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Are We Too Stupid to Learn Anything?

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I’ve begun to fear that America and the rest of the West will learn absolutely nothing from the worldwide coronavirus disaster (unleashed on us by China): that people are either so committed to wicked and insane ideologies, or else just so damned stupid, that their heads might as well be made of wood.

You’d think even the most limited intellect would be able to grasp the concept that hyper-urbanization, jamming people into cities as densely as you can and packing them into mass transit every day, is just asking for another pandemic to mow them down; and you’d think even a Democrat could understand that “open borders” is a potentially suicidal policy.

But I have this creepy, crawly feeling that instead of learning anything, the West’s big shots and opinion-shapers will double down on all the absurd, asinine, and wicked errors that landed us in this mess.

They’ll give us more transgender, more gay rights, more globalism, more socialism, more tyranny, more “diversity,” more Climate Change, more Greta, more Soros–more of everything bad, everything that’s crazy, everything that’s damned. They are either that stupid, that evil, or actually cursed by God. Cursed for the things they did, and allowed to be done, in that horrible 20th century.

What can we do but pray? And speak the truth? And you can already get in trouble for doing those things. But I’m afraid we have to.

My Newswithviews Column, April 6 (‘Kudos and Black Eyes’)

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Checkout clerks are now my heroes!

Never forget the Democrats rooting and praying for a recession for three years, as the means of taking down Donald Trump. They’ve got what they wanted.

But we must also remember all the people whose work kept our civilization alive during The Great Quarantine.

Kudos and Black Eyes

Above all, remember that this whole coronavirus business was perpetrated by Red China, with the World Health Organization covering up for China and the American nooze media and assorted Democrats siding with the communist regime instead of with their country.

November will be payback time.

‘Is This What You’re Afraid Of?’ (2013)

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Never mind “How did she get elected?” Who did she beat?

I wonder what became of this scheme to drive conservatives and libertarians out of New Hampshire.

Is This What You’re Afraid Of?

Freedom is fragile–as we’re seeing right now, as The Great Quarantine mutates into an experiment by our ruling class to see how much oppression we’ll take. There’s always some individual, some clever little group, some great big mob of loonies, or some other country that wants to take it away from us. This is a dynamic of our fallen world–one of those things that will not survive Christ’s Kingdom.

Meanwhile, at least recognize these freedom thieves for what they are.

 

Not Such a Good Day, So Far

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Aunt Joan died two years ago, and we’re still trying to finish the paperwork on her estate–which, by the way, has no freakin’ money in it for anybody but the state, but generates an infinite amount of paperwork. So I had to make an appointment with the bank just to come in and pick up some papers.

But they wouldn’t let me in because I forgot my mask, they didn’t have any masks to spare, and they made me go back home to get one. And when I got back home, my car wouldn’t start again. I don’t know why: just conked out in the parking lot. A neighbor had to come out and help me push it into a space.

I am not used to not being able to push my car without help. Gettin’ old. I had to drive back to the bank in my wife’s car and get those all-important papers. Now I need to find out if our auto repair guy is open and whether I can get my car towed there.

Blood pressure through the ceiling. Must try to calm down. Thank heaven for cigars.

I might as well get back to work. While my car was running, by the way, the canned network nooze kept banging the “We’re all gonna die” drum, hospitals overcrowded, no place to put all the dead bodies, same old bilge we get all day, every day. “It’s so hard to comfort people when you’re not allowed to hug them!” “Everybody knows that when you go into the hospital, you ain’t comin’ out.” This kind of, uh, reporting is traditionally great for ratings.

I really think we’ve had enough of this.

 

Sheriff Warns Residents, ‘Lock Your Cars’

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In Calaveras County, California, the sheriff has warned residents to make sure they lock the doors to their homes and cars–because, thanks to a court ruling and a new statewide, um, “policy,” he’s had to let 19 inmates out of the country jail (http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/coronavirus_information/article_b2210d62-7ea7-11ea-bb1d-cbe4e1fbbaed.html).

