Monday, March 18, 2024

You're Probably Nuts If You.....

 This study will not be news to you, my readers.  (HT:  Ace)

Finnish psychological researchers have created a tool to assess "Woke".  If  you agree with the following statements, you are "woke":

 "If white people have on average a higher level of income than black people, it is because of racism."

"University reading lists should include fewer white or European authors."

"Microaggressions should be challenged often and actively."

"Trans* women who compete with women in sports are not helping women's rights." (reverse scored)

"We don't need to talk more about the color of people's skin."

"A white person cannot understand how a black person feels equally well as another black person."

"A member of a privileged group can adopt features or cultural elements of a less privileged group." (reverse scored)
Did I say "Nuts"?  Yes.  Yes, indeed, I did.

...the most concerning finding was the relationship between mental health and agreement with the scale. Specifically, researchers found a high prevalence of anxiety and depression in people who believe the statement "If white people have on average a higher income than black people, it is because of racism." More broadly, they found that those who identified as left-wing were most likely to report lower mental well-being....

IOW, the Left is populated with nutbags.

Surprise!!

P.S.  To find the nuts, visit any 'neighborhood' in Nextdoor.

The BS About WI School Funding

If you haven't heard it a million times, you're not listening to the news school propaganda outlets.

...school districts keep their complaints more general, lamenting about “stagnant education funding from the state Legislature,”...

We can be polite and say they are "not forthcoming".

Or we can call it what it is:  LYING

...Total state spending on education this budget increased by 6.9%. Total state spending in the last budget increased by 4.8%. The budget before that increased state education spending by 5.8%....

One SE Wisconsin district included "deferred maintenance" as a reason in its ask for $28 million or so.  They also had the gall to cry about getting 'a smaller percentage of property values [in tax revenue]' over the last several years--"forgetting" entirely the increase in property values during the same time period.

The same District also "forgot" to mention that State aids have grown from $3.8 million in '14-'15 to $10.3 million in '21-'22.   

Still think they deserve more money?


Sunday, March 17, 2024

New Blue-Panda Regs

In light of the current reality, TSA has changed its regulations.

Mike Bloomberg vs. US Citizens

If you use electricity at home, or work someplace that uses electricity, Mike Bloomberg's $$millions are determined to "fix" that.  Very nice of him, no?

What You Do NOT See About Musk

A lot of people were jubilant about Musk's takeover of Twitter after it became clear that Twitter was a "private company" fronting for the national-intelligence bunch which spies on Americans.

Well, then, .....

...Elon Musk signed a $1.8 billion contract in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to launch a system of orbiting surveillance satellites....

 According to the report, “if successful, the sources said the program would significantly advance the ability of the U.S. government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.”...

"Almost anywhere" includes the US, of course.

Sundance's question:  "When, exactly, did Musk buy Twitter"?

Gee.  The deal was iced in October '22.

Little-Known Fact About Mexico

In an essay which is nearly hair-on-fire about the potential for serious domestic unrest, the author mentions a factoid which is something to ponder:

...Earlier today, I came across an article about the 50 most violent cities in the world.  [These are cities or SMSA's with population >300,000; listings are based on the rate of homicides/100,000.]

The country with the most violent cities on the list was our neighbor to the south, Mexico, with 16. In second place was Brazil, with 10 cities, followed by Colombia with eight.

Surely Catholic Charities would not cooperate with cartels who import people from Mexico, Brazil, or Colombia, by providing food, shelter, and transportation for illegal aliens, right?

Right??

Think Your Country is Defended? Think Agan

Another in the long line of Federal Government lies, deceptions, money-wastes and general incompetence.

A September 2023 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the F-35 revealed some shocking statistics on just how unready hundreds of billions of dollars worth of F-35s are to provide actual combat power. In fact, the report indicated that only 15 to 30 percent of F-35s may be capable of combat....

But, but, but, "mission capable" it says!

SUCKER!!

 

...when the average person sees a report declaring that 55 percent of F-35 combat aircraft are “mission capable,” they assume mission capable equals combat capable. But in doing so, they are being deceived.The deception comes out of how the F-35 program office and the whole of the Department of Defense define “mission capable.” It turns out that the DoD definition of “mission capable” does not mean combat capable. What it means is that an aircraft can fly and perform at least one mission. So, a plane designated as mission capable might be capable of doing some type of combat, but it might not. Instead, the mission it might be capable of executing could be testing or training, or some other mission that does not involve combat....

The mission might be "Sit on the tarmac and look really mean."

