Maggie's Farm

Math Professor: The '2+2=4 Trope ... Reeks of White Supremacist Patriarchy'

 ‘Blazing Saddles’ Will Now Air Online With Disclaimer About Racism & Social Context…

 Justice Dept: Yale discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans and whites

 Dr. Fauci: Voting In Person Will Be As Safe As Going To The Grocery Store, If You Follow Guidelines

 MIKA MELTDOWN: MSNBC Host Loses It On Show While Repeatedly Berating Trump

 Clinesmith, In Order to Save Himself, Has Implicated Others on Crossfire Hurricane — Who Ultimately Hid the Exculpatory Info From the FISA Court?

That doesn't bother Mika 

 Biden Calls For Nationwide Mask Mandate, Harris Calls it “Real Leadership”

 Israel and UAE peace deal is vindication for Trump: Goodwin

A geopolitical earthquake just hit the Mideast 

Male-only draft is constitutional, federal appeals court rules. 5th Circuit says 'only the Supreme Court may revise its precedent'

Waterspout in Westport, CT on August 4 - later an EF1 tornado

Canada brewery apologises for beer named 'pubic hair' in Maori

I guess they forgot to check Maori. Even so, might be a good name for a beer in Maoriville.

The devil is truly in the cows 

Cows kill 

 Jews Are The Canary In The Intersectionality Coal Mine

 ‘Centrist’ Biden-Harris Ticket Exposes The Limits Of Our Political Language

Wait, You Mean That the Economic Damage From COVID Lockdowns DOES Matter?

Gal in Melbourne goes out without mask. Watch police reaction 

 Chicago Looters Attack Ronald McDonald House

 Chicago, Circling The Drain

Retail and Restaurants Flee Democrat-Run New York Forever

" On top of that, Victoria’s Secret, which had been paying $937,000 a month in rent, is no longer paying that rent."

What is George Will's problem with Trump? 

 Kamala Harris Takes Aim at Gun Owners

She appears to be opposed to self-defence 

 "We Will Be Watching You": Dems Put Media On Notice To Avoid 'Racist Tropes' Such As 'Angry Black Women'

 Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum

Eurovision Finally Lands in the U.S. With a State-versus-state Singing Competition. One of the world’s most wildly popular singing contests is coming to the U.S. in 2021

 Judge Won't Stop DeVos Title IX Rule From Taking Effect

 Federal Appeals Court: Title IX Protects Transgender Students

Portland  District Attorney Mike Schmidt to Limit Criminal Charges Against Protesters

 COVID-19 Has Made It Undeniable: We Need School Choice

 LA Times: Camping Is Totally Racist, You Know

Prof: 'The Constitution is racist':

 When asked by a Twitter user how he would change the Constitution to make it “non-racist,” Kotsko replied, “Abolish state autonomy, the Senate, and the EC. Add an affirmative unconditional right to vote for all citizens. Abolish local control and funding of schools.”

Seattle Police Chief To Resign And The Mayor Has “A Heavy Heart”

 MSNBC: Trump Is ‘Defunding’ Police By Not Bailing Out States And Cities

College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots. How I got co-opted into helping the rich prevail at the expense of everybody else

The Case for Trump - There's little wrong with President Trump that more Trump couldn't solve.

Bringing the Manufacturing Back Home

Why  Obama Is Wrong About the Filibuster

 Harris Wasn't Biden's First Choice

Anti-Trumper Repubs:  The Lincoln Project—or the McClellan Project?

 When did humans discover how to use fire?

 Love you to death: how we hurt the animals we cherish

 Polar Bears Defy SCIENCE! by Refusing to Die.

 Marijuana use during pregnancy linked to autism in babies, study says

Job Openings Soar Amid Record Surge In Americans Quitting Their Job

Forty percent of people with coronavirus infections have no symptoms. Might they be the key to ending the pandemic? New research suggests that some of us may be partially protected due to past encounters with common cold coronaviruses.

 University Of Georgia Says Students Should ‘Consider Wearing A Mask During Sex’

CNN’s Cuomo To Trump: ‘You Don’t Give a Damn’ About Pandemic. Settle down, Fredo.

 Chaos In Chicago: Bridges Raised To Prevent Gun-Toting Looters Getting Downtown

 Black Lives Matter Pulls Gun on Truck Driver, Then Mob Hurls Bottles at Vehicles who Want to Get Through Their Roadblock — Update: Gunman Identified – Jonathan Howe

 NY City Police Pelted by Mob with Ice Bottles and Projectiles After They Come to Rescue Little 11-Year-Old Girl from Assault in Harlem 

 Seattle City Council Defunds Police to Get More of That 'Summer of Love' Crime and Chaos

BARR UNBOUND

You thought Dems wanted to tax the rich? 

Washington Post columnist Rogin calls out NBC News over ‘several errors’ in report on Wuhan lab - 'US news organizations must do better than presenting a walk around a lab and an interview with falsehoods'

 Jumaane Williams Bids to Democratize NYC Into the Dark

"Hillary Clinton will deliver a prime-time speech next Wednesday for the Democratic National Convention..."

