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-Great Cultural Revolution
Victor Davis Hanson: The Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 02:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As they pull up the boarding ladders behind them on their Gulfstream G700's, the wealthy global elites continue to lecture us on education, gender, race, politics, automobiles, and the climate.

Yes, it really is a 'Top-Down' revolution. And, "sometimes they war between themselves."

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 2:47 Comments || Top||


#3  By definition, there is no such thang as a "top down revolution" - it's just tyrrany By All Means Necessary.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/17/2023 14:56 Comments || Top||


Morgan Freeman: Black History Month and the Term ‘African-American' Are Insulting
[Breitbart] Hollywood star Morgan Freeman has reiterated his antipathy for Black History Month as well as the term "African-American," saying in a new interview that he finds both concepts to be insulting.

Freeman explained to London’s The Sunday Times why he finds both terms repugnant.

"Two things I can say publicly that I do not like. Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month?" he reportedly said, before adding:

"Also ’African-American’ is an insult. I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ’African-American’. What does it really mean?"

He added: "Most black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe."

This isn’t the first time the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby star has spoken out against Black History Month. In a perennially-viral 2005 interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, Freeman told correspondent Mike Wallace, "I don’t want a Black History Month."

When asked by Wallace "how are we going to get rid of racism," Freeman replied: "Stop talking about it."

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 01:30 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good luck with that.
Posted by: Nguard || 04/17/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Yea!

To whom do Black Lives Matter?

They don't seem to matter to the Blacks that are doing the killing.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/17/2023 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  "Stop talking about it." That point where Freeman gives away the game, cuz that's all we hear 24/7. He's saying to toss the narrative in the trash. Hate to break it to you Morgan... welcome to the club of "The Others".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/17/2023 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Freeman's been pretty lib up to now.
Posted by: KBK || 04/17/2023 19:40 Comments || Top||


Tragic: Post Office Fails To Deliver Abortion Pill On Time And Now There's This Adorable Baby
[BEE] DALLAS, TX — In a horrific tragedy, the Postal Service was unable to deliver an abortion pill in time and now an adorable baby has been born.

"It's sickening. Just look at this beautiful, sweet baby. " said delivery nurse Amy Schneider. "All of this cuteness, this amazing new life, could so easily have been avoided with one little pill. Why, God??"

According to doctors, not taking an abortion pill has been directly linked to cuddly babies being born alive. "Taking an abortion pill destroys a baby's blood supply, ensuring no one experiences the calamity of seeing their wonderful, squishy faces," said Dr. Rhonda Miller. "If only this baby's mother could have taken that pill, she wouldn't be suffering through looking into the precious eyes of her daughter. It's almost enough to make me cry."

Abortion advocates vowed to ensure that such a terrible misery would never again be visited upon another woman. "The worst part is knowing that we could have stopped this innocent, lovely baby from ever drawing breath - and we didn't do it," said Planned Parenthood executive Donna Marks. "A rosy-cheeked, newborn girl's face is something no mother should ever have to see."

At publishing time, the neonatologist had arrived to mourn with the mother as she started the most meaningful of all human experiences.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 00:52 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Chicago mayor-elect condemns 'Teen Takeover' chaos, but says it's 'not constructive to demonize youth'
Hey!
Remember Seattle?

[FoxNews] Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson warned against vilifying youth while condemning a chaotic "Teen Takeover" of the Loop over the weekend, which saw hundreds of young people descend on the downtown area for two nights in a row.

Two teenage males, ages 16 and 17, were shot while standing in a crowd during the mayhem on Saturday night, as hundreds of young people smashed cars, blocked traffic, and fought in the streets. Both victims were transported to a hospital and listed in fair condition, according to Fox 32 Chicago.

Chicago police arrested nine adults and six juveniles in connection with the takeover, which was advertised on social media. A 16-year-old male was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, while two other suspects were charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Most of the other arrests were for reckless conduct.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/17/2023 00:14 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Cure:

Remington-870 pump. Two-three rounds #6 shot. Bullshi* over in less than a minute. Total cost under $5.00


Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 1:08 Comments || Top||

#4  "Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly, under adult guidance and supervision"

Isn't that playgrounds/schools/zoos prison?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/17/2023 6:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Testing the field for Chiraq's own "Summer of Love" this year?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  ...And just think - the Democratic National Committee thinks this will be under control when the '24 National Convention takes place there.

Somewhere, Bill Daley Sr. is laughing his ass off.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/17/2023 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^ Assuming you meant 'Richard J. Daley Sr.', the mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976.

As much as folks like to denigrate him, he loved his city and would be appalled at the current state of affairs.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/17/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Cure: Remington-870 pump.

