How about we add a line to the tax forms? “By signing below, this taxpayer authorizes the government of the United States to raise the debt limit to spend more money we haven’t got. I realize that this means I will pay MORE in taxes over the following years.” My guess is that fewer than …
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Sep 30 2021
Chump change.
A limited audit authorized by the Dodd-Frank Act found that between 2007 and 2010, the Federal Reserve committed over 16 trillion dollars to foreign central banks and politically influential private companies.[1] That’s eight (8) foreign wars of aggression we could have fought around the world to build democracy, dispose of foreign governments lacking our wisdom …
Sep 28 2021
Peak Lunacy Dept 2021-09-28
We have arrived at a moment when making a gathering less diverse, according to the dictionary definition of that word is characterized as defending diversity: Video out of Arizona State University on Thursday shows a pair of black activists ordering two white students to leave a “multicultural” center for being white. “You’re …
Sep 24 2021
I’m BACK!
After a very frustrating week of: Closing on our new home (signed papers in SC, found that the vital parts weren’t signed/transmitted), traveled to OH to deal with the issue in person (husband traveled all night), and finally got the keys and started moving stuff in. We had electricity, but not gas, water, or internet. …
Sep 22 2021
Five Minutes Of Teflon
My parish is privileged to have a genuinely excellent homilist for its pastor: Monsignor Christopher Heller. (In this he follows in the path of his predecessor, the late Father Charles Papa.) From the Gospel reading for Wednesday, he extracted a wisdom that few lay Catholics, and perhaps not many priests, would have found there. …
Sep 20 2021
Rationing Liquor – Who Will That Affect
From the list of brands affected, it looks like women and the men that are trying to impress them, Black people, and Rednecks with taste (the Rye). Frankly, any man who spends as much as Dom Perignon costs (it can run over $200 a bottle!), is either trying to score with a woman who is …
Sep 20 2021
The Dr. Stalin Icarus-Frankenstein approach.
Changes to key parts of the mRNA code in SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may be causal in changing the innate immune response via toll-like receptors. Toll-like receptors are important components in defence against infection and downstream effects may also include inhibition of CD8 T cell response. CD8 is a vital part of the immune system’s ability to …
Sep 15 2021
What Belief Can Teach Science
I found this on Wired. Perhaps not surprisingly, those Tech Nerds are flabbergasted at the idea that religions’ practices have practical application for modern people. As a Catholic, I come from a long heritage of scientists with strong religious convictions – Pascal, Descartes, Copernicus, Lemaitre, Mendel, Mercalli, Lavoisier, Doppler, to just name a few. Check …
Sep 14 2021
They Want to ‘Pretty Over’ the Wounds
The memorials – flowing water, ‘pretty speeches’ (well, if you don’t consider the politicized speech of the former president slamming the NLD (Non-Leftist Dissidents) as Domestic Terrorists), and and fervent undercurrent of “Let’s Forget”. That’s the Democratic Legacy of 9/11. It was Terribly Inconvenient of the Taliban not to cooperate in a quick and “victorious” …
Sep 14 2021
Only progressives.
The hero of the article is a young academic super-star lefty named Kathryn Paige Harden who, the New Yorker says, is almost single-handedly fighting a two-front war: “on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.” No one — and I mean no one …
Sep 12 2021
Post 20th Year Ceremonies – What Remains of the Republic?
It was said to have been uttered by Ben Franklin. It may have been, he was apparently quick with pithy sayings (not always his own). At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, …
Sep 11 2021
Watching the 20th Remembrance of 9/11 Victims
Every year, I watch this – either the televised services, or the ceremonies that were held at the schools I taught at. The Southern schools do this well. Most of the schools have an active JROTC program, and the students take their participation very seriously. School leaders, community members – both present and past serving, …
Sep 11 2021
Undeniable truths.
We are being denied our right to communicate freely. We are being denied our right to a fair election. We are being denied our right to be heard in court. We are being denied our right to be heard in public. This does not end well. Let us consider the paths forward. First, we should …
Sep 10 2021
Note the Exempted Groups – Those That Colluded with the Steal
Postal Workers – whose facilitation of the movement of the fake ballots – through the postmarks that were backdated, enabled a veneer of respectability to cover the shenigans. Teachers – another group that is largely exempt from forced vaccination. NGOs are generally under the number of employees (100), and should be exempt from the mandatory …
Sep 06 2021
Looking at Some Maps of the World
I was reading some stories about the aggressive moves of China in the world – their attempts to impose cultural hegemony in the West, their moves to take over the waterways near them, how they use their market share like a club to get concessions from Western firms – and I realized that I needed …
Sep 05 2021
Why Your Facebook Friends are not Responding to You
It’s not complicated. They fully recognize that the entire basis for their self-image of themselves – that they were rational, fair, and not partisan – is a lie. They twist into pretzels, trying to justify applying different standards to similar actions. Every time that they think they’ve escaped a logic trap, OOOPS, Biden does it …
Sep 04 2021
Nice to Know that ALL State Leaders Haven’t Lost Their Mind
Why do I write that? Because 20 of the states, including 3 I have connections to (OH, WV, and SC), are part of a lawsuit of the Biden Administration to stop them from mandating Men in Women’s facilities. It’s time for Americans to agree on at least ONE thing – that if an individual hold …
Sep 04 2021
Saturday Miscellany
Political Donations by State. I happened to find a link to Open Secrets, a site that tracks political donations by individual, party, political organization, and state. That last interested me, as I was wondering about the connection between money and voting patterns. As you can see below, the outcomes in GA and MI appear to …
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