[Breitbart] Former President Barack Obama wrote a letter defending LGBTQ+ books in children’s schools and public libraries as Republican-led states move to restrict them amid growing concern from parents.
“Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives,” Obama tweeted along with a letter. “And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone.”
Obama wrote:
It’s no coincidence that these “banned books” are often written by or feature people of color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ+ community — though there have also been unfortunate instances in which books by conservative authors or books containing “triggering” words or scenes have been targets for removal. Either way, the impulse seems to be to silence, rather than engage, rebut, learn from or seek to understand views that don’t fit our own.
What were the books that shaped your life, President Obama, and when were they first published? Name names or admit that you are merely posturing for effect.
[IsraelTimes] Jayapal says she does not believe ’Israel as a nation is racist’ but that its ’government has engaged in racist policies,’ after her party’s leaders pushed back on earlier remark
A powerful House Democrat walked back her description of Israel as a "racist state" on Sunday, after she faced backlash from her colleagues and party leadership.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, chair of the 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, made the comments on Saturday at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
Continued on Page 49
#1
Jaypal has told us that she did not say tomato, she says she said tomato. We need to be more nuanced. These are not the droids are looking for. Move along.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 3:33 Comments ||
Top||
#2
The LSD's are again desperate for 2024 votes given it is likely to be a NORMAL election and not the Scandemic voter abuse seen in 2020.
Mary Jo Kopechne, the daughter of an insurance salesman, was born in the village of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, on 26th July 1940. After graduating from Caldwell College for Women in New Jersey, she moved to Washington where she worked as a secretary for George Smathers and Robert Kennedy. During this time she shared an apartment with Nancy Carole Tyler, who worked for Bobby Baker.
On 17th July, 1969, Kopechne joined several other women who had worked for the Kennedy family at the Edgartown Regatta. She stayed at the Katama Shores Motor Inn on the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard. The following day the women travelled across to Chappaquiddick Island. They were joined by Edward Kennedy and that night they held a party at Lawrence Cottage. At the party was Kennedy, Kopechne, Susan Tannenbaum, Maryellen Lyons, Ann Lyons, Rosemary Keough, Esther Newburgh, Joe Gargan, Paul Markham, Charles Tretter, Raymond La Rosa and John Crimmins.
Kopechne and Edward Kennedy left the party at 11.15pm. Kennedy had offered to take Kopechne back to her hotel. He later explained what happened: "I was unfamiliar with the road and turned onto Dyke Road instead of bearing left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately a half mile on Dyke Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge.... The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt."
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
07/18/2023 09:01 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
The rumor in my family circles, my Mom being a senior political lobbyist inDC after a long career as a staffer at the Republican Congressional Committee was the "Second Passenger Theory". It essentially explained the long delay and quickly early behavior of Teddy because he thought the only passenger in the car was in the front seat with him, en route to the submarine races. Only hours later did he discover Mary Jo and put togather the ludicrous BS story.
"We now circle back to the aforementioned "second passenger" theory, the most popular conspiracy surrounding the incident at Chappaquiddick, which suggests that Kennedy actually left the party with a different young woman, Rosemary Keough, and didn't even know Mary Jo Kopechne was in the car at all. This theory is the basis of yet another Chappaquiddick book — Kennedy once groused about there having been "upwards of twenty" written about it — written by research physicist Donald F. Nelson, called Chappaquiddick Tragedy: Kennedy's Second Passenger Revealed.
Speaking with the Cape Cod Times about his work, Nelson said that he collaborated closely with John Farrar, the "the fire department water-rescue expert" who retrieved Kopechne's body. Farrar endorsed Nelson's work so heartily, he even "wrote a blurb for the back cover." Nelson's assertion is that since Kopechne was found in the backseat and had none of the facial trauma that would have been consistent with the shattered glass from the front passenger window, combined with the fact that Keough's purse was also retrieved from the car, there must have been another passenger: Rosemary Keough.
"My book is not a work of imagination, conspiracy theories or political animus. All my conclusions are based on facts published in that era," Nelson told the Cape Cod Times. "Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident was a historic incident in American presidential politics and thus deserves resolution. I believe I have done that."
Posted by: Skidmark ||
07/18/2023 09:58 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
A train derails with 15-20 cars of hazardous material. Sounds scary! But no mention of what the hazardous material might be. Pitiful human reporters! ChatGPT would have at least made something up.
