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I notice that many BLM marchers have confronted people in restaurants and demanded they "Say her name!" These marchers are referring to Breonna Taylor--the woman killed by police in Louisville. As Sleepy Joe Biden would say, here's the deal for the BLM crowd: We'll say "Breonna Taylor" if they say "Kate Steinle."
It's interesting how the Australians were so eager to give up their guns and now they're being bullied by the police and the ignorant busy bodies running their government.
Mark, why don't you use Bit Chute for online content? It was put together as an alternative to youtube. It's open to all comers without the leftist influence or the leftist censorship.
Hi Mark, I've really enjoyed listening to you read the Journal of the Plague Year, and it's fascinating to compare it to our visitation today. How would you sum up the lessons we can learn from looking back at the 1665 plague, and what advice would you give your old pal Boris regarding the Wuhan flu if he would listen to you?
Some unsolicited advice from a Yank to Boris: don't wear pink cowboy hats for any purpose, no matter how noble you believe the cause to be. Clown world fashion faux pas.
Could we possibly put those Oz Wanker coppers on a real investigative case? I just mentioned here back a day or two that re the Democrats trying to interfere with our elections we received two unsolicited ballots with names we didn't recognize. I notified our county RNC chairman what happened and he said this was not the first report of similar complaints.
But he researched the voter rolls who the people were who lived at this address and while the woman was not found, the gentleman was located in Mt. Helen, West Australia.
Here's to you know who you are in Mt. Helen, West Australia: would you like me to forward you your absentee ballot? Let me know. You know where you lived. But beware the cost of foreign intervention in our elections! Not much, I know.
A real investigative case, F.? Probably not. They're unionised up to the gills. They work to rule, and there are occupational health and safety regulations which cover real investigative cases.
Seriously, there are some pretty competent, dedicated policemen in Australia, just as there must be some pretty dedicated, competent bobbies in the U.K. I know for sure because I've been told for sure.
I've been told for sure also that folk who can't nail down honest jobs don't all join the police or military in Australia: they go straight onto the dole, or at worst they join long enough to begin getting headaches. Then they go on disability and the dole, and their spouses get carer allowances.
Our welfare state is the pride of the socialist world, and wasn't built in a day, you know.
I was just minor league joking, S. This person who lives on the other side of the planet but once lived here at my address most certainly didn't apply for this ballot, even though we as residents have to, but apparently his name was still available to pull up to receive an absentee ballot. It just gives me the worries thinking I was so naive to think the tactics for election fraud were limited to merely dipping into voter rolls of deceased people. What if this is going on everywhere? People who are concerned about voter fraud most certainly have to be worried. Mail-in ballots were shot down here but the fraud with absentee ballots clearly was ramped up to reach into someone in Western Australia. The investigation effort needs to be done here at the county clerks offices. The entire thing is creepy. Global voting will be a thing some day, you know, the thing, man. When we're all just one happy uniformed people.
Hi Todd,
Reality has long been removed from politics.
That's the kind of idiot species we are.
Future generations will look at this and cry : What monsters!
If there are future generations.
Mark, watching the festival of ignorance over the grand jury decision in Louisville leaves me asking: How is there any hope for a civilization where so many people are completely ignorant about matters of basic civics such as that cases are tried by facts and not mob pressure? Do they understand that trial by violent mob was the preferred tactic of the Jim Crowe era south to persecute blacks and deny them justice? When a cancer spreads so thoroughly through a person the doctor is incapable of doing anything to reverse it and save them, has the cancer inflicted on our civilization reached that point of no return?
People are not likely to consider the history and implications of mob violence when it's their mob. Anyway, the only BL's that M are the ones killed by police officers - preferably white ones. It's easier and much more emotionally satisfying to run around screaming and vandalizing about the couple of hundred black Americans killed by the police each year than to think seriously about the thousands and thousands of young black American men who graduate - or drop out of - our public schools functionally illiterate and with no grounding in math or science and who go on to spend their adulthood unemployed and unemployable. But then, since the mobs are made up of the illiterate, unemployed and unemployable, they are unlikely to demonstrate against themselves.
Dear Mark,
I was very moved by the audio clips of those crazy people screaming about abortion rights. Your screener may censor my comments, but so be it.
