Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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Oct 03 2024
The Scandal Of The Hour
I trust Glenn Beck: #BREAKING: @FEMA is reportedly confiscating private donations meant for disaster relief! Tune in as @glennbeck joins us to share shocking details from a phone call he received last night directly from one of the affected areas. Is this government overreach? pic.twitter.com/y60EjR3DaG — Pat Gray Unleashed (@PatUnleashed) October 3, 2024 …
Oct 03 2024
“What Do You Mean By That?”
That is the question every aspirant to public office ought to face every time he opens his mouth before a microphone. Yet it almost never happens. When some naïve citizen tries to press the question home, bodyguards appear out of the shadows and hustle him off to a locale less threatening to their client. …
Oct 02 2024
Mountain High, Or Valley Lower?
Apparently, Mount Everest is still growing: New research has revealed that Mount Everest has grown by up to 160ft in the last 85,000 years. This is because a nearby river network has been cutting into the landscape around the mountain, pushing its peak further upwards. The erosion from the river is …
Oct 02 2024
The Missing Ingredient
Mike Miles continues to be a source of great graphics: This uniquely valuable man says things others are unwilling to say, possibly because their sense for self-preservation forbids it. I pray that Elon Musk is well protected against those who would do him harm. But that’s not my main point. AIs today …
Oct 01 2024
A Questionable Strategy
In days long gone by, the recognized and acknowledged path to victory in war was the capture of the opponent’s sovereign. Indeed, that was the main reason kings led their own armies into battle: to give the enemy a fair shot at him, under the assumption that the enemy would reciprocate. It was also …
Oct 01 2024
What Does It Mean To Be “Governed?”
By now, our Gentle Readers have probably heard about this: Quoth the mighty Sundance: Within the recent WEF discussion, Secretary Kerry outlines how freedom of speech is a ‘threat to the global democracy‘ because the governing officials have a difficult time controlling information. Kerry goes on to posit how the next administration, …
Oct 01 2024
The Anti-Charity Forces Are Not Joking
As this poor lady found out: The Gateway Pundit reported on the arrest of an Arizona grandmother, Norma Thornton, 78, in 2022 for feeding homeless people in public, violating Arizona law. The grandmother said that she was so shocked about being arrested that she thought it was a joke. “Still, I thought it was …
Sep 30 2024
While We’re Discussing Race And “Culture”
…I had to learn this from an organ across the Atlantic: The boss of a Minneapolis food pantry, funded by city taxpayers, has banned white people from taking advantage of the resource. Mykela ‘Keiko’ Jackson used a Minnesota State grant to launch the Food Trap Project Bodega designed to help poor and …
Sep 30 2024
Magnificent Gestures Dept.
Via Maura Dowling: The Chilean Congress has passed a law to protect the rights of domestic animals. It criminalizes the slaughter, distribution, and commercialization of the meat of pets and companion animals. The Chilean congressman José Carlos Meza authored the bill. This measure arises from reports about the consumption of dog …
Sep 29 2024
Things Have Been Getting Heavy Around Here
…so let us return to those halcyon days of yore, when the men were men and the… ghosts were ghosts? Let never a man a wooing wend That lacketh thinges three A store of gold, an oaken heart And full of charity And this was seen of King Henry And he likewise alone For …
Sep 29 2024
Why Do They Vote X?
There’s a gag from the 1912 campaign for president, when former president Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning on the Bull Moose (Progressive) ticket: While Teddy was giving a campaign speech, a man in the audience leaped to his feet and cried out: “I’m a Democrat! My father was a Democrat, his father was a …
Sep 28 2024
The Frontier Of “Woke”
In case the coverage missed you, Gentle Reader, it’s “minor-attracted persons:” After local outcry canceled a camp for “minor-attracted persons” set for last weekend in Vermont, several organizations are publicly defending those who declare a sexual attraction to children. MAP Union, or MU, which represents itself as “an international organization representing the …
Sep 28 2024
Wishful Thinking Dept.
In a column that reports on a crazy “professor” decrying Shakespeare as a symbol of “white supremacy,” Lincoln Brown deposeth and sayeth: There is no shortage of funds and support for black, brown, or native people to make their own movies. Let us have a new version of “Arrow to the Sun” made …
Sep 28 2024
You Will Know It’s Over…
…when you can no longer find pennies in supermarket parking lots. No, it won’t be because there’s anything you can buy for a penny. It will be because preppers are packing them into shotgun shells, lead and steel balls having become unaffordable.
Sep 28 2024
When Life Hands You Lemons…
…you’re supposed to make lemonade, right? Well, some of our more astute businessmen are sweetening the lemonade: they’re using Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) as an opportunity for profit! Shamelessly stolen from Bookworm Room: “If the country is worth saving, it’s worth saving at a profit.” – W. H. Hunt (Say, remember …
Sep 27 2024
Keeping Americans In Line Is Getting Harder
Apparently, the news stories about murders, rapes, muggings, apartment block takeovers, and so forth have had an effect: Openness or hostility to rising diversity serves as a clear dividing line between voters supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election and those backing former President Donald Trump. A 56% majority of …
Sep 27 2024
Is Seattle Part Of America?
A good question: Beginning Oct. 1, the Seattle Police Department will only dispatch officers to alarm calls that come with “supporting evidence, such as audio, video, panic alarms or eyewitness evidence” that someone is breaking into a home or business, according to a letter interim police chief Sue Rahr sent to alarm companies. …
Sep 27 2024
Europe Is Self-Immolating
And her Establishment is in favor of it: The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has published a report warning of the danger that “whiteness” and “Europeanness” pose to the European Union. That alone is a blockbuster. But read on: “In most countries, non-white and Muslim people were underrepresented in candidate …
Sep 26 2024
Motives And Meanness
Some years ago, the wife of a friend argued vehemently that government charity – yes, she used that phrase – is superior to private charity because “private givers have bad motives.” I asked her to elaborate, and she mumbled about “image polishing” and “tax deductions.” She felt those (imputed) motives invalidate private charity ab …
Sep 26 2024
Is There Still A Nation Called The USA?
Given the behavior of its “protectors,” you have to wonder. Twenty years ago, I wrote: In mid-2004, there was born a Website which proposed to hold an international plebiscite on the upcoming American elections. The thesis was that since what the United States does “affects” the entire world — yes, those are …
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