Posts on Sunday, December 26, 2021
Democrats and their creepy reverence for Dr. Anthony Fauci — who has become a quasi-religious figure to many — has created a cottage industry of products with the career bureaucrat’s likeness which have ended up under many a leftist Christmas tree, including a Texas lawmaker who took to Twitter to show off his prized gift.In a Christmas day tweet, James Talarico, a Lone Star State representative from Austin showed off a doll of the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a man whose media stardom has been prolonged by the Omicron variant much to the joy of his cult-like army of loyal followers.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell shared an expletive-laden death threat she got via voicemail recently, two years after Donald Trump slammed her for voting to impeach him and suggested that her late husband was 'looking up' at her from hell. Dingell, who represents Michigan's 12th Congressional District, shared the recent voicemail Sunday morning in an episode of CNN's State of the Union with Dana Bash to show that the bile continues to pour in. 'You godd*** old senile b****. You’re as old and ugly as Biden. You ought to get the f**** off the planet.
A seven year-old girl left badly injured because of a tornado that killed her nine year-old sibling couldn't contain her excitement after receiving boxes of Christmas gifts from Donald and Melania Trump. An enthusiastic Avalinn Rackley, 7, reacted to the news when filmed by her grandmother, Pam Moore, weeks after her older sister and best friend Annistyn was killed by a tornado that also destroyed the family home in Caruthersville, Missouri on December 10.'These boxes came in the mail, and they are from...President Trump! Both of these boxes. Can you believe it?' Moore says as Avalinn grins with expectation. 'Oh my God!' the brave little girl screams happily
Amazon Partners With Chinese Propaganda
Arm, Deletes Reviews Critical of Communist
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Arm, Deletes Reviews Critical of Communist
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In the latest example of corporate America kowtowing to the Communists in Beijing, internal memos and Amazon.com insiders have revealed the company’s continuing appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including colluding with state propaganda operatives to delete reviews of books critical of the regime. Notably, as reported by Reuters, Amazon caved in like a cheap Mao suit to a CCP edict that it stop allowing negative customer ratings and reviews of the book “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China,” which contains many of Xi’s speeches and writings, as well as other state propaganda.It gets worse.Said a company insider, according to Reuters: “I think the issue was anything
Roe v. Wade lawyer dies, former student
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Sarah Weddington, one of the attorneys who argued the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade in 1973, died at the age of 76, a former student said Sunday. (snip) The daughter of a Methodist minister, Weddington was born in 1945 in Abilene, Texas. She argued Roe in 1972 and won election to the Texas House of Representatives in 1973, where she served three terms. (snip) According to Weddington's book, she traveled (to) Mexico for an illegal abortion in 1967, during her third year of law school.
President Joe Biden extended Kwanzaa greetings on Sunday to people celebrating the holiday.“As we begin the seven days of Kwanzaa, Jill and I send our best wishes to everyone celebrating,” Biden wrote on social media. “May this time of reflection on the rich heritage of African American culture bring peace, unity, and joy.” (Tweet) Black nationalist activists created and promoted the Kwanzaa holiday in the 1960s.President Bill Clinton was the first American president to recognize the Kwanzaa holiday in a statement in 1997. Subsequent presidents have recognized Kwanzaa in official White House statements, including President Donald Trump.
Democrats have a man problem
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As Democrats investigate what went wrong in the 2021 elections and what is going wrong heading into the 2022 elections, a familiar pattern is emerging: Men are abandoning the party in droves.Just this week, snippets from the Democratic Governors Association’s postmortem of the Virginia governor's race were made public , including the report’s conclusion, which read, “We need to address the long-term problems that exist for Democrats with Latinos and black men.”On background from a source with knowledge of the findings in the memo, the Washington Examiner has obtained the underlying data driving this conclusion.
Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said on Thursday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that the Biden administration exempts migrants crossing the southern border from coronavirus testing and vaccine mandates while imposing such decrees on Americans.President Joe Biden has repeatedly framed acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination as a “patriotic” action, most recently linking vaccines with “patriotism” and getting vaccinated as a “patriotic duty.”
