Wednesday, January 02, 2019
2019-01-02 - It's Time
As once before, after much thought, I have decided to end my blog posting.
Since January of 2006, I have posted well over 9,200 times, trying to maintain my original intent of linking to information not always easy to come by.
Since then, websites have proliferated exponentially, most sites have multiple contributors, and the ever growing social networks have items of interest from all over. I am a one man band, just a needle in the "news is everywhere" haystack
And so, with that said, it ends, right here and right now, quietly and gracefully.
This page will likely remain here for quite some time, so the search box, the quote of the day, and many other links should continue to work.
I wish everyone that has ever visited here the very best.
Take care,
Steve
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
2019-01-01 - New Year's Day
Monday, December 31, 2018
Trump: The Best President I Didn’t Vote For
Just imagine if that opposition was instead for "America First"...
On The American Spectator website, David Catron admits to not voting for President Trump. But now he has a different view:
"After only two years in office, in the face of unprecedented and relentless resistance from the Democrats, the media, and the metastasizing Mueller investigation, President Trump has accomplished more than many presidents accomplish in two terms. He has not, of course, achieved all of his goals. The most obvious disappointments involved Obamacare and the border wall. Yet, even in these areas, his administration has made measurable progress and there is good reason to believe that he will eventually overcome Democratic obstructionism and achieve his ultimate objectives. Meanwhile, Trump’s long list of unalloyed successes keeps growing."
ICYMI: Google Wants to 'Monitor' Every Aspect of Our Personal Lives
Recently, at Townhall.com, Beth Baumann posted about Google's ideas:
"Technology giant Google has recently obtained patents to invent smart-home products that are capable of spying on users. The goal of the products is to learn more about us so they can can solicit us with advertisements that fit our lifestyle, PJ Media reported. The new patents go beyond Google's current 'Alexa' technology. It includes having sensors and cameras installed throughout a home so it's able to track what residents are doing.
'They describe how the cameras can even recognize the image of a movie star’s image on a resident’s t-shirt, connect it to the person’s browsing history, and send the person an ad for a new movie the star is in,' PJ Media reported."
Rules of Engagement
Islamaphobia in Perspective
Sunday, December 30, 2018
2018-12-30 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, December 29, 2018
A historic moment: North and South Korean officials link railroads across border
Modern Intellectuals' Affinity for Nonsense
And as I write that, I wonder how many even know what I mean?...
At AmericanThinker.com, Anthony J. DeBlasi recently wrote:
"'I don’t like to think,' a young man once told me ( his exact words). This stunning confession from an otherwise fine young person was to me direct evidence that his mind was deformed by a defective system of education that dates back to John Dewey. It marked him as an asset of amoral strategists who care more about an agenda than the welfare of their fellow human beings. It is beyond sick that the young in America who, like this individual, 'don’t like to think' must depend on 'authorities' and 'experts' who despise the collective wisdom of people smarter than they, garnered over many centuries, regarding the most important things in life.
The drift from reality in so many young minds today – thanks to the progressive dismantling of intelligence in the public schools – must halt if living in a civilized society still means anything at all."
Reality vs. the View of CNN
We've been fooled many times
Friday, December 28, 2018
The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
It should make us wonder how many similar or worse examples there are.
That saying, "Don't believe everything you read" sure does come to mind...
Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn posted about this on AmericanSpectator.com:
"What happened is beyond what I could have ever imagined: An article titled ‘Where they pray for Trump on Sundays,’ and endless pages of an insulting, if not hilarious, excuse for journalism. Not only did Relotius’s ‘exposé’ on Fergus Falls make unrecognizable movie-like characters out of the people in my town that I interact with on a daily basis, but its very basic lack of truth and its bizarrely bleak portrayal of the place I love left a very sick, unsettled feeling in the pit of my stomach. There’s really nothing like this feeling — knowing that people in another country have read about the place I call home and are shaking their heads over their coffee in disgust, sharing the article on Facebook and Twitter, and making comments on the online article like ‘creepy,’ and ‘these are the people who don’t believe electricity exists.’"