These are “temporary emergency rules” (ya mean like the New Jersey sales tax was gonna be temporary, almost 60 years ago?), setting bail at $0–Well, then, it isn’t any bail at all, is it? I mean, that is what “zero” means: right?–for misdemeanors and “lower-level felonies” (like breaking into your car and stealing stuff). It doesn’t appear the sheriff has much of a say in the matter.

The cons are being sprung so they won’t catch coronavirus in jail.

I say they’re being sprung because liberals want to use those cells for normal people. I mean, these are the same Democrat fimbos who want to throw you into prison for not using some trannie weirdo’s favorite pronoun.

They’re supposed to come flocking back to jail once the coronavirus state of emergency is lifted. [Allow two full minutes for sardonic laughter.]

Don’t hold your breath.

When Truth Is Bad for Business

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These are not our friends.

You’ve got to read this column by Larry O’Connor on townhall.com.

https://townhall.com/columnists/larryoconnor/2020/04/14/can-we-talk-about-american-medias-connections-to-chinese-interests-n2566887

Why has there been so little–almost none!–news reporting of Red China’s coverup of the coronavirus, aided and abetted in this deception by the World Health Organization? The Chinese Wuhan Communist Death Virus From China started out as a Chinese government biowarfare science project; and when it got out of hand and starting killing people, the Chicoms and the World Health Organization smothered the story–wasting several weeks that could have been used to contain the outbreak.

Why didn’t our big-time nooze organizations report that? O’Connor has the answer:

“Every single major broadcast and cable news outfit covering the COVID-19 pandemic has a direct and critical interesting in pleasing the communist regime in China… Angering the Chinese government is just bad for business for these companies.”

We all know the Chicoms tell Hollywood what they can or can’t have in their movies. We saw the National Basketball Assn. grovel to the communists when a team owner committed the hate speech crime of sympathizing with the Hong Kong protesters, last year. We’ve seen how the Chicoms have wormed their way into our colleges and universities, buying professors and administrators to help them keep their propaganda packaged as “education.” I wouldn’t be surprised to learn they were funneling money to the teachers’ unions, too.

They are very, very good at subverting and undermining the competition–in this case, the United States.

Our fake nooze will side with communist China and against our own country. So will everybody else who’s taking money from China. How many members of our Congress have they bought? How many deep-staters are on their payroll?

We have sleepwalked into a very dangerous period in our country’s history.

It’s time to wake up and start looking for the exit.

 

Government Gone Wild: Michigan Gov’s ‘Order’ Bans Homeschooling

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[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip]

(As I start writing this, our electricity suddenly begins to flutter. Please, Lord, not that.)

The coronavirus panic–I’ve been calling it a “scare,” but it looks like devolving into panic–has given Blue State governors a tantalizing taste of the kind of power they would have if only America would sink down into socialism.

In her haste to shut down the public schools for the rest of the school year, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order that seems to ban homeschooling, too (https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/governors-coronavirus-order-bans-homeschooling/?fbclid=IwAR0ZPnNmsKzHoQk_B2O36tKxi3_5chFltY9cVB83QOANCgF9qhOaTP8PVz0).

What the “order” says is “in-person instruction for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12… is suspended for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year” and that the order also applies to “all non-public schools in the state.” Michigan law defines homeschooling as “non-public schooling.”

The Great Lakes Justice Center is attributing the governor’s ban on homeschooling to “faulty drafting” of the executive order and calling on her to rewrite it. Otherwise it would, of course, be a mammoth overreach of the governor’s authority.

We’ll have to see if she rewrites it. Meanwhile, consider: Homeschooling was legal in Michigan before the coronavirus panic. What suddenly makes it illegal? And what exactly constitutes “in-person instruction” that must be banned? If I tell my great-grandson about the career and personality of Hannibal, would that land me in jail? (No, it would not be an eyewitness account!)

