on President Joe Biden to cancel federal student loans via executive order before the payment moratorium expires next month. The president’s radical wife, coming off her insensitive remarks in Texas, jetted to Massachusetts Friday to deliver more vacuity as the keynote speaker.

A few measures took the cake for insanity.

One was the “Defeat Anti-LGBTQIA+ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ and Anti-Transgender Bills and Attacks with Mass Pride and Mass Action” resolution before the AFT’s “committee on human rights and international relations.”

That resolution was proposed by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers and misinforms on the Florida parental rights law, which prohibits schools from mandating classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity starting in preschool.

Most parents, even Democrats, don’t want a government employee teaching their 5-year-olds about sexual orientation.

Another measure praised communist Cuba’s health care industry for leading the way in “medical internationalism and solidarity,” while others opposed “the privatization of Medicare” and condemned school choice programs — something that would actually help children and struggling families.

Finally, the AFT’s “women’s rights committee” reviewed three separate measures that condemned the Supreme Court for its historic abortion ruling last month.

One California chapter claimed that, “Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees and far right-wing control of the court are pivotal to the Trump movement achieving its objectives.”

Never mind that women are as or more pro-life than men. This also obfuscates polls showing almost three in four Americans agree with a ban after 15 weeks.

America’s public schools have become a laughingstock across the world. Kids who can’t read or write remain imprisoned in failing schools — or locked out — and the privileged union tyrants this weekend in Boston happily held a lavish left-wing fundraiser. I wonder who paid for lunch

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Upcoming Events at The Booth!

It has been a couple years since we have had as much fun, interesting, and engaging programs going on in such a short period of time. Therefore, I wanted to take this time to emphasize the range of activities we have coming up in the next five to six weeks. This week we have the screening of the "Bitterbrush" documentary which follows the exploits of two young cowgirls responsible for a portion of isolated range in Idaho that will take place Thursday night, at 6:00 PM, here at the Museum.

On Saturday, July 23rd, we celebrate the National Day of the Cowboy with activities going on at the festival grounds and those dressed in Western attire receive discounts for regular admission to the Museum. That is also the day we will be releasing our new album of cowboy poetry and music, featuring "Cowboy James" Edwards and the Yellowstone Canyon Boys. Our art for lunch held on August 3rd, will feature the stars of that album, Cowboy James and Brent Maher, who produced the musical portions.

Later in August, world-famous artist Steve Penley, creator of the Teddy Roosevelt mural in the Booth collection will be our special guest for an evening lecture. August 27th springs up Member Appreciation Day and the opening up of two new exhibitions. Art for lunch in September will feature an expert on the state of Montana land issues, explaining how those have been worked into the script of the TV series "Yellowstone". Information on all of these events is located on our website, we encourage you to make yourself available to join us for as many as possible! It will be an entertaining and enlightening series of programs. You won’t be disappointed!

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The Burning Bush s alive and in Congress:
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Meet the Cori Bush Activist Who Wants To Burn Jews Alive

Neveen Ayesh wants to 'set Israel on fire'

By Adam Kredo 

Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) spent years cultivating a relationship with a pro-Palestinian activist who once tweeted that she wants to "set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it."

Bush, a member of the far-left "Squad" of lawmakers known for their anti-Israel attitudes, has been working alongside anti-Israel activist Neveen Ayesh since at least 2017, according to information published by Canary Mission, a watchdog group that tracks anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activists online. While Bush has publicly condemned attacks on the Jewish community, her relationship with Ayesh and other anti-Israel activists is drawing accusations that these statements are empty rhetoric. CONTINUE

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