Three iconic figures in women’s sports made waves over the weekend by challenging the fairness of the NCAA’s transgender policy amid Penn swimmer Lia Thomas’s record-smashing season. Tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert jumped in after Olympic swimming champion Nancy Hogshead-Makar broke the ice by declaring that there was “nothing fair” about the NCAA rules allowing Thomas to swim on the Ivy League women’s team.(Snip)Her article was headlined, “It was not fair when I raced against doped-up East Germans and it is not fair for women to compete against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.”(Snip)Their voices lent instant credibility and visibility to the pushback
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced that it will hold a special session in roughly two weeks to hear oral arguments regarding the Biden Administration’s ongoing efforts to force vaccinations on private employees, federal contractors, and healthcare workers, according to Politico.
The special session will begin on January 7th, 2022, just several days ahead of the regularly-scheduled session set to begin on January 10th.
The decision comes after several high-profile rulings that have produced mixed results with regards to the constitutionality of the vaccine mandates. Biden has ordered three different nationwide vaccine mandates:
The indictment against five men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be dismissed due to “egregious overreaching” by federal agents and informants, defense lawyers wrote in a coordinated attempt to scuttle the high-profile case three months before trial. According to the filing, FBI agents and federal prosecutors capitalized on discontent with Whitmer's handling of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, invented a conspiracy and entrapped five people who face up to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping conspiracy in a case that has shed light on violent extremism in Michigan.(Snip)That included the convictions of FBI Special Agent Richard Trask, the government's public face of the investigation
Most people, I believe, think that the age of myth-making lies in the past. (snip)Nevertheless, in school, if we went to an artsy one, we learned that myths were important. They told us not about what happened in the world, precisely. Rather, they told us interesting stories about character, motivation, and the dialectic of hubris and nemesis, crime and punishment.
All of that is true, but I submit that the impulse to myth-making, if atavistic in origin, remains a potent force and one, moreover, that has been folded into the metabolism of partisan politics.
Minnesota school districts are tacking on extra days to winter break this year in an effort to curb teacher stress and address ongoing staff shortages that include teachers, paraprofessionals, cooks and bus drivers. But as calendars change for teachers and students, some parents have struggled to find child care options on short notice. Others are worried about more lost instruction days when kids are already behind. "It's become too easy to give away school days," said Shawn Kopnick, the parent of a Prior Lake-Savage third-grader. "There's less fortunate kids whose parents aren't home all day—what do they do? Where do they go?"
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday praised former President Donald Trump for showing his support of COVID vaccines and booster shots, and told of his shock at the backlash that Trump had received for doing so.(Snip)'And I think that his continuing to say that people should get vaccinated and articulating that to them, in my mind is a good thing,' Fauci said, noting: 'I hope he keeps it up.'(Snip)In the interview with Owens last week, Trump told her that people unvaccinated against coronavirus are the ones getting 'very sick' and encouraged all Americans get the jab all while taking credit for its creation.
All they wanted for Christmas was more help. The FDNY faced a shortage of EMS crews over the holiday, stretching the department thin as it struggled to respond to a surge of emergency calls made worse by the omicron wave. Roughly 19% of the city’s more than 4,000 EMS workers were out sick Saturday, Christmas day, up from the typical rate of about 5%, an FDNY spokesman said. The shortage—caused in part by crews isolating with COVID-19 cases—comes as the city’s daily number of cases continued a record breaking streak.
New York state figures show there were more than 27,000 confirmed cases of the virus
Police are investigating a body found on the city's North Side Friday afternoon, which community members believe to be a local imam, as a homicide. In a release on the incident, police said its the 198th homicide in Columbus this year.(Snip)"Tonight, we are shocked and devastated by the murder of Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Hassan Adam of Masjid Abu Hurairah–a beloved pillar of the Columbus Somali Muslim community. Our entire Ohio Muslim community has suffered a profound and tragic loss," Barhumi said. “We send our deepest condolences to his family and are reaching out to offer our support. CAIR-Ohio will be demanding answers and justice,
The NASCAR driver who recently rose in fame after unintentionally sparking the "Let’s Go Brandon!" phrase says he’s had a hard time finding corporate sponsors following the chant going viral. "It got extremely difficult for us. … If you’re a national corporation, that means you sell to all consumers… and unfortunately, when you get dragged into the political arena, people want you to take a side,’" Brown told Sports Business Journal in a recent interview. "It's hard for a brand to want to attach to somebody who might be kind of divisive in their consumer base. If I'm going to divide Coca-Cola, why would they want to talk to me?”
The Public Interest Legal Foundation went to Pennsylvania with a list of tens of thousands of people who were likely dead, but still on the state’s voter rolls in the weeks before the 2020 election. The state was totally uninterested, according to Christian Adams, the organization’s founder. But once the election was over, Mr. Adams says, the state changed its tune.
