In going over the news of the day, I happened to stumble across a picture of Nancy Pelosi. I don’t even remember what the write-up was about, particularly. However, I do remember thinking that she has one advantage that most people in DC do not have…. An immunity to sex scandals.
It’s not that I believe she subscribes to any particular morality…(in truth I believe her to be about as amoral as they come.) It’s more like anyone getting a good look at her would never believe it.
I suppose that what brought this thought to mind when I when I saw that picture, this morning is reading about the latest Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. As you might expect the Democrats and there’s stenographers in the mainstream media were heaping praise on the woman.
You see, I remember the attempts to scandalize Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, to name but two.
That’s always been plan B for the Democrats, when plan A to disqualify conservatives from the bench doesn’t work. I’m thinking we’re probably not going to see that happening in this case.
We are also not going to see GOP senators digging into the woman’s yearbooks in an effort to discredit her. We will not see Republicans dragging up Republican operatives from her erstwhile classmates desperately trying to drag up something anything that will take her out of the picture.
What we will see is Democrats using their majority status to ram through the nomination process somebody who’s only apparent qualifications are that she’s the right sex and the right color, and that she’ll tell us all that the constitution says it’s okay to kill babies. Those qualifications were primary in Joe Biden’s description of her when he announced the nomination and in his comments about her since.
With this, the Democrats are trying to present themselves as champions of diversity, which is of course absurd.
Rush Limbaugh used to say that the only diversity that Democrats don’t like is diversity of thought. I Dare to suggest to you that this hearing process and the subsequent and inevitable confirmation, will prove that out handily.
An equally potent indication of fear about diversity of thought, comes from the reactions we’ve been seeing across the left about Clarence Thomas being in the hospital these last few days. I suppose I’ll get told that Clarence Thomas isn’t a real black and I’m just a racist for even mentioning it.
But watch these confirmation hearings over the next few days and then tell me I’m wrong in my observations here.
Glen Reynolds brings up a column he wrote last December:
It’s time to admit it. Less than a year in, Joe Biden’s is a failed presidency. Biden knows it, the press knows it, and voters know it. And our foreign adversaries like China and Russia know it. It’s also time to look at the “cabal” of business, labor and political leaders who foisted the Biden administration on us. That won’t be hard, as they were openly bragging about their efforts less than a year ago.The failure is obvious. The administration is so desperate, it’s begging the press for better coverage. (What, they’re supposed to lie about gas and food prices? I guess so.) The Chinese and Russians are moving aggressively against the United States and its allies, on the ground, on the seas and even in outer space, because they don’t fear repercussions from a tired, incoherent president who presides over an administration of woke incompetents and Obama retreads.
And voters? Voters know firsthand. A staggering 63 percent of them think the country is on the wrong track, according to this week’s Wall Street Journal poll. Only 27 percent think it’s on the right track. Forty-six percent expect the economy to get worse; only 30 percent think it will get better. Far more expect inflation to worsen than to improve. Thirty-three percent think crime will get worse. Fifty percent think the nation’s political divide will worsen.
Reynolds says it’s time to hold the people that pushed him off on us accountable. He’s not wrong.The problem with removing him from office at this point is that puts that giggling pile of incompetence, Kamala Harris in the big chair. It’s clear now why she was chosen…. People are far less likely to try to remove him from office when she’s the alternative.
You keep the peace by making sure the other guy knows he’s not going to profit by making war.
The Democrats have yet to learn this lesson.
A Quinnipiac poll published on March 7, 2022, gave a remarkable insight into the state of the country in terms of its political divisions. It has long been suspected that Democrats care more about their party than the country, and the recent polls provide strong evidence supporting that opinion. The poll indicates that most Democrats will never criticize a Democrat president despite a disastrous job performance. But more troubling is what the Quinnipiac poll revealed: a majority of Democrats do not love this country enough to stay and defend her in case of war.
What I can’t figure out is why this is news.