For the moment we’re not going with the speculation that the teachers’ union asked the governor very nicely to prohibit homeschooling. But I’m putting it on a low shelf, within easy reach should it be needed.

UPDATE: Gov. Whitmer has “clarified” her order to make it clear that her suspension of “in-person instruction” does NOT apply to homeschooling.

But it’s still a good idea to recall any Democrat governor.

Sorry I’m Late!

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Finally! we have supplied our household for the weekend.

The supermarkets having failed us, we resorted to the little Indian newsstand here on Main Street, and–bonanza! I walked out with toilet paper (honest!), paper towels, and the applesauce my wife needs with which to take her vitamins. We also got alcohol (!) there, earlier this week. I said to the clerk as I was checking out, “What would we do without you guys?” I don’t know how they keep those things in stock.

This mess is all Red China’s fault, and that regime must be put out of business ASAP. The Chinese people are wise and modern and capable enough to deserve a free republic. They deserve an end to communism.

The commies will just laugh it off if the rest of the world tries to sue them or bill them for the damage that they have wrought with their little biowarfare science project; but there is one thing that can be done, and it’ll hit them where it hurts. I wish I could remember whose idea it is: he or she is right on target.

Most Western countries are in debt to Red China, in one way or another. Well! Let those countries get together and simply repudiate the debt. Refuse to pay whatever amount is needed to cover the costs incurred by having to cope with the Chinese Wuhan Communist People’s Liberation Death Virus.

If one country repudiates its debt, no one will lend to it again. But if a whole bunch of countries do it–bye-bye Communist China.

Crikey, it’s already 2:30. Knee and heel spur killing me. (The heel spur has been quiescent for years, but all this limping around on a bad knee has awakened it.) Maybe I’ll just write a Joe College and call it a day.

P.S. to all of you out there–Your comments today have been particularly apt and fascinating. This little blog has the coolest audience on the Internet.

Here We Go Again

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I know we only go grocery-shopping twice a week, but it feels like we’re going every other day. Not only that, but we need to go early and we’re already late. *Sigh*

The word they’re all whispering just now is “shortages,” a la wartime. I would correct that to “more shortages.”

Why shortages? Primarily because people are hoarding stuff. So you can’t buy toilet paper, rubbing alcohol, frozen dinners, or frozen vegetables–all gone, scarfed up by goofy Mad Max wannabes. Some have asked me why we don’t stockpile, too. Well, we don’t have the space for it–and I think it’s something to be ashamed of, grabbing more than your share.

My guess is we’ll have to go to at least three stores today before we’re supplied for the weekend. Oh, boy! Sorta like Soviet life in 1960!

No wonder Democrats want to stretch it out for as long as they can–forever, if they can swing it. And then we can call it “socialism.”

We’re All Right (Thank You, Father)

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We’ve just had ten minutes of the most ferocious wind and rain we’ve seen since Hurricane Sandy. My sister, Alice, thought her neighborhood was in for a tornado. The gales seemed to spring up out of nowhere, the cats ran upstairs and under the bed, and by the time I got all the hatches battened down, it was over. And Alice called to see if we were all right.

We are–but it was a close call. The wind was strong enough to snap off the top half of a very big sycamore tree and hurl it to the sidewalk. By God’s providence, it didn’t take down the power lines with it: hard to believe how that could be, when you look at it. I don’t know how we’d take a power failure on top of a quarantine. All we’re lacking is army ants.

It also somehow missed all the parked cars, not to mention pedestrians. I call that a miracle.

Keep your eyes peeled: Someone, somewhere, seems to be expecting the China Wuhan Communist Death Virus to be in retreat sooner than we think. I say that because I’ve noticed Climbit Chainge chatter is starting up again. Yeah, they’re re-heating it: gotta keep the peasants scared, only way to control ’em.

Is it just me saying this, or do we need a new ruling class?