[WND] Red Rose protesters are those who enter abortion businesses and hand out red roses to those there, in the hope the women will reconsider their decision to destroy their unborn child.
Pro-abortion activists, often in public office, have responded many times by putting them in jail.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported recently on a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Letitia James of New York against members of Red Rose Rescue to create a "buffer zone” around those businesses to protect pro-abortion interests.
In that agenda, James described Red Rose members as "terrorists."
She claimed, "We are also seeking civil penalties and damages because here in New York, access to abortion is legal, and it will stay legal and it’s my duty, my honor and my responsibility to keep individuals safe from terrorists. And that’s what they are."
Now James herself has been sued. For falsely labeling the protesters "terrorists."
#1
Bidenomics was best explained by Tucker Carleton at the end of his speech on Friday after his quip about Marion Barry.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 9:52 Comments ||
Top||
#2
"They're jazzing the dollar," she croons.
"We're in the inflation, and soon
You'll all be... millionaires!"
Here a bear turns and stares,
Throws confetti, and pops a balloon.
[party horn blares]
Posted by: Harry Hapsburg6807 ||
07/18/2023 17:39 Comments ||
Top||
[HOT AIR] A new FBI whistleblower has confirmed that FBI headquarters and the Secret Service colluded to keep Hunter Biden from having to do an interview with the agents investigating his illegal activities.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
I am sure this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, leading the MSM to hop on the bandwagon and start demanding answers from the FBI and begin digging into the clear politicization of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus, right?
After all, the media could be forgiven for covering for the FBI after the FISA court rebuked the agency for lying to them. And after the Inspector General report detailed massive incompetence and political bias. And after the Durham Report blew the lid off the Crossfire Hurricane fiasco. And after multiple whistleblowers revealed the political machinations that kept Hunter Biden nearly free and clear after his uncountable felonies, most were caught on tape and many were put down in his own words.
That’s understandable, because the FBI had some credibility to burn, after all.
But now that all the credibility was used up, I expect the MSM will feel a bit embarrassed about being so credulous and finally dig in as yet another FBI agent picks up yet another rock, revealing the creepy crawlies underneath.
[PJMEDIA] There is so much wrong with America’s cities, it’s hard to see why any contributing member of society would live and/or work in one of them. Some of the issues arise from far-Left local governance while others are generated by more widespread Leftist policy. These are coupled with an organic workforce evolution, as the United States transitions from an industry-based to an information-based economy. The result is urban areas caught in a downward spiral — and, as with any sinking vessel, threatening to suck everyone nearby down with them.
First, a quick refresher on the compounding problems of urban areas. Chief among them is that big cities are dark blue, and thus they’ve become crucibles of Left-wing policy failure. Uncontrolled crime, roving drug and mental-illness zombies, and swarms of sanctuary-recipient asylum scammers are crowding out reasonable people and businesses. The normals who remain to take advantage of access to cultural events (such as they are) and restaurant variety are also subject to totalitarian social controls and two-tiered justice systems that punish them when they fight back against criminals. But no matter how desperate the situation becomes, city councils can be counted on to double down on woke policies, then double down again.
Businesses are fleeing. In the ones that remain, shopping for basic goods has become a frustrating exercise in waiting for an associate to unlock the case so you can grab a razor and some toothpaste. Add in today’s high interest rates, which make owning and running a business prohibitively expensive, and the writing is on the wall. PJ Media colleague Rick Moran reported last month thon the lamthe Socialist paradise of San Francisco
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
07/18/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
As in the 1970s, municipalities will start declaring bankruptcy — and that will add a drain on federal resources, which will have to be used to bail them out.
No - that last part is why this shit keeps happening; some hard and ugly lessons need to be learned.
#2
With the Fauci Flu emergency officially over, funds for [Dem] states have dried up. Enter next crisis and emergency funding for everything but the so-called crisis at hand.
#3
Here in what was once peaceful rural Ga ., where sunshine was piped in 20 years ago.
We now refer to the city area as "Disgusta" and a virus creeping its way out to us.
As Cities become drained, the Criminals go where the $$$$ is. Since now most of the working Middle-Middle+ Class commute in to work. The suburbs are seeing increasing crime rates during the 8am to 2pm hours, while people are working and kids are in school.
#6
Lots of small towns across America were allowed to die. You can drive through them or see someone else drive through on YouTube.
There are entire empty cities in China.
If there is no bail-out, then it's only a problem for the paperholders. Yes, that's a lot of banks and other financial institutions where non-urban-dwellers have investments.