Revealed: Antifa Leader Relied On Anonymity To Push Radical, Violent Communist Agenda
Troublemakers like this are within our society...
Andrew Kerr "outs" this guy in his Daily Caller News Foundation report:
"The Daily Caller News Foundation has determined that an influential Antifa leader uses aliases to spread radical and often violent rhetoric while concealing his actual identity.
Joseph 'Jose'” Alcoff works with congressional Democrats as part of his day job as a manager with a DC-based advocacy group. But he spreads socialist and communist propaganda when going by the name 'Jose Martin.'
Identifying as 'Chepe,' Alcoff advocates for the violent overthrow of the government and for the murder of the rich. He has relished the mainstreaming of Antifa’s militant tactics in the Trump era.
A 2017 book identified Chepe as an organizer behind Smash Racism DC, the Antifa group that mobbed Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home in November and ran Ted Cruz out of a restaurant in September."
Funny Thing about India
One Generation to Another
Thursday, December 27, 2018
DC Decriminalizes Theft
AT AmericanThinker.com, Taylor Lewis has the story about this:
"'Decriminalization is not the same as legalization,' Council member Charles Allen argued in favor of the measure. “A criminal citation stays on your record for life. [Fare evaders] will have a criminal conviction for their rest of their life for a $2 fare.'
Allen’s argument is, unsurprisingly, overwrought. Judges can always expunge criminal records for petty offenses like this. Bypassing a $2 train charge need not be a black mark on one’s permanent record. He knows this is true but tells his lie anyway.
Council member Robert C. White, Jr., was more open about his racialist intention. Citing the fact that 91% of fare evasion perpetrators are African-American, White threw financial considerations aside, admitting, 'I’m sad that’s Metro’s losing money, but I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.'
To be fair, the Metro is better at losing money than transporting people. The entire system is in continual financial distress. Last year, it faced a $125 million revenue shortfall due to declining ridership. Fare evasion currently costs the Metro system $25 million a year -- about half the cost of the agency’s new headquarters."
The Tragedy of the European Family
Does the family status of one in power influence decisions that have a negative impact on society as a whole?...
On the Intellectual Takeout website, Ted Malloch recently presented some thoughts about it:
"So to put it rather bluntly: a grossly disproportionate number of the people making serious decisions about Europe’s future have no direct personal sibling, child or grandchildren’s interests at stake in that future. They are not part of a family and have come to see all their attention focused on one dominant and all-powerful social unit to which they pay obeisance and give their complete and devoted attention: The State.
The demographics look problematic. Among native Europeans, the birthrate is currently between 0.2 and 1.1. Europe is not replicating itself and will, if trends are extrapolated—cease to exist.
The numbers are disturbing combining an ageing population, very low birth rates and an inability to pay for their rich benefits: what will come of Europe? Why precisely, is the family dead or dying in Europe and the west?"
Steve Chapman: The surprising truth about 'gun deaths'
This writer points out how statistics continue to be misused to support the anti-gun movement...
Here's the beginning of an article by Steve Chapman from the Wisconsin State Journal:
"CHICAGO — If you’re thinking of venturing outside your home today, the news may change your mind.
'Gun deaths in US reach highest level in nearly 40 years, CDC data reveal,' blared Thursday’s headline on CNN.com. A press release from Everytown for Gun Safety noted that '39,773 people were killed by gun violence in 2017 — approximately 1,100 more than were killed by motor vehicle accidents.'
The picture these announcements evoke is of mass shootings and random gun crimes that pose a mortal danger to every American. But that image is not quite accurate. The number of homicides actually declined last year — and is believed to have fallen again this year. Our streets have gotten safer.
So what gives? When gun control advocates cite 'gun deaths,' they are not talking just about slayings of people by other people. Sixty percent of these deaths, it turns out, are not homicides but suicides. Most of the people who inflict fatal gunshot wounds harm only themselves."
