[American Thinker] Democrats frequently talk about compensation for slavery and Jim Crow in the form of reparations for black Americans. Indeed, House member Cori Bush recently proposed $14 trillion as a good place to start.
Any reparations plan would be extraordinarily complex. First, if reparations are to be paid, to whom would they be paid? To every one of America’s 45 million blacks? Would that include the 4.5 million blacks who immigrated after Jim Crow was gone? Should the 33 million black Americans age 50 or below whose lives have all occurred since the Voting and Civil Rights Acts passed? How about black families whose ancestors lived in northern states where slavery was largely outlawed before America was a nation, and Jim Crow never existed? How about blacks from states like California and Idaho that had neither slavery nor Jim Crow? Or those of mixed origins with one black parent? Is one black grandparent sufficient, or would it have to be at least 2 of 4? Do black families who earn $200,000 a year still qualify for reparations? How about America’s 1.5 million black millionaires? What about those who identify as Black?
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The last Americans who were actual slaves were white. Captured members of a segregated army in the Philippines in 1942 and shipped across the Japanese empire to work in their industries.
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The point of all this is not to pay reparations, but to create yet another immortal federal bureaucracy charged with the task of resolving the vexing questions posed in the article. I foresee at least $500 million in no-bid consulting contracts. Did I mention that I'm a certified reparations specialist?
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Would it be reality to declare all major cities reservations and transfer their management to the Department of the Interior? Wasn’t that sort of LBJ’s plan. That might be the only entity that has proved itself to be a poorer caretaker than Dem politicians.
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As the trenchant old inquiry goes, "Who says the South lost the war?"
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Ref #4: Townships...yes! But the must be given new BLM approved names.
[MAIL] The US has a trove of parts and equipment from 'non-human origin' UFOs which have crash landed on earth, a whistleblower claims.
Former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch said the US and other nations are also engaged in top-secret operations that attempt to 'reverse-engineer' the pieces to create weapons.
But Grusch also claims that the information has been illegally withheld from Congress as the government tried to hide the finds, which are involved in an '80-year arms race' to take advantage of the technology.
He told The Debrief: 'We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities. The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.
'The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret.'
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Joke all you like gentlemen. But as someone who has been following this issue closely for many years, I can tell you this. Either the United States government has been covering something up for nearly eighty years now, or our intelligence services (military and otherwise) for reasons of their own have been conducting an elaborate psyop on the American people for nearly that same period of time.
Take your pick. Both options are bad.
From Wikipedia: David Charles Grusch is a decorated former combat officer with the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan and a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
I'm kinda really not caring about this UFO stuff, firstly, just 'cuz, secondly, it's almost as if it's a diversion from the District of Criminals' shenanigans.
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Grusch said that keeping the information secret 'further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario'.
Grusch - unusual spelling, isn't it? Perhaps it's Centauri. Or maybe Romulan. Maybe he's the envoy!
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I suspect that in reality it is nothing more than Transparent Aluminum and Scotty REALLY did “forget where we parked.”
#17
With the Chinese stealing our tech, it seems to me a good way to misdirect and expose their efforts or to plant material/gear that undermines their efforts.
[KhaamaPress] Several related economic activities are involved in Afghanistan drug trafficking. Cartels maintain a symbiotic relationship with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... by giving farmers advances to plant ephedra and opium while providing the financial assistance necessary to keep the jihadist proto-state alive.
These cartels use Pak sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs. In addition, diverse nationalities are used as hostages until their cartels can afford to pay for the delivery of the drugs, and terrorist groups offer security services in exchange for payment, said Hamid Pakteen, reported by Afghan Diaspora Network.
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"These cartels use Pak sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs." The Pakistan military intelligence ISI has been directly involved in the Afghan drug trade for more than half a century.
There is no sense in asking for CIA/DIA studies on this; the USA has funded Pakistan for longer than that, and no one in Washington wants to reveal that history of policy failure. Check back in 75 years.
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/\ There is no sense in asking for CIA/DIA studies on this; the USA has funded Pakistan for longer than that, and no one in Washington wants to reveal that history of policy failure.
If it's worked successfully for seven decades, it's probably not a US government failure.
[twitchy] The House Oversight Committee will reportedly move forward with holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress:
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) — The Republican head of a U.S. House of Representatives panel said he will seek to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress over what he said was a failure to hand over information on President Joe Biden’s family dealings.
"We will now initiate contempt of Congress proceedings," James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement posted on Twitter.
