‘Pride’ Night at the Old Ballpark

  American Thinker

. . . "What’s troubling is how the culture is saturated with a decades-old adolescent preoccupation with sexuality -- and today, bizarre sexuality at that.  It’s as if American society -- Western civilization, actually -- decided to take an extended holiday from reality.  Isn’t evading reality an aspect of derangement? 

"There are causes for our societal breakdown and insanity, but that merits other analysis.  We’re a society imperiled by intellectual and moral squalor.  That certainly began accelerating in the 1960s.  It needs to be stopped and reversed.  Politics is downstream from culture.  Righting our politics without righting the culture won’t amount to a hill of beans, longer term.

"Fair being fair, shouldn’t the suits who run the MLB add a “traditional families” night at their ballparks?  Might the Phillies celebrate the rich traditional family life that’s the bedrock of stable, healthy, thriving societies?  Maybe it’s high time we start demanding a night recognizing what’s foundational to America?  Or maybe we just skip buying tickets, hotdogs, and beer."   

Hours after his extradition to US was approved, John McAfee found dead in his Spanish jail cell - American Thinker

 Thomas Lifson  'Move over, Jeffrey Epstein.  Another high-profile prisoner has been found dead in his jail cell before his trial, with authorities claiming suicide.  John McAfee, who wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, sold the company bearing his name, and later urged customers to uninstall the software, was widely described as "eccentric."  He lived for a while in Belize but left that country in 2013 after being wanted for questioning by police over a murder.  He made and lost most of a fortune believed to have totaled $100 million.  McAfee was arrested in October last year at Barcelona Airport at the request of U.S. authorities over alleged income tax evasion and was being held in a prison in Barcelona, awaiting extradition, which had just been approved when he was found dead." . . .

(Language)

"What makes the death so suspicious is that he had earlier warned against such an outcome.  The New York Post reports:". . .

We went from “America First” to “China First”.

 Gas Prices Then And Now – Grrr Graphics

Gas Prices Then And Now – Grrr Graphics

"If you took a road trip over the holiday weekend, you were sure to notice the price of gas has shot up compared to last year.

"You can thank Fake President Joe Biden for that.

"Under the Trump administration, America was energy independent for the first time in decades.

"Under the Biden administration, the Keystone pipe line was halted and close to 52,000 people lost their jobs.

"In March, Biden imported oil from Iran, the first time since 1991. The Democrats would rather import oil from a terrorist regime than have Americans produce the same product." . . .e went from “America First” to “China First”.

"Gas prices will continue to skyrocket over the summer thanks to Biden. There will be gas shortages also.

"Jimmy Carter 1.0 anyone?"

Don't Stop at Juneteenth! by Ann Coulter

  Ann Coulter (townhall.com)

"Happy Juneteenth! I hope you all had a lovely week celebrating the nation's newest federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery throughout the Confederacy.

"How could you not? The media was chock-a-block with commentators telling us what a fantastic, transformative event for our nation this was. But the media ignored the best part of all!

"What Juneteenth commemorates is not technically the abolition of slavery, but the notification thereof to a particular group of slaves.

"Although President Lincoln officially ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn't until two years later, on June 19, 1865, that the slaves of Galveston, Texas, got the news, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into town and issued a series of proclamations announcing that the hideous institution had been abolished and, henceforth, slaves would be considered hired labor.

"This takes Juneteenth to a whole new level. Think of all the new federal holidays we could create using Juneteenth as our template! (Anyone who's dealt with the federal government knows that those workers well deserve another paid day off.) We just need horsemen to ride around the country, correcting the errors of those who falsely believe something bad about America.". . . 

Chilling look at our future: Training child revolutionaries who hate the USA*

 Critical Race Theory (CRT) is seeping into government, education, science, corporations, and it includes intersectionality*, another abomination. Also, you can’t just have black or brown skin, you have to think black, which means everything non-white.

No accommodation for Critical Race Theory in our public schools!  "Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an anti-white, anti-American philosophy that has spread like cancer throughout society.  It has made surprising headway in government agencies, the corporate world, and the K–12 public schools — and, of course, the colleges and universities where it originated.  This has happened while most Americans slept.  But as awareness of CRT has grown, so has the resistance to it.". . .  

