I'm sure she meant "awake", but that's just Kerosene Maxine
"The longtime California lawmaker was the subject of a great profile from BuzzFeed reporter Darren Sands, who traces how the 78-year-old's outspoken defiance of the Trump administration has suddenly turned her into a viral sensation. Among the more intriguing anecdotes is this one, relayed by Million Hoodies Movement for Justice activist Dante Barry. He said that Waters made an appearance at a recent panel in D.C.
"Toward the end she appeared to be unable to recall her final statement," Sands wrote. "Then she remembered to everyone’s delight: 'Oh, yes, stay woke.'She walked out with the room on fire.'". . .
Victor Davis Hanson"Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode.
"Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in the process? Or all that and more?
"Now with the election of Joe Biden, what had been a fast-tracked decline has accelerated at such an astonishing rate we can scarcely recognize our country.
"Our largest cities are becoming uninhabitable—dilapidated, dangerous, and dysfunctional. The challenge is not just rampant crime, but the realization that if you, the citizen, are stabbed, shot, or beaten up on the street, the perpetrators may well be exempt from most punishments. And the victim either will be forgotten in his misery or, indeed, blamed for bringing such violence upon himself.
"Urban schools are not places of instruction anymore. That fact is accepted by teachers’ unions, whose operative principle seems to be that the more hopeless the idea of educating urban youth is understood to be, the less burdensome the workload, and the greater their hazardous duty pay.
"Urban chain stores are closing down on the principle that if police cannot or will not stop consumer violence and theft, then consumers there should not have any store to buy anything, anyway. If there is no store, how can it be looted or shop-lifted?
"The only mystery remaining is how long these Democrat-controlled, racially charged, and corrupt municipalities can sustain their budgets and pension commitments with increasingly declining revenue. One can tax the well off, and perhaps even gouge them as California does. But one cannot insult and ridicule them in the process. Being highly taxed is one thing, being highly taxed while hated is quite another.". . .
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump and the recently released The Dying Citizen.
‘For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organising power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrongdoer. Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts … I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted. For years I have endeavored to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity.’ — Sherlock Holmes, The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
. . ."Conan Doyle well understood the universal appeal of ascribing all the evils of the world to one identifiable source. Then it would be possible to neutralize the catalyst and save England, as Holmes fictionally did by killing Moriarty. Unfortunately, the dark spiderweb enveloping America is being woven not by one isolated fiend but by a multitude of them, disciples of a sick and toxic leftist ideology. And for far too long, conservatives stood by and let the spiderweb spread, thread by thread, until we too became caught in it.
"Now, infamies once thought unfathomable or unspeakable by a moral society are being more than embraced, in fact mandated. The radical Democrats doing this have taken power from the docile normal people, aided by their education-brainwashed acolytes. Hence, the foundations of the country have lost substance while a perverse fantasy carries governmental — if not yet constitutional — weight.
"Last week, Washington state passed a bill that will permit children to be taken from their parents if they deny them the right to “gender transition.” According to Senate Bill 5599, child shelters could contact the Department of Children, Youth, and Families instead of parents for minors seeking “reproductive health services or gender-affirming care.”
"It’s vile enough that pregnant young girls can have their babies killed by state-sanctioned abortionists — the true meaning of “reproductive health services” — even without their parents’ permission. None can deny the baby inside them is, or was, alive before his or her murder. But pro-choice maniacs can wail about the greater good of a child’s death for the parents or society, absent the little corpse of the victim. Their punishment will come later, after their own demise, in a place they don’t believe exists.". . .
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that count darkness as light, and light as darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20; KJV
"A lawyer for a Canadian teenager who was suspended from his Catholic high school after expressing views that do not conform to transgender ideology has filed a human rights complaint alleging religious discrimination, Fox News reported.
“Attorney James Kitchen with Liberty Coalition Canada filed the application to the Ontario Human Rights tribunal earlier this month on behalf of his client Josh Alexander, 17, a junior who was first suspended from St. Joseph’s High School in Renfrew, Ontario, and issued a trespass notice in November.”*
"Alexander reportedly “drew the ire of” school officials for organizing a student walkout in protest of the school opening girls’ restrooms to biological men. But it appears that what really stoked the fury against him was his expressing noncompliant opinions during class.
