UPDATED, Feb 8th: An Obama photograph proves the lies of 'climate change' and COVID

The Cult of Climate Change tells us that, unless we abandon all fossil fuels, the oceans will rise and every coastal community will be destroyed.  When Obama bought his coastal Martha's Vineyard house, it was pretty clear that he didn't believe a word of this narrative. 

 Andrea Widburg   "The left is built upon a mountain of falsehoods.  Two of the biggest are that humankind is trembling on the brink of destruction because of "climate change" and that onerous COVID restrictions are the only things keeping us alive.  So what are we to make of an unmasked Obama standing around construction workers, very grumpy about work on his multimillion-dollar beachfront Hawaiian mansion?  What I make of it is that both "climate change" and COVID restrictions are huge parts of that mountain of lies.

"Here's the picture that is a microcosm of all the lies:"

UK Daily Mail: Scowling Barack Obama inspects the construction of his new multimillion-dollar Hawaii mansion https://trib.al/0LI9ryt

UPDATE, Feb 8th: Oh, the words that come to mind from the 'mean construction Obama' photo - American Thinker   . . ."This luxurious mansion under construction in Hawaii is Obama's third that I'm aware of, and second oceanfront property!  There are only possibilities here.  Obama either thinks he actually did calm the oceans, or he knew all along that climate change is merely a useful device for controlling the naïve, the neurotic, the weak-minded.  "Democrat voters, in other words."

. . .Back to the photo.  Who's the only one not wearing a face mask?

 That's right: The One.  Barry doesn't need no stinkin' mask; he knows that much of the Big Government response to COVID-19 was intended merely to intimidate and subdue the masses.  See change, climate.

Obama's clearly unafraid of the Wuhan Flu but likes those who serve him to be masked.  It's a class thing.  Those four schmoes are beneath the former president and hence must cover their pie-holes.  Barry, as befitting his celebrity status, needn't bother.

Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is Mostly Counter-Productive

Although she is a fool in the way she processes facts, [(“Whoopi Goldberg”)] is intelligent and absorbs a wide variety of information. Her job of many years at The View requires her to be well read and able to discuss all kinds of issues. Yet she still knows absolutely nothing about the Holocaust after all these years. . .

By @DovFischerRabbi.

For one thing, fifty years of Holocaust education has not brought young Jews closer to Judaism.

"Really, as one thinks about it, could it be any other way? If you take kids from age 7 or 10, and you don’t give them Chumash (Torah studies) or meaningful real Shabbat (Sabbath) or a kosher home or meaningful substantive history of modern Israel … and the only Jewish

identity you give them is a narrative about terrible people who slaughtered 6 million of their forebears … and those forebears did not fight back and no one helped … and the same thing has gone on for 2,000 years of getting murdered by miserable people while no one comes to help …

"Well, how in the world will that inspire kids to say, “When I grow up, I want to marry a Jewish spouse, even if I meet someone else who seems more compatible, because I want to hand this legacy of victimization and martyrdom to my future generations”?

"So a fortune is spent by American Jewish secular organizations on museums, school curricula, and Holocaust centers, while the assimilated Jewish leaders of the ADLs and Federations avoid confronting that they are not themselves suited for their roles and are failing their future generations. Before they know what hit them, they are coming to rabbis like me, begging rabbis to convert the non-Jews marrying their kids. We meet with those non-Jewish prospective spouses and find they are sweet and delightful enough but, really, don’t want to convert, are happy as they are. “Rabbi,” they tell us, “I don’t believe in the Torah. I don’t believe in Jesus either. I don’t believe in G-d. I just believe in love.”

Whoopi Goldberg’s Long History of Appalling Takes, From Defending Mel Gibson and Cosby to the Holocaust (yahoo.com)

Makin’ Whoopi Gone - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "Goldberg was caught by the inconsistency of her worldview."

