Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

Liar, liar, pants on fire

The Whitehouse and the Democrats have a serious problem in trying to blame the Republicans for the defund the police movement. Why? Because it just isn’t true.
The "defund the police" movement has become so toxic, the White House is pretending it was Republicans responsible for it, rather than Democrats such as Ocasio-Cortez, the squad and others who called for defunding the police..

When you’re in a hole, stop digging!

And then there’s Leonard Pitts column ‘There’s no mystery why conservatives theses days find education so dangerous’.

If Republicans like Ron DeSantis get their way. Last week, Florida’s governor signed a bill requiring the state’s public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty on their ideological beliefs. The aim, he claims, is to prevent schools from “indoctrinating” students. DeSantis has hinted that those failing to show “intellectual diversity” will face budget cuts. Like other states where similar restrictions are becoming law, Florida seeks not to further intellectual diversity, but to prevent it.

Meaning, it aims to protect kids raised on mom and dad’s steady diet of Fox “News” and Breitbart from the shock of having any ideas they’ve thereby imbibed challenged in the outside world. Which is hypocritical on its face.

Ok, until the hypocritical charge.

Pitts quotes a Pew Research report to support his report that conservatives find education dangerous. A 2015 Pew Research Center study quantified that the better educated one is, the more likely one is to hold liberal beliefs. But I’d argue, contrary to what conservatives seem to feel, that’s not because of bullying professors shouting left-wing dogma. Rather, it’s because once you learn how to think, you’re less susceptible to thin reasoning and easy answers. And increasingly, that’s all conservatism’s got.

That may not have been true — or at least, may have been less true — decades ago. But back then, the right had some intellectual underpinning, had yet to devolve into the twitching id of perpetual resentment now on daily display. I mean, is anyone overawed by the profundity of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene? How about Louie Gohmert? Or even Ron DeSantis?

An opinion one can’t defend — using actual facts and recognizable reason — is an opinion not worth having. At some level, conservatives must know they fail that standard, so they work to undermine it instead, to make the world safe for ignorance.

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Pitts cherry picks a study, mocks several Republican representatives in the process and implies in general that liberals are more intelligent than conservatives. Is this not profiling / stereotyping, Leonard? Come on, man!

Had enough yet of a media that weaponizes / politicizes every piece of minutia news to divide us – by any means. It is no longer news reporting; it is yellow journalism opinion – opinion that is no better or relative than ours. Too often its intent to silence our opinions and/or free speech.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Confusion grips New York City mayoral Democratic primary as vote count erase.

Confusion, irregularities, or discrepancies, where have we heard this before?

Here we have a New York State Mayoral pro police candidate vs. defund the police candidates.

While many of his rivals called for police reform or funding cuts after national protests against racism in 2020, Adams, a former police officer, vowed to reinforce police departments. Public safety dominated the campaign, providing an early look at how Democrats nationally might approach the issue of policing ahead of next year's congressional midterm elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

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Wait a minute, the Whitehouse and mainstream media just informed us it was the Republicans who were to blame for the 'defund the police' undertaking. Where’s my BS meter?

[Lee Chowaniec]

As the stomach turns

Only in today’s world of politics and a media so biased and corrupt could you find conflicting reports on a little girl who comes to America from a refuge camp to escape terrorism, flourishes, becomes a government representative and compares America to other world terrorist countries.

Ilhan Omar defends equating America to terror groups

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/othe...?ocid=msedgntp


A report on a ‘strained’ electoral system that smells as bad as Trump’s but affecting the Democrats and will never get equal media coverage.

New York City primary meltdown deals new setback to nation’s strained electoral system

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp


Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent

“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s---.”

The dysfunction in the VP’s ranks threatens to complicate the White House’s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president’s agenda. It’s pronounced enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris’ staffers are treated.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

And then the coverup! Harris is just too smart!


Scandals, dissension, and defections in the Democratic Party? Whoda thunk!

[mark blazejewski]

Back To The Future?...

Japanese official warns US of potential surprise attack on Hawaii — from Russia and China


by Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter

June 30, 2021 04:01 PM


Russia and China are coordinating military exercises to threaten not only Taiwan but also Hawaii, according to a senior Japanese defense official who warned the United States to beware of a Pearl Harbor-style surprise attack.