But hey!!  The Pentagon is successfully spending millions of dollars to recruit homosexuals, dykes, and trannies.  

So what's your complaint?

It Used To Be "Veritas"

Harvard University's shield contains the Latin word "Veritas", which is "Truth."

Things changed!

 A Harvard Business School professor whose research into why people cheat and act dishonestly was found by an internal probe to have cheated and acted dishonestly, according to The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University....

For at least the last 50 years, all it's been is a 'connections' spot with a big library.  And it's beginning to show that reality.

Harvard University shield transparent PNG - StickPNG

Remember 'Stop Them There, Or.....'??

Not long ago, George Bush (the Dumber) and all his allies were fond of saying that if the US didn't stop "them" (terrorists) in Iraq, they would move into the USA?

Well, Bush was at least partly right, but only due to Barky Obozo and Sponge-Brain-Shits-Pants.

“We are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border,” FBI boss Christopher Wray told Congress last week. “There is a particular network that has – some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have — ISIS ties that we’re very concerned about, and we’ve been spending enormous amount of effort with our partners investigating.”...

PowerLine quotes Spencer to the effect that, this means that the FBI has to give up spying on and harassing "Christian Nationalists" whose only 'criminal offense' is vocally opposing Biden (and Barky) and all their pomps, and all their works..  

This is your country on drugs, as the ad told us.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

MIke Gallagher's Odd Friends

Gallagher is quitting Congress.

Maybe his Israeli pals have a much more lucrative job for him?

Gallagher wrote and pushed the "TikTok bill."  He advertises it as a blow against Red China.  But in reality, the bill allows the President (really, the 'intel' bunch) to decide who is allowed a Web presence.  And guess who is lining up to purchase TikTok?

...Not only are Zionists trying to buy TikTok now, But the dude who brought the bill [Gallagher] is majorly supported by AIPAC In the 2022 election cycle AIPAC was the TOP CONTRIBUTOR to Mike Gallagher’s campaign, giving almost DOUBLE the next highest contributor....

It is .....curious........that AIPAC is so invested in a Congressional district in NE Wisconsin, no?  

New York City, Chicago, New Jersey, LA/Hollywood, or Las Vegas, yes.  But Sturgeon Bay?

Severson vs. Farrow: Ugly

If you paid any attention to Waukesha County budgets and politics, you'd know that the Sheriff (Severson) has had difficulties with the County Exec (Farrow).  In short, Farrow doesn't want to give Severson the money Severson requests.

Severson has done his part.  This from a 2022 article:

...Over the past 10 years, the department has eliminated 14 positions, Gumm said. ...

...As inflation increases the cost of gas, oil, cars, ammunition and more, the department's budget needs to increase to continue as normal, Severson said. However, every year, the gap between how much the department has and how much it needs grows, he said, which is why this year's struggle to stay within budget doesn't come as a surprise. ...


Farrow sees the numbers differently.

"From 2016 to 2022, the sheriff’s department has received triple the amount of tax levy of the next nearest department," Farrow said in a prepared statement sent to the Journal Sentinel. "Last year, the county received $1.7 million in new tax levy. The sheriff’s department received $825,000 of that new levy." 

But that's playing a numbers game, Paul.

...However, the gap between how much money it is given and how much it needs is steadily increasing, [Severson] said. 

"It's true that every year (the county) gives us more money, more dollars, and we do get the most of that increase — but it's also true that it's not enough," Severson said. ...

Which leads to the current contretemps.  A deputy shot and killed a citizen; the deputy was in fear of his life.  The Sheriff's department does not have body-cams, which means that the deputy's word is final, barring evidence to the contrary or which casts doubt on his testimony.

When asked, Severson said that not having body-cams is 'a financial matter.' 

Farrow fired a howitzer in response:

...To date, the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department has yet to utilize this technology. Should the Sheriff come forward with a budget request to begin using this technology, we would consider the financial implications of that decision. Any change into the County’s policy on the use of cameras would begin with our elected Sheriff....

(Note well Farrow's weaseling 'we would consider the financial implications' language.)

Farrow has campaigned on a mantra-like "reduce taxes and spending" loudly and clearly.  That "reduce tax" noise is what he learned as a Pubbie, which always sounds great until the rubber meets the road, like it does in this case.  Severson's department has taken on more and more responsibility, and factors outside its control such as fuel and the cost of vehicles, are eating budget dollars.  (Those costs and some others also forced closure of the Huber dormitory.)