I have practiced medicine for 26 years, following 13 years of higher education. I trained at the busiest hospital in the state of Georgia and I have practiced my entire career in the second busiest hospital.
By far, the most disturbing event I have ever witnessed is an abortion. I was given the option to watch an abortion in medical school. I sincerely wish I hadn't. Thirty three years later, I still have nightmares about it.
One American political party views abortion as a casual means of birth control......as casual as wearing a condom or taking pills. A political party with this striking inability to discern right from wrong will have no problem justifying widespread, calculated election fraud.
Come November, conservatives had better vote in droves....and bring their cousins and their mammas and their stepchildren to vote with them. God help us if those screaming crazies that worship at the Alter of Fetal Demise carry the day.
Haven't heard the angle of Biden contracting the Wuhan virus to get out of the debates.
But if he did contract it, wouldn't that prove that isolating in your basement and wearing a mask doesn't work?
I'm a hard case, so I'm not in love with the choice by acclamation of Amy Coney Barrett. As far as I'm concerned she falls under that Washington D.C. heading of "he's a good man" like Comey, Christopher Wray, Mueller, etc. She has seven kids including two adopted Haitian kids with special needs. This pops up red flags for me. This is the kind of gooey sentimentalism that will lead to David Souterism as she "matures" on the job. There are a lot of important issues before the Supreme Court and for me, abortion is not in the Top 10.
I would like a Supreme Court Justice with some life experience. My prototype would be Justice Byron "Whizzer" White. Runner-up for the Heisman Trophy*, professional football player, Navy intelligence officer and then a transactional lawyer for 15 years (contracts, etc.) Not a lobbyist lawyer. White was nominated by JFK and approved by a voice vote. He was a moderate judge when that meant something. He went on to 30 year career and then retired before he died on the bench. For all those Roe v. Wade types, he was a dissenter on that decision for all the right reasons.
Ironically, White was succeeded by RBG. It's too bad but we won't see his caliber Justice again.
*Top college American Football player. This is a big deal, especially in the 1930's.
Stay on YouTube Mark.
I love history and YouTube is brilliant.
Algorithms pop you up. I get 10 year old Mark Steyns. You said everything then.
What about the next ten years?
If Mark didn't quit YouTube, they would eventually kick him out. I doubt he could last another 10 years there.
I'm one of the minority who was disappointed when Mark joined CRTV. The power of Mark is his independence, uniqueness, and connection to reality. I was secretly glad when CRTV booted him out, but it was ugly, and he should not have to go through that again with YouTube.
Agreed.
In Youtubes defence though, that is how I found Mark.
There are now hundreds of channels now basically saying what Mark said 10 years ago. Especially about the warming fascists.
In Victoria, the 11 "cases" - ie. low prevalence false positives - meant volunteers under Stage 4 restrictions (week 8) could not assist #WankerCops in the search for a missing 14 year old autistic boy. He was later found dead.
Is CCP coercion behind the police state "Zero Covid" lockdown policy of those like Chairman Dan? US lawyer Michael Senger has noted a correlation between jurisdictions with BRI agreements/ China ties and lockdowns (see recent interview on "Outsiders"). To what extent are Big Tech and Big Pharma - and Covid censorship and propaganda in the West - influenced by China?
PS. Steyn is keenly aware of our cultural cringe and hasn't missed an opportunity with the new song. And yes, the stereotype of the free-spirited larrikin who is contemptuous of authority has been exposed as total bollox.
I still pull for "Wankers" to the tune of the theme to "Neighbors", but Mark won't have it. The story of the lost autistic boy with no one to look for him is soul crushing.
Kate, that is heartbreaking and soul crushing. And people still wonder how, in "civilized" Germany the Nazis rose to power.
Great post, K. And we know now that many of the voices eager to support our boy hero on social media probably originated in China.
The police searched for William Wall, but never lost sight of their top priority: "In line with Covid restrictions, at this stage we go not require any assistance from the public".
PS. Yes, Josh - read your suggestion and heard Mark's rendition... we're aware of the general lack of "wit, brio and sophistication". We're embarrassed enough by what's happening in Victoria: please don't rub it in.
Indeed, Laura - and legal experts are decrying Andrews' "fascist" overreach, so the comparison is not hyperbolic. He's also a compulsive liar (in addition to everything else) as the hotel quarantine inquiry has revealed.