Those are the people to bail out.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/18/2023 7:01 Comments ||
Top||
#7
The West is populated with hundreds of mining ghost towns. The Great Plains are populated with empty farming towns. Places die. Rome was the first city of over a million inhabitants, it fell to under 100,000 when the 'good' times ended.
There has got to be a reason for such places to exists. Farming votes is not one of them. The Army Air Corps engaged in massive urban renewal in Germany and Japan on cities that were older than any European North American settlements. Those who had an underlying reason for their existence were rebuilt. Let social and economic evolution take place.
#8
The bridge across the Wabash at New Harmony, IN opened on December 21, 1930 as a toll bridge, due to "hard times." Cost to cross $.05. On May 21, 2012, it was announced that the bridge would close permanently at noon on May 29, 2012. Cost to cross at closing $1.00. The bridge remains closed, evidently due to hard times.
#9
If you buy a bottle of liquor at a PeeAye monopoly "state store," you are still paying a tax imposed to "recover from" the Johnstown Flood (the first one, not the more recent one)
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/18/2023 8:29 Comments ||
Top||
#10
They talk about cutting services in the future but not about services already cut (law enforcement and legal). If the cities were safe and clean instead of being homeless junky encampments the business folk might not be fleeing.
#11
"Chalk up another zinger appointment by Donald J. Trump."
There's rightful criticism here. But most #nevertrumpers live in a world where if they only had their non-Trump candidate, the candidates appointed would be golden. I dont believe in that reality and by extension think we were lucky to not have had to suffer Jeb Bush's appointments.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/18/2023 12:59 Comments ||
Top||
#13
Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit...let them go. Then where will Democrats find enough phony ballots to win elections?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/18/2023 13:07 Comments ||
Top||
#14
Dominion?
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/18/2023 13:12 Comments ||
Top||
#15
another zinger appointment by Donald J. Trump
Once elected, President Trump could only choose from among those willing and with the skills to do the job. In 2016, Trump voters in general were private business or were working class, not in the Washington, DC bureaucracy. So while there were some Trump fans and a few patriots willing to work with him out of patriotism despite their dislike, more either were out for what they could get or aimed to control and/or undermine the president until he could be driven from office.
To be fair, President George W. Bush had the same problem to a slightly lesser extant — as I recall, President Clinton worked hard to turn the bureaucracy into the Democratic Party stronghold that it remains today.
#16
The only three people Trump could trust were his kids and he brought them in and they did a great job. But Deep State was deep blood red and they and the Dems shored up and came back with a vengeance.
To this day it is an internal struggle. Whistle Blowers vs their corrupt masters. MAGA vs Compton.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] During Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... , the former Biden White House Press Secretary turned full-time Democrat propagandist went on a delusional rant about how forced racial indoctrination trainings in the United States military aren’t an issue because they’re only an hour, all the while accusing Senators like Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Ted Cruz; ...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... (R-TX) are the ones politicizing the military. In reality, they are the ones trying to force the military to focus on their mission instead of pushing woke racial and gender ideology.
Psaki proclaimed it was a "right-wing conspiracy theory" that the U.S. Military is a "left-wing organization, indoctrinating troops with hundreds of hours of DEI training."
Her gotcha moment rebutting conservative claims? She tried proving them wrong by admitting it was happening but only for an hour, which is an hour longer than it should be: "The right-wing punching bag, diversity and inclusion training, is just one hour, one hour of initial military training for infantry soldiers."
"It's during the same period of training time that they spend 160 hours on rifle marksmanship," Psaki proclaimed. Rifle marksmanship is part of military training, not racial indoctrination in the form of "DEI" training. Psaki appears to think they are equally important.
She ended her monologue by ironically insisting it’s Republicans who are really trying to politicize the military.
"Republicans like Tommy Tuberville love to claim politics and wokeness is affecting the readiness of our military. But right now, the only person politicizing the military seems to be him," Psaki claimed.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/18/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Republicans are trying to politicize the military by removing the new leftist ideology. Maybe the freckles are just the bubbles of stupid emanating from her thinking.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 8:09 Comments ||
Top||
#2
And I thought Psaki was smarter than Karine Pierre whatever. Psaki is a moron of the highest order.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dr Anthony Fauci was tonight accused of lying under oath over his knowledge of dangerous virus research in China — which is feared to have caused the pandemic.