Critical Race Theory, teachers, school boards, and parents

LEAKED DOCUMENTS from Iowa School System show Teachers are FORCED to classify ‘Make America Great Again” as a type of “racism" & “white supremacy.”

This is done through MANDATORY Critical Race Theory training FORCED on teachers at taxpayer expense.

Trump won Iowa by +9 points pic.twitter.com/6xEuVJpv7g

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 22, 2021

Best brief explanation of Critical Race Theory (independentsentinel.com)

In September 2020, Ray Sanchez, a faculty coordinator for Madera College, put up a good summary of Critical Race Theory, which grew out of Critical Theory. We wanted to share it with you here from Minding the Campus dot org.

 "Critical Race Theory is a worldview that interprets everything through the lens of social and political power dynamics.  It is an all-encompassing vision that views all cultural, political, and social institutions as oppressive and requires explicit and continuous anti-racism “work” to mete out its vision for a liberated humanity.

It is a race-focused ideology which necessitates good works—a faith plus works if you will, and the only meritorious work is anti-racist work.

In other words, it isn’t just a tool that describes the intersection of power, privilege, race, and racism. It is, at base, an overarching eschatological philosophy that claims that an oppressor group is tyrannizing or minoritizing an oppressed group and explicitly stipulates that “work” is required to change (i.e., deconstruct) society and Western institutions.

[Everything is seen through the prism of race. The group with the power is tyrannizing the group without the power].

"Mr. Sanchez then goes on to explain the essential ingredient of CRT: New Racism. Racism is no longer merely prejudice and discrimination based on race—that is Old Racism. New Racism has two primary components: institutional power and systems of privilege (or disadvantage) based on race.

"The rest is reworded for brevity but you should go back and read the author’s excellent wording and explanation." . . .

*Chilling look at our future: Training child revolutionaries who hate the USA (independentsentinel.com)   . . ."Children are trained in Portland schools to see everything through a prism of race and to become revolutionaries. On a broader scale, this is exactly what Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project teach children. 1619 alone is now implemented in over 3500 school systems throughout the United States.". . .  

OU Training Tells Faculty: 'In The Classroom, Free Speech Does Not Apply'

  The Federalist

New Video Shows University Of Oklahoma Faculty Teaching How To Silence And Punish ‘Problematic’ Conservatives

"According to newly released video footage, University of Oklahoma instructors want to punish students who defy campus orthodoxy. Their plan is to “avoid ‘a rhetoric of dysfunctional silence’ that closes ears to marginalized voices,” by — you guessed it — silencing marginalized voices. 

On Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit focused on protecting campus free speech, publicized video footage of an April 14 workshop on “Anti-Racist Rhetoric & Pedagogies” at the University of Oklahoma (OU). The workshop’s leaders presented slides about “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “subverting white institutional defensiveness.” In an attempt to teach so-called antiracism, the workshop’s leaders also promoted censorship and indoctrination.

"The event was “one of nine professional development workshops for instructors and grad students” at OU. During the workshop, three faculty members taught their colleagues “how to foster an anti-racist environment in their classrooms,” brainstorming tactics for dissuading, censoring, and penalizing “problematic” speech.". . .  

Another Local Reporter Goes Off-Script to Blow the Whistle During Live Broadcast

 Neon Nettle

April Moss announced during a live broadcast that
 she is blowing the whistle on her network

. . . "April Moss, a weather reporter for a Detroit CBS affiliate, is the second local TV journalist to make an on-air announcement about working with the undercover journalism group in the space of a week.

"38-year-old Moss interrupted her own CBS 62 weather report live on air on Sunday to announce that she will be sitting down for an interview with James O'Keefe's Project Veritas.

"She told viewers that she is exposing "the discrimination that CBS is enforcing on its employees."

"Moss dropped the announcement in the middle of her weather report before returning to the script without missing a beat.

Olympic athlete vows to win medal in order to 'burn a US flag on the podium'

Yahoo  "BMX freestyle Olympian Chelsea Wolfe said it was her goal to win a medal in the Tokyo Olympics so she could “burn a US flag on the podium."