Comer said he was taking the action following a briefing given by FBI officials.
"At the briefing, the FBI again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee," Comer said.
Rep. Comer explained that he was moving forward with contempt proceedings against Wray for this reason:
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I used to go to several minor league baseball games each summer. In between innings on some schedule that I never bothered to learn the team would stage loud, annoying and repetitive shows that interrupted the enjoyment of the experience for me. The sumo suit show downs, on the other hand, was true entertainment. This contempt bout is on the same level. Wray is refusing to provide an unclassified document to Congress which everyone knows they already have. Wray’s rationale is the ongoing investigation gambit. The FBI has an ongoing investigation of all Dem corruption. These investigations will close when George Jetson retires from Spacely Sprockets. Eventually, after much comedic huffing and puffing, Congress will hold Wray in contempt, the equivalent of the people’s elbow. The vignette will expire. On to the 6th inning.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Maybe Wray could ask somebody how worried he should be?
#5
Speaking of dick Federal agencies, I just got a letter from the IRS' Taxpayer Advocate Service. They'd like me to participate in a survey about their 'service' on a recent case. Recent is used sarcastically; a client's sister filed a 2015 tax return on April 15, 2019, the last day to claim a refund on a tax return, and it was sent in via DHL, so the date's clearly marked on the envelope (IRC 7502 says timely mailing is timely filing). Three and a half years and lots of bullshit later we got the refund. I'm gonna have some fun with this one.
[Telegraph] Melissa is a lawyer and has two daughters — Jane aged 17 and Jemima, 19. Both have taken the pill. "We’ve always talked about things as a family," explains the mum of two from Cheshire. When Jemima got a serious boyfriend at university we had a chat about contraception and she went to her GP there and got given the mini (progesterone only) pill. When Jane got a boyfriend during the first year of sixth form we had a similar chat about contraception and she asked if I would go with her to the doctor.
We went together — her dad and I are pleased she is happy with her boyfriend but we don’t want her to get pregnant. We were with the doctor for less than ten minutes. First the doctor asked if Jane was in a steady relationship (which Jane thought was a bit "judgy"and none of their business). And then they said did she want the combined pill or the mini pill (progesterone only). They said the mini pill has less risk of bloodclots — and Jane knew that was what Jemima was taking, so Jane said she’d have that. I was surprised there was no conversation about any other alternatives. But we walked out with a prescription for three months supply and that was that."
In the weeks following the appointment, Jane had some break-through bleeding and her skin broke out in waves of spots. "It’s calmed down now and she seems happy to stop worrying about getting pregnant," says Melissa. Her older sister Jemima, however, fared worse. "The first mini pill she tried made her feel very low," explains Melissa. "The second one completely blocked up her digestive system. So she’s stopped taking it after six months of hell. Now she is using condoms and I am worried!"
This family’s experience is typical. Over 77 per cent of pill users report experiencing side effects and 33 per cent said these were so bad they stopped taking it, while 36 per cent experienced low mood or anxiety, according to a new Savanta survey of 4000 respondents conducted by Channel 4.
The survey is part of a new documentary, airing on Thursday [June 8], called Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution. The programme aims to do for contraception what McCall’s two earlier documentaries did for menopause; ie turbocharge a national conversation about why women are so badly served when it comes to this basic aspect of their health. And the "Davina Effect" should not be under-estimated. In the aftermath of the last two programmes, demand for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in the NHS soared by a third.
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FDA testing only looks at short term toxicity. There is no obligation (aside from potential litigation many years later) to look at medium to long term negative effects. In other words, will it kill people right away? No? All good here then.
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In High School and college I dipped a can of Copenhagen a day. Turns out that drooling brown spit is not a good way to attract women unless you frequent truck stop parking lots - which I don’t.
It does not sound like the pill and vax work well together.
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Is this a spin off of the gals who party through their 20s on the pill, then scream 'where are the good men' in their 30s? Don't need the pill then. Men are doing their part, seems like nearly half of those in their 20s have given up on the harpies. Much, much safer.
#9
"What do engineers use for birth control?"
"Their personalities"
*Rimshot*
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A number of hormone-based birth control methods are contraindicated for women with anxiety and depression — suicide, or at least suicidal ideation is a known risk, and can drag on for a year after discontinuing use. Even those who are not usually emotional can find the wrong prescription makes her weepy over nothing at all — the Pill is intended to mimic pregnancy, which can mean the bad along with the good.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