Chicago PD Searching for Man Who Yelled ‘All of You Should be Killed’ at Jewish Students (legalinsurrection.com)

Whoopi Goldberg Exposed The Logical Conclusion Of Woke Ideology And It’s Ugly (thefederalist.com)

What American Woke Cancel Culture Has Taught Me About Nazi Germany

 Education News

Many are cautious to risk their well-being for others

"Most people mean well, fear losing the jobs and income by which they support their families, and are terrified they will lose friends and social standing. This is true equally of “Good Germans,” nice Jews, and average Americans desperately trying to survive today’s Leftist Woke “cancel culture” reign of terror. To find heroes whose words and deeds withstand that fear — well, that’s why heroes are outlier and few.

"As I grew into adolescence, it initially was hard to understand “Good Germans” of the Hitler years who did not stand up to the Nazis, but instead quietly accommodated themselves to the Holocaust. They saw what was happening and yet remained docile. Yes, there were the precious few heroes who actually imperiled their own lives by hiding Jews in their homes — in attics, basements, under floor boards. However, the very best among the rest tended simply to look away as Jews were trucked off to ghettoes in preparation for cattle-car journeys to death camps. The best of those “Good Germans” turned aside and did not lay hands on their Jewish neighbors’ pianos, chandeliers, and art work left behind, but they also did not lift a finger to help.

"Was it genetic? Had centuries of anti-Jewish eruptions throughout Europe — murderous crusades along the Rhine from the 11th to 13th centuries, “poisoning the well” defamations of the mid-14th century Black Death bubonic plague era, blood libels, desecration-of-the host slanders, expulsions and inquisitions, Cossack pogroms, and all that transpired into the Hitlerian 20th century — biologically changed German, Ukrainian, and other European spiritual DNA? As a teenage boy, I wondered. However, in later years I met a man of the American Midwest and of German descent, an attorney for whom I worked at Jones Day when I litigated complex multi-million-dollar matters, and he became one of the best friends I have had. He is a man of extraordinary character whose friendship I have cherished throughout the past quarter century.". . .  More...

America’s crime spike goes much deeper than policing or the lack of it

We’ve had only one honorable man serve as President of the United States in this century. This honorable quality so offended the Washington swamp people that they ginned up a hoax accusing him of treason, impeached him twice, and allowed him to be cheated out of his second term in office because he wasn’t one of them.

 American Thinker  "There’s a spike in crime right now in the United States and the only thing that surprises me about that is that nobody expected it. The right says there’s not enough support for law enforcement. The left claims it’s because of systematic racism. Tucker Carlson says it’s due to left-wing policies in Democrat-run cities. I agree with almost everything Tucker says, but not this one.". . .

Toon added by TD

. . ."Joe Biden is a known liar and plagiarist. The only reason that I’m not calling him a criminal is because he hasn’t been convicted for the crimes that we all know he’s committed. People need to wake up and smell the swamp. You can’t steal right in front of your kids and then expect them to be law-abiding citizens when they grow up. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

"How did Nancy Pelosi get as wealthy as she is on a public servant’s salary? We’re not stupid. If the people that run this country cannot manage to follow the law, then why should anyone else?"...

Crime is spiking because the American people are becoming as morally bankrupt as the politicians in our government...

Schadenfreude overload: Chris Wallace joined CNN+ because Jeff Zucker would be his protector there, now reportedly ‘irate’ at his departure

 Thomas Lifson

. . .

At the time, the former Fox News Sunday anchor specifically cited Zucker as one of the reasons he joined the network.

“I am honored and delighted to join Jeff Zucker and his great team,” Wallace gushed in a statement just two hours after he quit Fox on December 12.

"That “team” bloviation obscures the reality of the snake pit nature of TV news, especially at a failing operation like CNN. Wallace has got to be worried about the long knives and his ample back at his new employer that looks like it is about to clean house. Notably, there are no reports of him bringing any staff with him from Fox, and his old support staff at Fox News Sunday must be popping champagne corks with the new ratings they enjoy with Shannon Bream helming the broadcast. For what it is worth, her colleagues at the Fox News Washington Bureau refer to Shannon on-air as "the nicest person in the building" -- which is consistent with her on-air persona.