Water Vapor vs. CO2
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Fire the Fed
That's sounding political and intentional to me...
Stephen Moore shares his opinion at Townhall.com:
"In one of the most remarkable Abbott and Costello routines in modern times, the economic wizards at the Fed again raised interest rates on Tuesday. Their crackerjack logic for doing so is to steer America on a course toward recession so they have the tools in hand to end the recession that they themselves created. Can anyone tell us who's on first?
Worse, this Fed move doubles down on its blunderous interest rate rise in September. President Donald Trump turned out to be exactly right: The central bank pullback on money would slow growth and crush the stock market in order to combat nonexistent inflation."
Trump Bests the Geniuses in Syria
Kenneth R. Timmerman has this to begin his post at FrontPageMag.com:
"As one Democrat sputtered on national radio, 'The Secretary of Defense just resigned, we’re pulling out of Syria. WHAT’S GOING ON?'
What’s going on is that Donald Trump, maligned by Democrats and the media as a petulant dummy, and worse, is doing what they could never imagine: he is making good on a campaign promise.
He campaigned on waging a real war to defeat ISIS, rather than tiptoeing around the battle in Syria and Iraq as Obama had done.
He committed U.S. troops, U.S. aircraft, and U.S. intelligence and diplomatic assets to the war, while making good on yet another campaign promise by having local forces who bore the brunt of ISIS brutality form the tip of the spear. That was work the geniuses could never imagine. Only a 'dummy' could have done it. A 'dummy' who campaigned on telling the truth to the American people, and who has spent the past two years making good on his campaign promises.
The campaign to smash the ISIS caliphate in Iraq ended in victory more than a year ago."
NBC- Headline vs. Content
A Liberal View
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
2018-12-25 - Christmas Day
Monday, December 24, 2018
Medicaid for Illegals
Planned Parenthood's founder said...
Sunday, December 23, 2018
2018-12-23 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Google Knows Where You Sleep
It's time for a revolt against Google...
On the American Spectator website, Mytheos Holt reported about this:
"Multiple outlets have reported on Google’s surreptitious data collection, but perhaps none exposed the sheer scope and shamelessness of how that collection takes place so well as ABC News. In a breathtaking video report, ABC demonstrates that even when two reporters travel around New York with previously unopened and unused Android phones in their pockets, the phones continually track their locations, and activities. Not only that, but the phones can also somehow tell whether the reporters in question are riding bikes, in cars, underground, above ground, on a subway, or on foot. The only thing preventing all that data going straight to Google’s servers was the reporters’ self-imposed decision to disconnect their phones from any internet, thus leaving the data stored on the phone and unable to be transmitted.
In other words, Google programs their phones to stalk their owners and transmit as much data as the phone can pick up about what they’re doing to the company, whether the owners know anything about it or not. In fact, even if you work out how to tell your phone not to collect this data, it listens politely, and then goes right on doing it."
Housing Shortage: 636,000 Stockholm Residents in Housing Queue, Only 85 Vacancies
Meanwhile, in Sweden, mass migration takes a toll.
Sadly, those that didn't ask for it, and don't want it, pay the price...
Sadly, those that didn't ask for it, and don't want it, pay the price...
At Breitbart.com, Chris Tomlinson recently reported about this:
"The population growth has been driven almost exclusively by mass migration, as the birthrate among Swedes on average is below replacement rate, with the birth rate for native Swedes being even lower compared to women from migration backgrounds. Statistics released in October showed that the average birthrate as a whole was also decreasing in the country. The housing shortage is just one area that has been impacted by mass migration. The mass influx of new migrants has also placed enormous strains on the various Swedish social systems and could see the retirement age in the country raised in order to pay for the influx of new arrivals."
Life Is Library
On the American Spectator website, Bill Croke posted his observations and thoughts about libraries:
"Public libraries seem to be crowded with people who don’t have a clue as to the function of a library as envisioned by Benjamin Franklin, who founded the first American one in colonial Philadelphia.
