Update on the Clown Car

 

Deroy Murdock at the Jewish World Review has a few points to make about the state of today's Democrat party:

Led by the Quadrillion-Dollar Man: Joe Biden — about whom more later — today’s Democratic Party has decayed into a collection of psychoses fortified by police power, perpetual-motion monetary printing presses, and easy access to atomic weapons.

What could go wrong? Damn near everything.

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Behold this snapshot of Demented Democratic insanity:

•Washington, D.C.’s city council voted to let foreign citizens, including illegal aliens, vote in municipal elections. Exercising Congress’ power to overturn local D.C. laws, House Republicans voted unanimously to scrap this measure. "Only AMERICANS should vote in AMERICAN elections," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued via Twitter.

Among House Democrats, 79% (162 of 204) disagreed and voted to let foreign citizens cast ballots in the nation’s capital.

•D.C.’s city council battled a local crime surge by reducing penalties for robbery, carjacking, home invasion, and other violent offenses. Every Republican voted to junk this law. However, 85% (173 of 204) of Democrats dissented and stood proudly with their thug-hugging District counterparts.

•Elusive Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has had his plate full, what with three pairs of passenger jets that nearly collided at JFK, Austin, and Chicago airports in about as many weeks.

On Feb. 3, a train laden with toxic chemicals derailed at East Palestine, Ohio.

On-scene geniuses then set it ablaze igniting an American Chernobyl.

After 11 days without comment, Poisonous Pete shattered his silence — via Twitter. . . .

Lots more here. 

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Censoring our culture and civilization

The censors have been coming for Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, Chaucer, and Shakespeare.  By the time they finish sanitizing every politically offensive phrase or character, we will have libraries filed with books containing nothing but blank pages.

Here are a couple of paragraphs from Peter Caddle’s report on Breitbart re: Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels:

Ahead of a coming re-release to mark the 70th anniversary since the release of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale novel, the first in the James Bond series, the publication reports that the works have been “rewritten” to appease woke sensibilities.

The revelation comes after a week of controversy surrounding recent reprints of Roald Dahl’s books, with it being revealed that the works of fiction have been edited in order to change or remove language deemed problematic. . . .

Full report is here. 

Here’s Robert Spencer, writing last week at Front Page about Shakespeare and other classic writers:

A day in the life of destroying a civilization

The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism . . . has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature.

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Prevent casts a wide net. The UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday that among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” and “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists” that Prevent flagged were the “comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.”

And much more: “A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards.” These include “The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.”

Other books, shows and films on Prevent’s list included that bane of freshmen literature majors everywhere, Beowulf, and other monumental works including Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts marveled: “This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.”

Yeah. It almost seems as if the Prevent top dogs don’t want people to get a civilized, liberal, cultured education. . . .

Read the rest here.

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It’s not about EVs. It’s about driving your car.

 

John Hinderaker at PowerLineBlog explains why we’ll never be driving electric vehicles:

Electric Vehicles Are Not The Future

The mania for electric vehicles is a fad that is driven 100% by government regulation. The consumer verdict on EVs has been in for a century. Some of the earliest cars were battery-powered, but they lost out to gasoline-powered cars because gasoline-powered vehicles are better.

Those who have been paying attention understand that there is zero chance that our existing motor vehicle fleet will be converted to EVs. Mark Tapscott sums up some of the reasons. I want to focus on just one of his points, the fact that the lithium batteries needed to replace our current vehicle fleet would require ridiculous amounts of mining of minerals, particularly lithium, the price of which is already sky-high. How do liberals intend to accomplish this unprecedented global mining project?

Answer: they don’t. Mark quotes from a report by an environmental organization:

This report finds that the United States can achieve zero emissions transportation while limiting the amount of lithium mining necessary by reducing the car dependence of the transportation system, decreasing the size of electric vehicle batteries, and maximizing lithium recycling.

Reordering the US transportation system through policy and spending shifts to prioritize public and active transit while reducing car dependency can also ensure transit equity, protect ecosystems, respect Indigenous rights, and meet the demands of global justice.

This is what liberal politicians are not telling you–yet. They don’t really plan to replace your car with an EV, they don’t want to replace it at all. . . .

"Transit equity"?  That's New World Order-speak for all of us peasants; the elites will travel in limousines and private jets. We'll ride the bus.  Read the rest of the column here.

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What Happened to James O'Keefe at Project Veritas?