DailyMail.com can reveal Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week calling for an investigation into whether Dr Fauci, 82, committed perjury when he testified in front of a Senate committee in 2021.
In a showdown with Republicans, including Sen Paul, in July that year, Dr Fauci testified that his former department ‘has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'
Dr Fauci was the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until the end of 2022 and was responsible for signing off on research grants.
Yet newly released emails dated February 1, 2020 show Fauci acknowledged that 'scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.'
Perjury is a federal offense that carries up to five years in prison. While the emails show that Fauci was aware of gain-of-function going on in the lab, he never admitted that the NIH funded it.
But the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined last month that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did receive NIH funding, Sen Paul said in his letter to AG Garland.
#1
Referring Anthony Fauci to the Garland’s DOJ is like making OJ the jury foreman of a capital murder case or Kevin Spacey the dorm master at a boy’s prep school.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 10:04 Comments ||
Top||
Fauci's agency sent $ to a contractor who sent $ to another contractor who sent $ to Wuhan Lab
So, like the Godfather of the Mafia, there were intermediaries
Posted by: lord garth ||
07/18/2023 18:44 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Don’t recall the name but someone once said:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors. . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
This was what they meant for American exceptionalism.
Posted by: ACA JOE ||
07/18/2023 21:53 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Nobody but New York Times reporter Ron Susskind knows who said that, Mr. Joe, assuming anyone said it at all. He included it in a 2004 article about the George W. Bush White House, but only described the speaker as a senior advisor to the president. Karl Rove has been accused of being the one who said it; not only has he denied it, but claims the quote was invented — not a far-fetched claim, given the NYT propensity for nurturing fabulists.
And if nobody actually said it, nobody meant any such thing about American exceptionalism.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Betsy DeVos says she hopes Americans elect a president in 2024 who will shut down the Education Department and strip powerful teachers' unions of their control in order to champion freedom and choice in American education.
'I don't think the Federal Department of Education should exist,' the former education secretary told DailyMail.com during an exclusive interview.
'I'm hopeful that we elect a president who is also committed to either scaling back dramatically or ultimately shutting down the Department of Education.'
2024 GOP presidential hopefuls including former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott have all vowed to shut down the Education Department if elected president.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/18/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Somebody needs to do this favor for Betty. She forgot to do it when she was Sec of Education.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 3:35 Comments ||
Top||
#2
QUESTION"
When was the last time DC created or did something "temporarily" to "help" correct things that it did not end up with feet in the door for later greater controls,social abuses and civil right restrictions?
Remember the Federal Income tax was only to 1 % to 7% back in 1916-17.
[POWERLINEBLOG] Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, "Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism." Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error.
The centerpiece of Rubin’s piece was this absurd claim:
DeSantis likes to brag that more people are moving to Florida than ever. Not so fast. ‘An estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021.’ That’s more than any other state, including New York or California, the two states that have received the most attention for outbound migration during the pandemic, according to the American Community Survey released in June tracking state-by-state migration.
This assertion came from a Business Insider article that, when Rubin wrote, had already been corrected. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Post had to correct Rubin’s error:
A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected.
This is one of those corrections that destroys the entire point of the original article. The correction implicitly acknowledges that the column never should have been printed in the first place. Both the Post and Ms. Rubin should be embarrassed, but we know from experience that, as a hard-core apparatchik, Rubin doesn’t embarrass easy.
But this is the point I want to make: it is truly extraordinary that a left-wing columnist and (presumably) an editor at the Washington Post are living in such a bubble that they are unaware of the fact that Florida, under Ron DeSantis, has become America’s number one boom state. Americans are moving to Florida as fast as they can dump their houses in New York, Illinois, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Minnesota. This chart, from American Experiment, shows net domestic migration for each state from 2019 through 2022. Florida is on top, with Texas in second place.
#2
It would have been an easy enough number to verify before going to print. If it got past the reporter, the idea (back in the day) was an editor would catch it before the article went to print.
Now, only the "greater truth," which is neither great nor true, matters to the LIE.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/18/2023 6:55 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Rubin, a supposed Republican, makes an argument that proves, once again, that her head is full of Grape Nuts. When she sits up to get out of bed in the morning it must sound like Rafiki’s Bakora staff shaking.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/18/2023 8:15 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Still waiting for Rubin to have an opinion shared by a majority of Republicans. I've been waiting for a long time so far. You have to wonder at what point does the WaPo decide to drop the pretense.
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.
.JPG)
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title 