Maybe Farrow should 'consider the financial implications' of increasing the Sheriff's budget and decreasing his parks-and-rec and other "nice to have" stuff.  And the Sheriff should very publicly make a request for body-and-vehicle cameras, including costs to install AND costs to maintain.

That's the way to hold a debate, gentlemen.

Friday, March 15, 2024

A Quote Worth Sharing

In the midst of pull-quoting a letter from a Tennessee lawyer about the current situation, Throckmorton gives us this quote:

This, of course, is referencing our own Alexandria Brown’s famous line: 

“The Tea Party was the polite request. Trump was the less polite request. It will not get more polite from here.”
Ms. Brown is correct.

You should read at least the pull-quotes from the letter; the entire missive is linked in the Throckmorton post.  It is professional, but not the simpering squishiness of the Professional Republican class--such as that of Speaker Johnson (e.g.).

Perhaps the Speaker could learn something by reading it.

Perhaps not.

"Improving the Economy," Part 10,553

Our Betters tell us that illegal immigrants "improve the economy."

Michael Watson, Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State, has launched a significant challenge against the Department of Justice (DOJ), asserting that federal efforts to expand voting access are improperly enrolling illegal immigrants and incarcerated felons as voters improving the economy. This accusation comes in the wake of actions taken to comply with President Biden's Executive Order 14019, which was introduced as a measure to counter racial discrimination in voting access.

Watson's concerns, detailed in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, allege that the DOJ, under the guise of enhancing electoral participation, is effectively subverting Mississippi's electoral integrity. According to Watson, the U.S. Marshals Service is amending agreements with correctional facilities to introduce voter registration and mail-in voting facilitation for inmates, a move Watson deems fraught with risks of registering ineligible voters....quoted at AOSHQ

They did NOT say that illegal immigrants will improve the Democrat Party's economy, but the US Marshal Service will make certain of that!

Catholic Charities remains silent on the matter.


"Improving the Economy" Part 8,521

Our Betters tell us that illegal immigrants Improve the Economy.

Three undocumented immigrants from Guatemala have been arrested for allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting a woman improving the economy in Palm Beach County, Florida...

...The abduction took place near John Prince Park, west of Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

Andres Felipe Morales, Darinel Ordonez Jimenez, and Marcos Felipe Ramirez are the accused individuals.

Morales faces charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment improving the economy first degree, while Jimenez and Ramirez are charged with felony criminal conspiracy improving the economy third degree and also feral activities....

Catholic Charities denies responsibility, of course.  They merely provide food, shelter, and transportation for illegals--a safe landing--in indirect cooperation with the cartels.

"Improving the Economy" Part 7,692

 Our Betters tell us that illegal immigrants "improve the economy."

An illegal alien, previously deported twice from the United States, is now accused of improving the economy sexually abusing girls from six to 12 years old while he was working as a teacher at a church in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Ervin Jeovany Alfaro Lopez, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested and charged in March with 25 counts of sexual assault against multiple young girls from six to 12 years old, improving the economy with the abuse allegedly dating back to 2014.

Most of the alleged abuse occurred at the Elim Misión Cristiana church where Lopez had been working as a teacher....

At least it wasn't a church run by Catholic Charities.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Speaker Johnson: Just Another Warmonger

"Mr. Bible" is about to screw the US taxpayer.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Republican Senators that the House would be sending over legislation to send more US taxpayer funds to defend Ukraine's border.

This bite at the apple, however, will "look substantially different than the $95 billion foreign aid package the senate passed last month," according to The Hill.

For starters, Johnson suggested that the package could be a loan or lend-lease program...

No doubt Ukraine will pay back the loans expeditiously.  None at all.  Nope.  /Major Sarcasm 

But Johnson has reasons!!!

...I’m of the opinion that he wouldn’t stop at Ukraine … and go all through the way through Europe," Johnson told reporters during the House Republican retreat at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia late Wednesday....

The Speaker has gone nuts-bag cray-crayDoes he seriously think Putin wants Paris?  Portugal?  Albania?  GREECE?  Did Putin tell him that?

Or did that come from Victoria Nuland or her dervish-dancing WarMonger NeoCon pals?

Perhaps the Speaker needs a reminder that his loyalty is not with Paris, Bonn, or Athens--it is (supposedly) with the United States taxpaying citizens.

Call this jackwad:  202-225-4000

Then call your Representative.  Speak strongly!

 

USCC Deflecting?

Nothing is offered as proof of this item:

USCCB orders all Catholic churches to place note in missals warning against "anti-Semitism" ahead of Good Friday.

