But there's more to the story!
[Epoch Times] If Tennessee and all Americans aren’t prudent, they’ll cast only a cursory glance at the recent and controversial conviction of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Memphis Chapter founder Pamela Moses for illegally registering to vote as a convicted felon, taking no more stock of it than a splashy headline on par with the resignation of BLM founder Patrisse Cullors after the discovery of her "Black Lives Manors." Indeed, Moses’s six-year prison sentence has far greater implications for the 2022 and 2024 elections.
Most mainstream coverage on Moses’s conviction is shocking: If you know the real, unfiltered story, you’re shocked that they de-emphasize how she accrued 16 criminal convictions prior to running for mayor illegally in 2019 and casting six illegal votes before being caught. If you know only the watered-down version presented by most outlets, you’re shocked at what you believe to be harsh treatment of this woman for mere misunderstanding.
Even the headlines lend a friendly disposition to her plight, painting her as a woman simply trying to vote and serve her community, unaware that her righteous work in political activism had resulted in felony charges. By all their accounts, she’s a go-getter who wants to lead others: a hometown hero. After all, she brought the first BLM chapter to majority-black Memphis. In reality, Moses’s sentence of six years ties back to run-ins with the law spanning two decades.
Only a broken system would enable Moses to cheat the system six times. It should go without saying that every state needs a modern, fail-proof system for verifying voter registration information and detecting unauthorized voting from people who cast votes illegally.
[American Thinker] You couldn’t miss the headlines: The annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years. For anyone on a fixed income, living off of savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster. Rich people don’t feel it (much) but ordinary people do. But here’s the kicker: Inflation is almost certainly worse than it was 40 and more years ago. Moreover, because the government is in thrall to Modern Monetary Theory, it’s going to get worse, lots worse. And all the while, China is sitting there, watching and waiting.
Inflation destroys wealth. People’s salaries never keep up with the inflation rate and the elderly aren’t earning more money so their savings can only lose purchasing power. It also hits the poorest people the hardest, making it completely regressive. That’s why a news report like this one strikes terror in the heart of both citizens and the political party in charge:
A relentless surge in U.S. inflation reached another four-decade high last month, accelerating to a 7.5% annual rate as strong consumer demand collided with pandemic-related supply disruptions.
The Labor Department on Thursday said the consumer-price index—which measures what consumers pay for goods and services—in January reached its highest level since February 1982, when compared with the same month a year ago. That put inflation above December’s 7% annual rate and well above the 1.8% annual rate for inflation in 2019 ahead of the pandemic.
The so-called core price index, which excludes the often volatile categories of food and energy, climbed 6% in January from a year earlier. That was a sharper rise than December’s 5.5% increase and the highest rate in nearly 40 years.
That "40-year" number, though, is misleading. Certainly, inflation has shot up with incredible speed, as happened in 1982, but real inflation is probably even worse than the accelerated rate suggests. That’s because, in 1990, the government changed how it calculated inflation (something it also did in 1980). John Williams’s Shadow Government Statistics calculates inflation as it would have been calculated before 1980 and before 1990. According to his numbers, inflation would have been over 15% using pre-1980 metrics and over 10% using pre-1990 metrics.
You don’t need the numbers, though, to tell you what you already know. It’s getting increasingly hard to afford life’s necessities.
#1
Since 2020, here is some of what I am seeing in Mid East GA.
Gas (87) up 41% to 50+%
Smith Field Bacon up 155+%
Sunbeam Bread up 22%
DZ Eggs up 23%
2% Milk up 19% to 23%
Ribeye up 66%
80/20 Hamburger Up 32%
Dollar Tree up 25% ☺
WW Chicken Wings up 42%
SAMS Skinless Salmon up 19%
WW Pancake mix up 34%
40LBS wild bird seed up 19+%
SAMS Folgers Large Canister of Coffee up 19 to 21%
The Wrost Price Gouging seen to date
Food Lion 100 8 cup store label Coffee Filters $4.99 (note The Mr. Coffee brand in Dollar General sell for $1.99)
Is it all BIDEN's Fault NO.
The Global Pandemic shares significant blame also for the inflation.
BUT!!!
How the Biden Admin & SD's stumbled around, played politics with a pandemic to prolong it, meaningless Reg's, $ TRILLION in deficit spending, and general tinkle poor handling of the economy, are the largest part of the Blame.