 NASA to remove offensive names from planets and other heavenly bodies

 The Danger of Scientists on a Pedestal

On Face the Nation, CT Gov. Lamont doubles down on importance of in-person return to school

 A third of House Democrats think destroying an innocent student’s life is like a short-term suspension

 WASHINGTON POST CELEBRATES DESTRUCTION OF BOOKS

 Sen. Cotton: NY Times Exposed as 'Laughing Stock'

Bill DiBlasio and Communist New York Voters Have Turned Their City Into a Bloody Shithouse and Plague Farm

 Far-Left Extremists Burn Police Building In Portland, Violently Attack Police Officers

Greenfield:  The Perils of Pretending a War is Something Else. Time to end the charade.

 Seattle Mayor Again Blames Trump After Rioters Blew Open a Police Station Using a Van Full of Explosives

 Sara Carter: MSM Never Covered The Russia Hoax, They Still Won’t

 Biden Campaign Cancels Trip Upstairs

 Durham Investigation Into Origins of Russia Probe Reportedly Nearing Conclusion

' We Have the Product in Hand:’ Israel to Begin Human Trials with COVID-19 Vaccine in Fall

 Dr. Fauci: Chances of Developing a Highly Effective Coronavirus Vaccine 'Not Great'

Why Zimbabwe’s female rangers are better at stopping poaching - The Akashinga, or “brave ones,” survived abuse and exploitation. Now, armed and trained like special forces, they're protecting the country’s most iconic wildlife.

 Obesity not defined by weight, says new Canada guideline

Don’t Cancel School. Prolonged closures are their own crisis.

 World's Top Epidemiologists - Masks Don't Work!

MC:  A Visit To The Local Bookstore

American Cities Committing Urban Suicide

 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SAN FRANCISCO

 David McIntosh’s Big Idea: Fund school choice options for parents amid coronavirus

 Chuck Schumer Changes Mind, Now Says Schools Must Reopen – It Must Be that Poll that Shows 80% of Voters Want Schools Open

 Portland Mayor Pleads With Vandals: Don’t You See That You’ve Become A Prop For Trump’s Campaign?

 New York AG seeks to dissolve NRA in new lawsuit

BB:  10 Signs You Might Be A Secret Racist

The Wedge Issue That’s Dividing Trumpworld - A group of social conservatives wants the president to embrace anti-transgender issues to reverse his sagging poll numbers. Some Trump advisers think it’s political suicide.

Top Democrats contemplate civil war if Biden loses. Yet the media still only talks about Trump not accepting the result

Trump Signs Order Seeking to Return Drug Production to U.S.

 Joe Biden: Latino Community Has Diverse Attitudes “Unlike the African-American Community”

 Democrats planted false stories in effort to derail Biden investigations, Grassley says

What did the China hawks get right and wrong about China?

 My Life Pouring Concrete

NYC newsman, author Pete Hamill dead at 85 

 US Cruise Operators Halt Voyages Until Oct. 31 After 2 Ships Hit By Outbreaks Amid Restart

 Bezos is now on the cusp of another record: a fortune exceeding $200 billion.

Walter Williams:  The Leftist Effort to Revise American History

"The faculty letter gives the impression that many Princeton professors believe their institution is rife with anti-Black racism and that the university must risk abandoning long-standing core values..."

 MSNBC Producer Leaves Network, Writes Letter Explaining How Broadcast News is a Cancer Without a Cure

 'We will probably take this to trial': Bar owner says last call will have catastrophic consequences

 Mayor Bill DeBlasio Launches Updated New York City Quarantine Rules and Checkpoints with Fines Up to $10,000 — Tucker Carlson Reponds

 Wall Street Journal editorial accuses teachers unions of using pandemic to commit 'political extortion'

 Another Riot Was Declared In Portland Last Night

 Rape Shouldn’t Be Reported to Police: Keith Ellison

Americans Reject Joe Biden's Radical Suburbs-Crushing Housing Rule in a New Poll

 Democrats’ Worst Nightmare: Black Trump Supporters March in Los Angeles, Champion #BlackLivesMAGA

Champagne losing its fizz as global pandemic clobbers sales

 University at Buffalo to remove U.S. President Millard Fillmore’s name from campus

Sheesh. It's about time 

Columbia hosts 'deconstructing whiteness' workshop for 'white-identified students'

 UNT Faculty Targeted For Saying Music Theory Isn't White Supremacist

 The Shame of the Teachers’ Unions

Australia Imposes Curfews, Closes Internal Borders To Slow COVID-19 Pandemic.

 Here's How Trump Needs to Explain the United States' Coronavirus Response

Prof. Turley:

  “In my three decades of teaching, I have never seen the level of fear and intimidation that we have today on our campuses,” Turley said in testimony to senators Tuesday. “Many professors are afraid to voice dissenting views of the current protests or other issues out of fear that they could be accused of racism or even physically attacked.”