No documentation is present at the post site.  A quick search of "USCC anti-semitism warning" produces no results.

COULD it be true?

Sure.  USCC doesn't want people paying attention to its real problem:  financing the housing, travel, and meals for an army of illegal immigrants, thus either passively or actively cooperating with the sex-, drug-, and human-trafficking cartels.  

So making a holy face over "anti-Semitism"--whatever that may be--implicitly saying that some?  manyall?  Catholics are "anti-Semite" is a great way to move the attention to those horrible Catholics.

Do not be "anti-Semite."  Instead, be anti-cartel-cooperator!

Cdl. Dolan's Latest Disaster

Wearing a Cheesehead miter may have been his finest moment; he shoulda quit while he was ahead.

A growing number of Catholics are blasting Cardinal Timothy Dolan for launching a multi-million dollar annual stewardship appeal amid scathing new findings that he is making New York parishioners unknowingly fund actively-ministering accused sex abusers.  

Slamming Dolan’s request for more than $21 million as a “shameless money grab,” Catholics are vowing to defund the New York Archdiocese until the Vatican defrocks the scandal-plagued prelate.Donors who have funded the New York Archdiocese are now discovering that Dolan has made them uninformed accomplices in his sexual cover-ups owing to a new investigation identifying multiple cases where he is keeping accused sex abusers in parishes and schools and hiding their alleged predation from the public. ...

The Archdiocese of NY has been a problem since Cdl. Spellman.  It ain't gonna get better soon, either.  That sacrilege "service" at St Patrick's was a symptom; the disease remains embedded.

Plenty more at the link.  Some of it shocks the conscience.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Biden's Iconoclasts Trash West Point

You may not have liked MacArthur's idea of 'foreign policy,' which was "Plant our flag and troops right up to Red China's nose."

But you had to admire the man as a man and soldier.

Too bad: MacArthur's words to the Long Gray Line are going into the trash.

The U.S. Military Academy no longer will use the motto "Duty, Honor, Country" in its mission statement, according to West Point's superintendent.

The phrase, which was highlighted in a famous speech by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1962, will be replaced by a line that includes the words, "Army Values."

Whose army, you twits?

Biden Gives Ukraine the Coat Off YOUR Back

Biden doesn't give a flying fart about US citizens.

The Pentagon is surging $300 million in arms to Ukraine after saving money on negotiated contracts, but it has dramatically overdrawn from U.S. stockpiles, defense officials say....

"Overdrawn"?

 Gen. Ryder told reporters that the Pentagon had, in fact, overdrawn from U.S. stockpiles by about $10 billion, meaning that the DoD will need to come up with that amount just to restore American stockpiles to normal levels, to say nothing of funding Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

Give Up the National Defense for Lent!!

So says "devout Catholic" Joe Biden.

The Right Name

Apparently The Satanic Temple is opening an abortion clinic under its own name, rather than "Planned Parenthood."

Truth-in-packaging.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

"Improving the Economy" Part 5,833

Our Betters tell us that illegal immigrants "improve the economy."

An illegal immigrant from Venezuela has been accused of being responsible for a head-on collision that killed a 12-year-old Missouri boy.

In December, Endrina Bracho, 33, allegedly sped through a 40 mph lane at 70 mph in the wrong lane, causing her to collide head-on with a vehicle containing Travis Wolfe, 12....

...She was arrested the same day as the crash and is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree, two counts of assault in the second degree, two counts of endangering a child in the first degree, and one count of operating a vehicle without a valid license. improving the economy

Did Catholic Charities finance Endrina's trip to Missouri?  Her housing and food?

Inquiring minds, and all that.


"Improving the Economy", Part 4,598

 Our Betters tell us that foreign invasions "improve the economy".

Miguel Sedano was just arrested in Utah for attempting to kidnap improving the economy for a 13-year-old girl from school. He's from Peru and entered our country illegally. He also forged identity documents....

Did Catholic Charities provide Miguel's transportation to Utah?

Monday, March 11, 2024

Pissing on Cesar Chavez' Grave

Cesar Chavez was a LEGAL immigrant who organized immigrant farm-workers so they could enjoy decent wages and benefits.

He absolutely despised ILLEGALS, partly because they were ILLEGAL, and partly because they undercut the gains he made for his own group.

Joe Biden is pissing on Chavez' grave, along with 40++ US companies.

...we wrote a note describing how illegals are obtaining jobs through a federal government loophole enabled by the Biden administration as they await deportation proceedings....

An illegal may obtain a work permit for up to 5 years.  Betcha you didn't know that!  That means that American citizens are being displaced.  More on that below.

