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It snowed last night ... we received about 2 inches of snow … so … 8:00 am: I made a snowman. 8:10 - My feminist neighbor asked me why I didn't make a snow woman. 8:15 - So, I made a snow woman. 8:17 – Then my feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest, saying it objectified women everywhere. 8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snowmen instead. 8:22 - The transgender man ... woman ... person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with...

At FaceBook, Dane Peter Bardland presents a chart and commentary on Germany’s upcoming rapid nuclear power phaseout. By the end of 2022, the government will have shut down another 6 plants with a total (baseload) capacity of 8.54 gigawatts! Yesterday we commented here that Germany will in fact be shutting down all the baseload power sources, which ironically kept the country from blacking out in 2021 because wind and solar power failed to deliver as expected. “Disaster playing out”…”pretty crazy” Bardland writes: In just over a month, Germany will close 3 of its newest and best nuclear power plants and...

When a woman breaks the glass ceiling that all women allegedly face, the question remains who will pick up all the broken pieces of glass? Most certainly, there is a price to pay be it reasonable or unfortunate. For Kamala Harris, it is certainly the price paid by the Democrat Party and legacy media. Allow me to explain. Before Kamala ascended to the vice-presidential throne, and while she was still competing against the battery of Democrat presidential hopefuls, she made false accusations about candidate Biden. As Daniel Greenfield wrote recently, “When Kamala tried to force Biden out of the race...

When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. During his four years in office, Trump placed three justices – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett – on the court, cementing a 6-3 conservative majority. With that majority in place, conservatives hope, and liberals fear, that the court will renounce nearly five decades of abortion jurisprudence and overturn the landmark rulings of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is scheduled...

I know we just discussed this yesterday, but if you are interested in seeing how the MSM goes about spinning stories here is a case study in news slanting. Both stories are based on the exact same information from the same source; they even contain some of the same quotes. Daily Mail take: OMICRON! Danger, danger! EVERYONE LOCKDOWN!Dr Angelique Coetzee, who runs a private practice in the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, said she first noticed earlier this month that Covid patients were presenting with a host of odd symptoms.“‘Unusual’ symptoms of mutant Covid strain: South African doctor who...

Is President Biden doing anything right? To this observer, his policies range from at best merely incompetent, to at worst malicious hatred of the country and people whose interests he was elected to advance. Somewhere in between those two extremes we have Biden’s energy policy. In this arena, appropriate adjectives would be inconsistent, incoherent, and destructive. Don’t even attempt to make sense of it. To summarize in one word, it is complete madness. I’m old enough to remember the 1970s, and the two “oil shocks” that occurred during that decade. A brief summary of the history can be found in...

The United States transport Illinois, WM. RATHBUN, Commander, arrived at this port Thursday morning, from Port Royal, S.C., having sailed from thence on the 25th, at 4:20 P.M., making the run in 59 hours. She brings a mail and 74 passengers. Capt. E.M. YARD, of the United States sloop Dale, has returned on account of ill-health, bringing with him 14 prisoners captured in the schooners Specie and Mabel. Their names will be found below. The Illinois stopped at Fort Lafayette, to land a rebel prisoner, (EDWARD CUTHBERT,) a planter, who was captured on Ladies' Island, near Beaufort, by some of...

Most of the bad ideas and theories that currently hold sway in America originated in our academia. University professors use their position to indoctrinate their students with ideas that are untested and often just plain wrong. They have now succeeded in creating an army of graduates willing to implement these ideas, especially because many find jobs in government. These theories are now getting a real-world test on real people and the experiment is turning out exactly as might be expected. The progressive Democrats are using a slim majority in Congress and a barely elected president to begin an experimental transformation,...

Colorado politicians have planned a gun “buy back” for March of 2022. They probably will not be able to hold the event, as Colorado law makes it nearly impossible to hold a “buy back” legally. Those who want a disarmed population coined the Orwellian term “buyback” to describe events where people turn guns into police, to be destroyed, for money. The police cannot “buy back” guns they never owned, to begin with.In 2013, people started fighting back against this propaganda effort by privately purchasing guns at these events. At some events, people used the money to buy better guns. States...

A currency crisis here is battering Turks’ confidence in their government’s ability to manage the economy, causing droves of people to buy U.S. dollars and sending crowds of people into the streets to oppose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies.