Insanity Wrap #20: Washington Post Goes Full Commie

Hemingway:  Media Silent As Christopher Steele ‘Hero’ ‘Spymaster’ Narrative Crumbles

 Evidence Mounts That Mail-In Voting Will Bring Only Fraud And Chaos

 The world's tallest known tropical tree has been found—and climbed

 Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

 Manhattan Contrarian Gaslighting Roundup

 Illinois lawmaker proposes ban on history classes because they ‘lead to a racist society’

 A Joe Biden presidency would be a disaster for our schools

The New Puritans - Today’s cultural scolds demand that artists pass ideological and behavioral purity tests.

TIDES Foundation Is the Tip of the Anti-Police Spear

 NY Times union calls for racial quotas in hiring and staffing, euphemistically called “equity”

 The Policing Crisis in New York City

 Heroic Neighbors Defend Home of Seattle Police Chief From Rioters

 Seattle Police Chief Slams City Council After Activists Target Her Home: ‘You Must Forcefully Call For The End Of These Tactics’

Pelosi Claims People Will Forego $600/Week In Unemployment Benefits To Earn $300/Week Working

 “We Should Anticipate The … Vaccine To Be Similar To The Influenza Vaccine”

 All the COVID safety rules are little more than theater

 France Imposes New Rules Requiring Outdoor Masks

CATO:  No More State Aid

" What does it take to satisfy this chick?"

 Suddenly Dems want to scrap presidential debates! 

Good Morning.

I am a small business owner, a New Yorker, an entrepreneur, a daughter, a sister, and an advocate of others who wish to pursue their dreams. I am passionate about freedom, education and innovation; I am open minded and eager to hear about other people's experiences. My personal views on political issues are deeply rooted in my own personal experiences.

I have launched two businesses over the past seven years; however for the first five years I struggled. I am an educated and intelligent woman but found myself living hand to mouth -- even briefly taking food stamps to buy basic groceries. After year three, I was able to access capital at a reasonable cost and this allowed me to grow; after year six, I am finally seeing some success and I am able to support myself; after year seven I am thriving.

My companies have created jobs for more than 250 US workers and have generated more than $10 million of economic activity. I enjoy my work and find fulfillment in creating a positive impact. I work hard day in and day out to pursue my dreams and encourage others to do the same. I help other entrepreneurs without asking for anything in return because this is the right thing to do. I am not perfect, I have made mistakes, and I am among the ranks of millions of small business owners doing the same thing.

Here are some facts about small businesses. (Before we begin, note that the SBA generally defines small businesses as firms with less than 500 employees; however you can read more details about small business criteria here.) 

• Small businesses account for 44% of the US economy(1). Specifically, small businesses created $5.9 trillion, or 43.5%, of the $13.6 trillion pri­vate non-farm US economy in 2014.


• The entire US GDP is approximately $20.2 trillion. The entire world GDP is $80 trillion.


• There are 30.7 million small businesses in the US.  Due to the current pandemic, 7.5 million small businesses are at risk of closing, report finds(4). This is 25%.

• Small businesses in the US employees 58.9 million people, which makes up 47.5% of the country's total workforce.


• Small businesses create 1.5 million jobs annually and account for 64% of new jobs created in the United States(3).

Before COVID, it was challenging enough. Most small businesses fail; here are some stats. The primary reasons small businesses fail are cash flow and management / business planning challenges, the latter of which I believe is due to a lack of education. The SBA has amazing resources for small business owners, but small business owners often are not aware of these resources.

Back to politics. On a personal level, I find many individuals in politics distasteful -- on both sides. I also find many role models in our leadership on both sides. But, personalities are their business and not my business. If I could not find a way to work with people I did not like, I would be out of business.

All I ask is that everyone do a personal inventory of your motives for hate speech or rallying in an unsafe way - whichever side you are on. If you are doing this to fit in, for approval, to make yourself feel better or simply because you are bored, check yourself. Don't be afraid to speak about your experiences -- or to pursue your dreams.

Please, be safe, be grateful, and support a local business today.

Sincerely,

A young entrepreneur 

Notes:

(1) Source: SBA https://advocacy.sba.gov/2019/01/30/small-businesses-generate-44-percent-of-u-s-economic-activity/
(2) Source: SBA https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-Business-Profiles-US.pdf
(3) Source: SBA https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf
(4) Source: Main Street America https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NMSC/390e0055-2395-4d3b-af60-81b53974430d/UploadedImages/Resource_Center/COVID_19/NMSC57_MSA_COVID19IMAPCTSURVEY_F.pdf

Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular? Twenty-five years after his death, the painter who gave us “happy little trees” is more ubiquitous than ever.

TA would assasinate Jesus 

Jesus and the maginalized 

 Systemic Hypocrisy

 Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise

The Left Eats Their Own, Portland Edition: Wall of Moms Collapses, Accused of Anti-Blackness

" I am a racist. So is Katherine Kersten. She can't admit it. The first step is acknowledging the problem." 

Blue State blues:  New York In Financial Fantasyland

 The Washington Post Can't and Won't Stop Lying

 Ami Horowitz Goes To Portland; Rioters Promote Violence, Say It’s Time To “End The American Experiment”

 Biden ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Would Enrich Wealthy Lawyers at Employers’ Expense

 Dianne Feinstein: China Is 'Growing Into a Respectable Nation'