"Wallace is very unhappy, according to Radar."

Justice? BLM Rioter Gets Probation For Setting Fire to a High School

 

PJ Media   "A 20-year old man convicted of setting a fire at a high school during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 in Minnesota received probation and was fined $34,000.

"Judge David S. Doty, appointed by Ronald Reagan, didn’t comment on why he only gave a terrorist probation, but court documents show that he was constrained by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.

"Mohamed Hussein Abdi pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.

New York Post:

Abdi was arrested in June 2020, a month after he entered the high school through a broken glass door during the Floyd riot and could be seen on security footage pouring liquid from a white container onto the floor and then into a trashcan. Abdi then took a liquid-soaked garment and sent fire to the trash can before running away as flames and smoke began to spread.

It has been estimated that rioting across the nation following Floyd’s death destroyed over $1 billion worth of property.

More than 1,500 businesses in the Minneapolis St. Paul area were damaged or destroyed during the riots totaling roughly $500 million in damages.

"Abdi was an accomplice to the arson fire, which was set by Jose Angel Felan, who also torched a Goodwill store and a 7 Mile Sportswear store. He pled “not guilty” in April and is awaiting trial. Felan’s wife, Mena Dhaya Yousif, was charged with being an accessory after the fact when she assisted her husband in his escape to Mexico.". . .

Afro-Idealism in Black History Month and January 6 - American Thinker  . . ."The killing of police officers in large numbers in the United States is a direct result of false teaching and education about African-American history in the United States.  Black History Month must become a renaissance of black voices that honestly and boldly represent the best hopes of the nation.  In failing to tend to and recover this more accurate and humane history, we will continue on a path of dangerous partisan violence.  This fuller truth including afro-idealism will set us free.". . .

This Photo Should End Stacey Abrams' Gubernatorial Campaign

Naaaah.

PJ Media   "Stacey Abrams, who is once again running for governor of Georgia, has generated huge backlash after she shared a picture of her visiting Glenwood Elementary School in Decatur, Ga., in which she was surrounded by dozens of masked children while she sat and smiled in the front conspicuously maskless.

Stacey Abrams is mask-less while all the children around her suffer. This is child abuse. pic.twitter.com/48tX3PyKTI

— Jake Evans (@JakeEvansGA) February 6, 2022

Public schools in Decatur have a mask mandate, and Abrams proved herself to be a garden variety Democrat who believes that rules are for everyone else but her. Hence why Abrams is hardly the first Democrat to appear maskless during similar photo ops. For example, in November, First Lady Jill Biden was photographed maskless during a visit to an elementary school while the kids she was visiting were masked. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are just a few other Democrats who have flouted mask mandates. But this photo could be more problematic for Abrams (who eventually deleted her tweet) because she’s running for governor in Georgia. “Stacey Abrams wants state government mask mandates for Georgians and their children,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted. “But it looks like they wouldn’t apply when she’s attending a photo op.”0

"Public schools in Decatur have a mask mandate, and Abrams proved herself to be a garden variety Democrat who believes that rules are for everyone else but her. Hence why Abrams is hardly the first Democrat to appear maskless during similar photo ops. For example, in November, First Lady Jill Biden was photographed maskless during a visit to an elementary school while the kids she was visiting were masked. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are just a few other Democrats who have flouted mask mandates. But this photo could be more problematic for Abrams (who eventually deleted her tweet) because she’s running for governor in Georgia.

“Stacey Abrams wants state government mask mandates for Georgians and their children,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted. “But it looks like they wouldn’t apply when she’s attending a photo op.”

Biden’s Ukraine Scramble

 Conrad Black

Joe Biden appears to be attempting to scramble through the present crisis without giving away too much or being humiliated once again, but better options are available.

"Perversely, most of the aggressive left-wing media want to escalate the feud with Russian President Vladimir Putin to the point of driving Russia into the arms of China. This is the only way Russia (whose GDP is smaller than Canada’s) could seriously damage the West. 