It seems reasonable to ask, what secrets are being guarded with this expenditure?
Granted that because of the idiocy of the Democrats, the dollar only has the real value of Monopoly money anymore, but I can’t get over the feeling that there are secrets being covered… Secrets that would come out, where this invasion from Russia to actually succeed.
Over at Substack, C. Bradley Thompson breaks this one down:
The primary objectives of America’s new Prussianized education system were fivefold: first, to replace parents with the State as the primary influence on the education of children; second, to elevate and promote the interests of the State; third, to substitute America’s highly individualistic and laissez-faire social-political system with one that was collectivistic and statist in nature; fourth, to create a new kind of citizen, whose primary virtues would be self-sacrifice, compliance, obeisance, and conformity; and, fifth, to Americanize and Protestantize the teeming hordes of Irish-Catholics who were coming to the United States (and then the waves of immigrants coming to the U.S. after the Civil War from southern and eastern Europe).
To achieve these goals, the single most important task of the new government schooling was to disconnect the natural ties between children and their parents.
No longer would parents determine in what, how, and by whom their children were to be taught. These functions would now be taken over by the government. Thus, the first steps in liberating children from the baneful influence of their parents could only be achieved by legislating compulsory attendance laws and mandating a common curriculum where all students would learn the same political ideology. . . .
Horace Mann, the 19th-century godfather of American government schooling, summed up the anti-parent premise of state-run education in these terms: “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.”
And therein lies the point. Ask yourself, does anyone really believe that a government-run educational system is going to properly teach our young about the founders vision of limited government?
Behind her back is the Candle of Remembrance, a monument with details reminiscent of authentic embroidery that can be found on traditional Ukrainian costumes. This is a monument that commemorates a historical event known as the Holodomor.
What is the Holodomor?
After the end of the First World War, Ukraine was an independent state, but in 1919 the Soviet Union “sucked” it into the community of Soviet states. The Ukrainians, who even then considered themselves a Central European people like the Poles and not an Eastern European like the Russians, tried to restore Ukraine’s independence.
In 1932, not wanting to lose control of Europe’s main granary, Stalin resorted to one of the most heinous forms of terror against one nation. In the process of nationalization, he took away the grain-producing land from the Ukrainian peasants, but also all its offerings, thus creating an artificial famine. The goal was to “teach Ukrainians to be smart” so that they would no longer oppose official Moscow. Thus the people who produced the most grain in Europe were left without a crumb of bread. The peak of the Holodomor was in the spring of 1933. In Ukraine at that time, 17 people died of hunger every minute, more than 1,000 every hour, and almost 24,500 every day! People were literally starving to death in the streets.
Stalin settled the Russian population in the emptied Ukrainian villages. During the next census, there was a large shortage of population. Therefore, the Soviet government annulled the census, destroyed the census documents, and the enumerators were shot or sent to the gulag, in order to completely hide the truth.
World War. Their poison gas was hunger. Their Hitler was Stalin. Their Holocaust was the Holodomor. For them, fascist Berlin was Soviet Moscow, and their concentration camp was the Soviet Union.
Today, 28 countries around the world present the Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians, which you could not learn about in school, because almost all evidence was destroyed and victims were covered up for decades, survivors were forcibly silenced by not having the right to vote until recently.
The Holodomor at that time broke the Ukrainian resistance, but it made the desire for Ukraine’s independence from Russia eternal.
~Unknown author.
Thing is the Democrat party deep state knows no boundaries. Watch.
By the way, the under secretary in charge of Ukrane that Tucker mentions here? She was hip deep in the Democrat party arranged coup in the Ukraine, under Obama.
It’s always seemed a little more than passing strange to me that in our government has ever bothered probing while we were creating these bioweapons in the first place, in China. Instead our attention was focused on reacting to it from a medical perspective. I’ve been saying all along that those creating that covid-19 virus should be prosecuted, position I still hold.
That the Chinese were complicit in this is also a position I still hold. But now The Ukraine as well?