" 'When he claimed that men have penises and women have vaginas, his classmates reportedly called him a ‘misogynist,’ a ‘racist,’ and a ‘homophobic transphobe,’ while the teacher allegedly ‘nodded and gestured at the students yelling at Josh, indicating his approval of the students’ name-calling,” Fox reported.". . .
"Just before the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on crime in the Big Apple, the committee released a video underscoring Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies, contrasting his recent charges against former President Donald Trump that many legal experts have cast doubt upon as purely political.
"The video shows multiple attacks, news clippings, and local news reports of violent crime, such as stabbings in the metro and violence against women and children.
“ 'No neighborhood is safe in New York City right now,” says a clip that captures a violent attack. “With just days on the job, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is changing how some crimes will be prosecuted,” another clip says. “He says he’ll stop seeking prison sentences for some criminal charges and will downgrade some felony charges.”. . .
"Witness Barry Borge said his son was beaten 'in broad daylight' in 2021 in Times Square, 'all because he was wearing a yarmulke going to a pro-Israel rally.'
"Anti-semitic hate crimes have been on the rise in New York and around the country.
"He blamed Bragg for slow-walking the case and offering one of the attackers a 'sweetheart' deal and Nadler for not stepping in to advocate for his son.
" 'You're a Jewish New Yorker,' Borgen said in comments directed to Nadler. 'I called your office numerous times. I called Mr. Schumer's office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times.' "...
"We’ve seen a lot of craziness over the years from the climate change cult.
"First, it was global cooling, then global warming. Now, because they don’t know what they are talking about and none of their predictions come to pass, it’s the more amorphous “climate change” (although the “climate” is always changing). They are never held accountable for being wrong, and they just move on to the next thing to push us to panic over.
"It’s always about how things are about to implode — if we don’t commit more of our money to deal with it/give up our freedoms/turn over more control to the government.
"Let’s listen to what Joe Biden said during his vacation in Ireland. This was before he told guests at Dublin Castle that he wanted to “lick the world.”
“ 'The SINGLE existential threat to the world is climate change!” Biden claimed. Not just the “greatest” threat — the only existential threat, according to Joe Biden. “We don’t have a lot of time, and that’s a fact. And even recognizing — finally, everyone is recognizing it in America,” the president said.
"But it’s ok for him to fly to Ireland, then jet on to Delaware.
"The world’s been supposedly about to implode for the past forty years. Yet, somehow we’re still here. And no, Joe, “everyone” is not recognizing/accepting the mania.
"We’ve seen them demonize fossil fuels. We’ve seen them go after meat — even cow farts with their methane emissions.
"But an AFP News Agency tweet about what the climate cult might be targeting next had people sit up and take notice on Sunday. Because if anything underscored how anti-human the cult seems, this would be it.". . .
Ron Johnson says his report 'ignored' by media because they are 'advocates' for the left
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is sounding the alarm over the Biden family's "revealing" bank records, arguing that the media "completely ignored" his 2020 report on the "grifting" family.
SEN. RON JOHNSON:Let's face it, Sen. Grassley and I pretty well laid out the case against the grifting Biden family back in September of 2020 before the election. Our report was completely ignored by the media, just as they ignored the Hunter Biden laptop because they're advocates for the left themselves. And so what we're finding out now is just new pieces of evidence of the grifts that the Biden family have been involved with – the bank records that basically confirm what the Treasury records showed from Sen. Grassley's and my report.. . .
American Thinker"Especially among conservative circles, it is easy to see how works published or written longer ago than the current year might come under harsh scrutiny from the editors of large publishing houses. It is not the time to panic just yet. However, with Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming becoming subject to rewrites and censorship as well as large retailers banning certain books from their platforms, it might be time to ponder what books you have been meaning to buy before you either cannot or it has been altered past the author's intent. Granted, while some of these books are politically controversial, it would be foolish to suppose that any such censorious instincts end at politics or the hot-button topic of the minute.
"Therefore, with a focus on literature and entertainment, let's dive in to four books I'd ask you to consider before to acquire while they are unmolested and purchasable.". . .
The Children of Hurin, by JRR Tolkien, is one of the more controversial works by the esteemed professor. The dust cover states that this is one of Tokien's earliest Middle Earth creations, with its origins possibly being from his WW1 days. It is not very difficultto seewhy one would want to obtain the earliest of Tolkien's work unmolested. On the matter of controversy, not even all Lord of the Rings fans are universal in adoration of this work. To summarize what divides them: there is no happy ending, and good does not necessarily triumph. Nonetheless, the book is a great work of tragedy. If you do not want to support the Tolkien Estate's questionable decisions, I would advise tracking down a used hardcover.
