What the U.S. does have are journalists who don't do research or ask questions. They have agendas and biases.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
No, we don't have the most frequent mass shootings
What the U.S. does have are journalists who don't do research or ask questions. They have agendas and biases.
Biden lies again about the Second Amendment
"It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. I have received calls from media for years about this claim and it does not improve by repetition. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/26/president-biden-repeats-false-claim-about-the-second-amendment/
Sunday, March 31, 2019
The Democrat platform for 2020
The 2020 campaign and platform for the Democrats, based on recent behavior of those in Congress and those who have declared:
1. Open borders.
2. Pack the polls with ex-felons, 16 year olds, and illegals.
3. Destroy the electoral college so Democrats can legally win all future presidential elections with 4 states they packed with #1 and #2.
4. Implement the Green New Deal so the public sector control and influence is greater than the private sector--aka socialism.
5. Infanticide and late term abortion for any reason.
6. Abortion's progressive outcome, euthanasia for the inconvenient, ill, disabled and elderly.
7. Ratchet up the hate, fear and distrust with more identity politics and intersectionalism.
8. Reparations for slavery.
9. Destruction of first and second amendments, with more regulations, more laws, especially on religion, speech, and assembly on college campuses which then infects the whole society as academe has been doing for 50 years.
10. Find more charges to bring against the President and his family.
During the campaign, because it pleases the gullible and fattens the purse, the emphasis will be #1 (worded in compassionate and Biblical terms), #7 and #10. The others are really distasteful for most Americans and will need to be more incremental with more changes in the language with talk of core values, ethics, etc., the best double speak they can find.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Michael Smith, guest blogger, on truth, facts, conspiracy theories and bias in politics
Interesting isn't it? How many people:
- Who can't stand the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones but believe the Steele dossier is real.
- Refuse to believe that the Hillary Clinton campaign was not connected to Russian "interference" when there is clear evidence they paid the law firm Perkins Coie to pay Fusion GPS who paid Christopher Steele.
- Believe Donald Trump committed campaign finance crimes, yet Hillary Clinton did not.
- Continue to insist that illegal aliens commit less crime than legal immigrants and citizens:
1) when every single illegal immigrant has already committed one misdemeanor if they have crossed the border once and a felony if they are repeat offenders, and
2) when illegal immigrants make up approximately 9% of the total population but 27% of the prison population.
- Believe if the Second Amendment was ignored and all guns were banned, there would be no more gun crime but don't accept that enforcing current immigration law to completely ban illegal immigration would end crime by illegal immigrants.
- Believe that one non-NRA member committing a gun crime means all NRA members are responsible, but one Islamist committing a terrorist act does not mean all Muslims are responsible.
- Don't believe a border wall will be effective, but build fences around their property and lock their doors.
- Believe "toxic masculinity," misogyny, sexism and sexual violence against women are problems, but importing people from cultures where these aspects are common is not.
- Believe the real issue in the Mollie Tibbetts murder is not that the murderer was here illegally, it was that he was a male.
- Claim to oppose fascism and racism while engaging in fascist and racist acts.
- Believe for speech to be free, it must be restricted or banned (for certain people).
- Believe it is totally intellectually consistent to say private social media companies can choose their customers, but a private cake bakery cannot.
- Believe that a scandal is only a scandal if the New York Times, the Washington Post, or CNN says it is.
- Believe sexual harassment is always real and the accuser should always be believed without question as long as the accusations aren't against #metoo members - then it was consensual and the accuser is a liar.
Of course, these are prominent features of our hypocritical progressive friends. For them, cognitive dissonance is a feature, not a bug.
None of this - not a single damn instance - is about the referenced situation - it is all about the political position of the person and how best to protect that political position. It's making up rules and crap "facts" as they go along just to keep their agenda alive and moving.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Do you remember the film about the Bush assassination?
"Death of a President" chronicles the sniper shooting of Bush on October 19, 2007, during a trip to Chicago and the ensuing investigation.
The film blends archival footage of Bush interspersed with fierce anti-war protests and other fictional scenes crafted by the filmmakers.
Actors posing as administration officials and Secret Service agents were digitally grafted into some images of the president and his entourage.
The filmmakers said they chose to use Bush rather than substitute a fictitious president to heighten the authenticity.
"I'm thrilled that the film is going to be shown in cinemas in the US in the near future," Mr Range said. "That's proof that people can see beyond the premise and see that it's a film about this post-9/11 world that we live in."
However, the £2million movie sparked controversy in America and the British film-makers had to be guarded by private security men at the film festival after threats were made on their lives.