It went into mediation with PILF, agreed to look into the list and even agreed to a settlement paying some of the group’s lawyers’ fees. The kicker, though, was that Pennsylvania prosecutors even brought charges against a man who, according to PILF’s data, had registered his dead wife to vote,
Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619 Project creator and professor, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that parents should not be in charge of deciding what is taught in schools.Hannah-Jones said, “I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught. I’m not a professional educator. I don’t have a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have expertise in the subject area. And that is not my job.”
In this installment of our weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative make six predictions for the fast-approaching New Year. #6: America experiences a Red Wave in ‘22. Parker: Chalk this prediction up to a combination of biased optimism and the response to Biden’s damaging presidency. My own personal biases aside, even the Dems are worried about their chances next November – and why shouldn’t they be? Joe Biden is an unmitigated disaster of a person, politician, and president. He epitomizes self-service and for fifty years has grifted off the stupid people in Delaware. Just once, instead of Bette Midler attacking West Virginians,
Kamala Harris said she doesn't think she was set up for failure despite a myriad of criticisms plaguing her office in year No. 1 as the first female and minority vice president in U.S. history.Some Democrats have excused Harris' shortcomings, claiming she was given too ambitious of responsibilities as vice president, including addressing the southern border crisis.'I've talked to some of your former Senate colleagues and they say you have been given an impossible portfolio,' CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan prompted in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday admitted that the federal government has failed to authorize and distribute a sufficient number of at-home COVID tests, despite President Joe Biden's promise to distribute 500 million free at-home rapid tests amid a surge in new coronavirus cases.In an interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl on Sunday morning, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases admitted that coronavirus cases are continuing to soar, leading to an increased demand for COVID tests that the government has failed to prepare for, and now cannot meet. 'Obviously testing, Jon, is going to be very important,
As the Brandon administration floods the public with ‘free’ test kits, expect the fear-induced sheeple to overwhelm the Emergency Rooms NATIONWIDE.
Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the nation, is one of the least densely populated states, and the ERs are clogged by people with no COVID symptoms.
As WCAX reported some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.
The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.
Boston—When Wanda Olson’s son-in-law died in March after contracting COVID-19, she and her daughter had to grapple with more than just their sudden grief. They had to come up with money for a cremation.
Even without a funeral, the bill came to nearly $2,000, a hefty sum that Olson initially covered. She and her daughter then learned of a federal program that reimburses families up to $9,000 for funeral costs for loved ones who died of COVID-19. Olson’s daughter submitted an application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, received a deposit by June and was able to reimburse her mother the $1,974.
Hugh Jackman put the spotlight on the understudy who took over 'The Music Man' leading lady role just five hours after the original actress tested positive for COVID in order to save the Christmas Eve performance on Broadway. Audience footage captured the moment Jackman, the star of the show, took a moment during the cast bows to highlight Kathy Voytko's performance, who filled in for Sutton Foster on Friday. Voytko was able to jump into the role despite only ever rehearsing for the show once that same day.(Snip)The performance came as dozens of Broadway performances have been cancelled in recent weeks due to the surge in COVID-19.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee might not be one of the highest-profile conservative voices out there, but he sure does know how to make brilliant points when he’s on air.Most recently, he did so on Fox and Friends, where he expounded on how every part of the Biden catastrophe, from supply chain holdups to skyrocketing Bidenflation, means that Americans are getting a lump of coal for Christmas.Watch him here:(Video) As you can hear in the video, when asked “Is President Biden possibly headed for a lump of coal on Christmas with broken promises?” he says:“Well, he certainly has given most Americans a lump of coal.
Zach Wilson made the holiday season extra special for a New Jersey family this year.While enjoying Christmas breakfast Saturday with his family at The Ritz Diner in Livingston, New Jersey, the Jets rookie quarterback surprised waitress Kensia Thelusma with two tickets to Sunday’s game against the Jaguars. (Photo) “I have two tickets,” Wilson, 22, told Thelusma, whose son is a massive Jets fan. “I swear.” (Video) Thelusma then broke down into tears as she embraced Wilson, who was grinning from ear to ear.
Dave Barry's 2021 Year in Review
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Is there anything positive we can say about 2021?
Yes. We can say that it was marginally better than 2020.
Granted, this is not high praise. It’s like saying that somebody is marginally nicer than Hitler. But it’s something.