The process revealing what’s going on here is going to be painful for some people I believe. There’s a lot more going on here that we’re not being told. Hang on tight kids, because this stuff is going to be breaking very quickly.
Price increases over last year (CPI report)
Used Cars: +41.2%
Gasoline: +38.0%
Gas Utilities: +23.8%
Rents: +18%
Meats/Fish/Eggs: +13.0%
New Cars: +12.4%
Electricity: +9.0%
Food at home: +8.6%
Overall CPI: +7.9%
Food away from home: +6.8%
Apparel: +6.6%
Transportation: +6.6%
Shelter: +4.7%
Hotels +29%
Furniture +17.1
Chicken +13.2
New cars & trucks +12.4
Flooring +11.3
Lunchmeat +11
Dry clean +9.5%
Tools +8.7
Baby food +8.4
Full service restaurant +7.5
Pet supplies +7.5
Toys +6.7
Car repair +6.7
Ladies and gentlemen, this is only part of the price that we will pay for the “woke”politics being inflicted on this country. We have every indication that this is just the leading edge of the problem.
As this is written, diesel fuel is up over $5.50 a gallon. That’s up from $2.90 last year. Diesel is what power is the trucks that bring you everything that you have. Does anybody think that those fuel prices aren’t going to be reflected in even higher prices for everything else?
Addendum: the Washington Examiner has today’s numbers
BOMBSHELL: NYT Reporter Comes Clean, Admits Lefty Media ‘Were Making Too Big a Deal’ About January 6
Well, no kidding
About 6 months ago, there was a news program on oil and one of The Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, “I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. Have in the ground?” Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, “More than all the Middle East put Together.”
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only Scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and Extreme eastern Montana.
Check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable (5 Billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. “When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their Jaws hit the floor.
They had no idea.” says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature’s financial analyzer. “This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,” reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S. Oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’ companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken’s Massive reserves, And, we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is Light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!!!!! That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years Straight. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should – Because it’s from 2006 !!!!!!
U.S. Oil Discovery – Largest Reserve in the World Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006. Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the Largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush Mandated its extraction. In many recent years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother lode of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore Drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on Earth.
Here are the official estimates:
8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
18 times as much oil as Iraq
21 times as much oil as Kuwait
22 times as much oil as Iran
500 times as much oil as Yemen
And it’s all right here in the Western United States !!!!
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the Environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become Independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people Dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION barrels Untapped. That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the World today, reports The Denver Post.
Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention yet? Now, while you’re thinking about it, do this:
Pass this along. If you don’t take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices, by doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.
Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to everyone in your address book.
I’ve been telling you all along that it was no accident that Putin waited until there was a Democrat in the White House to invade the Ukraine.
Here’s a little reminder by virtue of the Gateway Pundit.
But every once in awhile a miracle occurs and they succumb to reality:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a strategic failure because it assumed and required a quick and decisive victory, and at best it will get victory slow and Pyrrhic. But the Ukrainians have failed badly as well, by waiting too long to arm and train their citizens. If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
The strategist Edward N. Luttwak has proposed that countries aligned with NATO shift in this direction preemptively, as a matter of policy. Instead of buying heavy, technologically advanced equipment, Luttwak told me, they should adopt the Finnish model. In Finland, adolescent males report for a short and intense period of military training, followed by shorter refreshers for most of their adult life. The training is not, as in the Israeli model, a few years of dedicated service. Nor does it emphasize military discipline, such as keeping one’s bunk tidy and shoes polished, or the Prussian-style transformation of citizen-recruit into fighting machine. Instead, it prepares civilians to be ready to join their unit and harass and kill invaders. A country of Finland’s size can rapidly field nearly 1 million trained soldiers. “Ukraine could have done this,” Luttwak said, “and they should have.”
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The real fact is, that all of the free world should be doing the same thing.
That you see, was the brilliance behind the writing of the second amendment.
This is from the ipcc…