In 1731 the twenty-five-year-old precocious American Renaissance Man helped found the 'Library Company of Philadelphia,' with the radical idea of lending books to the public, thus improving upon the classical ideal of one that comes down to us from antiquity, an institution designed to serve a class of elite scholars but closed to the masses. It even bested the idea of subscription literary societies that flourished in England starting in the 17thcentury. Today, libraries function as daytime homeless shelters, video game arcades for young folks, and sites for municipal meetings and civic activities, craft fairs and vocational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs, all conducted at close quarters with thousands of unread books."
Washigton Post Columnist
Trump is NOT racist!
Friday, December 21, 2018
Democrats Ran Russian Bot "False Flag" Operation in Alabama — AND MEDIA FELL FOR IT
It's always the Democrat Party, isn't it?...
Peter Hasson has this story at DailyCaller.com:
"Democratic operatives created thousands of Twitter accounts posing as Russian bots in order to boost Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in the October 2017 special election by linking his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, to Russian influence campaigns.
The operatives, who were funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman independently of Jones’s campaign, created more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that followed Moore’s Twitter account overnight, The New York Times reported Wednesday evening.
Hoffman gave the operatives $100,000 for their project, which included creating fake conservative Facebook accounts to dissuade voters from supporting Moore, according to the Times.
We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,' the operatives recounted in an internal report obtained by the Times.
Media outlets — both in Alabama and nationally — fell for the ploy and amplified the false narrative in October 2017. "
The Recession Myth
It makes me wonder why we continue to give them credibility...
Steven Moore reently offered some of his economic opinions in a post at Townhall.com:
"There's an old saying that Wall Street economists have predicted eight of the last two recessions. The bears in the economics profession keep getting paid a lot of money misreading the nation's economic weather vanes -- whether it was the power and durability of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, the ferocious bull market of the late 1990s, the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks, or most recently the phenomenal revival of growth in President Donald Trump's first years in office.
Most of Wall Street's top economic gurus thought Trump would crash the stock market and the world economy, and here we are with near 4 percent growth over the past six months and a prediction for the year of close to 3.5 percent. That's not a crash. A stopped clock is right twice a day, but the Keynesians on Wall Street are hardly any better than that.
All of this is to say the recent frightening claims by Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius and other scribes that the economy is likely to slide into recession or a serious skid next year with growth of 1.6 percent to 1.8 percent -- half our current pace -- should be greeted with a collective yawn."
Thousands moved out for a new GM factory; now it's closing
At Reuters.com, David Shepardson and Nick Carey reported on this:
"GM’s widely touted factory of the future, forced on a town desperate for jobs and hailed decades later by former President Barack Obama, is set to wind down over the next few years, leaving beleaguered Hamtramck wondering what happened. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said at a news conference Monday that he told GM chief executive Mary Barra Monday that 'we moved thousands of people out of that neighborhood ... to create that assembly plant and I felt that the city of Detroit deserved more consideration.'
In 1981, the Michigan Supreme Court approved a decision to allow Detroit to tear down up to 1,500 homes, more than 140 businesses, a hospital and six churches to build the $500 million plant. The Detroit News reported 4,200 people lost their homes as a result.
GM convinced officials in the cities of Detroit and Hamtramck, the state of Michigan - and ultimately the state’s highest court - to use eminent domain, a controversial process in which government seizes private land."
Eternal Darkness of the Leftist Mind
At AmericanThinker.com, Lloyd Marcus recently wrote about leftist thinking. He closded his article with this:
"The most disturbing example of weird leftist thinking is their desire for America, their homeland, to suffer and fail. When Democrats take over the House in January, they will be obsessed with rolling back every one of Trump's remarkable achievements for America. Our economy is booming. Black, Hispanic, women, and Asian unemployment are at historic lows. Trump has ended the U.S. being exploited by foreign countries. Why is all this good news for Americans deemed bad news in the warped minds of leftists?