"At the same time, some conservative commentators, including some of the stars at Fox News, are unreasonably accusing those who favor resisting Russian aggression in Ukraine of being warmongers and trying to propel America into endless, useless war. Again. 

"There is a legitimate American and Western interest in not allowing Russia to trample an independent nation of 40 million underfoot in the middle of Europe to the embarrassment of the Western alliance, and it is not a difficult scenario to avoid.

"For once, I’m prepared and happy to come partially to Joe Biden’s defense. The greatest problem with what he said about Ukraine at his press conference last week is not his customary ambiguity about the assertion of a legitimate national interest, or that the Western alliance (partly because of his own weakness) is divided on this question. Rather, the problem is very complicated. Biden grasps this, but he is famously bad at responding to such questions, even with rehearsal. Of course he is correct that there is a distinction between a wholesale invasion of a country and a frontier violation with very limited objectives.". . . 

CNN: The Future of Fake News

 American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

CNN left its roots, stopped being the news agency with the international reach it set out to be, and morphed into an increasingly maniacal, 24/7 left-wing diatribe.  

"CNN is dying. Its president, Jeff Zucker, was just fired. (Or, rather, he “resigned.”) The network’s viewership is plummeting, and fewer than 500,000 people on average tuned in last month. Advertisers don’t send their dollars there much anymore, and the “stars” the network once had either have been removed for cause or caught up in sex or other scandals. 

 "Chris “Fredo” Cuomo threatened to burn the place down after getting fired last year. Why does the parent company—AT&T, a telephone megacompany—put up with it? CNN is a drag on the parent company’s earnings, a thorn in its side, and a hit on its reputation. Wouldn’t a rational actor cancel the network altogether or sell it off and be done with it? With $150 billion in debt, no wonder AT&T decided to sell the ailing network to the Discovery Network. AT&T will no doubt benefit from getting out of politics. 

What I Saw Behind the Scenes at CNN 

"It wasn’t always this way. Atlanta was a Southern town, but it was becoming something very different and more impressive by 1992. It was getting cosmopolitan and downright worldly. Atlanta had won the 1996 Summer Olympics (secured by Mayor Andrew Young at—you guessed it—Davos). Segregation was over and grits were becoming hard to find.

"One company had come to personify the newfound swagger and embodied the spirit of the “New South.” That company had started as a small-fry radio station with a big signal and had grown into the powerhouse, most-watched-network on cable television. Its format was unheard of at the time: all news, all the time.

"After the Gulf War, an entrepreneurial Ted Turner, CNN’s founder and CEO, bragged he had won. CNN represented raw media power never before seen.

China’s Shameful Olympics

 Tom Cotton: Beijing Olympics: U.S. Athletes at Risk in China | National Review

These Games never should have been in Beijing. But the Biden administration failed to keep them out. Now American athletes are at risk.

. . ."When it became clear that the government could not protect the safety and privacy of our athletes, thanks to the Biden administration’s inaction and incompetence, the president should have announced a total and complete boycott of the games. He should then have rallied the rest of the world to follow America’s lead, as it so often has. Instead, Joe Biden folded.

"In yet another example of weakness and ineptitude, President Biden has kowtowed to China and placed our athletes in danger. For the next two weeks, their safety, security, and privacy will be in the bloodstained hands of the CCP.". . .

Pelosi Tells Olympic Athletes Not To Speak Ill Of China While There… | Weasel Zippers

Nancy Pelosi tells U.S. Olympic athletes not to "speak out" against the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing lest they risk "incurring the anger" of the Chinese government. pic.twitter.com/kzwSYdMJyM

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 3, 2022

 Nolte: Record Low Ratings for NBC's Opening Coverage of Genocide Games (breitbart.com)

ESPN Star J.A. Adande Claims Americans Shouldn’t Criticize China’s Human Rights Record | The Daily Caller  . . ."What the hell is wrong with this dude? I’m the most pro-America person you’ll ever meet, and I can also admit that America is not perfect.No country on this planet is perfect, but America is hands down the closest thing we have to perfection on Earth."

