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We’ve been subjected to years of movie sequels and prequels and our fair of TV show retreads. The prime contemporary examples of the latter are the reboots of Roseanne with its entire cast (really, can you imagine Roseanne as a Trump supporter) and now one of the “iconic” TV shows that turned itself into a Progressive culture war spear:
‘Murphy Brown’ Revival Set At CBS With Star Candice Bergen & Creator Diane English
Really, this time, a Quick Thought! Belmont man was beaten by masked man Sunday Henry Dionne says three mistakes allowed him to become the victim of a home invasion in which he was kept on the floor and subjected to threats and beatings early Sunday morning. Dionne said he was putting wood into his stove at … Read more
Immigrant rights activists right now are blocking #Disneyland entrance on S. Harbor in OC, blocking buses from entering the park. Civil disobedience underway. Protestors want to pressure Congress to pass a clean Dream Act. They chant “No dream. No deal.” pic.twitter.com/lsDZSksuhJ
— Cindy Carcamo (@theCindyCarcamo) January 22, 2018
Well, given the utter Senate Democrat collapse that turned the #SchumerShutdown into #SchumerCaved, I can see why the DACA recipients and other illegal immigrants (and the groups that want complete amnesty for them) are upset at the Democrat Party – and some are realizing they are nothing but political pawns to be thrown away as the Democrats need to. But there were a number of the DACA folks that deliberately decided that it is their mission in life to ruin things for ordinary folks simply because they have a mad on. From the LA Times, a post on making the “everyone must be miserable because I am” strategy and life mission of Democrats quite clear (reformatted, emphasis mine):
DACA recipients temporarily block Disneyland entrance as an act of civil disobedience
This is quite fun to watch Ben Shapiro absolutely demolish a Social Justice Warrior (sorta like he’s playing the part of Jesus to the Pharisees during the parable of the woman at the well): Ben Shapiro shares his thoughts on Affirmative Action, Equality of Outcome, and Social Justice, all in one fell swoop.
Especially when the headline of the article is this?
Seacoast progressives meet to set agenda
PORTSMOUTH – More than a hundred Seacoast progressives turned out for an informational session on the upcoming legislative agenda and mid-term elections Thursday night at the Unitarian-Universalist South Church.
Representatives from active, non-partisan campaigns in New Hampshire working to address topics ranging from social justice, education, health care and democracy issues all spoke about specific bills that have been submitted for the upcoming session, which number more than 1,000.
Hahahaha! Spin city – yet another media attempt to “normalize” socialist wordview people and organization, eh?
Seriously – what has happened to Thou Shalt Not Kill (or in some translations, murder)? (H/T: Pew Research via Hot Air)
Alas, TMEW would never let my get one of these (and probably not much more of a chance to try it). Since we don’t have flying cars yet, let’s at least get the flying pogo sticks, eh? The new Ezfly system is a dangerously disruptive idea, because it looks for all the world like it … Read more
And the Democrat Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D/Progressive – NY) has just caved into to the person that the Democrats believe is the stupidest person in the world: President Donald Trump. How does that even work that the stupid guy won – and won easily yet again?
I doubted it was possible, but Dems have actually lost a shutdown fight. Schumer has agreed to end the filibuster in exchange for practically nothing. Make no mistake: Schumer & Dems caved. What a political fiasco.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) January 22, 2018
Methinks is that he doesn’t back down, he doesn’t give in, doesn’t give up and, like the NE Patriots yesterday, finds a way to win. Very unRepublican of him, isn’t it, to simply stiffen his spine and tell the Democrats to go pound sand and then mean what he says?
He simply stood his ground.
(H/T: Powerline)
The last few months have not been kind to the feminists that have insisted that there are no differences between guys and gals because gender is merely a “social construct”. I guess that math hasn’t gotten the message – or is it that feminists are too blinkered to admit that math really doesn’t care what you are (emphass mine, reformatted):
Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades. Undergraduates were given 105 minutes to complete their papers, rather 90. There was no change in difficulty or the length of questions and female students were said to do better as a result. Dons trialed the changes to allow women to achieve higher results, with just seven female maths finalists achieving firsts last year compared with 45 men. The proposals were put forward to reduce the ‘undue effects of time pressure’ which the prestigious university believe affects women more than men, reports the Sunday Times.
The message from Oxford is clear:
Most of the coverage of the two “Walks” this weekend was highly skewed towards the “Womens’ March” versus the “March for Life”. Not that I’m surprised – the former was for Democrat women who hate Trump and the latter was for anyone that is Pro-Unborn Babies. The Corner has a few of the signs that … Read more
I am on most of the Republican email lists that matter here in NH. Ditto the Democrat ones – like the US Ambassador to NH Jeanne Shaheen (who demonstrates on a regular basis that what happens in DC should override what we New Hampshireits decide for ourselves). Now, we all know that almost all, Right and Left, politicians are going to “embellish” from time to time; we all know how and when to discount what they say or write. However, Shaheen decided to use a blatant lie in order to score political points. Here’s what she sent on the 19th (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Friends: Right now, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are just hours away from shutting down our entire government. Why? Because they’re more interested in playing politics than in doing what’s right.
