[PJ] What would compel you to move to a different state? A better job? Family? Lower taxes? Better weather? A new study conducted by United Van Lines reveals that those are the main reasons that prompted many Americans to pack up and move across state lines. The study also provides data about which states people are fleeing and to which states people are moving.
Unsurprisingly, New Jersey tops the list of states from which people are moving. According to the study, 66.8 percent of the moves in New Jersey were by people moving to a different state. Surprisingly, to me at least, Vermont is at the top of the other list. 72.6 percent of moves in Vermont are from people moving from another state.
The study is interesting and informative, and United Van Lines is in a unique position to collect and analyze the data. According to Eily Cummings, who serves as United Van Lines' director of corporate communication, "As the nation’s largest household goods mover, our study allows us to identify the most and least popular states for residential relocation throughout the country, year after year. These findings accurately reflect not only where Americans are moving to and from, but also the reasons why."
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The only time my family ever used a van line to move was in 1963. Van company sent our stuff to a town 1000 miles off target which just happened to have the same name as the town we actually were moving to. Their people apparently thought their orders were too long to read. Or maybe they didn't know how to read.
After that fiasco, we either rented our own moving truck or hired a freelancer to help us move.
I imagine the vast majority of families who move don't use van lines like United.
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The basic problem remains the same. People flee high taxes and regulation and promptly vote for the same exact thing wherever they flee too. I think a three year hiatus on voting when you move might help.
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OTOH, I was one of the voters who kept Gillum out of office in Florida, so maybe I'm wrong...
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#1 yes, I knew an elderly man who purchased the entire contents of George Patton's home except for the organ and one other item. The desk required six men to move it. The desk made the trip but nearly everything else was lost in the move. He had been a security body guard for FDR. He was a very intelligent fellow.
[American Thinker] On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I remember the news story quite well. As I remember, there were lots of good vibration that came out of this day. Mandela statue, Naval Hill, Bloemfontain, SA.
Today, Mandela is dead and South Africa is a country going downhill. Today, the news out of that country is all bad, as we see in this report from a few weeks ago:
Thousands of predominantly white farmers are emigrating Down Under every month, as South Africa’s government prepares to roll out land seizures to make right the "original sin" of how the black population was treated in days gone by.
A law firm based in Perth, Western Australia, said the number of South Africans who have arrived on Australia’s shores since last February is estimated to be at least 162,000.
Karen Kotze, a migration expert at Suffolk Law, said the firm receives "up to 10 enquiries a day" from South Africans considering making the move.
This is an outrage as well as economic suicide by the South African government. These farmers are more than landowners. They are people who have been managing these lands for generations. You don't replace their talents by giving their land to other people.
As for Mandela's legacy, maybe this is what he will be remembered for. It makes no sense to destroy the country to correct "injustices" from the past. It would have made a lot more sense to respect property rights and let the landowners mentor new black farmers.
[Epoch Times] The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is infiltrating the Democratic Party across the country. Communists, some openly, some secretly, are working in Democratic campaigns, holding Democratic Party leadership positions, and even running for public office on the Democratic Party ballot line. The communists also are pushing their policies inside the Democratic Party, to the point that it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the CPUSA and Democratic Party programs. Many comrades also work closely with influential congressmembers or U.S. senators.
The CPUSA supports China, Cuba, Venezuela, and the Russian Communist Party‐all enemies of the United States. The CPUSA still advocates for the "overthrow of the capitalist class" in this country, yet the Democrats do absolutely zilch to keep the communists out of their party.
CPUSA infiltration of the Democratic Party is widespread‐it effects every region where the communists have a significant presence.
SUPPORT AND INFILTRATION
In the San Diego area, two CPUSA members, Carl Wood and Emiliana Sparaco, ran this month for the California Democratic Party Central Committee, from Assembly Districts 76 and 80, respectively.
Wood, a lifelong communist, intended to push for the "Healthy California Act that provides improved Medicare for All, a Living Wage of at least $15/hour, the Green New Deal for a healthy environment with good new jobs in a peace economy, and legislation to promote strong Unions." In 1999, California’s then-Democratic Gov. Gray Davis appointed Wood to a six-year term on the California Public Utilities Commission, where he "played a significant role in protecting California from the consequences of its disastrous deregulation experiment."
Sparaco, a former leader of the Young Communist League, traveled to Sochi, Russia, in October 2017, as part of a U.S. communist delegation to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution‐keynoted by Vladimir Putin himself. In 2018, Sparaco was a leading activist in Flip the 49th, which helped Democrat Mike Levin win California’s 49th Congressional District.
In Northern California, Sacramento area Democratic Congressman Ami Bera, who serves on the House Foreign Relations Committee, has won several super-close elections with communist help. For example, in 2014, CPUSA members Juan Lopez, Cassie Lopez, Michelle Kern, Nell Ranta, and Mik Diddams canvassed and phone-banked out of Bera’s campaign headquarters.
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The Democratic Party is composed of many little factions that all ask what can my country do for me. It's inevitable that they would want to turn to socialism to force their multitude of micro-agendas to happen.