So who's hiring all of them?

...corporate interests have become deeply interconnected with immigration through a non-governmental organization called Tent Partnership for Refugees. This NGO comprises more than 400 major multinational companies committed to hiring "refugees." 

Several NGO partnerships with mega corporations include RedRoof Inn, Royal Farms, Shopify, CSX, Delta Airlines, DoorDash, Etsy, and even Bloomberg. ...

Others include Dow Chemical, Rich's, SAP, Silgan Containers, Shopify, and Deloitte.  But the best one?  Danby--whose motto is "Do the Right Thing."  

What the Hell Deloitte (accounting, tax, and management consulting) is doing with illegals is..........mysterious.........no?

...Since the summer of 2018, there has been zero job creation for native-born workers... and that since Joe Biden was sworn into office, most of the post-pandemic job gains the administration continuously brags about have gone foreign-born (read immigrants, mostly illegal ones) workers  (Graphs and stats at this link)

Hillary's favorite chicken company--Tyson--employs 42,000 migrants and states they'd hire 42,000 more if they could.  Meantime, they're purchasing chicken futures at a premium so as to assure a futures-market profit for......

Ah, never mind.

 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

About Education

 

Joe's Wagons

 

Irish to "Their Betters": HELL, NO!

Ireland, too, has a Party Against Nature, just as most of the West does.  That Party Against Nature came up with a couple of constitutional changes and put them to the ballot.  The proposals were to get rid of "outdated" (1937) constitutional language about the role of women and the nature of the family.

The first proposed subversion:

Proposed to change Article 41.1.1° text in bold:

Article 41.1.1° “The State recognises the Family, whether founded on marriage or on other durable relationships, as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.”

The second:

 

Proposed to change Article 41.3.1° by deleting text shown with line through it:

“The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack.”

 Both were body-slammed by the Irish voters, by 2:1 and 3:1 margins.

Good.

Our Domestic Spying Enablers

Most of you know that the Federal Government is spying on American citizens continuously, for no reason whatsoever other than "We Can Do It.".  It's so horrific that the ACLU, relying on the clear text of the 4th Amendment, stands in opposition.

The House Intel committee is chaired by a Deep State (R) operative named Mike Turner.  It's his mission to keep up the spying through Section 702.  In order to persuade other Congressmen that spying on Americans for no reason whatsoever is absolutely necessary for the preservation of.........ahhh........the Deep State,  Shhhhhh!!, Turner brings the heavy weapons named below.

Here's a partial list of his spy-on-you allies:

Mike Pompeo

Bill "Devout Catholic" Barr

Devin Nunes

John Ratcliffe

Robert O'Brien.

Don't think Nunes and Ratcliffe belong on that list?  Then read the linked post from Sundance.  They do belong there, for their own very selfish reason:  access.

Call your Congress-critter and demand that they kill Turner's bill, bury it, and pour salt on the grave.  (We can piss on that grave later, but only if that bill is buried there.)

Forgive Her Her Debts?

This story is exactly what Trump needs!

A teacher paid $135,901 last year who had student debt forgiven was the “honored” guest of U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley at the State of the Union address.

That teacher, who also owns a home in Dedham with her husband assessed in Zillow online records at about $1 million, was given $117,000 in student debt relief, Pressley says in a press release.

--Moonbattery quoting Boston Herald.

Common Sense and Good Timing!

 It's about damn time!

...on Friday, senators led by Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Marco Rubio reintroduced legislation, just ahead of the resumption of daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday. A companion measure was again introduced in the House by Representative Vern Buchanan.

“The antiquated biannual ritual of toggling between times isn’t just an inconvenience – it also has very real impacts on our economy, our energy consumption, and our health,” Markey said.

Rubio said: “We’re ‘springing forward’ but should have never ‘fallen back.'”...Gateway quoting Reuters

 Granted that there are far more important matters that Congress might address, but this will certainly not draw a veto from Biden, who hasn't any idea of what time it is, anyway.

The Real Bidenomics!

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Score ONE for Franny1!

We do not admire Pope Francis I's shaky grasp in matters Catholic.

But on this item, it looks like Franny1 has a clue:

Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks....

That war was lost within two months of Russia's first sally toward Kiev; since then, it's been a slaughter-house, mostly for Ukrainian soldiers.  Putin will prevail, and the longer Zelenskiy (and his NeoCon US puppetmasters) hold out, the worse things will be for Ukrainians.

Good on you, +Bergoglio.

Saturday, March 09, 2024