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Chinese Security Goon Drags Dutch Reporter Away during Olympics Live Shot • Warner Todd Huston • (ipatriot.com)  "Shocking video from Friday shows a Dutch reporter being bodily dragged away by a Chinese security officer outside an Olympic arena during a live broadcast of the Beijing Olympics.

"The incident is shocking proof of just how much China opposes free speech and freedom of the press.

"The reporter, Sjoerd den Daas, of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting outlet NOS Nieuws, is seen in the clip being shoved and herded away from his camera by a Chinese security agent in a black jacket and red armband.". . .

Onze correspondent @sjoerddendaas werd om 12.00u live in het NOS Journaal door beveiligers voor de camera weggetrokken. Helaas is dit steeds vaker de dagelijkse realiteit voor journalisten in China. Hij is in orde en kon zijn verhaal gelukkig een paar minuten later afmaken pic.twitter.com/GLTZRlZV96

— NOS (@NOS) February 4, 2022

Has the US Government Declared War on Its Citizens?

If we were being honest with ourselves, surely we would ask whether the government of the United States has quietly declared war on the people of the United States.  Or is that question no longer permitted in this new era of government-sanctioned censorship? 

Political Cartoons (townhall.com)

American Thinker  . . ." Nations of people without any sense of shared history or purpose do not remain nations for long.  Tearing down statues destroys collective memory of the past.  Reimagining America's founding as some evil paradise for slaveholders, instead of the triumph for human liberty that it was, cheapens all the struggles Americans have endured together for freedom.  Fixating on skin color serves no purpose other than to salt the land with hatred and division.  Choosing to vilify local law enforcement as "white supremacists" while celebrating citywide arson and mayhem in the name of "racial justice" only assures that "justice for all" disappears for good.  Why is the secretary of education committed to pushing Critical Race Theory on public school students while accusing concerned parents of being "domestic terrorists"?  Why do the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation push "white supremacy" as the most lethal domestic terrorism threat a half-century after Jim Crow?  Why does the White House routinely demonize its Republican opponents as being malicious racists not at all different from George Wallace or Bull Connor (both Democrats)?

"Disparaging local policing as institutionalized racism has had the predictable effect of increasing crime across the country.  Falsely accusing white Americans of being irredeemably racist has had the predictable effect of dividing the country along racial lines.  Rewriting Americans' history so that the country's steady pursuit of human freedom is intentionally stricken from the record has had the predictable effect of convincing too many Americans that nothing about their nation's past is worth preserving.  Why would a rational government seek to divide Americans by race unless its mission is to destroy national unity for good?". . .

30 Black Americans to Celebrate During Black History Month

 Not on this list: Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, and most of those in Congress.

30 Black Historical Figures to Celebrate During Black History Month (parade.com)  

"Every Black History Month, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Harriet Tubman. They are revered and in the spotlight because they are on stamps, calendars, and even quoted in political speeches. But what about the other unsung Black history heroes that have opened doors, fought for freedoms, and even invented techniques used in healthcare today? 

" All of the pioneers should be celebrated and mentioned, so we’re shining a light on 30 Black Americans that have flown under the radar and deserve to be celebrated for their bravery, accomplishments, and contributions to the civil rights movement, the arts, politics, technology, and much more. 

"Heroes like Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin, Gordon Parks, and Bayard Rustin are celebrated in this list as they’ve made way for many of today’s innovators to shine in the present. " . . .

. . ."Ethel Waters

Waters first entered the entertainment business in the 1920s as a blues singer, before making history. Waters was the first to integrate Broadway appearing in Irving Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer and eventually became the highest-paid performer on Broadway.  In addition to becoming the first African American to star in her own television variety show in 1939, The Ethel Waters Show. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Pinky in 1950. Also in 1950, Waters was the first Black actress to star in a television series, Beulah, which aired on ABC. In 1962, she became the first African American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Leading Lady for the show Route 66.