In 1943, Humphrey made his first run for elective office, for Mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, but his poorly funded campaign still captured over 47% of the vote.[21] In 1944, Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL).[35] He also worked on President Roosevelt's 1944 reelection campaign.[36] When Minnesota Communists tried to seize control of the new party in 1945, Humphrey became an engaged anticommunist and led the successful fight to oust the Communists from the DFL -Wiki
They'd paid him back in '68. They don't make them like they used to.
[Babylon Bee] VIRGINIA‐In a statement issued from on high, the Almighty has agreed to spare the state of Virginia from His imminent wrath if state officials can locate just ten Democrats who never wore blackface or a KKK costume at some point in their lives.
God had announced His plan to immediately destroy Virginia, but Democrat leaders quickly begged him to spare the state if they could locate just 50 Democrats who never dressed in blackface. Being unable to do so, they managed to get the Lord to reduce the requirement to 40, then 30, then 20, and finally just 10.
Virginians' relief, however, quickly turned to panic as Democrat lawmakers announced they couldn't find a single leftist politician who hadn't dressed in a horrifically racist costume in their college years. They thought they found one but he was accused of sexual assault and so didn't count.
The state's citizens immediately began gathering their things and fleeing for other states, being careful not to look back.
[American Thinker] The mainstream media pretends that their scorn for President Trump is almost universally shared overseas. While globalists everywhere (along with their media allies) dislike him for standing up for national sovereignty, a rising tide of populist revolt is shaking them to their core. And Trump is a hero ‐ even a superhero ‐ to the growing number of anti-globalist populists around the world.
Stark evidence of this popularity of President Trump comes from Italy, where a populist government won power ‐ though the media tend to ignore this. The Carnival of Viareggio, described as "world-famous" by Medium.com (the website chosen by Jeff Bezos for his j’accuse manifesto against the National Enquirer) dates back to 1873, and has established itself as the venue for featuring amazing giant figures. It takes place in Tuscany, a wealthy area that is a magnet for tourists worldwide.
[DAWN] SINDH has always prided itself on maintaining interfaith harmony. But a number of incidents in recent years have challenged that perception, the latest being an arson attack on a temple in the town of Kumb in Khairpur district.
Last week, miscreants entered the Sham Sundar Shewa Mandli temple and set alight religious sculptures and holy books, including the Bhagavad Gita and Guru Granth Sahib. Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... took notice of the incident and requested the Sindh government to find and prosecute the perpetrators.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... Sindh Governor Imran Ismail issued a statement calling the attack a "conspiracy to sabotage the interfaith harmony and religious concord in the province".
While Sindh may indeed have less open bigotry than other parts of Pakistain, in recent years, the land of Sufi saints has had to grapple with the same rising extremism and religiosity that has gripped the rest of the nation.
Nearly the entire Hindu population of Pakistain lives in Sindh. One of the biggest laments remains the forced conversion of Hindu girls and women by Moslem men of influence ‐ a practice that has been reported at length on these pages and that is perpetuated by certain seminaries.
Many Hindus in rural Sindh are also poor and disenfranchised, with limited access to social mobility. There is the added discrimination towards those belonging to the scheduled castes, from both Moslems and upper caste Hindus.
Anti-Hindu language is present in textbooks and popular culture across the country. It is sad to note that blasphemy cases disproportionately target those belonging to minority religions.
Minorities have every right to feel secure in their religious identity and within their places of worship as those belonging to the majority religion.
If respect is demanded for the majority faith, this courtesy must extend to the minority religions as well. That is basic human decency.
Anything less is hypocrisy at best, and discrimination at worst. Sindh must reclaim its reputation by disempowering all those that threaten its centuries-old peace.
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[American Thinker] With their exposed artificially inflated breasts aglow during Sunday's Grammy presentation (and that's just those who identify as women; Adam Levine wanna bes were nowhere to be seen/heard), the host, presenters and performers were an inclusive politically correct group.
The Recording Academy has announced a sweeping inclusion initiative focused on correcting gender inequity in the music industry.
It’s the first public display from the association, which administers the Grammy Awards, on an issue that was stirred up last year when academy President Neil Portnow said women in the music business needed to "step up" to succeed. His comments followed a 2018 study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. According to the Recording Academy, the USC study found that across popular music only 2% of music producers and 3% of engineers or mixers are women.
So inclusive that a noted non-musician with most of the politically correct checked boxes participated in the opening of the televised portion of the show. Black? Check. Female? Check. Politically correct? Check and double check. Yes, there was Michelle Obama, wife of former president Barack Hussein Obama (D), justifying her appearance -- she likes music. Attired in glittery flowing pants and top, standing side by side with such diverse females as white ethnic Italian Lady Gaga, Hispanic Jennifer Lopez, black Jada Pinkett Smith and black host Alicia Keys, Obama gushed:
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Can't stand drum machines, screeching female voices or (c)rap lyrics. When the GF goes in one of those mall stores that blasts that stuff, I tell her "I'll see you out here..."
