Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) slams President Biden for "bailing out" three banks, including Silicon Valley Bank, on the Senate floor.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
The Sweater (UPDATED: Sun 3/26)
Surely he should be summarily shamed into repenting-- and apologizing-- for not being coerced into proclaiming the LGBTQ community to be more equal than any other. After all, almost every other person and entity in the Western world has been systemically cowed into doing just that. Why should he be any different? It’s maddening, really, his insubordination. . . .
. . ." So, should players be expected-- or even forced-- to wear a heterosexual-themed jersey if and when their team hosts a Heterosexual Pride Night? Should they be expected to don a jersey celebrating Catholic Pride? Capricorn Pride? Vegan Pride? Minor-attracted persons Pride? Conservative Republican Pride? How about “Polyamorous Pride?” “Jewish Pride?” “Canuck Pride?”
"Or perhaps a jersey sporting the message, “White Lives Matter?' ”
"The defenseman, who said he is Russian Orthodox, declined to go into further detail"
"In 1980’s “The Sweater,” an animated short that gets its title from the traditional term for a hockey jersey in Canada, a boy in Quebec accidentally receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey rather than the Montreal Canadiens No. 9 Maurice Richard jersey that his mother had ordered, and the jersey all his friends wear. As a Quebecois, he is humiliated by the Toronto jersey and benched by his coach. The peer pressure he feels to fit in is enormous.
"Now in the 2020s, the pressure from radical activists and the corporate cowards who take a knee to them at every opportunity is on players to wear jerseys during warmups that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community.
"But even in 2023, when so many among us are either part of the social bullying culture or so fearful of it that we’ve surrendered to it, there are still men of strength and principle. On Jan. 17, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to wear a pride jersey in warmups, citing his Christian (Russian Orthodox) beliefs. So he sat in the locker room, banished, while his teammates took their pre-game skate.
“ 'I respect everybody, and I respect everybody’s choices,” Provorov said after the game. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.”
He mistreated no one yet he was viciously maligned by those who self-identify as inclusive, tolerant, and righteously fair.
"However, within days, No. 9 Provorov game replica sweaters were selling out on the NHL Shop and at Fanatics, indicating that despite the hatred that was heaped on him – shameful hockey media hack E.J. Hradek suggested that Provorov return to Europe and “maybe get involved” in Russia’s war in Ukraine, while sports writer Cyd Zeigler huffed that “Proporov chose to embrace prejudice” – not just a few appreciated his position.
"Provorov even had support from Brad Polumbo, a libertarian-conservative journalist and the co-founder of BASED Politics – who also happens to be gay.". . .
Related: A True Hand Maid’s Tale – The American Catholic "Children made to order and bought and sold like any other commodity. Strong evils like slavery are almost never eradicated. They go below the surface for a while and then appear again, sporting new names and new guises."
From the comments section in The American Catholic: "Yup. We are downgraded to birthing people to the left.
"We no longer can compete against females in sports in some places although our bodies are physically different."They mock us by putting on drag and saying we are same. Akin to blackface
And they have their handlers create laws to protect their status."
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Why Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is falling apart
The DA supposedly had his star witness, former Trump lawyer and proven liar Michael Cohen, ready to counter Costello’s claims — but it seems Costello surprised him with testimony Cohen couldn’t address. NY Post
Opinion by Jonathan Turley . . .Alvin Bragg is looking to indict Donald Trump for paying off Stormy Daniels. Steven Hirsch"
"While an indictment was expected this week, the grand jury looking into former President Donald Trump will go another week amid reports of opposition in the grand jury over what is viewed as a “weak” case.
"The problem is that Bragg has long been searching for a crime in the criminal code to fulfill his pitch during his campaign that he was the man for voters who wanted to bag Trump.
"The falsification of business records in reference to the $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels might have been a possibility, but it lacked two things.". . .
"First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after two years — and that was roughly five years ago.
"Second, it was a mere misdemeanor that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded.