Americans need to pay attention because this is what the Biden administration and other Democrats want for America. Angela Merkel held the top spot in Germany for 16 years. Although most will associate her with the flood of Middle Eastern and North African Muslims destabilizing Europe, she should also be remembered for ushering in the climate change revolution that’s turned Germany from a wealthy country into one in which its citizens are plagued by rolling brownouts and its poor people cannot afford heat in the winter. Now, the incoming coalition government will make sure things get worse on the climate...

In this messed-up mixed-up world the formerly respected Fourth Estate has devolved into a collection of flat-out liars, brain-dead ideologues and unmitigated ignoramuses. Turn on any of the mainstream media channels or go to any one of hundreds of online outlets and you’ll be swamped in effluent. The horrific murderous tragedy in Waukesha, Wisconsin in which a man deliberately and determinedly drove his SUV at a high rate of speed through a parade last week is being called a “parade crash” by the most liberal media outlets. According to 95% of the media talking heads and their cohort, Kyle Rittenhouse...

If you’ve been paying attention, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been getting major airtime from all of the television networks to promote his new book Republican Revival, his vision of how he will save the Republican party. He’s getting the airtime, but he’s not moving any books. According to Amazon, his book hasn’t even cracked the top 50 best sellers list. That’s because the entire book is nothing more than one huge ax-grinding session by Christie. What Christie hasn’t realized for himself yet is that most Republicans, especially those in his home state of New Jersey are done...

Oh, noes! Hide your children! Run for the hills! Wear three masks to bed and in the shower! That’s right. Just in time for the holidays and the prospect of entirely too many people having entirely too much fun, there’s a new scariant, er, variant coming to KILL us all. Or, possibly, give some of us the sniffles … We’re not sure at this point, but the one thing we CAN be certain of is that all the dumb measures forced upon us by all the usual suspects - travel bans, lockdowns, forced masking, vaccination mandates, etc. - that have...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemDaniel 8Daniel’s Vision of a Ram and a Goat 8 In the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me. 2 In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal. 3 I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. 4...

The Daily Beast highlighted what appears to be a recording of a phone call between former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and controversial right-wing lawyer Lin Wood, in which Wood asks Mike Flynn to call off "Q-Anon guys" who he says are "attacking" him. "I think it’s a disinformation campaign," Flynn said about QAnon. "I think it’s a disinformation campaign that the CIA created. That’s what I believe. Now, I don’t know that for a fact, but that’s what I think it is. I think it’s a disinformation campaign." "I find it total nonsense," Flynn said. "And I think...

For a man who’s been wrong every step of the way, Fauci’s latest pronouncements are disturbing. Anthony Fauci is a disturbed and disturbing man. An unelected bureaucrat who is consistently wrong about things (going back to AIDS), who used taxpayer money to help develop the COVID that plagues us, and who has funded indescribably cruel animal research, he is threatening to shut America down again, throwing mud at elected officials, and anointing himself as the embodiment of “science” in America. Never in American history has a megalomaniac had so much power and been so destructive. I wrote the other day...

His newly aggressive behavior toward domestic entrepreneurs, Taiwan, his neighbors, the South China Sea, and the rest of the world is not without cost to important factions in China. And now he has lost face. For almost a year and a half, China has been trying to bully Australia for that nation’s insistence on getting to the bottom of the spread of Covid from the Middle Kingdom. From the standpoint of Chairman Xi, Australia must have looked like an excellent target to use as a means of establishing China’s power over lesser nations that are part of the world’s club...

The latest example is taking place in West Portal, once the most solidly middle class of all middle-class neighborhoods in San Francisco. American cities on the Democrats’ watch are drifting away from civilization. The most obvious problem is the rise in crime, everything from murders to mass retail theft. Just open any Chicago or New York newspaper to see what I mean. But the decline in civilization happens in smaller ways, too, as a story out of San Francisco perfectly illustrates. I grew up near San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood. My first elementary school, before busing took me out of...

PASSENGERS were left feeling a little sick when they reportedly spotted a woman breastfeeding a cat onboard a flight. According to a now-viral message which appears to be from the pilot, the woman refused to stop the questionable activity despite repeated pleas from the cabin crew. Horrified passengers onboard Delta Air flight DL1360 to Atlanta reportedly watched on in horror as the woman took caring for her cat a step too far. As the woman would not put her pet back in its carrier, the pilot demanded Delta's Redcoat ground team meet the customer after landing to reprimand her. An...