Thomas Lifson "Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is supposed to be very smart, what with Yale undergraduate and Harvard Law degrees and a tenured professorship in her background. But she was made a fool of on national TV, perhaps because she spends too much time with members of the House Progressive Caucus, of which she is Chairperson.
Perhaps that is why it came as a surprise to her that biological males competing in women’s sports are not nearly as popular as she thought, even on a lefty show like Real Time with Bill Maher. And that attacking Riley Gaines (verbally, not physically like the thugs at San Francisco State University) does not generate a lot of support.
Matt Margolis of PJ Media describes Porter’s blunder:
She likely assumed that she was in friendly territory and ended up embarrassing herself multiple times. One exchange that did her no favors was during a discussion on transgender athletes competing in sports.
Porter tried to sound measured on the issue but got destroyed after mocking Riley Gaines, who has been speaking out in defense of women’s sports.. . .
“ 'I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who—”
“ 'What has she said that is actually wrong?” Morgan asked.
"Porter then accused Gaines of trying to “get likes and get clicks,” which didn’t sit well with Morgan. ". . .
"The Biden administration has proposed a new Title IX rule change that would prevent schools from banning transgender athletes, including that no school or college that receives federal funding to impose rules that would prevent transgender athletes from competing."
"California is a lot more than what people outside of it see. I lived there for four years when I was a kid and spent over 20 years there as an adult. There are still a lot of good people there, and the physical beauty of the state remains unchanged.
"The politics, sadly, are rotten to the core.
"When I left there a little over five years ago, the politics in Sacramento were descending into a hideous place they hadn’t been in all the time I’d lived there. Still, I Ioved Los Angeles (judge away, haters) so much that I had to tear myself away.
"In the time that I’ve been away, the state has suffered under the draconian egomania of Gavin Newsom, and it hasn’t been pretty. Newsom began his political career in San Francisco, the city that spawned bottom-feeding haters of liberty like Dianne Feinstein, Granny Boxwine Pelosi, and the cackling weirdo who is currently one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.
"Under normal circumstances, the governor’s vibe wouldn’t affect so much of what goes on in the state. The Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu Plague, however, gave Democrat governors like Newsom a taste of tyrannical power that they have been reluctant to give up. The Golden State is now very much a reflection of its Soviet-esque chief executive. A couple of recent stories just reek of the Newsomness of it all. The first one from Rick:". . .
"Mayor Eric Adams introduced a former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist as his new “rat czar” on Wednesday. Officially, Kathleen Corradi, the mayor’s new hire, will be known as the director of rodent mitigation.
"Corradi is tasked with battling the potentially millions of rats lurking in myriad urban nooks and crannies, subway tunnels and empty lots.
"Hers is a new job, which the city advertised with a help-wanted ad seeking applicants who are “bloodthirsty,” possess “killer instincts” and could commit to the “wholesale slaughter” of rats.
“ 'When I first saw this job posting, I wasn’t sure if it was real. ‘Blood thirsty’ is not a word you usually see in a job description and it’s certainly not a word I usually (use to) describe myself,” Corradi said in a news conference at a Harlem park.". . .
How much more do we have to put up, before someone finally decides to throw in the towel and say he needs to resign?
"Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.
"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”
"Fortunately, Biden finished his embarrassing tour on Saturday. But as he was leaving, he said that he would be heading out on yet another vacation, to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I guess being on vacation already must have been so hard, he needed to rest up from spending our money in Ireland—by spending our dime at the beach.". . .
"Protesters are demanding that transgender women be removed from New Jersey’s only all-female prison — where 10 transgender women, including one who says she has a “taste for blood,” are held out of a total of 356 prisoners.
"#GetMenOut activists held a protest at the state Capitol in Trenton on Friday, reading letters from four biologically female inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, where one transgender inmate impregnated two women last year.
"The women described from behind bars their fears at being housed with biological men who identify as women.
“ 'I was repeatedly raped as a child until I was in my teens,” wrote Dawn Jackson, 51, who stabbed her adoptive stepfather in 1999 after what she said were years of sexual abuse.
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