Chicago's newest superhero: Shotgunman. Otherwise it's Mrs. O'Leary's Cow 2.0.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 || 04/17/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Illinois state senator defends Chicago teens' rioting, looting: 'It's a mass protest'

Guess when they get jobs, buy a house, pay taxes they can voice their opinions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/17/2023 15:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Still think NASCAR is going to need kevlar body panels and lexan for thewindshield to keep the drivers from getting shot during the street race later this year. Seriously doubt anybody has considered staking out all the high spots to prevent sniper style action. Taking out a driver would give some serious street cred.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/17/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||

#11  I can recall when "midnight basketball" was gonna take care of all these problems.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/17/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Oldest Brewery in America Shows Bud Light What It Means to Actually Understand Its Customer Base
[Western Journal] Maybe Bud Light’s executives can take a lesson: Truth in advertising can pay off big, if you have a truth worth selling.

As Anheuser-Busch and its international ownership continue to deal with the fallout from a disastrous decision to bring woke politics into its Bud Light marketing campaigns, an American-owned competitor is capitalizing in a way that’s as simple as it is effective.

And for the nation’s oldest brewery, there’s already one big return on investment.

D.G. Yuengling and Son, based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was a largely local beer for most of the years between now and 1829, when it was founded as Eagle Brewery. But it started its expansion from the mountainous east-central part of the Keystone State into the Philadelphia area in the late 1980s and has been spreading since.

The secret to that success is straightforward, the company wrote in a Twitter post published Saturday that has rocketed around social media.

“Yuengling. The Oldest Brewery In America,” the post stated. “Independently Owned and Family Operated since 1829 because we make good beer.” There’s no talk of dredging up wannabe drag queens and posting their simpering faces where they have no place being. Nothing to do with “equity.”

Just the one thing Americans who like beer are looking for: good beer.

Bud Light, a company that built its consumer base on blue-collar America outed itself. It’s being denounced by entertainers like Kid Rock and Riley Green, been boycotted in conservative regions and, most importantly, lost $5 billlion in market value when the Mulvaney gambit blew up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  whats up with the chinese name?
Posted by: 746 || 04/17/2023 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  aint gonna help w marketing
Posted by: 746 || 04/17/2023 0:15 Comments || Top||

#3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-Ieeu7oIA
Posted by: 746 || 04/17/2023 0:17 Comments || Top||

#4  the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWQK_O8UdQ
Posted by: 746 || 04/17/2023 0:19 Comments || Top||


#6  Not exactly apolitical, though historically they just liked American presidents. From 2019:

Yuengling has a thing for presidents (especially Trump).

In 1933, Yuengling celebrated the end of Prohibition by shipping a truckload of “Winner Beer” beer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 2010, Barack Obama claimed Yuengling was his favorite beer. He even included it in a political exchange with Canada.

In 2016, Dick Yuengling endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Chaos ensued.

In 2018, Yuengling hosted Eric Trump on a media-accompanied tour of the brewery. On the tour, he allegedly said to Eric Trump, “Our guys are behind your father. We need him in there.” Yikes.

It has been boycotted multiple times.

After word got out about Yuengling’s support of the Trump campaign, many Yuengling drinkers boycotted the brand, including Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims.

Sims called out Trump’s “anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-racial minority and anti-equality agenda” in a Facebook post, saying: “I’m not normally one to call for boycotts but I absolutely believe that how we spend our dollars is a reflection of our votes and our values! … Goodbye Yuengling and shame on you. Sincerely, A former customer of 17 years!”

(Yuengling’s response? “[W]e survived Prohibition. We survived two world wars, when you couldn’t get any grain. We’ll be fine,” Dick Yuengling said in 2017.)

Another, unrelated boycott occurred in 2006, when a separate scandal alleged Yuengling was a union buster.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/17/2023 0:42 Comments || Top||

#7  whats up with the chinese name?

It's an Anglicized spelling of the German (Jüngling). Yuengling also has a brewery in Texas so I can buy it in grocery stores.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 || 04/17/2023 3:16 Comments || Top||

#8  "Anglicized"? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/17/2023 8:35 Comments || Top||

#9  'Americanified'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/17/2023 9:00 Comments || Top||

#10  To-may-to, To-mah-to
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/17/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Alcoholics Anonymous hires Dylan Mulvaney as most effective way to get people to stop drinking
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/17/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Here Are All the Crimes Donald Trump is Being Indicted For
[GenesiusTimes]
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  When humor and satire appear to explain the reason.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/17/2023 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Beating Hillary Clinton was the unforgivable sin.
Posted by: Tom || 04/17/2023 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  It's ironic that we owe both Trump and Bath House Barry for sparing America a Swillary prexidency.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/17/2023 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  nice satire site

Genesius was a Roman comedian in the 3rd century.

Posted by: lord garth || 04/17/2023 13:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Buttigieg Says Traffic Fatalities Happen Because of 'A Lot of Reasons Related to Discrimination' (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on MSNBC’s Politics Nation to discuss racist roads with host Al Sharpton.

Buttigieg told Al Sharpton that traffic fatalities happen because of racism and discrimination.