“We have to show the deterrence towards China, and not just China but also the Russians, because, as I told you, that they are doing their exercises together,” Japanese deputy Yasuhide Nakayama told the Hudson Institute this week.

Taiwan’s vulnerability to an invasion from mainland China has become a preoccupation of Indo-Pacific strategists in recent months, as Chinese Communist forces escalate their military drills around the island. Nakayama, who was unusually frank about the need for democratic nations to ensure Taiwan’s survival, implied that Russia and China are working as allies preparing for a major conflict.

“I think the Taiwanese are really concerned,” he said. “And also, they’re focusing on the two big countries collaborating and [presenting] a lot of threat towards Taiwan."

US AND JAPAN WARN CHINA NOT TO ATTACK TAIWAN

Chinese Communist officials regard Taiwan as a renegade province, one that they have claimed since coming to power in 1949 but never governed. Most countries recognize the regime in Beijing as the official Chinese government and do not have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, although the U.S. has maintained a friendly relationship and provided weaponry to help Taiwanese authorities deter an invasion from the mainland.

“We have to protect Taiwan as a democratic country,” Nakayama said before suggesting that world leaders may have erred during the Cold War by seeming to concede that Taiwan would eventually be reunited with mainland China. “Was it right? ... I don’t know.”

China’s Foreign Ministry protested his description of Taiwan as a “country” and alleged that Tokyo is trying to portray China as a threat in order to justify its own military buildup.

“This is extremely irresponsible and dangerous,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Tuesday. “The politician in question flagrantly refers to Taiwan as a 'country' on multiple occasions, severely violating principles set out in the four political documents including the China-Japan Joint Statement and its solemn and repeated commitment of not seeing Taiwan as a country. We ask Japan to make crystal clarification, and ensure that such things won't happen again.”

Nakayama emphasized throughout the talk that tensions in the Indo-Pacific have a direct bearing on American security, especially in light of coordination between China and Russia. He drove home the point by raising the specter of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which provoked the U.S. military intervention in the Second World War.

“Seventy years ago, we attacked Pearl Harbor, but now the U.S. and Japan [are] very good allies, one of the best allies all over the world,” he said, noting that Russia is conducting naval drills in the Pacific this week. “I don't want to remind [us of the attack] 70 years ago, but we have to be careful of the exercising of the Russians. They are taking place [off] the western side of that, Honolulu, I mean, in Hawaii.”

Russian officials described their “missile and artillery firings” in the Pacific as an equipment check. “In the course of practical measures, the warships jointly repelled a notional enemy’s air attack,” the Russian Pacific Fleet’s press office said Wednesday per state media. "The exercise was intended to check the reliable operation of shipborne weapons in a hot climate.”

For Nakayama, such operations make clear that Japan and the U.S. have a common problem that needs to be deterred jointly.

“Honolulu to Japan, this zone is becoming — [the] Chinese and the Russians come in this zone,” he said. “So, [for] the United States, the protection line is going to be backwards a little bit.”

Reference: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...ssia-and-china

[Lee Chowaniec]

Is the Biden-Harris administration up to the task?

A recent survey of 142 presidential historians conducted by C-SPAN continued the tradition of ranking former executives based on their accomplishments on a wide range of criteria. Trump was ranked 41th out of 45. Obama ranked 10th best.

So, Trump is ranked as a bozo. Not everyone agrees.

Biden's and Harris's policies are crippling America.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Trump understood that the Chinese Communist Party seeks universal hegemony. Trump called upon the nations of the world to resist China’s total war doctrine, which promotes Chinese power in all phases of the international system, including economic dominance.

Unfortunately, America is being led by the cognitively challenged President Joe Biden and the frivolous Vice President Kamala Harris. Neither is up to the challenge because their judgment and instincts are terrible.

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I can say one thing about Grandpa Joe, I still have no idea where this country is going under his leadership. And it appears neither does he.