#2
Funny how during the 2020 Trump Covid lockdowns inflation was only 1.4%. As soon as Democratic-socialists took power, inflation quintupled and is still rising. Last month inflation was 0.8% (10.0% normalized over one year).
#3
NN2N1, who the hell believes that food only rose 6% in 2021. I am see similar similar price increases except that in Texas French bread increased by 33%, meat 20-25% and gas has doubled from $1.50 to $3.10.
#6
I keep advising clients who are "considering" 4% mortgages "You better grab one--the real rate of inflation is much higher than even the Federal Reserve is pretending it is."
If you have the ability to borrow money cheaply and a GREAT thing to spend the money on, you better grab it before we witness Carter-era hijinx.
[American Thinker] If you think the highest overall inflation rate in 40 years of 7% is bad, get ready for a real shock coming to a pump near you. Oil prices are surging so much that, ironically, even the "Green New Deal" president is begging global and domestic producers alike to ramp up production and pump, pump, pump! And despite his releasing millions of barrels of crude from the strategic oil reserve and pleading with oil-rich nations to increase their output, prices continue to climb.
In early December, oil was trading at $65 per barrel. Today, it's over $90, which is more than a 50% increase in a little over a couple of months. This past week, the average price of gasoline in the United States hit a seven-year high at the pump, but there's still much more to come. And while the U.S. Energy Information Administration these past few weeks predicted that prices will now decline continuously well into 2023, oil traders are pricing for $100 per barrel and higher in the next several months.
The go-to scapegoat for every problem the administration faces seems to be COVID, and it's not at all different with this self-imposed oil crisis. Yes, demand for petroleum did drop at the peak of the virus — and by peak, think a year ago, when weekly deaths were much higher but fewer people had COVID. This brief pause in demand held oil prices down, but not for long and not enough to cause producers to shutter production. No, the reduction in domestic pumping has nothing to do with virology and everything to do with politics.
Imagine being the CEO of an oil company listening to the past year of antagonism from the Biden crowd — canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, suspending new drilling leases on federal land, and pledging to reduce U.S. carbon emission by 50% in the next seven years. Would you commit millions — nay, billions of dollars to drilling and developing oil fields? Nope! And that's why domestic production is down 1.2 million barrels per day over the past twelve months — not COVID.
Meanwhile, in the "for thee but not for me" world we live in, the administration hammers the domestic oil industry but begs OPEC nations to increase oil production. And while OPEC+ has committed to a 400,000 BPD increase, fulfilling that commitment is problematic. Only the Saudis have that level of excess capacity and, currently, they aren't particularly keen to help us out. Russian oil infrastructure is decaying and can't ramp up appreciatively, while political upheavals are interrupting production with big producers like Nigeria and Kazakhstan.
While the administration's hapless energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, laughed off a question in November about increasing U.S. production with a glib and erroneous response that OPEC and the global market set production, she now is imploring the domestic industry to "get your rig count up!" Why the sudden turnaround? Simple. People vote with their pocketbooks. A recent CNBC/Change Research poll shows that two-thirds of all voters disapprove of the Biden administration's efforts to "help their wallets." Personal finances are the biggest concern on people's minds — far outpacing racial tensions, policing, and even COVID. Gasoline is a large portion of a typical family's budget, consuming as much as 20% in low-income households.
From the current high of about $4.50 a gallon in California to a low of $3.00 in Texas, everyone will soon be paying more at the pump. West Coast folks will be spending well over $5.00 a gallon in the coming months — probably $6.00 — and even low-price Texas will see $4.00 per gallon or more. This isn't a guess or a prediction; it's a solid forecast based on the prices of futures contracts in the oil market.
Yes, if Russia suddenly fixed its ancient infrastructure, Saudi Arabia cranked open the valves, and U.S. oil producers instantly were able and willing to crack open the fracking, prices would drop. But we might as well believe in the tooth fairy while we're at it.
#3
I had to look up NetJets. Very pricey rabbit hole.
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#4
My gas price went up 12.5% here in the past 10 days. And the Exxon station only had diesel. And I couldn't find a functioning pump at CEFCO. And Brookshire's gas pumps are closed for renovation.
#5
They spent about the last 17 years working to destroy the US oil industry (and US energy in general) to the benefit of their butt buddies Putin and Xi.