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I saw an article lately that claims Millennials Remember Popular Pop’s 1960s-90s Golden Age. It's easy for me to believe because I can't think of a single current popular song. That could be just because I'm old but I can't stand listening to the radio anymore. Rhythm, harmony and melody all seem to have been forgotten. There's a beat, usually generated by a computer, and a high-pitched and thin voice chanting and moaning rather than actually singing. Often times the voice is enhanced or distorted by some kind of electronic device. There is no oomph, no clever lyrics, no blazing guitar solos, nothing memorable. Kind of like bland, electric Muzak.
It's almost like one of Any Rand's predictions in Atlas Shrugged. And, think about it: Would the dour, timid, humorless, unimaginative bureaucrats in the old Soviet Union allowed the release of A Day in the Life or Stairway to Heaven? How about Cream's I Feel Free? And if it goes on long enough, guys who would normally be inspired to get together in a garage with guitars have nothing to inspire them. Even if they did, today's music industry would stifle them.
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And, no, Alicia Keys' cleavage was not enough to get me to watch.
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We watched the entire show last night. Mr. Wife has a particular interest because one of the nominees, Danielle Nicole, will be playing at our big summer blues festival. He commented how nice it was that this year was very much a joyous celebration of music, whereas last year he was so bored he had turned it off partway through.
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So the zombie show was on last night. Also, Walking Dead premiered.
Abu, daughter came home from school the other week singing, 'Sounds of Silence'. Didn't get that from me, not that I have a problem with S&G just don't listen to it. Also, nephew and his friends get together on weekends and listen to vinyl.
Was at a youth game recently, they played some get fired up music. Something something get your asses up and down like a stripper on a pole or something. Youth game. Yeah.
[Daily Caller] Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned university students that democracy is endangered by the decline of free and open civic debate.
"We have a social framework of decency that we’re very quickly losing," Kennedy said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which was on hand during the recent event at the UC Hastings College of Law. Without that framework, he explained, free societies cannot endure.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the justice bemoaned the "egocentrism that the cyber age has brought us."
"Our young people in the cyber age don’t think the past is important," Kennedy said. "If it’s not on your screen, it’s not important."
The importance of civil, wide-ranging discourse was a major touchstone of Kennedy’s jurisprudence during his tenure on the Supreme Court. Even in closely-divided cases touching hot social controversies, the justice emphasized the respect due to all parties and extolled the virtue of free expression.
Perhaps the most significant of Kennedy’s opinions was the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which established the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. There he repeatedly argued that the decision’s detractors had good faith objections to same-sex unions which should be aired in a respectful exchange of views.
"Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged here," Kennedy wrote. Elsewhere in the decision, he emphasized that religious dissenters may engage in "an open and searching debate" over the nature of marriage.
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When everybody is Lenny Bruce the uniqueness is no longer there. Life just becomes corse. You don't know what you got till it's gone. Look in the mirror Mr Justice, how many laws and ordenences did you all strike down to bring us this corseness.
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A retired Supreme Court Justice? You mean they don't have to die in office? Does RBG know about this?
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When they start dueling like they did in the old days I'll start to take the loss of decency bit seriously. Until then folks complaining about this are just old prunes pretending to be shocked.
[PJMedia] In the immediate sense, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party since Abraham Lincoln. Her Green New Deal is as much dead in the water as it is brain dead and constitutes a fabulous talking point for the GOP to run on in 2020.
But there is a point of concern ‐ and in the long run a more important one.
AOC represents the natural outgrowth of our extraordinarily biased higher educational system. She is its valedictorian, its Social Justice Summa Cum Laude. Give her the SJWPhD honoris causa and, while you're at it, give the United States of America to China. They won't have to fire a shot.
Think I exaggerate? Consider the level of writing and thinking in her Green Deal in whatever ever-changing iteration, with or without the banning of cow flatulence and air travel, and notwithstanding the guaranteed income for those unwilling to work. (Isn't that already the case with internet trolls ‐ but I digress?) This document, if one can call it that, resembles nothing more than the kind of swill presented to ‐ and highly approved by ‐ professors in today's grievance-obsessed colleges, where Shakespeare and Milton are dismissed or rejected and actual thought (i.e., intellectual reasoning) is ridiculed as manifestations of "white privilege." First they came for Liberal Arts and I didn't give a damn
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AOC is a barometer for the failure of the American university? We are in a lot of trouble. How is the decades of left-wing destruction undone in the universities?
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Subsidizing the education of skills in professions we really need as a nation in the STEM fields I don't have that much trouble with. Engineers, Doctors, Physicists etc. If you want a degree in African Story Telling or Women's/Black/Latino/Oppressed Group of the Week Studies. Fund it yourself.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I remember the news story quite well. As I remember, there were lots of good vibration that came out of this day. 
[American Thinker] The mainstream media pretends that their scorn for President Trump is almost universally shared overseas. While globalists everywhere (along with their media allies) dislike him for standing up for national sovereignty, a rising tide of populist revolt is shaking them to their core. And Trump is a hero ‐ even a superhero ‐ to the growing number of anti-globalist populists around the world.