Scares one when he answers few press questions, walks away, or says that ‘they’ don’t want him to speak on something. Trump could be an ass, but you knew why. He was an open book. That can't be said about Biden. Trump was accused by the mainstream media of lying in the process. Biden gets a mainstream media pass. They don’t ‘fact check’ his addresses, passing off misstatement as gaffes and/or allowing him to walk back his faux pas.

China is eating our lunch. Biden and the far left continue to paint a weakened Russia as the big-bad-wolf!

Obama ranked 10th best, can’t get over that!

[mark blazejewski]

Is the Biden-Harris administration up to the task?

A recent survey of 142 presidential historians conducted by C-SPAN continued the tradition of ranking former executives based on their accomplishments on a wide range of criteria. Trump was ranked 41th out of 45. Obama ranked 10th best.

So, Trump is ranked as a bozo. Not everyone agrees.

As to the overall rankings, I pretty much agree with them, but there is no way that Trump comes in 41 out of 43 other individuals; that is just a political statement, IMHO.

As far as President Obama is concerned, while his Presidency lacked significant contemporaneous impact, I believe his "transformation of America" vision was solid and only now are many Americans awakening to his truly Socialist/Communist revolution. In fact, I do not entirely believe that the Obama can be fully assessed yet, because I am open to the possibility that he is actually the power in the Biden administration.

I am also surprised that Truman and Eisenhower rate higher than Kennedy:

Reference: https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurv.../?page=overall

However, I do have some significant problems with the Presidential ratings as they reflect certain specific categories of exceptionally:

References:

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?category=2

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?category=3

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?category=5

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?category=7

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?category=9

[Lee Chowaniec]

Celebrating Independence Day 2021

It concerned President Biden today that he was asked questions that take away from celebrating the joy of Independence Day weekend barbecues and rest by trumped up questions on Afghanistan and other world issues.

Was the irritation displayed an indication that his speech is being controlled to avoid gaffes, intended to keep him out of trouble, and manifested by his refusal to answer questions for fear in getting into trouble with whoever in the background controlling his responses.

Unlike Trump, his demeanor and tone are beloved by the left and mainstream media. The people have the right to know what's going on, Mr. Biden.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/othe...?ocid=msedgntp

And then there is House Speaker Pelosi’s shutting down the White House.

Pelosi cancels the Fourth of July.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

During an average year, the U.S. Capitol welcomes 2.5 million visitors, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to reopen the Capitol to visitors — school groups, families, or anyone hoping to see the legislative branch in action. To make matters worse, Pelosi’s refusal even to allow visitors on the Capitol grounds resulted in the outdoor concert regularly held on the Capitol’s west front to celebrate our nation’s independence being canceled.

Government control is on display!

The media felt any question directed toward Trump was fair game, demanded an answer, fact checked that answer and derided him for lying. With Biden, his gaffes are excused, his refusals to answer are accepted, and his answers to media questions are not fact checked. Except for the double-standard, there is no standard. Old Joe is bullet proof for the mainstream media and left.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Flying my flag for love of country

I have been flying an American flag since the purchase of my first home in 1966 to honor and display love of country. The flag attached to my porch flies spring through fall and for same reason as in 1966.

It was dismaying to read today’s New York Times report that it is no longer a symbol of unity but that the flag is being hijacked for political purposes and weaponized to sow divisiveness. It is unfortunate that the media takes every opportunity to publish a report that fosters divisiveness at times when occasions are favorable to unite the country.

Don’t profile or disrespect me for flying a flag that pays homage to my country and family members who fought in all wars and conflicts since World War II to protect the freedoms we enjoy today.

A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fourth-ju...TCR-UMfDYnBNkB

But something may be changing: Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation.

What was once a unifying symbol — there is a star on it for each state, after all — is now alienating to some, its stripes now fault lines between people who kneel while “The Star-Spangled Banner” plays and those for whom not pledging allegiance is an affront.

“They said, ‘Dave, you’ve got to put Trump’s flag up!’ and I said, ‘No, that’s not happening,’” Surozenski said. “That’s not the way I was brought up. The American flag political? No.”

“There is a lot of history with this country, some that maybe people don’t like today, and some that people are being judged for today for what they did 300 years ago,” he said. “It’s still our country and every good and bad thing made it our country,” Hocker said, glancing upward. “And that’s what that represents.”