"Prosecutors then created a Rube Goldberg approach and suggested that the misdemeanor was committed to conceal a federal election law violation — a crime that the Justice Department declined to charge.
"That theory has been widely ridiculed, even by many on the left. The bootstrapping of a federal crime under this statute appears unprecedented and likely unsustainable.". . .
LGBTQ+ rights are core to America’s foreign policy -
LGBTQ+ rights are core to America’s foreign policy - American Thinker "Biden believes he is the embodiment of moral leadership, but when it comes to his positions on LGBTQ+, a good portion of the world sees America as an immoral hegemon, using cultural colonialism to threaten nations that don’t subscribe to what they see as extreme irreligious views. That’s why, when White House spokesperson John Kirby said LGBTQ+ rights are core to America’s foreign policy, he inadvertently shed light on why China is the new global powerbroker.
"When China makes inroads into countries that are not its own, its policy has been to avoid interfering in that country’s social policy questions. It willingly goes into countries that, per American standards, engage in human rights abuses.
"The Biden administration, however, believes that its cultural standards should be the world’s standards, something that is glaringly obvious when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. Under the laws of most countries in Africa and the Middle East, and some in Southeast Asia, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and who act on that identification, are engaging in criminal activity.
"In 2022, Russia passed a law dubbed, “Answer to Blinken,” that basically criminalizes mentioning in any public space anything related to LGBTQ+. At the time, Putin accused the West’s position on LGBTQ+ of “moving towards open Satanism.' ”
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| Tony Branco |
Recent Lowlights in the Woke Capture of Our Once-Venerable Institutions
"Is the Left for free speech and an open exchange of ideas, or is it not?"
"Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading liberal institutions of civil society have been captured by far-left activist wokesters who take opportunistic advantage of their groups’ venerable reputations in an attempt to repurpose them for dubious ends.
"Take, for example, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, once one of the nation’s leading lights of the civil rights movement, which in recent decades has increasingly degenerated into a cesspool of grievance politics, intersectionality, race-tinged hucksterism, and crass Democratic Party politicking. This week, the Florida chapter of the NAACP asked its national board to issue a travel advisory against visiting the Sunshine State due to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R-FL) recent moves to, among other things, extirpate “diversity, equity and inclusion” racialist indoctrination from public universities and convince the College Board to drop asinine leftist indulgences such as “queer studies” from its model AP African American Studies curriculum. As DeSantis aptly summed it up at a press conference, when asked about the NAACP tiff: “What a joke!”
"Consider also the American Civil Liberties Union’s steady descent, in recent years, away from the free speech absolutism that was long a hallmark of the organization and which led it, back in 1978, to legally argue on behalf of neo-Nazi provocateurs who wanted to march in the heavily Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois. Not so much nowadays, as a 2021 New York Times headline put it: “Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the ACLU Faces an Identity Crisis: An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.”
"The ACLU’s “internal debate” over whether to err on the side of free speech or progressivism was on full display recently at Stanford Law School. The school’s associate dean for DEI, Tirien Steinbach, who served as a high-ranking local ACLU official prior to her diversitycrat sinecure, was caught on video asking the ludicrous (and now viral and frequently “meme”-d) question of whether the “juice” of the heavily protested Judge Kyle Duncan’s right to speak freely was “worth the squeeze” of the “harm” his mere presence allegedly caused congregated students’ snowflake sensibilities. I also have some personal experience in the modern ACLU’s resistance to open debate: A few years back, I tried to organize a written debate on the hot-button topic of biological male (“transgender women”) athletes competing in women’s sports, and was rebuffed by the ACLU — an organization that has a whole section on its website dedicated to “transgender rights.' ”. . .
. . ."But someone who had a big part to do with it was the moron and toxic blight at Stanford whom they call the Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her name is Tirien Steinbach; I do not know whether she is named for the fictional dwarf by that name. At least a Lannister always pays his debts. These DEI deans are malignancies on the body academic, absolute poison. They get paid boatloads of money collected from overblown tuition, which saddles students and their parents with debt for life, to provide an ostensibly valuable service that my law degree, rabbinical degree, advanced history degree, and other educational attainments still leave me unable to fathom. ". . .