What was better about 2021? For one thing, people finally emerged from their isolated pandemic cocoons and started connecting with others. Granted, the vast majority of the people who connected with us this year wanted to discuss our car’s extended warranty. But still.
Another improvement was that most stores got rid of those one-way anti-COVID arrows on the floor. Remember those, from 2020? You’d be halfway down a supermarket aisle, and you’d realize
Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021
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It’s hard to believe that, less than 30 years ago, South Africa was a nation riven by apartheid and segregation. To look back on that time period and realize that it wasn’t that long ago is astonishing. Brave men and women stood up and spoke out against the horrendous policy, and eventually, South Africa shook off the bond of apartheid. Desmond Tutu was one of those voices who spoke of the importance of freedom for black South Africans, and now he is with his Heavenly Father. Tutu passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to misspeak during her CBS interview Sunday when she said 'democracy' is the most significant national security threat facing the United States. She had been trying to echo Democrats' warning about threats to the 'integrity' of the American democratic system as her boss, President Joe Biden, tries to push his voting rights agenda through Congress. In the final portion of her wide-ranging interview released over the week, Harris also defended the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, instead blaming its predecessor for first setting the deadline to leave.
When a red plate is placed on the table at Emily Rousell's house, her four kids know someone in the family is being celebrated that night. The tradition was started "three or four years ago," Rousell told Fox News.
"We started out using a special 'celebration' plate for family birthdays," she said. "Soon we realized that there were other moments, in addition to birthdays, that we wanted to hold up as special and recognized. Our regular dinner plates are white, so red seemed like a good choice to stand out from the rest and highlight a person's spot at the table."
The New Jersey pharmaceutical company supplying ivermectin to a UK trial that was paused for a short period of time, says there are no supply issues with its pills.
Ivermectin is being investigated as part of the government-backed Platform Randomised Trial of Treatments in the Community for Epidemic and Pandemic Illnesses (PRINCIPLE) in the United Kingdom as a possible home treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The trial was put on hold due to “temporary supply issues” as reported by Medpage Today on Dec. 14.
Known anti-white racist Michael Harriot admitted on Christmas Day that his favorite Christmas past-time involves “hating on Christmas,” especially because of that dastardly white Santa Clause.He made the admission on MSNBC, of course, and more specifically while speaking with Tiffany Cross, the equally bigoted host.To be fair, it’s not clear whether he was being serious or just jesting. Given his track record for hateful rhetoric, however, the assumption is that he was being dead serious.NewsBusters, a conservative watch dog group focused on “combating liberal media bias,” has compiled the relevant remarks into one clip.The clip begins with Cross dismissing the notion of there being a war on Christmas.
A holiday party at the home of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont earlier this month led to a "small number" of guests contracting "breakthrough" coronavirus infections, according to reports.
Neither Lamont nor his wife Annie Lamont were affected, CTInsider.com reported.
The infections occurred even though guests were required to provide proof of full vaccination status as well as a negative coronavirus test result, the report said.The Lamonts learned about the infections during the week that followed the Dec. 11 party, according to the report.
Max Weiss, the governor’s communications director, did not say whether the Lamonts and their guests were wearing masks during the party, CTInsider.com reported.
We didn’t know it then, but on Election Night, November 8, 2020, America entered a Twilight Zone every bit as eerie and unanticipated as anything dreamed up by Rod Serling decades earlier. It began with time standing still in the middle of the Election Night vote count, followed by a flood of outlandish vote totals being relayed to us, especially from Democrat strongholds in 7 swing states. Then there was the alacrity with which network analysts declared Biden the winner, especially, the Fox news early projection of a Biden win in Arizona.
Among Trump partisans and Republicans generally, there was shock and
In a dreadful year for Democrats, so many options of failure and tone-deafness present themselves: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas, Jen Psaki, Chuck Schumer, Brian Stelter, and the Cuomo brothers to name a few.
But Seattle socialist Rep. Pramila Jayapal takes the proverbial cake for losing.
She is the vicious chair of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus,” and the public face behind a radical mission to use the bipartisan infrastructure bill to force Sens. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and other potentially reluctant Democrats into passing the “Build Back Better” social welfare extravaganza.
