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Saturday, May 4. 2019Saturday morning linksThe power of music: Vicky McClure's dementia choir Can international social media censorship succeed? How Anti-Humanism Conquered the Left A book: Russell Kirk, a Conservative Guide for Our Times US Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.6% – a 50 Year Low! 263,000 New Jobs In April Migrant caravan goes global, attracts refugees from across world trying to enter US How The News Took Over Reality Poynter forced to scrap 'unreliable news' list targeting conservative outlets after outcry ‘They’ve Broken My Spirit’: CNN’s Camerota Bummed By Lack of Action Against Trump A Collage of Creepy and Inaccurate Fake News Reports from Rachel Maddow It is appalling, even by MSM standards De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week Biden, Bernie: It’s Not Their Age — It’s the Age of Their Ideas Over In The Congress, It's The "Hoax Of The Day" Every Day Democrats Scared to Death of an Investigation of the Investigation Barr Launches Wide-Ranging Probe Into 2016 FBI Spying New York Times Admits Obama Admin Deployed Multiple Spies Against Trump Campaign In 2016 Just like Nixon So Who Was ‘Azra Turk’ Working For? My guess is CIA 539 multinationals operate in Israel, view nation as go-to place for ideas On Point: Sudan's Protestors Now Confront the Military Transitional Council Explaining Ukrainegate Comments
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" The power of music: Vicky McClure's dementia choir". A nugget of gold among humanity. This is truly what it means to be human.
The most amazing tidbit from today's reports: two Republicans have read the nearly unredacted Mueller report that was made available to Congress, which is missing only the grand-jury material that is protected by statute. Zero Democrats have done so.
So whatever the mysterious dark matter is that would prove what Mueller couldn't prove isn't in the redactions. Their current theory is that it must be in the handwritten notes of investigators, or maybe in some imagined discrepancy between Barr's initial summary of Mueller's bottom-line conclusions, vs. some kind of "context" that Mueller or his staff were worried was being missed by the all-knowing media. These people are desperate idiots. This is common practice for Democrats. No Democrats viewed the evidence Starr provided for the Clinton impeachment, nor did any view, I believe it was evidence in the Kavanaugh "matter", and now they show no interest in Mueller's nearly unredacted dossier. They aren't interested in facts. Facts just get in the way of their narrative.
In the article on anti-humanism, Poor Miss Follett is so wrong that I hardly know what to say.
Apparently she doesn't about the ecological damage taking place all over the world. Hundreds of animals are becoming extinct, we are poisoning the oceans and over-fishing; and all of the forests are being cut-down. This is a direct result of over-population. But there is a much deeper issue here: Miss Follett seems to believe that human race should be measured in quantity, rather than quality. So if all of us have to suffer a lower quality of life so women can have as many babies as they want, then we should gladly make that sacrifice. For example, if you asked her about sterilizing women in Africa, she would say "never." But when these same women die a horrible death due to war and famine, Miss Follett will tell you that it's not her fault. Her solution? We need to make more sacrifices. Miss Follett has fallen into the feminist trap of believing that women should have an unrestricted right to have children. But what she doesn't understand is feminism is not interested in the intellectual quality of those children. If you look at our female-dominated schools, you can see feminism in action. The children are taught almost nothing. This is really a crime. By the time students graduate from high school, they should be trained in civics, philosophy, history, psychology, and art. In other words, they should be whole people. But Miss Follet and her friends don't want that. Instead, they want to produce children who will remain children forever: Stupid, uneducated, and poor. And since, as the result of that bad education, they incapable of governing themselves, Miss Follet and her friends will have do it for them. You got it exactly right! But, most importantly, one can witness the young women being "asked" to commit immoral, or unethical acts by the "mentors". I personally have experienced several occasions in which young women have committed illegal and unethical acts against myself. They have been told, "you have to prove you are strong enough to lead. Sometmes leaders have to do bad things to make it right for all of women". These young women are working their way up from grade school on toward being an "agent of change". What do you think those open classrooms are designed to do really--not to teach and learn. They are designed to control, shame, and reward. To train from the earliest age to blindly follow the crowd and the leader. The open space makes docile obedience much easier and more likely than when individuals are sitting in individual desks.
On the one hand you assert it would be humane to sterilise women in (conveniently) Africa, while simultaneously claiming concern for nature, at the same that you rationalise nature's response to over-population, famine and disease, as the excuse to restrict the reproduction of certain people.
There are two world-views that matter. Firstly, God created the world for Man or secondly, the world evolved on a survival-of-the-fittest basis, the latter implying that the species becoming extinct are losing their battle to natural selection, Man himself merely being just another element of nature. I hold to the first view, and would agree that Man is bound to behave responsibly, but it had better be on the terms laid out by God. Lest we forget Seattle led the way
We were watching the local news cover a demonstration in downtown Seattle. It was black against white. We watched in horror as a young black man beat the crap out of a young white woman. When she was down on the ground and he was still beating on her--do you know what we witnessed? Between 5-10 uniformed police officers standing not more than 10 feet away in a semi circle around the beating as it was happening--THEY DID NOTHING. Then a young white man stepped in to protect the white girl on the ground. He got the crap beat out of him by a the black kid, while the police stood and watched. The young white man died. The horror of that night has been compounded by the state legal system. For a full explanation of sentencing read down through to that paragraph. Nice crowd those ever so liberals. What the story doesn't tell you is that the police commissioner was new guy in town and the women in Seattle were trying to teach him how to behave. He responded with this little bit of union rebellion--which explains why the police were told to stand by and watch. Funny how that gets lost in the history. Not “just like Nixon” — far, FAR worse. It’s beyond obvious at this point that the spying on Trump was approved by Obama and all the chiefs of the various security services. Unprecedented abuse of power.
Sometimes I feel that all the right (best) words to describe this horroible attempt to destroy the greatest nation on earth--all the best words have been used up by the media that supported without thought, without concern for the evil that was being attempted. What words can we use now to describe this new chapter?
Exactly right. And let none of us ever forget — or forgive.
Barack Obama categorically denied spying on the Trump campaign.
The ability to make comments anywhere is slowly being eliminated.
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