1927-1941 Carving Mount Rushmore; Creating a monument to endure millennia

If this monument can only survive today's social-justice warriors. TD

Alex Q. Arbuckle, Retronaut  "In 1923, looking to attract tourists and stimulate the economy of his state, South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson proposed creating a massive monument in the Black Hills. He envisioned a memorial to great heroes of the West, suggesting Lakota Sioux leader Red Cloud as a possibility.

"The proposal was granted federal funding, and Robinson selected architect and sculptor Gutzon Borglum to design and carve the monument.

"Borglum convinced Robinson that sculptures of presidents would attract more national interest than Red Cloud. Before settling on the final design of the monument, Borglum selected the stable granite cliffs of Mount Rushmore as the ideal location.

"This decision was met with immediate protest by Native Americans. The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie had granted the land around Mount Rushmore to the Lakota in perpetuity, but the area was later seized by the federal government after the discovery of gold. Carving the faces of the leaders of that government into a spiritually significant mountain — known as “The Six Grandfathers” to the Lakota — was adding insult to injury.

"Their protests fell on unsympathetic ears, however, and the project moved forward. It was decided that the sculpture would include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt for their contributions to the founding, growth and preservation of the nation.

"On October 4, 1927, the carving began." . . .

CNN And MSNBC Analysts Sign Petition Urging William Barr To Resign

Daily Caller  "Eight legal analysts who work for CNN and MSNBC or appear frequently on the networks signed a petition Sunday calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign over his handling of Roger Stone’s case.

"CNN analysts and former federal prosecutors Elie Honig and Renato Mariotti signed the petition, which has more than 1,140 signatures.

"MSNBC analysts Paul Butler, Frank Figliuzzi, Matthew Miller and Jill Wine-Banks also signed the document, which was compiled by Protect Democracy, a nonprofit group staunchly opposed to President Donald Trump.

"Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor who appears frequently on MSNBC, and Mimi Rocah, a former prosecutor who recently left MSNBC to run for a district attorney position, also signed the petition.

"The petitioners are upset that Barr directed the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., to revise a court filing that recommended that Stone, a long time Trump confidante, serve between 87 months and 108 months in prison on charges that he obstructed a congressional investigation and tampered with a witness." . . .

NYC subway thief thanks Democrats after his 139th arrest, release: 'Bail reform, it’s lit!'

Fox News  "A New York City man who’s now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from

unsuspecting subway commuters since the state’s new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
"Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year. He’s been released each time without having to post bail under New York’s new bail reform law since his alleged offenses were nonviolent, the New York Daily News reported. In the past, Barry’s served several stints in state prison and has a lengthy record, including six felonies, 87 misdemeanors and 21 missed court hearings, the newspaper reported, citing court records.
" 'Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry yelled to reporters Thursday outside the NYPD Transit District 1 headquarters in the Columbus Circle station before officers transported him to Manhattan Central Booking. “It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!' ” . . .
Which certainly seems to be the case.

Where’s Pete Buttigieg’s Outrage Over Sharia Law?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Pete Buttigieg is a disgrace to our beautiful nation, and his fear-mongering, calumny against Mike Pence, and political victimhood over his sexual orientation show us exactly what is wrong with affirmative action politics. He will do anything for a vote, but when it comes to real crises, “Mayor Pete” is nowhere to be found.

BANNED AMERICA "Each day, gay people fear for their lives in Muslim countries, with the threat of Sharia Law, a widely-practiced, oppressive doctrine. In recent years, stories have broken, showing ISIS throwing gay men off of buildings and then stoning them to death. This year, 40 people were detained, and two died during a ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya, and the Sultan of Brunei just approved a law that would punish homosexuality with death by stoning.

"While the Left has obsessed for weeks over South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential candidacy as “the first gay person” in the race, he has capitalized on the Left’s obsession by demonizing Vice President Pence for his Christian values. Buttigieg hasn’t pulled any punches, calling the Vice President the “cheerleader of the porn star presidency,” and invoking his “creator” in low blows to Pence. Buttigieg has even gone so far as to repeat the term “Pharisee” to describe the former Indiana governor, which has sparked harsh criticism from Jews, including The Jerusalem Post, calling the slur anti-Semitic.

From ISIS video, showing a gay man being thrown off of a building.

"Mayor Buttigieg is trying to use Mike Pence’s beliefs as a political wedge, even though Pence has never said a derogatory thing about him. In fact, Pence has been quite civil with the mayor throughout the years, before and after Buttigieg “coming out.” There are still Facebook posts on Buttigieg’s profile showing how civil Pence was with the South Bend mayor, attending the city’s events, and having coffee with the mayor." . . .

Hilarious Video Montage of Media Slobbering Love Affair with Convicted Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti

Eventually, we all learned that Avennati is just a stupid criminal who is now facing more than forty years in prison for his multitudinous crimes. Here's a fun montage of all the times mainstream media slobbered all over Avenatti and elevated a common criminal because they thought it would hurt Trump.