I'm sure whatever sleep aid they've laced Joe's ice cream with doesn't cause him nightmares.
Trying it on for size. If it works, they’ll use it to bar Donald Trump and all his supporters.
[PJMedia] The North Carolina Board of Elections claims it has the power to prevent Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) from running for re-election because of his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building.
Liberal activists had filed the challenge last month using an obscure "disqualification clause" in the Constitution — Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment — which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported "insurrection" from returning to office.
The problem for the activists is that Cawthorn never supported an "insurrection."
CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...:
Cawthorn, who has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6, filed a federal lawsuit last week to shut down the challenge. The elections board, in its court filing, said his lawsuit is premature and should be dismissed. The board also said it has the power to disqualify candidates based on constitutional considerations, not just based on state laws.
"States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges," the board wrote. "The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."
Did Cawthorn take part in an "insurrection" that would disqualify him from holding office?
Cawthorn was nowhere near the rioters on Jan. 6. He spoke to the 120,000 Trump supporters gathered on the ellipse prior to the riot. During his speech, he said nothing that could be construed as advocating for "insurrection" or revolution.
The liberal challenge to his candidacy is ludicrous.
Liberal activists who have mounted the effort to disqualify his candidacy say Cawthorn stoked violence and aided the insurrectionists. Days before the attack on the US Capitol, he said it was "time to fight." And at the January 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse, he railed against the "cowards" in Congress who planned to certify Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... ’s election victory.
Cawthorn will probably have to go through the entire sham of a hearing in court before a more rational judge tosses the challenge. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... the liberal activists have now tarred Cawthorn as an "insurrectionist."
#1
Keep o with y'alls bullshit. In some cases the courts can't save your asses.
Posted by: Chris ||
02/11/2022 1:05 Comments ||
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#2
A little quick action on the part of the NC state legislature could dispose of this issue. Not that they would ever stoop so low as to do this.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
02/11/2022 2:49 Comments ||
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#3
Should have known this would happen.
"Insurrection."
"Domestic terrorists."
"Misinformation" -- and now, in best Orwellian newspeak, another completely made up term, malinformation, which will mean whatever the fvck our Stasi want it to mean so long as it can be used to suppress, harass, beat or break down the opposition.
#6
...I'm not particularly fond of REP. Cawthorn, but if he's got any smarts he will keep his mouth shut until they pull this, then land on them like a ton of bricks.
And his first question should be, "Please state the date and jurisdiction where I was found guilty, in the appropriate court, of insurrection."
Then file the mother of all civil rights violation suits. Bankrupt them to defend themselves. It's not so much fun Sticking It To The Man(TM) when you lose the McMansion and the Audi in the process.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
02/11/2022 7:23 Comments ||
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#7
Don't let them hide behind North Carolina Board of Elections. These are NC Citizens. Name em and shame em. Make them pariahs in their own residences. Sue them individually for illegal harassment. Get down and dirty.
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/11/2022 8:52 Comments ||
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#8
It timed for Incitement leading into Mid-terms.
Looking at his Wiki page, a person might think WAPO NYT hired people to update it. ☺
#9
If I were a congressman or senator, I'd answer pretty much every question put to me with "Watch how I vote. That will be my statement."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/11/2022 9:58 Comments ||
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#10
A Bright must be strong to belong
To the smart set, so sing a light song
And try to sound clever,
My children, whenever
You whine! [ponders sign: RIGHT IS WRONG]
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[American Thinker] You couldn’t miss the headlines: The annual percentage increase in inflation clocked in at 7.5%, making it the worst increase in 40 years. For anyone on a fixed income, living off of savings, or in a low-paying job, this is a disaster. Rich people don’t feel it (much) but ordinary people do. But here’s the kicker: Inflation is almost certainly worse than it was 40 and more years ago. Moreover, because the government is in thrall to Modern Monetary Theory, it’s going to get worse, lots worse. And all the while, China is sitting there, watching and waiting.
[American Thinker] If you think the highest overall inflation rate in 40 years of 7% is bad, get ready for a real shock coming to a pump near you. Oil prices are surging so much that, ironically, even the "Green New Deal" president is begging global and domestic producers alike to ramp up production and pump, pump, pump! And despite his releasing millions of barrels of crude from the strategic oil reserve and pleading with oil-rich nations to increase their output, prices continue to climb.