 

Everyone knows that James O’Keefe and the organization he founded, Project Veritas, have parted company.  How could that possibly have happened?  Jeffrey A. Tucker published his thoughts on not only how it happened, but how it repeats an all-too-familiar pattern in the not-for-profit world.  Mr. Tucker's piece is reprinted by permission on Dr Robert W Malone's Substack page, and here’s a brief extract:

The Institutional Pathology That Took Down James O’Keefe

From the outside, it seems crazy. James O’Keefe as head of Project Veritas took the organization to new heights of fame and achievement of its core mission. His cage match with a Pfizer director—which took incredible guts—made for some of the most remarkable real-life footage in years.

. . .

One might suppose that this would be the perfect time to build on success.

Alas, James has been pushed to resign as head of the organization. How is this possible? It seems utterly crazy.

Without knowing any of the details in the complaint against him, this episode has all the earmarks of a terrible institutional problem in nonprofits we’ve seen many times before. All it takes is a remarkable public-relations success, and a big infusion of funds, plus a weak, jealous, and confused board using disgruntled employees as shields for their misdeeds.

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Part of the problem traces to the legal structure of nonprofits. They are not owned by anyone. The board hires the president and the president hires the staff. The board is unpaid which usually means that they have no reason to be involved in the operations. But all the while, they have a sense that they should be controlling things even though they rarely understand anything about the operations.

Read the rest or Mr Tucker’s commentary at Dr Malone’s web page here.  This blogger spent many years working in non-profit organizations.  Mr. Tucker is spot-on.  And our household will be sending our contribution to whatever organization James O'Keefe ends up with.

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President Trump in East Palestine Ohio

 

President Trump in East Palestine, OH

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz of The Post Millenial reports:

Donald Trump landed in East Palestine, Ohio on Wednesday, where he met with local officials and citizens of the small town still trying to bounce back from the ecological disaster caused by a train derailment and subsequent controlled burn. 

Alana Mastrangelo at Breitbart reports:

Former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine on Wednesday, where he delivered truckloads of bottled water following a train derailment earlier this month that left the small town in disarray.

“President Trump is meeting with the citizens of East Palestine, and he will never forget them and what they are going through. Contrast that with Biden and the federal government, who have failed them from the beginning,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Breitbart News.

John Rourke, the CEO of Blue Line Moving, which transported the pallets of water to East Palestine, told Breitbart News the company moved 13 pallets of water, which comes to over 14,000 bottles for the small town.

Read the rest here.  Meanwhile, Let’s Go Brandon is departing Poland, falling down on the stairs while boarding Air Force One; click here for report and video.

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Brandon fiddles

Gary Varvel cartoon at Townhall:

(except Biden Let’s Go Brandon is not at the White House;  he’s in Ukraine)

Ohioans at Risk

 

The train derailment in eastern Ohio and the resulting chemical contamination may be even worse than has been reported.  What follows is from a report published at America Out Loud by a physician posting as DrLee4America:

. . . Pound for pound, or molecule for molecule, Dioxin is more toxic than Botulin toxin, and more toxic than most military “nerve gases” used as weapons of war. Dioxin is a potent carcinogen and major endocrine (hormonal) toxin, and perhaps best known as the most toxic contaminant in the “Agent Orange” defoliant used in the Vietnam War that resulted in the devastating long-term health damage and cancers in our military.

The fact that government leaders are not disclosing Dioxin as a major contaminant from the burning of vinyl chloride in the Ohio train disaster and the dioxin contamination from burning plastic in the Florida fire near Disney World on February 16th is a health catastrophe waiting to happen.

DrLee4America, speaking as a physician who has researched this topic and published the health dangers of Dioxin to women’s health 20 years ago, discusses the dangers to residents in Eastern Ohio and Florida exposed to the toxic plumes containing Dioxin and other toxic chemicals. The plumes containing Dioxin from the burning in OH and FL will spread widely beyond those local areas, causing contamination of soil, water, and air and leading to damage to wildlife and humans that could affect as much as a third of the entire country.

Other dioxin disasters have been forgotten -- Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY, and the town of Times Beach Missouri — but both resulted in complete closures of both areas for human inhabitation, contrary to the advice federal and state officials are giving residents of East Palestine now.

Read the full article here.  I am not a doctor or scientist but am sharing this link, since readers in Ohio and their families or friends may be affected.

RELATED:  "Why was the East Palestine tank car blown up?" by R Thomas Meloy here. 

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