During the summer and fall, Speaker Nancy Pelosi delayed
A man whose nose had grown so big and bulbous it was making it difficult for him to breathe and eat has had a life-changing operation.Painter Conrado Estrada's fortunes turned around when he started a job at a plastic surgeon's property. His employer was none other than Dr. Thomas Romo, the director of facial plastic reconstructive surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.While Estrada was painting Dr. Romo's home in Bronxville, New York, the doctor noticed his appearance and offered to reconstruct the painter's nose for free.
The above caveat about government unions – usually known by the kinder and gentler “public employee unions” – was not issued by the Koch Brothers or Donald Trump. The statement was made by none other than progressive icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Additionally, George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO for 24 years, once stated, “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” Both men understood that the very nature of government makes it wrong for its leaders to enter into negotiations with any union
With the spread of Omicron for the last couple of months, members of the Branch Covidian Cult have been freebasing their latest fix for panic, fed to them by their dealers and the other members of the fear cartel. As they froth at the mouth, demanding that we partake of their mind-altering drug-of-choice, their monotonal chant drones on, demanding we “follow the science” and “trust the scientists” absent a single study supporting their fear, without identifying a single scientist whom we should trust, and, more importantly, why we should trust them. Fauci has become a meme of himself in recent months (and especially over the last seven days),
West Virginia Leads the Nation
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Apart from its legislative and regulatory policies, the administration is doing everything it can to hamper the production of conventional fuels. The standard, and oft used, countermeasure is to seek judicial relief from nonsensical overreach, which takes a lot of time and money, but several states this week showed a more creative side, and it’s a good thing in my book.
At the Federalist, Tristan Justice details the administration’s misguided actions which prompted the response:
President Joe Biden has been aggressive in quickly curtailing oil and gas development as promised on the campaign trail. Beyond the illegal suspension of new leases on federal land,
EXCLUSIVE: Rob O’Neill Reveals How Badly
Mangled Osama Bin Laden’s Face Was After
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Mangled Osama Bin Laden’s Face Was After
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Rob O’Neill has revealed just how badly mangled Osama Bin Laden’s head was when he was killed.
I sat down with the former SEAL Team 6 operator for a lengthy interview about a variety of topics, and I couldn’t help but ask if Bin Laden’s head was actually blown apart as reported. The man who pulled the trigger didn’t disappoint with his answer.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden did not go to church on Christmas, choosing instead to view Mass virtually from the White House.
The White House did not explain why the Bidens skipped Church for Christmas, as the president typically attends Catholic Mass regularly.
Instead, the first couple watched Holy Trinity Catholic Church’s Christmas Eve Mass “virtually” from the White House.
Fears of the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus kept some Americans from attending Christmas services this year.
COVID-19 burst on the scene early in 2020 and rapidly became the biggest story of the year. (snip) When does COVID stop being COVID? Or, in the more important question, when does the COVID emergency end? (snip) Into this maelstrom of panic porn and confusion comes Omicron. (snip) Omicron may, in fact, be the vaccine against COVID that the Dark Lord of Viruses says he wants. It still has lots of the envelope, mantle, and nucleocapsid from COVID, and those create robust immunity. But Omicron is, in its own way. a flawed vaccine because it’s natural. It works. And it doesn’t leave room for large profits or extended TV appearances.
The New York Times has blasted a judge who ordered the paper to return documents they obtained from the conservative activist group Project Veritas. Coming in the form of an op-ed piece penned by publication's editorial board, The Times' top brass utilized the power of the printed page to express their distaste towards New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood's Friday ruling.
Barred from publishing the legally sensitive papers that potentially contain incriminating communications between the firm's lawyers, the storied news outlet contends the jurist's decision violates the First Amendment.
ALBERTA, Canada – This time last year I wrote about how lockdowns enacted by government overlords should not get in the way of spending time with your family.(Snip)Lockdowns it seems always come before one of the holiest times of the year, that being Christmas and Easter.(Snip) Our faith leaders along with the Vatican itself have used the language that taking the abortion tainted COVID shots somehow amounts to loving one’s neighbour.(Snip)Jesus did not discriminate when he tended to the sick, the sinners, the outcast, the destitute. He was not afraid, and that is the example we all must follow.
Vice President Kamala Harris is turning to Hillary Clinton for advice on plotting "a path forward," according to a new report.
The New York Times reports Harris sought out the counsel of Clinton, the first female Democratic presidential nominee and a fellow former U.S. senator, and other women when she came to Washington.
arris and Clinton speak every few months on the phone, and the two met in the vice president's West Wing office in November, the report said.