PJ Media  "There's nothing better than watching the media glom onto the latest anti-Trump fantasy only to watch it go up in flames as did their love affair with now-convicted "Creepy Porn lawyer" Michael Avenatti. Back before Avenatti was known to be a raging criminal who tried to blackmail Nike into giving him millions of dollars, the media thought that he was the "savior of the Republic." Yes, they said that.
"The media loved Avenatti because he represented porn-star Stormy Daniels who claimed the president had maligned her and sued him in court for defamation which was not only thrown out, but the judge ordered Daniels to pay the president $300,000. Nevertheless, the media could not get enough of Avennati, even floating him as a serious presidential candidate. The Washington Examiner reported, "CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC hosted the disgraced attorney for a combined 147 television interviews between March 7 and May 15, 2018. That is an average of two interviews per day."  . . .

CNN Panel Blames Trump For All Its Avenatti Coverage  @brianstelter asked @lachlan if it was stupid on Stelter's part to suggest Michael Avenatti could be a serious presidential candidate:

My High School’s Drift from Excellence Reflects the Progressives’ Corruption of Public Education

Regarding public education, it is past due time to educate, not brainwash school children.

Anthony J. DeBlasi  "The public high school in Brooklyn, New York that I attended in the late 1940s had a student population of 10% black and 90% white from families of Italian, Irish, German, Jewish, Polish, British and other ethnic origin. Attendance and graduation exceeded 90% [information from my yearbook and other records.] The principal of Bushwick High School opened assemblies with the reading of a Psalm. The music teacher played the auditorium’s pipe organ and conducted the school orchestra and chorus in very challenging music. The baseball coach hired Ebbets Field from the Brooklyn Dodgers for the school’s important games. The Metropolitan Museum of Art sent art works to the school for temporary exhibit. The Mayor of New York occasionally presented a scholarship award at City Hall to an outstanding student. The school’s yearbook won an award for excellence in a nationwide contest.

"The tests we had to pass in order to advance and graduate would stump many today, I’m sure. We had a bewildering assortment of clubs including Latin, chess, reporters, religious, a club for excellence in scholarship, a rifle team, and extracurricular outreach to community for a variety of worthy projects . . . with et ceteras that today could spell trouble.

"Was Bushwick High a special school in its day? I can report, having grown up in New York City, that it reflected the quality of the city’s public schools in the 1940s. " . . . 

. . . "Quick answer: early 20th century Marxist educators led by John Dewey the “father of progressive education,” dared “build a new social order.” And they succeeded.

"For a broader answer, check out what John Dewey was up to and how his ideas ruined public education.

"For a full history of what gave America’s public schools the mission to groom Americans for a socialist society, see the book written by President Reagan’s Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Charlotte Iserbyt: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."

Anthony J. DeBlasi is a veteran and lifelong defender of Western culture.

Hilarity results when Bloomberg floats Hillary Clinton as his running mate

This would be a strong second behind Jay Inslee picking the Ugly American soccer player Megan Rapinoe as Secretary of State

Andrea Widburg  "It was a Drudge Report headline calculated to shock: “Exclusive: Bloomberg Considers Hillary Running Mate. The underlying story, at CNBC, stated that the Drudge Report itself was claiming that a source close to Mike Bloomberg’s campaign had stated that Bloomberg was considering asking Hillary Clinton to serve as his running mate. The reason given was that internal polling said that the two of them together would be a dynamic duo.

"The story was met with incredulity and much hilarity (if you'll pardon the pun). The idea that Hillary Clinton would play second fiddle to anyone was hard to fathom. Moreover, given Hillary’s grating personality, the collapse of all her initiatives during her stint as Secretary of State, her habit of enriching herself at the country’s expense, and her failed candidacy, it was hard to imagine why anyone would want her on the ballot.

"Twitter, the repository of clever one-liners, had a wonderful time imagining what a Bloomberg/Hillary pairing would look like and the effect it would have on Trump’s campaign:" . . .

He’s with her?

As Bloomberg’s VP, Hillary Clinton could get revenge against Trump: Goodwin
. . . "While Bernie Sanders and his committed clan will be loud exceptions, enough Democrats, I believe, will support a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket as the best chance to defeat Trump." . . .

Daniel Mitchell

Mitt Romney Is A Top 20 Recipient Of Funding By George Soros’ Lobbyist Group

Geller Report

. . . "On the list of all-time total donations, Romney makes it into the top 20 list of politicians who have received money from Soros Fund Management.
"Others who have received money from Soros are former President Barack Obama, Sen. Chuck Schumer, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and others.
"News that Romney has accepted big money from Soros won’t surprise many given his own allies have been calling him out lately for being “petty.”
"A former spokesman for Romney’s unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign is speaking out to say that the senator’s vote that Trump was guilty of impeachable offenses “was motivated by bitterness and jealousy.”
"Rick Gorka, who is currently a communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC), took to Twitter to say that Romney is just bitter that Trump “accomplished what he [Romney] has failed to do multiple times.”
"He went on to slam Romney for pandering to the very Democrats who ensured he did not win the presidency in 2012.
" 'These are the same people that hated Mitt in 2012 and they will hate him again when they are done with him,” he added. “It is sad to see that Mitt has not learned the lessons from 2012. Now he has betrayed his Party and millions of voters.' ” . . .

Pro-life Hollywood actress slams Dems for ‘barbaric platform that champions abortion’

Lifesite News
‘Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason?’

February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — American actress Patricia Heaton, star of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has called out the Democratic Party for its pro-abortion stance and questioned why any pro-lifer would be interested in knowing whether he’s welcome to join the party.

Heaton wrote on Twitter yesterday: “I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are “welcome” to join the democrat party. Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?”

Patricia Heaton

✔@PatriciaHeaton

I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are “welcome” to join the democrat party. Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?

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"Her comments come after South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg last month rejected an appeal from the leader of Democrats for Life for token language in the party platform in order to represent pro-life Democrats." . . .

After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020

M/Gen  "I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years, but my experience made me realize just how out of touch my party is with the country at large …
"I was one of those Democrats who considered anyone who voted for Trump a racist. I thought they were horrible (yes, even deplorable) and worked very hard to eliminate their voices from my spaces by unfriending or blocking people who spoke about their support of him, however minor their comments. I watched a lot of MSNBC, was convinced that everything he had done was horrible, that he hated anyone who wasn’t a straight white man, and that he had no redeeming qualities.
" 'But when I witnessed the amount of hate coming from the left in this small, niche knitting community, I started to question everything. I started making a proactive effort to break my echo chamber by listening to voices I thought I would disagree with. I wanted to understand their perspective, believing it would confirm that they were filled with hate for anyone who wasn’t like them.
"That turned out not to be the case. The more voices outside the left that I listened to, the more I realized that these were not bad people. They were not racists, nazis, or white supremacists. We had differences of opinions on social and economic issues, but a difference of opinion does not make your opponent inherently evil. And they could justify their opinions using arguments, rather than the shouting and ranting I saw coming from my side of the aisle. …
"I started to question everything. How many stories had I been sold that weren’t true? What if my perception of the other side is wrong? How is it possible that half the country is overtly racist? Is it possible that Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing, and had I been suffering from it for the past three years?
"And the biggest question of all was this: Did I hate Trump so much that I wanted to see my country fail just to spite him and everyone who voted for him?" . . .

https://wentworthreport.com/

Mind-boggling brainteaser challenges you to find the only piece of popcorn without a smiling face - and it's much trickier than it looks!

UK Daily Mail  "This baffling brainteaser challenges players to spot the only piece of popcorn without a smiling face - and it's surprisingly tricky to do. 
"The visual puzzle, created by British company Metcalfe's and charity Spread a Smile, shows cheery popcorn pieces having a party... but there is one in their number that's not joining in the fun. 
"To make things more difficult the creators have added in distractions like movie clappers, rubber rings and bright yellow party hats." . . .
   

More here.

Russian pranksters say they fooled Bernie Sanders by posing as Greta Thunberg

Louis Casiano | Fox News  "A pair of Russian pranksters who have targeted several high-profile American politicians claim they called Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders late last year posing as teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg with an offer to support his campaign.
"Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov Told the Associated Press the call took place in December 2019. The pair posted an audio recording of the purported call to YouTube on Thursday. The Sanders campaign did not immediately return Fox News' request to verify whether or not the recording is authentic.
"The recording was released more than two months after the call because of Sanders' success in the Iowa Democratic caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, they said.
"On the call, a female pretends to be Thunberg and Stolyarov plays her father, Svante. They offer to lend support to the Vermont senator's campaign. Sanders suggests "Greta" make a public statement in support of him and that they do an event together the next time she visits the United States." . . .

. . . " 'Let us continue to talk and when you come to the United States I will bring some people together and we can do some interesting things, and if you wanted to make a statement in support of my candidacy and the program we have outlined for climate change, I would be very very appreciative," Sanders said." . . .

. . . "At one point during the exchange, the fake Thunberg proposes to record a hip-hop song with Sanders, singer Billie Eilish and rapper Kanye West.The pranksters then say they are slated to visit Russia and need advice on how to behave." . . .
. . . 

. . . "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was a victim in 2018 when the radio shock jocks posed as Andriy Parubiy, the former speaker of Ukraine's parliament. During the call, Schiff said he would be willing to accept information damaging to Trump.
"Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was also tricked by the pranksters when she was tricked into thinking she speaking with Thunberg and that she had dirt on Trump."