Haven't started on your "Links", yet.
Hope to hear Mark's thoughts in the context of his observation six months ago: "China thinks ahead".
(He followed with a rhetorical, "... can we?". Evidently not.)
Re: That last bit: What is truly chilling is that just like then the population just meekly submitted to the tyranny. The correct response of a healthy and sane population when presented with a situation such as this is to say " To Hell with your lockdown, we are going to search for this kid and you creeps aren't going to stop us!". At this point Hell would be far too nice for Chairman Dan and his goons.
Only a minor point but I always considered the 100% attainable Paige, played so well by Joely Fisher, to be extraordinarily sexy. Once she and Adam left to be replaced by the fat guy in the bookstore and Ellen's unlikeable brother it was all downhill.
Mark replies:
No argument there, John.
Am I right in thinking that Joe Biden has now annihilated the entire population of the United States? I think he quoted the death toll from Wuhan Flu as 200 million. Before that, he claimed that 150 million were dead from gun crime. That accounts for just about everybody, doesn't it?
There could be some overlap. People taken to the hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound who later succumbed to the Wu Flu - or old people who contracted China fever and were driven to commit suicide by the heartlessness of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.
You know the thing... he's just very passionate about eliminating the virus and banning guns.
We had to destroy the United States, to save the United States.
"Dissolve the people" is a very effective policy.
Speaking of which, Boris seems intent on doing the same with his Covid-19 regime.
PS. He's clearly interested in what the ChiComs have to offer, post-Brexit: "The new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has stated that "We are very enthusiastic about the Belt & Road Initiative, very interested in what President Xi is doing" in an interview with Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, just 24 hours into forming a new government to take over the EU negotiations concerning Brexit." (Silk Road Briefing - July 25, 2019)
And Israel - despite US warnings - appears to be deepening ties with China. "JERUSALEM, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Israeli experts have applauded the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for its role in pushing forward world economic development amid challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world economy is gradually recovering after weeks of lockdown due to COVID-19, the BRI has also regained its vitality in economic cooperation between China and its BRI partners." (Israel, months later, is also under lockdown 2.0.)
Mark had noted before that "Globalisation is Chinafication", and - as luck would have it - the ChiComs have all the solutions for the global fallout from Kung 'flu. We can hardly blame them. The Great Reset as the next Great Leap Forward!
Well, it's certainly true that the British responses (they're slightly different from each other) and those of several Australian states seem to be playing into the hands of the dictator Xi, to the extent where criticism of troutine Chinese totalitarianism will be confronted with blatant whataboutism. So far, Boris Johnson hasn't set up re-education centres on the North Yorkshire moors. His government, however, would love to have the technology to track everybody, everywhere, all of the time. Luckily, any government-sponsored scheme like that in the UK invariably fails; unluckily, only after Whitehall splurges a zillion pounds on it. Boris Johnson did reject Huawei involvement in 5G, but took his time about reaching the decision. Since he has flip-flopped about every other decision, I am not confident he will stick to that one.
"Troutine" doesn't refer to nefarious Sino-Jacobite goings on in fish-farms in Argyll and Inverness (places which I love, by the way), but simply indicates that, after several decades of trying, I still can't type.
I routinely experience troutine. Case in point (thread above) - "In line with Covid restrictions, at this stage we go not [sic] require any assistance from the public".
Thanks Mark. Seen that with Youtube and happens a lot on Twitter too.
I closed Facebook account when they deleted something I shared with genuine US doctors talking about HCQ. Deleted it from little me. Zuckenburg is a lowlife CCP stooge.