Folks, leftists' thinking comes from a strange place alien to the rest of us. They cannot be reasoned with. Leftists must be defeated. I am confident that God is on our side. Fasten your seatbelts -- 2019 is going to be a very bumpy ride."
OPINION: Unpatriotic Young People Are Dividing America
At DailyCaller.com, Nick Adams expressed his opinions, including this:
"We no longer share even a rudimentary understanding of what makes this country 'America' and what makes us 'American.' In other words, we’ve collectively lost a substantive sense of what differentiates America from all other countries, and perhaps more importantly, what differentiates Americans from all other peoples.
One of the many achievements of our Founding Fathers was devising a system of government that allowed for ideological disagreements to be hashed out peacefully. No longer would we rely upon pistols and guillotines to change regimes. Rather, we would use debate and elections to win others to our side."
Charlie Daniels knows
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Electoral Fraud: the Real Record
Most of us have seen elections changed by just a few votes.
That highlights WHY voter fraud IS an issue that should be a concern...
That highlights WHY voter fraud IS an issue that should be a concern...
At AmericanThinker.com, Apolo Villalobos has compiled quite a list. I'm sure there are even more:
"When Donald Trump was running for office, he raised the issue of fraudulent votes. As with everything else Trump has said, it was instantly attacked and ridiculed by the media. Since then, the idea has been dismissed by MSM journalists who have insisted that there have not been any cases of illegal voting.
Recently, though, the novel possibility of fraudulent votes in favor of a Republican candidate has made the MSM do a 180o while reiterating that such things have never happened favoring Democratic candidates. As with many other topics, MSM journalists have blatantly lied. Here are a few recent instances of illegal voting:"
Stossel TV on "The Myth of U.S. Mass Shooters"
I found this article about mass shooters on the Crime Prevention Research Center website:
"CNN claimed that 'the U.S. has the most mass shootings'. The WSJ reported that 'U.S. leads the world in mass shootings.' Nearly every major media outlet, and Former President Obama, said the same. But the claim is based on just one study, and the author of that study, Adam Lankford, would not release his data to either John Stossel or researchers in the field. Economist John Lott says that Lankford’s study has many flaws (our research and data can be downloaded here and data over more years is here). Lankford claimed to find 'complete data' for all mass shootings in 171 countries from 1966 to 2012. But Lott notes that in Lankford’s paper, he doesn’t specify basic details about how he found shootings in so many countries — most of which don’t speak English — before the internet."
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan
Mixing doesn't always work out well
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against 19 Defendants For The Sex Trafficking Of Minor Girls And Young Women In New York State’s Child Welfare System
Sex trafficking is far more prevalent than we know. AND, for some reason, doesn't get the attention of our media...
This is from the Department of Justice website:
"Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing of five indictments and three superseding indictments charging a total of 19 with participating in the sex trafficking of minor girls and young women.
As alleged, the defendants trafficked or recruited to engage in prostitution at least 15 minor girls in the child welfare system, including at least nine minors who resided at a particular non-incarceratory residential treatment facility located in Westchester County (“Facility-1”). Facility-1 provided housing for at-risk and troubled children and adolescents on behalf of departments of social welfare for certain counties in New York State.
Eight of the 19 charged defendants were arrested yesterday, two are in state custody on unrelated charges, and eight other defendants were previously charged. One remains at large. These defendants were identified as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the sex trafficking of minor victims, some of whom were as young as 13 years old, in the social welfare system. As detailed below, the charges are set forth in a total of eight separate indictments."
Hoaxed: Goucher College Black Student Arrested for Racist Graffiti
This type of "hoax" seems to be increasing.
It does not bode well for race relations....
It does not bode well for race relations....
On the LegalInsurrection website Mike LaChance reported on this:
"A minority student at Goucher College in Maryland has been arrested following the revelation that he was behind racist graffiti recently discovered on campus. Just yesterday, we covered a similar incident at Drake University in Iowa."
