Category: Social Issues

The Alec Baldwin Conundrum

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

The Alec Baldwin Conundrum

Alec Baldwin got to play his dream role last week, and unfortunately for an innocent woman, it was a method-acting version of Ted Kennedy. Now, you note that I am mocking a guy whose probable gross negligence killed a lady and maimed a man, and this raises an important question – do we really want to live in a world where our reaction to a tragedy caused by an enemy is not sorrow and compassion but mockery?

It doesn’t matter what we want. We do live in such a world, in large part due to the likes of Alec Baldwin. Besides his scuzzy abuse of the people – notably women – in his orbit, he is a particularly loathsome social media presence, and as a result, conservatives are gleefully resurrecting his old tweets about guns and his wish for them to be used on his many, many enemies in the wake of his horrible act. There are many, many such tweets. I am not a believer in karma and do not fear it, but I do try to keep a respectful distance from irony.

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Freedom and Ivermectin prevail

Guest Post by Justus R. Hope

Mt. Rushmore

The Victory of the Underdog

The nurse plunked down ten crisp hundred-dollar bills, looked the pharmacist in the eye, and said,

“Spray it on the floor. Don’t inject it. I’ll pay you 1,000 dollars if you fill out the card and say I got the vaccine.”

One can draw two inferences from this story:

One, those health care professionals in the know do not want to risk taking the jab. Two, they feel confident they are better protected with something else.

And that something else has traditionally been natural immunity through prior infection – but is now increasingly becoming Ivermectin.

By August 13, 2021, the CDC reported Ivermectin prescriptions had reached 88,000 per week, up 24-fold from the baseline of 3,600 per week. Based upon increasing popularity, it appears this number has risen many times again over the past two months, easily reaching into the millions.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00449.asp

Up-to-date October data are not public for obvious reasons.

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These Supply Chain Snarls Could Cancel Christmas (and Worse)

From Birch Gold Group

These Supply Chain Snarls Could Cancel Christmas (and Worse)

You might think after almost two years of endless mainstream media coverage blaming the coronavirus for everything, rounds of economic stimulus, and inflation that we might get to enjoy a somewhat peaceful Christmas in 2021.

But it appears that thanks to severe supply chain logistical snafus and other more complex issues, what you might expect to exist on store shelves simply won’t be there.

Want something delivered for Christmas? Good luck! Might not get there in time, if it arrives at all. The food you want to pick up for that good ole’ fashioned holiday dinner? Might not be on the shelf at the grocery stores when you go shopping.

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After Watching Biden Town Hall, President Xi Decides It’s Time To Invade Taiwan

Via The Babylon Bee

BEIJING—After gathering around the TV with some popcorn to watch Joe Biden’s Town Hall event on CNN, President Xi and his military generals have decided the time is right to invade Taiwan.

Biden was asked about Taiwan, and while his answer concerned many, the Chinese generals were elated.

“Listen folks, uh… what’s everyone doing at my house? And why is my house a CNN stage?” said Biden in his classic folksy way, while clenching his fists as he was also filling his diaper. “Whippersnapper! Eh, I shouldn’t say that. Uh, well anyway…”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Susan Smith reports a false carjacking to cover her murder – 1994

Via History.com

Susan Smith reports that she was carjacked in South Carolina by a man who took her two small children in the backseat of her car. Although authorities immediately began searching for three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alex, they could find no trace of them or of Smith’s car. After nine days of intense national media attention, Smith finally confessed that the carjacking tale was false and that she had driven her Mazda into the John D. Long Lake in order to drown her children.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed.”

Kurt Vonnegut

THAT’S NOT HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO WORK

Picture taken yesterday on the Wildwood boardwalk. When this store opened a decade or so ago, everything was $1 or lower. Now only a bottle of water is $1. I’m sure these price increases are only transitory, because Jerome Powell assures me we don’t have any long-standing inflation.

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH

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Feeding the Liberal Flock: The Real Reasons for the Congressional 1/6 Committee

Guest Post by Glenn Greenwald

What follows is the last section of my article earlier this week, documenting why Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate 1/6 is both unconstitutional and an assault on civil liberties.

Underlying so much of the anger and resentment surrounding 1/6 is the complete dissonance between the narrative fed to the citizenry by Democrats and their media allies on the one hand, and the legal realities on the other. It must be infuriating and baffling to a large sector of the population to have been convinced that what happened on January 6 was an unprecedentedly dangerous insurrection perpetrated by an organized group of seditious traitors who had plotted to kidnap and murder elected officials, only for the Biden DOJ to have charged exactly nobody with any criminal charges remotely suggesting any of those melodramatic claims.

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Test Run?

Guest Post by Eric Peters

They don’t stage rehearsals for nothing. It is important not only to get the script right but to gauge the reaction of the audience. This may have been the primary objective of the Boston Marathon bombing almost nine years ago.

The bombing itself was far from unprecedented, awful as it was. There have been far worse bombings throughout American history – the very worst but least well-known of them being the 1927 bombing of a school in Bath, Michigan in which 44 people were killed. It remains – by far – the deadliest such incident in American history. Only three people were actually killed by the bombs supposedly planted by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev aided by his brother, Tamerlan.

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