Monday, March 09, 2015
Obama needs a fact checker
"Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote," President Obama complained at the Selma anniversary.
Blacks are now voting at a higher rate than whites. Is there suppression of white votes because they need to show ID to vote (and to go into a government building, and to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, and to cash a check, and to lease a car, etc.)
“We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.” That’s correct (and this time he didn’t leave out the Creator, which he has done in the past); and now we have a president defying the founders’ plan of 3 branches and attempting to replace our presidency with a monarchy.
And then he says at Benedict College, “As long as you can go in some neighborhoods and it is easier for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book -- there are neighborhoods where it is easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable -- as long as that's the case, we're going to continue to see unnecessary violence," (he’s speaking out against the 2nd amendment here, not making a case for capitalism). I assume he’s talking about illegal guns and not illegal vegetables and books. But after 50 years and trillions of dollars of the war on poverty and all the wealth transfers of 128 federal programs—many in the field of food and education--you still can’t buy vegetables or books in black and low income neighborhoods? Whose fault is that? How could the government be trusted with fooling around with the 2nd amendment if they can’t even get fresh vegetables to the city?
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Obama goes after the second amendment
General Eric Holder's Department of Justice has used its "Operation Choke Point" to manipulate banks and third-party payment processors to drop whole categories of businesses the Obama administration disfavors, such as online arms and ammunition sellers, tobacconists, and payday lenders. Left-wing nonprofit allies of the Administration like the Center for Responsible Lending and Americans for Financial Reform have provided media support.
“This is not law enforcement. It is intimidation backed up by the might of the government.” http://capitalresearch.org/2015/03/operation-choke-point/
Manipulating lending institutions to achieve social ends. Who would have thought? Isn’t that how we got the housing bubble and bust beginning with the Community Reinvestment Act in the 1970s and ending in the Great Recession of 2008? (Actually, it isn’t over; you can still get zero down home loans).
And isn’t that how we’re accumulating mounting college loan debt—to achieve social ends by paying universities through the back door while unprepared students enter through the front? Sallie Mae is like Freddie Mac. Equal opportunity.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/02/newt-gingrich-choke-point-beginning-real-tyranny-united-states/
http://spectator.org/articles/42211/true-origins-financial-crisis#!
http://www.inc.com/mark-cuban/video-student-loans-bubble.html
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Nominee for Surgeon General
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy doesn’t like the 2nd amendment. Dr. Murthy is the president and founder of Doctors for America, which grew from the campaign organization that was called Doctors for Obama, started in 2008. The organization has advocated for a number of liberal initiatives, including strongly supporting the passage of Obamacare and Medicaid expansion.
The group has also been supportive of the Obama administration’s failed push for expanding gun control laws in 2013.
I've noticed that people who don't like the 2nd amendment usually don't like the first either. . . especially freedom of religion. Then speech, press, and assembly fall next.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Former Black Panther Bobby Rush on gun violence
Rush asks: "Why is it that those extremist voices, who so passionately wail about states’ rights superseding federal rights, literally jumped for joy when, in June 2010, a narrowly divided U. S. Supreme Court overturned a Chicago law that local public officials put in place as a meaningful step to help stem the wave of gun violence?"
Note: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's ban on private ownership of handguns, saying the Second Amendment applies to states and municipalities as well as the federal government.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/06/28/US-Supreme-Court-Chicagos-gun-ban-struck-down/UPI-18071277761369/#ixzz1BKiiMsl5
Maybe they lived in Chicago where gun violence went up when that "meaningful step" didn't save any lives of honest citizens?
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Too old and too female
There are a few old timers in the Senate and House who have become flabby porkers with 20-30 years of "service" to their country/state (in fact, one from Delware comes to mind). But too old and too female to own a gun? When her disabled husband who is older hasn't had the problem? Seems like state workers are just taking on a whole bunch of corrective and protective responsibilities never assigned to them.- "Delaware State Police stopped Alvina Vansickle from purchasing a .22-caliber pistol for self-defense because she was too old and a woman, said Superintendent Col. Thomas MacLeish.
The outrage that followed led to the revelation that Delaware State Police had been keeping lists of gun buyers for years; state law requires them to destroy these records after 60 days.
Without so much as a traffic ticket, the 81-year-old Lewes resident should have sailed through the mandatory state police background check when she tried to buy a Taurus revolver from Charlie Steele's Lewes gun shop last August.
Problems started after Steele made the required phone call to state police for approval of the firearms transaction." Delaware online