Biden’s Approval Rating Sinks Towards Lowest Point Of His Presidency: POLL ; Read more to know why
Biden Cuts Illegal Border Crossings By Redefining ‘Illegal’ – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) The Biden administration’s bulletin board, also known as the Washington Post, featured an article last week headlined: “Biden takes heat for border measures, but illegal crossings are down.”
Various other news outlets echoed this theme, using terms such as “plunged” and “plummeted,” to describe what is, in fact, a record-high number of illegal crossings in both January and February.
"How did the administration pull off this “plunge”?
"Basically, by narrowing the focus and by redefining what counts as an illegal border crossing.". . .
Fed Chief Powell’s Banking Blowup . . ."Powell and others at the Federal Reserve kept talking about inflation as “transitory” in 2021. That was the exact opposite of what they should have been saying.". . .
Biden’s Approval Rating Sinks Towards Lowest Point Of His Presidency: POLL | The Daily Caller
Biden’s FAA Nominee, Phil Washington, Is Embarrassingly Unqualified - The Lid (lidblog.com)
it's historic to nominate an FAA administrator who knows nothing and is only qualified on account of his DNA
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Biden Administration Unveils New Restrictions On Air Conditioners Despite Backlash Over Gas Stove Restrictions
. . ." The Energy Department then unveiled forthcoming efficiency standards which would impact approximately “half of the total gas cooking top market.” Proposed regulations would introduce a new “maximum integrated annual energy consumption” standard for gas stoves, marking a change from previous regulations that prohibited constant burning pilot lights in gas stoves, but placed no limits on energy consumption. Officials noted that “products achieving these standard levels are already commercially available for all product classes covered by this proposal” and cited “important and robust” climate benefits in documents justifying the new rules.
"Some 38% of households in the United States use gas stoves for cooking, with the figure approaching 70% for states such as California and New Jersey, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Those who use gas stoves often cite the easier temperature control offered by the appliances relative to electric alternatives.
"Read the full story here.". . .
But wait! There's more! Biden Administration Unveils New Restrictions on Air Conditioners Despite Backlash Over Gas Stove Restrictions (resistthemainstream.com)
How Different Media Outlets Are Covering The Trump Indictment |
"The news world has been set aflame by the potential indictment of Donald J. Trump for the crime of extreme patriotism. While the New York City grand jury deliberates, let's take a look at how this is being covered by the media.
- New York Times: Here Are 10 Crimes We Hope Trump May Have Committed
- Washington Post: We Hired A Comic Book Artist To Draw Dramatic Images Of What A Trump Arrest Would Look Like
- Fox News: Yay! Trump Might Be Indicted! Oops! We Mean No! That's Bad! What Is It You People Want To Hear Again?
- IGN: 9.7 out of 10
- Salon: I can't help but notice the DA is black and Trump is white and maybe we could use this to start a race war
- Keith Olberman: *heavy breathing*
- CNN: Trump Crimes Make Pearl Harbor Look Like A Happy Picnic
- Christianity Today: New York DA Seeks To Atone For America's Greatest Sin
- LA Times: How The Charges Against Trump Are Being Fueled By Climate Change
- InfoWars: Mexican President Says Trump Has Been In Jail For 34 Years Because Of Gay Demons
- Drudge Report: EXCITEMENT INCITEMENT INDICTMENT REFINEMENT ENLIGHTENMENT
- Associated Press: Will Trump Be Indicted? Maybe
- ESPN: Trump's Indictment Illustrates Why WNBA Players Deserve More Money
- Vice: Republicans Actually Believe Trump Will Be Crucified And Rise On The Third Day
- OAN: Trump Will Be Crucified And Rise On The Third Day!
- MSNBC: CRUCIFY HIM!.... More here...
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