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Tuesday, January 30. 2024

Tuesday morning links

 Illegals from China, Turkey and India Cross Border in San Diego County


 Climate Change Causes Infant Mortality


 A Study of How Americans Die


  PUBLIC SCHOOL BLOAT


 Almost One-Third of Gen Z Now Gender-Queer


 EU Wants All 'Gendered Language' Erased


Tipping is good 


 Canadian officials fume over Tucker Carlson’s speech, proclaim they 'won’t stand for it'


 'Army Of God' Convoy Heads To US Border While EU Farmers Block Cities


The peasants are revolting 


 Soros, Facebook, And Omidyar Money Behind Attacks On German Farmers


Canada:  Public has proof that his (Trudeau's) government used faked intelligence to illegally frame protesting truckers as violent extremists.


“Undeniable at This Point” – Elon Musk Weighs in on Joe Biden’s Open Borders


 George Soros Spending Millions to Turn Texas Blue


Why? Strange.


Islam :



1,400 years ago, when Islam was created in the 7th century, Iran was Zoroastrian—today Muslim. Iraq was Christian; today it’s Muslim. Turkey was Christian; today it’s Muslim. Lebanon was Christian; today, with a Muslim majority, the Christians are disappearing from there. Egypt was Christian; today it's 92% Muslim. ..


President Joe Biden’s got blood on hands after appeasing Iran for years


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"...In the US, a convoy of truckers, calling themselves "God's Army," is preparing to embark on a journey from several locations across the Lower 48 to the southern border as tensions soar between Texas and the Biden administration. ..."

How may Feds recently got their commercial trucker's license, one wonders. How many chumps with awkward criminal records and shady pasts are dutifully filling out their 'informant' Confidential Human Source daily reports? How many blue-coated Feebs are hanging out in Holiday Inns, following the crowd? How many warrant-less searches are being conducted with the cooperation of credit card-issuing banks, phone companies, cell phone providers, etc?

I guess we'll know when the financial accounts are locked down, followed by selected arrests. It's the new January 6th Constitutional Crisis, All-Insurrectional, All-The-Time! New & Improved for election season, booga-booga.
#1 Aggie on 2024-01-30 09:42 (Reply)
I’ve read a lot about the border convoy being a likely Fed false flag op. True or not, the result is what the Fed’s want: to shut us up and grant the right to protest only to the left.
#1.1 mudbug on 2024-01-30 09:52 (Reply)
What if truckers come for a day, and then leave, to be replaced by other truckers for a day? Makes one wonder......
#1.1.1 Aggie on 2024-01-30 12:58 (Reply)
Small wonder that deep staters want a CBDC to make financial lockdowns much easier and without risk of confrontation by their victims. Government is used as a tool to control and shake down the peon class. Got bugs? Got the jab?
#1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-01-30 12:52 (Reply)
I believe that the Soros agenda is to destroy the U.S. I believe that those on the left getting Soros money want to bring a Marxist/Socialist version of communism to the U.S. In other words they all want to destroy the U.S. A major part of that agenda is to flood the U.S. with illegal immigrants. In the next 12 months Biden and the Democrats in congress will pass laws intended to insure that the next president can't deport the illegals already here. Additionally they will accelerate the citizenship process to lock many illegals into citizenship to again prevent any Republican president from undoing their treasonous actions. Make no mistake this is treason and their goal is to destroy the U.S.
#2 OneGuy on 2024-01-30 10:02 (Reply)
Infant mortality. Climate Change. What? I think we all know the greatest cause of infant mortality. They try and convince you that an unborn baby is not human. It’s just a clump of cells, no better than the dead skin you wash off in the shower every day. The Left cares about babies when it suits their political agenda. The communist agenda. The communists agenda is always about taking what they didn’t work for. They are thieves, imbued with greed and a disdain for their fellow humans. They are a cancerous rot inflicting humanity. Their leader is the Devil.
#3 B. Hammer on 2024-01-30 11:54 (Reply)
The blue city drive by's are a bigger threat to any infant than climate change could hope to be. Throw in parent drug use and threats from an infant climate death disappear off the graph.
#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-01-30 12:58 (Reply)
Mr. H and I were always generous tippers, because we recognized that the people serving us had very hard jobs for not much money. That said, we tipped according to the service we got. A good waiter or waitress can make a lot more money in a single shift than what they'd get for $15 or $20 an hour. The people pushing that nonsense say they're working toward "equity", which just means "equal outcomes" regardless of the service performed, the equal outcome meaning "equally poor".
#4 RebeccaH on 2024-01-30 12:44 (Reply)
Indeed. The base pay that many in the waiter/waitress occupation that most get is rather paltry but if they provide attentive service they can do rather well. And I tip according to quality of service as well. It does seem that those that don't understand service do not last long in the business.
I have two nieces that worked at a golf club restaurant during their summer break while in high school. They always said that the blue collar guys tipped better than the professionals.
#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-01-30 13:25 (Reply)
I made it a personal policy quite some time ago to subtract any government taxes and surcharges from the bill before calculating the tip.

This because it occurred to me that, by not doing so, I was effectively tipping the government for taxing me.
#5 JJM on 2024-01-30 13:14 (Reply)
"Canadian officials fume over Tucker Carlson’s speech, proclaim they 'won’t stand for it'"

For Canadian officials read Liberal Party of Canada.

They're running scared right now because the Leader of Opposition, Pierre Poilievre (Conservative Party) is crushing Trudeau in the polls and there's an election next year. Thus their strategy is to attempt to convince Canadians that Poilievre is some sort of Trump-like figure.

It's not working.
#6 JJM on 2024-01-30 13:19 (Reply)
Pierre Poilievre is really brilliant with the media. Of course in this day and age, that’s not saying much. Pierre Poilievre has made the interviewer look pretty silly, at least in the clips I’ve seen. There might be hope for Canada yet, if he wins.
#6.1 B. Hammer on 2024-01-30 16:50 (Reply)
Full disclosure: he's my MP (Member of Parliament).
#6.1.1 JJM on 2024-01-30 18:16 (Reply)
Waiters make half of minimum wage, although a couple states may have specific laws that adjust this to the waiter's favor. It is expected that the customer provide the remaining portion of their pay through a tip. The waiter should receive a minimum of 15% of the check as tip, even for the worst service. If you can't or won't do this, then you simply should not be eating out. If you occupy the table for longer than a reasonable amount of time to eat a meal, then you should double the tip.

And if you repeatedly do not tip at the same restaurant, then I guarentee that you have eaten food that has been compromised.
#7 jack walter on 2024-01-30 16:01 (Reply)
My son owns a breakfast and lunch restaurant. The food is more on the high end side. His servers are paid the minimum which is around $8.00 for servers with a tip credit to bring up the wage to minimum. His servers will routinely walk away with tips of between $150 to 250 per 5 hour shift. Which means including the minimum they usually earn 38 to 58 dollars per hour. They are usually the highest paid employees and work hard for their money. If they don't perform they do not last.
#7.1 Don on 2024-01-30 16:33 (Reply)
They found the stolen Jackie Robinson statue. Stupid and divisive to tear down that statue. But... but wasn't it stupid and divisive to tear down all the other statues? I bet when they find the perps they get the book thrown at them and probably accusations of hate crime or something. But... Weren't those other statues also torn down in an orgy of hate? I'm guessing few or none of those perps got the book thrown at them or charged with hate crimes.

What are the odds this was a few dumb rednecks who were infiltrated by the FBI and coerced into doing this so it could be used in the election to further divide Americans. Naw! Our government would never do that...
#8 OneGuy on 2024-01-30 22:24 (Reply)

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