America's Anchorman, the Maha Rushie, has suggested (and others have seconded) dispensing with Senate hearings altogether in the consideration of President Trump's nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. A capital idea. Far tamer spectacles are banned--cockfighting, dog fighting, bear baiting. If ISIS snuff films of infidels are censored, why should we be able to watch Dianne Feinstein scourge Amy Coney Barrett for her religion? I'm still emotionally scarred from the Bork and Thomas hearings--and I was a liberal at the time. As a conservative, I couldn't watch the Kavanaugh hearings--except for Lindsey Graham's two-point takedown of the slandering opposition. (That was fun!) And AG Barr's testimony before a House Committee was no better. The Democrats have even provided a handy, if unlovely, word for the moratorium: normalization. We cannot and shall not "normalize" their barbaric behavior. Even the late Justice Ginsburg lamented that the hearings had become "highly partisan" and not "they way it should be." She lamented, "I wish I could wave a magic wand, and have it go back to the way it was." There's been too much wand-waving at the Supreme Court lately, causing protections to disappear into and rights to appear out of thin air. How about instead the Senate follow its own conscience (can't believe I just wrote that) and advise and consent on a vote alone? President Trump has promised a woman as the nominee, which sadly rules out a Justice Steyn. But there's an empty locker in the ladies changing room at the Court, and several excellent candidates to occupy it. We wouldn't want Justices Kagan and Sotomayor to get lonely.
No, we need to give the Democrats the opportunity to record some Trump 2020 campaign ads.
I would politely point out that if Justice Steyn identified as a woman all your obstacles would be overcome. Sacrifice for the good of the country and all that.
One billion Americans? Like the citizen compacting they did in cities on the west coast that have to deal with smog because of the number of people who are on said highways at the same time, resulting in carbon mandates they want for all of America to follow? America's billions would probably refuse to work and "peacefully protest" having to work while China doesn't put up with that and will gladly make an example out of you if you do.
I gather these intemperate women screeching for abortion rights are not atypical in our culture. It's hard to imagine them ever finding themselves in scenes of domestic bliss. Indeed it's difficult even to imagine how they might ever come to be in need of an abortion. But I suppose love us blind. I'm not sure if Mark was perhaps smitten by the second screecher as he thought out loud whether she might be on any dating sites.
Love, you say, N.? Love, or swinish communion? They should scream about abortion rights. They're not fit to be parents. I'm sure I could help - there's a rusty knitting needle lying around here somewhere...
I'm not terribly strong on abortion, one way or the other, but I'm pretty clear about punk parents, having witnessed some of their mischief. They're evil. My rusty knitting needle might be too good for them, come to think of it. Acid baths, perhaps? That would give them something to scream about.
Yes, S, though created in the image of God, any spawn of these ladies that manages to dodge the coat hanger would be born deep behind enemy lines in leftist territory. I think you probably realize I was aiming for ironic humor with the "love is blind" quip which on second thought I realize would also have to be deaf.
I want to clarify that I am opposed to abortion so I would not be able to join you, S, in wielding needles, coat hangers, and acid baths, though I assume you are speaking hyperbolically.
Sure thing, N.: I had rather thought that we enjoyed much the same sense of irony. No danger of catching me probing about in the persons of these amorous lovely ladies with anything at all, and I don't really possess a rusty knitting needle. Still fancy the acid bath idea, though.
Okay: not funny - I should giver it up - can't help myself... Still, we do have fun, don't we?
Not to mention that without mass immigration, you won't get to 1 billion Americans until all those coat hangers get back in the closet.
Thanks so much for your answer, Mark. I see, said the blind man (something my Mother used to like to say).
I thought it was a fair question, S. I hadn't noticed that Mark's videos had ceased to be released on YouTube. In the early days of YouTube it was a most convenient place to "host" all your videos complete with content distribution networking for fast streaming everywhere, all paid for by investors who made their money back by a rising stock price. Eventually, Google bought YouTube and required that it make actual revenue for their investors, hence the advertising and paid subscription business models.
Unfortunately, you could tell early on that running a decent business was not going to be enough for Google because they also had an ideological axe to grind as indicated by their quirky, naive, and pretentious motto: "do no evil." So they ran a little search engine and did a little morality enforcement on the side according to some definition of "evil" which turned out to be anything not embraced by leftists.
Dear Mark, I have been pondering the Globalist agenda, trying to get my head around the idea of a borderless world with just one unifying hegemony. I looked at World populations -China, India, Africa, Indonesia etc. -and came to the conclusion that "white" people are actually a minority on the planet. This realisation then conflicted with my understanding of social justice and diversity which treat Caucasians as the majority race, even if we are clearly out-numbered by other "identities". Do you think in the future it will be okay for a "woke white" person to refer to themselves as belonging to a Global minority?