Wolfe

"Wolfe, a transgender woman, has since deleted the post, but she may still have an opportunity to medal at the Olympics. The BMX rider has qualified as an alternate for the Olympics, an accomplishment Wolfe in part credited to people who “helped me accept that I am a woman.” . . .

How to Make China Pay

 How to Make China Pay (freebeacon.com)

Column: Engage Taiwan, boycott the 2022 Olympics, and impose a carbon tariff

"The debate over the origins of the coronavirus—did it come from a wet market in Wuhan or from the virology lab nearby—has exposed the bias of media and technology companies and the potential danger of so-called gain of function research. But it also has led to something of an intellectual cul-de-sac. Barring a high-level defection from the Chinese Communist Party,

we are unlikely ever to learn the answer. And even if we did have conclusive evidence one way or another, we still would have to decide what to do about it. The real question isn’t whether the pandemic is China’s fault. It’s whether China will pay a price for the catastrophic damage it caused the world.

"Wherever the virus came from, we know that the Chinese government lied about it for weeks. Dr. Ai Fen shared information about a novel coronavirus with her colleagues on December 30, 2019. The next day, as Lawrence Wright recounts in The Plague Year, China removed social media posts that mentioned "unknown Wuhan pneumonia" or "Wuhan Seafood Market." Dr. Li Wenliang, who warned the public that the virus could be transmitted from human to human, was arrested and forced to deliver a televised confession. He died of COVID-19 on February 6, 2020.

"Beijing prevaricated for a month while the deadly pandemic spread. China did not allow the World Health Organization to visit Wuhan until January 20, 2020. The same day, one of China’s top doctors finally admitted the obvious: COVID-19 is a communicable disease. By the time the Communist leadership took action, it was too late. On January 21, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first case of coronavirus in America. . . ."

Nina Simone's Granddaughter Says Kamala Harris Bullied Mother to Brink of Suicide

 Neon Nettle

A settlement in 2016 reading Nina Simone Charitable Trust refers to Harris for her "primary responsibility for supervising charitable trusts in California" as state attorney general.

Portland Runs Ad in NYT Promoting Tourism After Portland Police Riot Squad Quits

 

Rich Terrell

Breitbart Politics  “Some of what you’ve heard about Portland is true. Some is not. What matters most is that we’re true to ourselves,” Travel Portland wrote in the ad that could have cost up to $250,000.

“ 'You’ve heard a lot about us lately. It’s been a while since you heard from us,” it continues.

“ 'After a year of encouraging visitors and locals to support small businesses here and from a distance, it’s time to issue an invitation to come back to Portland,” the ad states. “Two sides to the same coin that keeps landing right on its edge. Anything can happen. We like it this way.”

" 'The ad also says “new ideas are welcome” in the city, a place where “you can be yourself.”

“This is the kind of place where new ideas are welcome — whether they’re creative, cutting-edge or curious at first glance. You can speak up here. You can be yourself here,” it contintinues.

[Yeah. Just ask Andy Ngo. And speak up for President Trump]

"The ad comes after Portland’s voluntary rapid response team of 50 resigned Thursday to protest charges against a police officer who allegedly hit an independent journalist in the Black Lives Matter riots that lit a federal building ablaze in August 2020.

"The police union said nearly 200 rioters set upon the voluntary rapid response team and that, reportedly, Officer Corey Budworth unintentionally hit the activist in the head with a baton, believing the activist was a part of the riot.". . . 

Joe Biden Is Betraying Our Military

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Andrew Malcolm  "Imagine you’re a proud member of America’s military. Perhaps a naval aviator, returning from a long mission projecting U.S. power over a hostile place, landing a jet fighter on a moving aircraft carrier in a storm–at night. [Snip] They’re all volunteers these days, these men and women who do dangerous work in countless ways. Imagine after all these years of military training in killing and surviving, the oldest Commander-in-Chief in U.S. history comes before you with a stumbling speech to declare in clear, decisive language that the real threat to national security is not what you’ve been diligently preparing for all these years." . . .