"We’ve got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America," Buttigieg said. "We lose about 40,000 people every year. It’s a level that is comparable to gun violence — and we see a lot of racial disparities. Black and brown Americans and tribal citizens and rural residents are much more likely to lose their lives..."

Buttigieg continued, "There are a lot of reason related to discrimination....even related to the way the roads are designed and who has access to a safe street design that’s got crosswalks and good lighting."

Roads are now racist.

The look on Al Sharpton’s face said it all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 01:48 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Buttigieg points to how roads are 'designed and built' as the reason for racial disparities in road fatalities

'Black' tar
'Colored' lights
'Yield' signs
Intersex-tions
Trans-portation
Angry, cross streets
Pot holes
'Passing' zones

Gee, he might be right.

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/17/2023 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  The look on Al Sharpton’s face said it all.

When a grifter suddenly realizes that his 'mark' is, in reality, an empty shell.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/17/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Todays commentary in part from Kunstler is a perfect comment:
You might be among those who have noticed that the people in authority in our country appear increasingly insane. It ought to be self-evident that this is deeply disturbing, but I will explain anyway to allay any residual mystification. In a sane human society, authority is granted to those who are trustworthy. People earn trust by demonstrating their allegiance to reality. Things generally work better when the people running them maintain cordial relations with reality. Now, you understand why so many things don’t work in the USA."
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/17/2023 13:42 Comments || Top||


Feinstein Steps Away From Judiciary Committee To Head Toward Bright Light
[Bee] Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein has announced she will be temporarily stepping away from her seat on the Judiciary Committee to head toward a warm, bright light that seems to be beckoning her.

"I can't help it, it's so beautiful," said the 438-year-old Senator, known affectionately by colleagues as the "Crone of the Senate." "There's a feeling of warm, calming peace in this glowing orb at the end of this tunnel that just appeared in front of my eyes just now. I must see what lies at the end of it."

Feinstein, who entered the United States Senate over a century before the founding of the United States, then stepped away from her seat in the committee room, walked slowly out of the Capitol Building, and strode serenely toward an unseen light.

At publishing time it had been reported that half of Congress was following her.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2023 0:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  git there quicker
Posted by: 746 || 04/17/2023 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  to head toward a warm, bright Bud light
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/17/2023 0:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Was it a white glow or a red glow?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/17/2023 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if she still casts a reflection in a mirror.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/17/2023 21:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Triumph and Tragedy of Abba Eban
[American Greatness] Abba Eban was a key member of Israel’s government for more than a quarter century—from 1948 to 1974. In Israel’s first decade, he served for nine years as its U.S. ambassador in Washington and simultaneously as its U.N. ambassador in New York. Then he was education minister for three years; after that, deputy prime minister for three years; and finally, foreign minister for eight years. In 2002, his obituary in the New York Times ran 2,800 words, saying that he:

[sent] his supremely cultured voice using the King’s English into forensic combat. His orations, fierce in their defense of his country, were also marked by rich appeals to history, soaring visions of a peaceful Middle East and withering scorn for Israel’s enemies.

Eban’s speeches were a record of eloquence unequaled by any diplomat during that period. Conor Cruise O’Brien, representing Ireland in the U.N. (sitting next to Eban in the General Assembly), called him "the most brilliant diplomatist of the second half of the 20th century."

In 1974, however, Yitzhak Rabin left Eban out of his new Israeli government, and Eban never again held a ministerial job. By 1988, he was so low on the Labor Party electoral slate that he was not reelected to the Knesset. Humiliated, he retired from political life, relocated to New York, and spent the rest of his life teaching, writing, and speaking.

Eban’s meteoric rise and dramatic fall was a classic tragedy—and one that extended beyond his personal political career. It holds a lesson for today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2023 01:55 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2023-04-17
  Somalia: Three Shaboobs dead in exploding rickshaw
Sun 2023-04-16
  Attempted military coup in Sudan
Sat 2023-04-15
  US ambassador and embassy staff in Sudan take shelter as fighting breaks out between militia troops and the army
Fri 2023-04-14
  FBI makes arrest as classified document investigation focuses on Air National Guardsman
Thu 2023-04-13
  Texas police seize 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl in single traffic stop
Wed 2023-04-12
  Canadian authorities arrest 2 women repatriated from NE Syria
Tue 2023-04-11
  Egypt planned to covertly send 40,000 rockets to Russia: report
Mon 2023-04-10
  20 killed in DR Congo attack blamed on Islamic State group
Sun 2023-04-09
  Forty-four dead in two attacks in Burkina Faso
Sat 2023-04-08
  Lebanon to file complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli 'aggression.' Really.
Fri 2023-04-07
  34 rockets fired from southern Leb by Islamic Jihad
Thu 2023-04-06
  Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for burning alive three southern Yemeni separatist prisoners
Wed 2023-04-05
  Clashes between armed groups in Syria's Aleppo lead to casualties
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  al-Qaeda commander dronezapped in Syria's Idlib
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  Car bombing rocks Syrian capital Damascus, state media says


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