It's the old "Alice in Wonderland" rule - words mean what these people want them to mean. So being a minority is more a matter of perception - and a justification for one's social, political and economic goals - than the actual numbers of one's ethnic group.
In keeping with your theme today, remember the crazy Iranian born woman, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who shot up YouTube HQ in 2018? Just another case of immigrants doing work that Americans just won't do anymore.
PS. How do you know if something is posted on YouTube that violates copyright? I don't see any statement on the screen.
Famous post, W. You be de be-e-ebil!
So, Mark, have you joined Parler yet?
And Rumble!
You surprised me with your playing a snippet of "The Love Nest" at 38:20. I always thought of it as simply being the theme to "Burns and Allen". Great find.
Mark, I'm quite frankly ashamed of you. Glenn Beck wasn't making the case for a billion immigrants. Matthew Yglesias was. GB agreed with SOME of what was suggested in Yglesias's book (which apparently has something to do with a billion Americans), but he also was pushing back on what large-scale immigration could do to this country.
Your issue is with Cary Katz, not Glenn Beck. Beck just picked up what was left of CRTV to keep others from that network available for people to hear. It's an outrage that Katz did not live up to either his contractual agreements or legal findings. But I really hate to hear fellow conservatives dissing each other. Especially two whom I listen to (subscriptions on The Blaze as well as Steyn-on-Line) and respect.
Mark replies:
Sorry, you're "quite frankly ashamed" of me, Kim. But here's Beck's own words. You can check for yourself:
"Vox co-founder @mattyglesias and I don't agree on everything. But we both believe that having ONE BILLION AMERICANS is a goal worth striving for and crucial to keeping China from overtaking us as the top global power."
If you "really hate to hear fellow conservatives dissing each other", you'll be glad to hear there's nothing remotely conservative about the above position.
For the record, your characterization of the Blaze/CRTV merger is quite wrong: Beck's Blaze was broke and was bailed out, and as part of the deal agreed to keep the suit against me going under the new name of "Blaze Media vs Steyn". He lost, and deservedly so. The only thing I lost was respect for him.
Uninformed outrage is increasingly common these days. Maybe we'll find a vaccine for that, too.
Mark, your long confinement has begun to make you irascible. You need to step up and join me in cantankerous.
It seems to me that a billion Americans would be a good thing. But that's not what's happening. Instead, we are on the way to getting a billion immigrants who remain unassimilated and largely loyal to their origin countries.
Imagine what a job a billion Americans could do rioting, looting, burning and murdering. There wouldn't be an occupied plinth anywhere, On the other hand, black lives would matter on steroids.
Seriously, what is needed to save the West is more automation, as I see it. It seems unfortunate to me that there are voices which pretend to conservatism which evidently think that it is the business of government to preserve and create jobs. I am one who does not believe that the latter agenda can be married happily with that of preserving the country for its citizens, particularly in light of the pattern of mass migration in today's world.
There is of course the military argument for a large population: bayonets so that the cannon-fodder will at least be prickly. I'm no authority on that matter, and the propagandists have assured me that technology will diminish that need, but I'm not so sure, because it is difficult to preserve an absolute technological advantage and it appears that there are ways to circumvent it, as the putative goatherds who destroyed the World Trade Centre demonstrated.
Is that what you have in mind, W.? Bayonets to hold off the Chinese when they make their final move? And it will come down to bayonets, because the Chinese won't close for the kill until they have all the technology to get the job done. I'm open to persuasion: don't hold back. If I fall silent when you flay the flesh off my back, it will be because I cannot translate screams of pain into alphabetic characters.
Glenn Beck - the Ted Cruz love bunny with Cheetos on his face? You pay? Lordy, Lordy!
I didn't lose any respect for him because I never had any in the first place. He's the poster child for the GrifterCon movement.
I can never tell what point GB tries to make in between his sobbing.
One billion Americans?
Any chance I won't have to wait another 9 years for my legally obtained green card then?
A billion size population is a military liability. One hiccup, EMP or riot that closes food stores and the population will kill each other. This is bad for military logistics.
I think his point was that he is really someone knowledgeable as in you better listen to what he had to say.
I thought better and turned him off when he was so wrong about DJT.
You make sense, W. That's like cheating nowadays. C'mon, man, you know the thing ... waffle ... pant ... expire.