[mark blazejewski]

Celebrating Independence Day 2021

It concerned President Biden today that he was asked questions that take away from celebrating the joy of Independence Day weekend barbecues and rest by trumped up questions on Afghanistan and other world issues...


https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/othe...?ocid=msedgntp

Just My Opinion:

Lee,

The first Fourth of July marked the Thirteen Colonies' assertion they were one free nation, independent from Great Britain.

That new nation inherited an existence constructed with the flawed values of an old and declining world order. It was for that new nation to confront those darker old world values, and to mold itself into the beacon of freedom for all men and women.

That molding process was, and remains, an imperfect evolutionary one.

Consider the July Fourth holiday of 1863.

When the sun rose on July 4, 1863, 23,000 Union casualties littered the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Their future Fourth of Julys ended so that the sin of slavery may have been vanquished.

Consider also the July Fourth holiday of 1898.

When the sun rose on July 4, 1898, some 1,500 Americans lie dead or wounded on San Juan Heights so that the people of Cuba may live in Freedom.

The July Fourth Holiday of 1917 will be remembered as the day when France honored the newly arrived AEF so that the World may be made "safe for democracy."

The July Fourth holiday of 1942 will be remember as the day when 829 merchant mariners and 1,944 navy personnel were killed when the ill-fated Convoy PQ 17 was attacked by Nazi submarines and surface warships in the North Atlantic.

It is an affront to every American who sacrificed for this nation to view the Fourth of July as a celebration of White Privilege or, as President Biden suggested, a mere summer holiday immune from the discussion of military sacrifice.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Not everyone honors Independence Day

It is the one day of the year when everyone should pay homage to America for declaring its independence from England – period. We don’t need to hear this political, divisive, inciteful claptrap on this day.

Progressive Lawmakers Call Fourth of July Freedom for Whites: Blacks 'Still Aren't Free'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp

Black progressive lawmakers on Sunday questioned the inclusivity of the freedoms celebrated on Independence Day as the White House prepared for an evening of traditional festivities.

"When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they're referring to is for white people. This land is stolen land and Black people still aren't free," tweeted Missouri Rep. Cori Bush.

July 4th... & so, the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal. Equal to what? What men? Only white men? Isn't it something that they wrote this in 1776 when African Americans were enslaved? They weren't thinking about us then, but we're thinking about us now!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) July 4, 2021

[Lee Chowaniec]

This is who we were.

This old man repeatedly hears, ‘this is not who we are’. I really don’t recognize who we are anymore, but I do know who we were.

Born and raised in the depression, old enough to remember the last days of WWII, living through the Korean Conflict, married, and losing a job in the 1958 recession, the Cuban Missel Crisis, the Cold War, Vietnam…American was united in cause and a good outcome was expected.

I was brought up with principles like:

• Life isn’t fair,
• The world doesn’t owe you a living,
• Work hard and you will succeed,
• Live within your means, not like the Jones,
• Charity begins at home. Take care of family first,
• Treat someone like you want to be treated.
• Love America, it’s the greatest, most generous country in the world.

Many of those values are no longer in today’s ‘woke’ America. My grandparents on both sides emigrated from Poland at the turn of the 20th century, but I am being profiled as a white, privileged, descendant of slave owners who owes reparations for a practice held over 150 years ago. Stigmatized as an inbred racist because I’m white, admonished as being a deplorable and misogynist because I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, and deserving of chastisement because I am a ‘blank’ and despise both major political parties and the biased media for creating and fostering the toxic America we now live in - in their best interests, not ours.

President Biden declared in his Fourth of July address that the country is coming together. Really? I find that difficult to believe when I am being told on this very holiday that flying my flag (as I have done for decades) and celebrating our country’s birthday and its independence has racial overtones.

While many are walking on eggs trying not to offend another, others are openly going out of their way to disrespect and cancel another’s freedom of speech / opinion - and getting away with it.

Belly up to the bar folks, the drinks are on the house! Problem is, we are the house – and a heavily mortgaged one at that.

Worried of the direction this now lawless country is going in? You should be!

[shortstuff]

This is who we were.

This old man repeatedly hears, ‘this is not who we are’. I really don’t recognize who we are anymore, but I do know who we were.