Republicans refuse to protect the nearly 700,000 Dreamers who came to this country as children, provide adequate resources to end the opioid crisis or reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It’s absolutely unacceptable. No matter what, I’m going to keep fighting until midnight strikes. But with only hours to go, I want to know where you stand:
Now, I realize that there are two lies going on here (or at best, 1 is a severe misdirection).
So far, their kvetching on Trump’s Tax Reform has turned into a puddle of dried up tears. And their attempts to dismiss The Wall as being misguided, too expensive, and would never work: they’ll tunnel under it and if it is taller than what we have now, they’ll just use bigger ladders. Hahahahaha!
Build The Wall: U.S Special Forces Tried To Breach Trump’s Border Wall–They Couldn’t Do It
For those who mock the border wall and think it’s a waste of money, it stopped U.S. Special Forces teams that were testing the prototypes. The towering height made it almost impossible for assault teams to scale the fortification that President Trump wants along our southern border with Mexico. It’s projected to cost $18 billion over the next decade; one prototype for the wall is a staggering 30 feet tall. The minimum height that Customs and Border Protection want for the wall is 18 feet, though up to 30 is not off limits. It also has to be six feet deep. The testing concerning scaling was a three-week endeavor (via CBS Local DFW) [emphasis mine]:
Found this today in my inbox. Thought I’d share. Kind of sums up my thinking. A man goes into a bar in NYC where there’s a robot bartender. The robot asks, “What will you have?” The guy replies “Whiskey.” The robot brings back his drink and asks “What’s your IQ?” The guy says “168.” The … Read more
Heh! Trick question! (H/T: Powerline)
How times have changed, how times have changed. Remember come November, New Hampshirites, that our entire Democrat Congressional coven voted illegal immigrants over American Citizens. You see, they just showed us that they were willing to take away healthcare for over 9 million poor kids simply to keep illegals into the country. They showed us that we 1.3 million residents don’t matter, that the Rule of Law doesn’t matter – they are willing to throw the equivalent of a 2 year old’s temper tantrum in refusing to long term fund the SCHIP program – something THEY demanded in this CR (Continuing Resolution to keep the Fed Govt open) and the Republicans gave them.
(H/T: Powerline – just a whole lotta good memes from them today!)
Yep, it is. In fact, Nick (you who hold that Google has NO bias at all so SHUT UP), now even Google is saying “er, my bad” (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Google says it is discontinuing its fact-check feature because it proved to be too faulty for public use, directly attributing the decision to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The company has no date set for when it will return, if ever.
“We launched the reviewed claims feature at the end of last year as an experiment with the aim of helping people quickly learn more about news publications,” a spokeswoman for Google said, while also adding that The Daily Caller News Foundation was the catalyst for the recent move. “We said previously that we encountered challenges in our systems that maps fact checks to publishers, and on further examination it’s clear that we are unable to deliver the quality we’d like for users.”
OK, Nick Martin, another example; this one from RedState (again, and reformatted, emphasis mine):
Dave Rubin Conducts YouTube Experiment Proving Google’s Anti-Capitalism Bias
Google’s notoriety in the political bias department has been overtly undeniable as it continuously disadvantages right-learning or Christian thought. Thanks to one of YouTube’s most famous interview show host, Dave Rubin, we can now see that Google has an anti-Capitalist bent as well. On Wednesday, Rubin posted a video to YouTube titled “Socialism Isn’t Cool,” where he outlined exactly how socialism was the bane of society…Rubin went on to say that individualism, not collectivism, is the way to prosperity and that socialism conflicts directly with what it means to be human. It’s definitely worth a watch.
Go to the post to watch it. What was unsurprising, at least to those of us on the Right, is what Google’s child, YouTube, did:
For nothing is more “Democratic” than the mantra “your money is our money – you just haven’t realized it yet”. They proclaim “why can’t we do this; we are a wealthy country” as if they truly believe that your money IS their money to spend because y’all are all too stupid and dopey to spend it the right way – that is, THEIR way. Case in point (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Democrats in California have proposed an amendment to take half of the tax savings businesses in their state get from the recently-passed federal tax cuts. California would seize the savings via a proposed “tax surcharge” on any tax reform benefits, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
So, they feel entitled to any of your money that the Trump and the Republicans have said “hey, it’s YOUR money and we AREN’T going to take that private property away from you anymore”. Democrats in CA are saying “No, you can’t keep that money – it belongs to US!”:
A Grandpa chair!
The two soon-to-be-official Granddaughters and the Grandson and me – they love to listen and I love to read to them. During the day, the Grandson will often bring us book after book after book to read to him and often will ask for the same book to be read over and over and over to him. Which reminds me of this (reformatted, emphasis mine):