Regarding Kim's comments: this is why it makes so much more sense to try and be a little more civil and less inflammatory in written communications; usually emails, but in this case a comment section. Instead of something like "I'm ashamed of you, Glen Beck wasn't saying this, he was saying that, and your issue is with Katz not Beck." Why not something like "I understood Beck to be saying this, not that, and I thought your issue was with Katz, not Beck? - I'm speaking from experience, having made this mistake too many times with emails in the past. It's very easy for them to come across the wrong way and different than what you intended.
Regarding Mark's comments: somehow I missed "Katz & Blaze TV vs Steyn: A Cut-Out'n'Keep Guide". Outstanding, but one thing I couldn't tell, has Katz et al finally thrown in the towel and paid up, or are they still looking for a way to weasel out of paying what they owe?
Also, the section on "Blaze TV's hypocrisy that should embarrass Levin, Beck and the other purported "constitutional conservatives" among its hosts" - this decision wording would have to be a body blow to Levin in particular wouldn't it? His main schtick seems to be constitution this, constitution that, founding fathers this, founding fathers that, liberty, sacred honor, etc.
I'm simply pointing out that the fundamental problem with our immigration policy has more to do with the ideology of the immigrants and less to do with the sum total of immigrants. Frankly, I think we should be scouring the Earth for all the conservative, limited government, Classical Liberal types we can find and bring them here post haste. Mark himself is Exhibit A.
It's a valid point, W. Thanks for clarifying.
I seem to be hearing two differing and downright incompatible threats from the Democrats, in the event they can't win the election. Just lately, the idea of making Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia states of the Union has been making the rounds, with the transparently obvious intention of adding four cast-iron Senators permanently to the Democrats' number. I think that is quite a big deal to admit a new state, so I assume that the Democrats also have some diabolical plan to short-circuit the US Constitution (which will also enable them to demolish the electoral college and cancel inconvient amendments).
Not that long ago, though, we heard of strategy games played by leading Democrats, supposedly to work out how to react to a refusal by Donald Trump to vacate the White House. In reality, of course, the objective was to devise a way to gain the Presidency, despite losing the election, without admitting it. I think it may have been John "My-password-is-P-A-S-S-W-O-R-D" Podesta who came up with the idea that the three West Coast states should secede.
Even at the time, I couldn't quite follow how that would get even a cardboard cutout of Biden into the WH. I know there are Steyn club members from all three states, who must dread the prospect of becoming citizens of the newly minted Republic of Hippistan. Unfortunately, to the rest of the world, California tends to mean San Francisco and LA, while Oregon boils down to Portland and Washington to Seattle: four cities which haven't exactly been polishing their reputations of late. It may be that some Americans wouldn't be all that sorry to see the back of Portland and LA.
I assume it would also be rather tricky for Kamala Harris, as a native and resident of Hippistan, to become Pres-I-mean-VP and, while losing Dianne Feinstein has quite a lot to be said in its favour, the loss of the western Senators would cancel the gains from DC and PR.
All in all, it's not particularly well thought through, but it is clear that the Dems' whole agenda now is about gerrymandering the electoral process in four dimensions. If they can't win the election on the night, they'll keep voting as long as it takes.
Better solution is to convert the DC and PR dems. Trump has been very successful at converting a lot of formerly ironclad dem support groups, apparently winning increasingly large blocks of black and hispanic voters. That will continue as the dems continue to self destruct. The real question is whether the dems can even correct their slide and, if not, what will replace them as the second major party.
Democrats in Congress could do an awful lot of damage, with an unassailable Senate majority, before Trump would have a chance of winning over DC and PR voters. Furthermore, there is a reason why Washington DC is not part of any one state: to ensure that the Federal government cannot be manipulated by the local state. Canada and Australia have a similar arrangement. (So does Burma, actually, but we can skip over that.)
To see why making DC a state would be a very bad idea, let's wind things back to August, 2014, when Rick Perry, then governor of Texas, was indicted on trumped-up charges by an agency which, solely by virtue of being domiciled in Austin, claimed jurisdiction over the entire state. There was no substance to the allegations, but that was never the point. In their wildest dreams, the Democrats behind the attempted prosecution never expected to see Governor Perry in the slammer, but they were able to cause him plenty of pain and expense.
Imagine the District of Columbia as a state, able to prosecute any Republican President, any Republican politician at all. It would be Adam Schiff's idea of heaven.
If California seceded would Kamala then have to give up her First Woman President, I mean VP, position as she would automatically no longer be considered eligible as a new kind of alien of the USA? And Pelosi? She could no longer be eligible to be the SotH for the same reason.
I get the four-dimension process going in both directions. We received our first absentee ballots in yesterday's mail. We didn't request them, we didn't recognize the name as ours, or the prior owners of the house either, so the Dems must be reaching back into the rolls of deceased people living here at one time.
Indeed. And Adam Schiff's idea of heaven is many honest people's idea of hell. Pandering for opposition votes doesn't often work, in my humble experience, and risks alienating the staunchest part of one's own vote. I'm open to correction in that matter, of course. My position on the likes of Adam Schiff is less pliable: such people should never get what they want, and no benefit will ever accrue from compromising with them, talking with them, accommodating them or, frankly, even publicly acknowledging their existence.
Remember that sputtering old crow tearing up her copy of the American president's state of the union address when he'd finished giving it? She lost no support through her childish display of intransigence. I'm all for responding in kind and declaring the places which have countenanced rioting and other criminality to be anarchic jurisdictions and I hope that the possibility of criminal and/or civil action against the people to whom such jurisdictions have been entrusted will be investigated, and not only the withdrawal of federal funding. The constant threat of impeachment deserves a response in kind - one with teeth. One with fangs, come to think of it.
Okay - overheating - out of here - sorry, folks.
Are you kidding me, Owen? If Oregon secedes we would have the distinction of being freedom fighters backed by the United States in keeping the Union intact. (This reminds me of something in history???)
We would no longer have a Governor problem in about an hour, that is the driving time to Salem.
PS. The password used a zero instead of an "O", do you think Democrats are stupid?
Sorry. I clearly grievously underestimated the Democrats' tech savvy. I'm just going to wipe my laptop (you know, with a cloth) to try to erase my mistake.
That makes me think, though. In Silicon Valley, it's more or less mandatory to be a leftie (at the very least, not even to hint at views that will trigger the snowflakes). Now, I used to work in IT and I have little respect for the way software is written these days, but why are Democrat politicians so clueless about computer matters, with so many willing hangers-on from Apple, Google etc? When I say "Democrat politicians," I am using the term loosely; it's not as if Joe Biden has a clue what is being tweeted in his name.
And, when I mentioned Apple, I think I answered my own question. It's the computer company which has never yet managed permanently to fix a bug in its own software.
California's conversion from a "Red" state in the past to DEEP BLUE is the template for the Dems to unleash on the USA as a whole. The key is the judiciary. The DC Court of Appeals was packed under Obama and Sen . Reid by adding 3 progressive judges. That is the second most important court after SCOTUS. Pack SCOTUS and it is all over.and It doesn't take much to shift the country over the edge... it just won't look that way at first but the game would play out as already won. They may get what they want but they will not want what they get.
The Democrats might not want to count those senatorial chickens before they hatch. PR currently has a Republican governor.
Ah, "The Love Nest" from 1920, with lyrics by our own Washington state English student Otto Harbach (who won his Master's degree in English from Whitman College around 1900). As you well know, Mark, Otto's stilted English lyrics tripped him up a bit in "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" ('so I chaffed them') and "Yesterdays" ('truth was mine...sooth was mine'), but in Love Nest, I think his Victorian roots prevented him from calling a bedroom a bedroom, rather a dream room:
Then a small room, Tea set of blue;
Best of all, room—Dream room for two.
Dream on, George & Gracie...Ozzie & Harriet ... and all you other double-bed TV couples.
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That's very sly of him, Gary. But don't make me sound anti-Otto: I love the archaisms of "Smoke" and "Yesterdays".
I know this might seem off-topic, but as we near the election, I had an observation. Because a bitter divide in this country due to intransigent views on fundamental aspects of life, we have lost shared values and commonality as Americans. Some have hinted at an alternative.The other day the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, in defense of his prolonged autocracy due to invoking state of emergency powers back in March, suggested that his state is actually a "nation state" and has authority that supercedes the state constitution. People wondered if he was calling for a federalist model of some sort that would give him even more powers that would not be constrained by either the state constitution or U.S. Constitution. Trouble is, he likes the money he gets from the federal government, most recently, a billion dollars to house California's huge homeless population in converted motels/hotels, ostensibly during the pandemic but I'm sure he wants it to become a permanent feature.
I just love it when Democrat pols go back to their Roots and advocate states' rights.
Persons with internal genitalia? That could be P-WIG's, for short. Although I'd hesitate to use it within earshot of the many P-WIG's with whom I am currently on friendly - or at least speaking - terms.
Mark could you tell us how you really feel about Glenn Beck?
I kind of liked Glenn back in the days when he cried on camera and did complex flow charts tracing the money or the six-degrees-of-separation relationships among various Marxists and Marxist organizations.
Speaking of six-degrees-of-separation...has anyone realized the catastrophic situation we'd all be in if Kevin Bacon contracted COVID-19??? We'd all have it after that.
He has regained some ground that way but the damage done in between was fatal. Success was not tempered and he got off track and off message.
Funniest post I've read today. On the plus side, it wouldn't take pong to achieve herd immunity.
Now we all know what a more peaceful and rational world it would be if women were in charge -- "F-bombs" and real Antifa bombs would rain down on us in the name of "reparations" for all those centuries of "repression."
The pendulum never stops at dead center -- it always swings to an equal extreme in the other direction, so get ready for facing the male equivalent of the Salem witch hunt for your crimes against womanity, Ye Olde White Men. You can only hide so long in your Man Caves watching ESPN re-runs.
Or, to paraphrase Helen Reddy, "I am F-bomb woman, hear me F-bomb roar." Or maybe Peggy Lee - "Cuz I'm a F-bomb woman, F-bomb w-o-m-a-n, I'll F-bomb say it again."
Great show: many thanks. I have been left much the wiser, and have laughed merrily. Such a sad moment when the boss-man expressed doubts about his ability to carry on: the show is a crucial part in my fixed firmament.
Yes, very sad. That was upsetting to hear that remark. I fall into these traps thinking good things last forever. At least, I was hoping for as long as I last.
Memo to self: don't be driving in the USA, when a "liberal" Supreme Court justice is at death's door.
Brilliant, O. Also, plug your ears and cover your eyes if circumstances compel you to drive, for instance from burning premises, lest the sight and sound of that feeble-minded howling harpy in the picture cause you to drive into a lamp-post.
Plug my ears? No. There's no sweeter sound in the world.
The stupid part of that woman's comment besides all of it, was the part about how Ruth just had to hang on until next January. It would be helpful, I guess, while not desirable, to know the date we depart this life. It's probably already roughly written in our genetic code but I think she should've given Ruth a little break for fighting the odds of pancreatic cancer as long as she did. Imagine the state of one's mind to scream, "I wish I was aborted." It sounds like a title for a deviant punk rock song, no offense to punk rockers.
Brilliant, B. I'm such a damned literal-minded donkey!
"Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am."
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. For real.
We pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor. For real.
I paid for this microphone! For real.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. For real.
Nuts! For real.
Let's roll. For real.
Nice collection of inspirational moments Josh. "Let's roll" from flight 93 should be the campaign theme for the GOP although more than a few do not deserve this honor. I want to see an Iwo Jima style monument in D.C. depicting Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick storming the cockpit, They should be immortalized in Bronze so they will never be forgotten. Come on Donald J. Trump step up here and get it done!
Americans could actually have children... That's why your discussions of the coming demographic disaster continue to be so important. Americans don't want to have kids. As long as that's the case, we're all done.
This is what the Islamist's are counting on ed. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing her part in suggesting that procreating is immoral. Those who play the long game will likely prevail in the end.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing her part." Morons will be led by super-morons, I guess. Can't be helped.
"super-morons" indeed. I like it Segnes! Thanks for the reply as always.
Of course my suggestion to the boobs calling for ONE BILLION AMERICANS would be not allowing so many to end up in a Planned Parenthood dumpster.
Where does one go to acquire Ricin for one's mailing needs? Walgreen's? Rite-Aid?
You buy 12 tins of Rice-A-Roni, boil it down, and perform an extract. It's on the internet. Wear gloves.
Oh no! "The San Francisco treat," has become the San Francisco treatment.