Born and raised in the depression, old enough to remember the last days of WWII, living through the Korean Conflict, married, and losing a job in the 1958 recession, the Cuban Missel Crisis, the Cold War, Vietnam…American was united in cause and a good outcome was expected.

I was brought up with principles like:

• Life isn’t fair,
• The world doesn’t owe you a living,
• Work hard and you will succeed,
• Live within your means, not like the Jones,
• Charity begins at home. Take care of family first,
• Treat someone like you want to be treated.
• Love America, it’s the greatest, most generous country in the world.

Many of those values are no longer in today’s ‘woke’ America. My grandparents on both sides emigrated from Poland at the turn of the 20th century, but I am being profiled as a white, privileged, descendant of slave owners who owes reparations for a practice held over 150 years ago. Stigmatized as an inbred racist because I’m white, admonished as being a deplorable and misogynist because I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, and deserving of chastisement because I am a ‘blank’ and despise both major political parties and the biased media for creating and fostering the toxic America we now live in - in their best interests, not ours.

President Biden declared in his Fourth of July address that the country is coming together. Really? I find that difficult to believe when I am being told on this very holiday that flying my flag (as I have done for decades) and celebrating our country’s birthday and its independence has racial overtones.

While many are walking on eggs trying not to offend another, others are openly going out of their way to disrespect and cancel another’s freedom of speech / opinion - and getting away with it.

Belly up to the bar folks, the drinks are on the house! Problem is, we are the house – and a heavily mortgaged one at that.

Worried of the direction this now lawless country is going in? You should be!

Well stated Lee. I too was raised with morality & compassion/empathy for others. I also was taught to listen to our elders, respect law & enforcement and always listen to the teacher. We always asked, "can I please be excused" from the dinner table and we placed our dishes in the sink (back then, we didn't have a dishwasher). Sadly, today we see a different set of values....

Violence in those designated blue states truly scares me. Over the 4th weekend, 100's shot and killed, Lori Lightfoot says its because of racism. How does that become the default excuse for all of our issues plaguing our country?

This narrative that the left is pushing regarding that our country is not a country we should be proud of, is destructive. Well, I am proud to be an American, I'm proud to fly my American flag, I am proud to call myself an American and I proudly will continue to express that.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Bias by omission

The American Teachers Federation denies Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in schools. Media outlet POLITICOL agrees.

FOX news analyst says otherwise and provides contradictory evidence – examples that will further incite and divide America.

There is no border crisis. If there is, it is now being attributed to climate change, seasonal, Trump’s policies, or the Republicans for defunding the police. The surge in violent crime is now blamed on illegal guns, Covid, the economy, climate change, racism, Trump, and/or is just seasonal – not the criminals committing the crimes and a weaken justice system.

Don’t you just feel like they are peeing on our leg and telling us that it is raining. QUO VADIS?

Raymond Arroyo exposes lesson plans that show schools teaching critical race theory.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/othe...?ocid=msedgntp

[Lee Chowaniec]

Too stupid for the condescending left and Teacher Unions?

Can’t get ‘woke’ to the National Anthem and flying our flag are symbols of racism and hatred? Too stupid to understand CRT will heal the nation and not cause further division? Yeah, me too!

Democrats, media pundits ‘perverted’ conversation on criminal justice reform and race: Compagno

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/othe...edgdhp&pc=U531

[Lee Chowaniec]

CNN trashes Biden Afghanistan address

I’m shocked! CNN puts out a fact-checking negative report on Biden. What gives? Sinking ratings? It’s embarrassing fawning reports on favored celebrities who later fall from grace. CNN’s Michael Avenatti coverage is a total embarrassment / humiliation for the network, adversely impacting its credibility.

According to the Media Research Center, Avenatti, was booked on CNN 122 times. MSNBC wasn’t far behind with 108. Overall, Avenatti appeared on national television 254 times during his 15 minutes of fame. Over one 10-week stretch, he was on CNN 74 times (a new cable news record), idolized to the point that its analysts even suggested his running for president in 2016.

Can we expect more honest / balanced reporting in the future?

Opinion: The worst speech of Biden's presidency

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp