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    Wokeness – undone by ridiculous excess?

    American becoming a problematic word? Someone harmed and traumatized by seeing someone reading Mein Kemp? America’s IQ is diminishing, nuclear war is at our doorstep, inflation is rampant, crime is out of control, and we are besieged by individuals who are offended by words and sights and need a safe place.

    Don't say 'American:' Woke word-policing is now beyond satire
    George Will – Washington Post Writers Group

    Sometimes in politics, which currently saturates everything, worse is better. When a political craze based on a bad idea achieves a critical mass, one wants it to be undone by ridiculous excess. Consider the movement to scrub from the English language and the rest of life everything that anyone might consider harmful or otherwise retrograde.

    Worse really is better in today's America (if you will pardon that noun; some at Stanford University will not; read on) as the fever of foolishness denoted by the word "woke" now defies satire. At Stanford, a full-service, broad-spectrum educational institution, an "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" several months ago listed words to avoid lest they make someone feel sad, unsafe, disrespected or something. Problematic words include "American," which suggests that America (this column enjoys being transgressive) is the most important country in North and South America. The list was quickly drenched by an acid rain of derision, and Stanford distanced itself from itself: The university's chief information officer said the list was not a mandate. The list warns against using the "culturally appropriative" word "chief" about any "non-indigenous person."

    The University of Southern California's school of social work banned the word "field" because it connotes slavery. So, Joe DiMaggio did not roam Yankee Stadium's center field. Heaven forfend. Perhaps center pasture. DiMaggio was a centerpasturer? An awkward locution, but it appeases the sensitivity police. The Chicago Cubs should henceforth play in Wrigley Meadow.

    Such is the New York Times's astonishment, last week the newspaper treated as front-page news the fact that few people like the term "Latinx." The Times describes this as "an inclusive, gender-neutral term to describe people of Latino descent." With "Latinx," advanced thinkers, probably including hyperprogressive non-Latino readers of the Times, have exhausted the public's tolerance of linguistic progressivism.

    Back at Stanford, more than 75 professors are opposing the university's snitching apparatus. The "Protected Identity Harm" system enables – actually, by its existence, it encourages – students to anonymously report allegations against other students, from whom they have experienced what the system calls "harm because of who they are and how they show up in the world."

    The PIH website breathlessly greets visitors: "If you are on this website, we recognize that you might have experienced something traumatic. Take a sip of water. Take a deep breath." PIH recently made national news when someone reported the trauma of seeing a student reading Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

    The professors urge Stanford to avoid "a formal process that students could construe as some sort of investigation into protected speech, or that effectively requires them to admit their protected expression was problematic. Instead, Stanford can support students who are sensitive to speech without involving the speaker." Perhaps by gently shipping those who are "sensitive to speech" to a Trappist monastery.

    Early in the Cold War, some colleges and universities were pressured to require faculty to sign loyalty oaths pledging they were not members of the Communist Party. Liberals honorably led the fight against such government-enforced orthodoxy. Today, liberals are orthodoxy enforcers at the many schools that require applicants for faculty positions to write their own oaths of loyalty to today's DEI obsession.

    They must express enthusiasm for whatever policies are deemed necessary to promote "diversity, equity and inclusion." Fortunately, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina recently joined a growing movement to ban requiring DEI statements in hiring and promotion processes, a recoil against aggressive wokeness.

    A story is told of a revolutionary socialist who was strolling with a friend when they encountered a beggar. The friend began to hand a few coins to the mendicant, but the revolutionary stopped him, exclaiming: "Don't delay the revolution!" The socialist thought worse would be better. More social misery would mean more social upheaval. "Arise ye prisoners of starvation" and all that.

    In America (take that, Stanford), the worse wokeness becomes, the better. Wokeness is being shrunk by the solvent of the laughter it provokes.

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    Buffalo Central Library curtails hours after surge in student fights

    The library reports it is happening daily, hourly, and that it is a crises.

    The Central Library had been open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. In an effort to safeguard library patrons and staff, the downtown Central Library will reduce its open public hours during the week. It will begin closing at 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays because of security concerns.

    “Unfortunately, incidents at the Central Library have now escalated to the point where we cannot provide the environment that our users expect and deserve," said John Spears, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's director. "The problems we are experiencing with patrons of all ages, but especially youth, are being seen beyond just the library, and we hope that these issues can be addressed across the entire community. When you have this type of thing happening daily, hourly, it's a crisis," Spears said. "It has grown beyond us. Some of the fights have involved 20 to 30 people.”

    The library typically has four security guards and two sheriff's deputies in the county-owned building, but even that's proven not to be enough to ward off problems. Police backup has been called in several times to deal with the escalating violence.

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    As someone born and bred in the eastside of Buffalo who used to visit the Buffalo Central Library extensively when attending K-12 schools and college doing homework and research, being a voracious reader checking out reading materials, especially finding solace and safety when visiting the library, this makes me angry and sad in what is taking place in America today.

    Our country is out of control. This is but another example that our country is headed in the wrong direction!

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    New political party on ballot in three states

    I would think Republicans would have like concerns if this upstart party gained traction it would cost Trump the election as well. Most American voters don’t want to see Trump or Biden elected in 2024 and have had enough of extremist politicos on both sides of the political aisle.

    Newest political party on ballot in three states has Democrats terrified

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the...rats-terrified

    A political party has won ballot access in three states, aiming to offer voters a viable third-party option for president in 2024, and Democrats are worried the group will act as a "spoiler" to hand the presidency to Republicans.

    No Labels, a group that claims to want to give voters a non-extreme presidential option next year, has gained enough support to appear on 2024 presidential election ballots in Colorado, Arizona and Oregon. Criticism of the group varies between those calling it a blatant effort to hurt President Joe Biden's reelection chances to those calling it outright grift.

    "Rather than producing a third-party ticket that would defy the overwhelming odds and win, No Labels is on track to field a spoiler who would reelect Trump or a Trump-like Republican," think tank Third Way said in a memo this week.

    Third-party candidates have not attracted significant support in presidential elections. Third Way's warning memo, first reported by Politico on Tuesday, argued that third-party candidates have no chance of winning a general election and would mostly pick up voters who otherwise would vote for the Democratic candidate.

    "No Labels is committed to fielding a candidate that will, intentionally or not, provide a crucial boost to Republicans — and a major obstacle to Biden. As a result, they’ll make it far more likely — if not certain — that Donald Trump returns to the White House."

    But No Labels insists its "unity ticket" would draw support "equally" from Republican and Democrat-leaning voters. The ambitious proposed path to victory would secure electoral votes from purple and swing states across the country.

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    Trust the scientists? Trust the experts?

    Trust Greta Thunberg? Trust anyone anymore?

    Greta Thunberg's online climate change cover-up

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...d732a492&ei=76

    Consider just some of the many exaggerated claims of impending doom the climate change cult has been incorrect about.

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    Things are getting better, right? The country is headed in the right direction, right?

    We have to stop watching / listening to FOX and other right biased media outlets. The news is much better and reassuring coming from mainstream media outlets; and comforting learning president Biden is a brilliant strategist and leader. Biden doesn’t believe in polls and unlike the majority of American voters believes he has the country headed in the right direction.

    Amid high inflation, many Americans fear the country will slip into a recession this year. About 75% say they worry one is on the way and 69% of Americans believe the country is already in a recession. And more than half (55%) say they would lose everything in a recession.

    Typically, economists define a recession as at least two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (GDP). This happened in the second quarter of 2022. However, the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the governmental body responsible for declaring a recession, has yet to make a determination for last year.

    And even though GDP increased in the fourth quarter by 2.9%, it did not change many people’s outlook on the economy. In fact, 63% are pessimistic about how the economy will perform in 2023.

    And then we read the following report on the Social Security increase in 2024.

    Social Security cost-of-living adjustment could dip to 3%

    https://www.newsbreak.com/news/29587...MzE5MTEyMzc%3D

    Seniors and millions of others on Social Security get an annual cost-of-living adjustment (or COLA) that's geared toward aligning their monthly checks with inflation. Next year, that COLA could be 3% — or even lower — based on recent inflationary trends, according to an early estimate from the Senior Citizens League.

    "Based on February inflation data, the COLA looks like it will be below 3% and could fall into the 2% or even lower range by the third quarter if that 12-month average continues to decline," she said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch, adding that her group will issue an official forecast for the 2024 COLA in May.

    The Social Security Administration says it bases its COLA on the percentage increase in the CPI-W in the third quarter compared with the prior year. If there's no increase between the two figures, there's no COLA adjustment, the agency says.

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    More Americans can’t pay their bills

    The White House and mainstream media boast the economy is doing great; low unemployment, inflation is declining, people are spending, etc. The Bidens and Trumps are doing great! How are the proletariat doing?

    More Americans can’t pay their bills. Here’s where it’s worst.

    https://www.newsbreak.com/news/29606...ODE4NDI5NjQ%3D

    A growing number of Americans say they are struggling to pay their bills, battered by inflation and the loss of federal pandemic aid.

    About 36% of consumers say it has been "somewhat" to "very difficult" for them to pay their usual bills in the last seven days, according to the Census Bureau's most recent Household Pulse survey , which gathered responses during the first two weeks of February. That represents a 25% increase compared with a year earlier and is higher than even in the early months of the pandemic, when households were buoyed by expanded unemployment aid and stimulus checks.

    The health of the American consumer is key to the U.S. economy, which relies on consumer spending for 70 cents of every $1 in economic activity. Increasingly, however, there are signs that more households are reaching a breaking point, weighed down by grocery prices that have jumped 20% in two years and rents that have surged 13%. Consumers are cutting back by trading down to cheaper store brands and even buying less food, said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, in a research note citing his company's survey of about 2,800 Americans. "Inflation is not an enemy that consumers can withstand indefinitely," he noted.

    Negative earnings

    At the same time, there's a dichotomy in the economy: The job market remains strong, with employers continuing to hire. Yet while more Americans may have jobs than in the early days of the pandemic, their incomes aren't keeping up with inflation — eroding their standard of living, experts point out.

    "Real earnings have been negative every month since April 2021," noted Evan Lorenz, deputy editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. "The money they are bringing home each week goes a little less far."

    Some Americans are struggling more than others, with a greater share of hardship reported in many Southern states, the census data shows. Incomes tend to be lower in those regions, with many workers still earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — an hourly rate that hasn't budged since 2009.

    Mississippi has the greatest share of Americans who are straining to pay their bills — more than half of its residents report difficulty in meeting their typical obligations, the census data shows. Other states with a greater than average share of struggling households include Alabama, Louisiana and West Virginia.

    Median household income in Mississippi stands at $46,637, well below the U.S. average of $70,784, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

    Meanwhile, Minnesota, the state with the smallest share of residents who are experiencing difficulty in paying their bills, has a median household income of $80,441.

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    Ukraine: Prolonged War Affecting Resolve of Battered Citizens

    Every day we read BS U.S. propaganda from politicians and media on concerns ranging from political and gender identity to end of democracy world ending threats. Little press is ever given to man’s true suffering the result of the world’s inept, dysfunctional, inhumane political class. No greater example than the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in the Ukraine and the extreme hardship of its people.

    In stoic Ukraine, stony faces are starting to crack and to cry as painful war drags on

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/w...ll-crying.html

    "All my life, all my life, when I had problem, I could fix it," he said. "But now… with this war …" – he couldn't even finish his sentence. He covered his face with his hands and burst into sobs, tears plunking into his soup.

    Ukrainians are generally good at putting up a brave front. So much of the messaging from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on down has been that they are tough, they are ready to sacrifice, they are "unbreakable" – that's one of Zelenskyy's favorite words.

    But as the war drags on, an almost unbearable amount of pain builds up. So many people here try to conceal their suffering that it creates a precarious emotional landscape, full of unmarked cliffs. "People don't want to open up, because they're afraid that if they do, they'll lose it," said Anna Trofymenko, a psychotherapist in Kremenchuk, a city in central Ukraine.

    Ukrainians tended to be stoic and reluctant to emote. She chalked this up to the lingering haze of Soviet times when the survival strategy was: Don't stand out. Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't open up to strangers.

    Yevhen Mahda, a leading political scientist in Kyiv, agreed. "During the Soviet Union," he said, "every person was a small piece of a big machine. No one expressed their emotions. It wasn't needed. No one cared." Although younger Ukrainians don't have the same baggage, "society doesn't change so fast," Mahda said. "It's a process, it's not a fairy tale, it's not a Harry Potter book, it's our life."

    In Pokrovsk, an eastern town near the front line, I met a young woman sitting on an evacuation train. Her village had been relentlessly bombed, and she fled in a hurry. She carried 150 hryvnias in her pocket – about $4. But she was composed and neatly dressed, her carefully made-up face a blank mask. I didn't ask many questions but, at one point, looked at her and said, "Sorry you're going through this." She looked right back at me and burst into tears.

    Trofymenko explained this was part of the landscape, too. "As soon as you feel safe," she said, "you let yourself go." "You know, we seem very reserved, unemotional, with a lack of feelings," she added. "But once you are inside, it's a different story."

    As he stretched toward the glistening fruit, I saw Alex's eyes fill with tears. "What is it?" I asked. We had interviewed so many people who had lost everything, but I'd never seen her cry. She is tough. She is hard. She is, by her own admission, a coconut. Why was she crying now? "Because these people are good," she said. *

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    *For the most part people are good, divided and oppressed by their world leaders. How long are these people going to be brutalized before the powers to be settle this unjust invasion.

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    Sticker shock awaits New Yorkers’ utility bills to fund renewables

    While two-thirds of the country declare living paycheck-to-paycheck, many with maxed out credit cards, overwhelmed mentally, they are further stressed out with a narrative that they have to comply with unaffordable mandates to transition to ‘clean energy’ to save the planet. 50-70 thousand dollars to transition, money they will never accumulate and with benefits unachievable.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...costs-00086572

    How much people’s bills will rise over the next decade is still a guessing game. New York is eager to move away from fossil fuels. Customers, though, will feel the switch in their wallets.

    The state has largely funded the recent investments in clean energy, electric vehicle chargers, heat pumps and new transmission lines incrementally through piecemeal decisions by the quasi-independent Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities.

    But larger bills for the aggressive transition are increasingly coming due, and it has the potential for sticker shock for ratepayers — a byproduct of the tremendous complexity of shifting from fossil fuels to heat and power homes and businesses.

    Some of the costs are already impacting utility bills, but more are set to hit in the coming years as projects come online.

    “Financing them exclusively through rates, particularly on residential, is the least progressive mechanism for financing anything. We make no judgment whether you have the money to pay or you don’t have the money to pay,” John Howard, a commissioner on the Public Service Commission, said at last month’s meeting.

    While lawmakers’ concerns are growing over the impact on consumers, they have few levers to shift course on the already-approved costs.

    A wholesale transition of the state’s energy system is not optional: It is mandated under a sweeping 2019 law requiring 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030 and an emissions free grid by 2040, alongside overall reductions in planet-warming gasses. So it requires a wholesale electrification of the state’s economy if New York is to meet the statutory targets.

    The nation-leading initiative won’t come cheap, even though the changeover represents just a small fraction of the state’s economy.


    Continued...

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    Trump won’t change, and that shows he can’t win

    Nor should he be elected president again, nor the empty suit sitting in that position presently. Biden’s unfavorable rating is at its highest and 75% of voters polled declare the country is headed in the wrong direction. Biden is delusional declaring he doesn’t believe in polls, refuses to see how his country is hurting, and continues to blame Trump for all his foreign and domestic policy failures.

    The Republicans are equally delusional if they think they can win with the Avenger, a callous individual more interested in his wellbeing than his fellowman. Today’s New York Post was spot on in defining The Donalds’ chance of winning the office in 2024.

    https://nypost.com/2023/03/24/trump-...s-he-cant-win/

    As some of his allies are trying to rewrite January 6 as an afternoon stroll, Donald Trump is having none of it. In the face of a possible criminal case in New York, he screamed that “death and destruction” would follow any indictment.

    Following news of his possible indictment, Trump blasted the Manhattan DA and his critics on Truth Social. He posed with a baseball bat aimed at the head of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. THIS is Donald Trump.

    He hasn’t changed in the slightest. There is no shame. After riling up rioters, cheering for a coup, and agreeing that his vice president needed to be hanged, he’s back to making violent threats against fellow Americans.

    Donald Trump is facing possible indictment in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. But wait, you say. This is a biased prosecution. Trump has every right to be upset. This is not a felony case, and Bragg trying to turn it into one is pure politics. But rather than seek his vindication in the courtroom, or even just make an impassioned speech, Trump wants to inspire a mob.

    Time and time again, Trump’s responses have been unhinged, indicative, and self-defeating. And don’t buy for a second when he says he’s “fighting for you.” If you actually “rose up” and were arrested, Trump would abandon you, just as he has every ally who wasn’t useful to him anymore.

    What did he do for those locked up for months over Jan. 6? What cash did he hand over for the candidates he endorsed in the recent midterm elections he torpedoed for Republicans?

    We understand voters who rallied to his cause because he vows to fight for them. There is much wrong with the country. And yes, it will take someone strong to wade through the thicket of Establishment opposition to change.

    But Trump is not trying to make America a better place. He’s not offering anyone apart from himself a better future. He’s out for revenge. This is how Trump has been spending his time since announcing his run for president.

    Stewing in Mar-a-Lago.
    No grievance is too small.
    When he found out that Rihanna once criticized him, he took to Truth Social — multiple times! — to bellow how bad her Super Bowl halftime show was.
    He once posted a screed, at 5 o’clock in the morning, about MSNBC’s programming decisions.

    When Trump ran in 2016, he was an unknown entity. Independents took a chance, wanting to break from the stagnant political machines that sought to anoint Hillary Clinton. But he’s not a mystery anymore. Americans know that Trump can’t stop himself from nursing piddling grudges and throwing out childish insults.

    The emperor has no clothes.

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    Hope & Change – Leading from behind

    While Biden, the White House, and the mainstream media continue to focus on the existential threat of future climate change and mankind’s existence, racism, sexism, gender, etc., 75% of Americans declare the country is headed in the wrong direction, 66% of families are living paycheck-to-paycheck, Biden’s favorable rating percent dipped below 40%, and the majority of American voters declare the don’t want Biden or Trump elected president in 2024.

    Many Americans fear that if the current threats to their existence, freedoms, and welfare are not addressed or solved there may be no 2030:

    Clean Energy: Mandates, transition costs ($20,000 to $40,000), environmental impacts

    War in Ukraine, nuclear threat, arms depletion

    Inflation

    Rising interest rates

    Home energy prices are now at their highest level in more than 10 years and in some cases are increasing at more than twice the rate of inflation

    No longer energy independent. Strategic Petroleum Reserves down to 60% capacity.

    America pulls back from core values that once defined it

    Border crisis

    Businesses leaving crime ridded blue states

    Iran's bold attacks on American troops illustrate Bidens 'weakness’

    Alliance between Putin and Xi more consequential than the alliance between the U.S. and its allies

    Recession fears are rising, and more than half of Americans say they would lose everything

    Residents are fearful during crime surge

    Free speech under attack

    Failing banks

    32 trillion in debt

    Artificial Intelligence threat to future humanity

    Stock market in shambles – down 5,000 from apex

    Putin putting nukes in Belarus

    While Trump pilloried by media every day, bombshell Biden family story ignored

    DOJ kept Biden classified documents from Congress

    Teen overdose deaths have doubled in three years. Blame fentanyl!

    Suicide rates increasing significantly. One-in-three teenage girls declare contemplating suicide’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Buffalo Central Library curtails hours after surge in student fights

    The library reports it is happening daily, hourly, and that it is a crises.

    The Central Library had been open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. In an effort to safeguard library patrons and staff, the downtown Central Library will reduce its open public hours during the week. It will begin closing at 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays because of security concerns.

    “Unfortunately, incidents at the Central Library have now escalated to the point where we cannot provide the environment that our users expect and deserve," said John Spears, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's director. "The problems we are experiencing with patrons of all ages, but especially youth, are being seen beyond just the library, and we hope that these issues can be addressed across the entire community. When you have this type of thing happening daily, hourly, it's a crisis," Spears said. "It has grown beyond us. Some of the fights have involved 20 to 30 people.”

    The library typically has four security guards and two sheriff's deputies in the county-owned building, but even that's proven not to be enough to ward off problems. Police backup has been called in several times to deal with the escalating violence.

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    As someone born and bred in the eastside of Buffalo who used to visit the Buffalo Central Library extensively when attending K-12 schools and college doing homework and research, being a voracious reader checking out reading materials, especially finding solace and safety when visiting the library, this makes me angry and sad in what is taking place in America today.

    Our country is out of control. This is but another example that our country is headed in the wrong direction!
    This does not surprise me Lee considering the unrest we have witnessed in our country. When I raised my children, we went to the library regularly. My children always looked forward to spending the day at the library. Today, oh my gosh, God only knows what takes place at a library now..sadly.

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    Biden, Mayorkas and Harris, oh my!

    That Trump guy is one hell of a liar and one mean SOB, but he is not our president or responsible for our current state of affairs. Biden, Mayorkas, and Harris embellish the old ‘hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’ adage; ‘know nothing, blame others, lie’.

    Biden: On tour touting the economy

    Former White House economist calls Biden out for spewing ‘utter economic lies’ on national tour

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d76c6412&ei=69

    Mayorkas: Open border security and fentanyl deaths

    Absolutely Not True!’ DHS Secretary Mayorkas Hits Back During Brutal Grilling by GOP Senator Over Border Security

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d76c6412&ei=33

    Harris: An embarrassment in any environment

    VP Kamala Harris Mocked for Repeating Herself While Giving Speech in Africa: 'Too Pathetic'

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...76c6412&ei=126

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    Baseball, politics and common sense

    Major League Baseball opens today. A lifelong New York Yankee fan I am used to getting the proverbial ‘of all teams, why the Yankees’ asked of me, especially when out wearing Yankee cap and jacket. Duh, most likely because I live in New York. At least it makes sense to me. Not so much to others and they let me know in no uncertain terms why.

    I am also a lifelong registered unaffiliated (blank) voter and don’t ask others what their voter affiliation is, or why. I think that with rare exception all politicos are self-interested and suck and not worthy of loyalty.

    We often hear today that common sense is dead. Received the following recently relating to common sense and just had to pass it on:

    • We don't let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?

    • Why is it that when archaeologists find human remains, they always determine that they are either male or female and none of the other hundreds of genders?

    • We're churning out a generation of poorly-educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work. — Mike Rowe

    • If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery—Bill Maher

    • Why were we told to lower our AC usage on hot days to prevent overwhelming the electric grid while simultaneously being told to trade in our gas cars for electric vehicles?

    • Why is cancelling student debt a good idea? Does it make sense to reward people who do not honor their financial commitment by taxing the people who do?

    * Does it make sense to cut off oil from an ally and buy it from an enemy who calls for your death?

    • Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won't be offended?

    • Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered sexual harassment to adults...but talking about sexuality to children K-3 at school considered education?

    • Who else had a 'ministry of truth" besides Biden?...Hitler...Goebbels...Stalin.

    • Eliminating the production of 500,000 American barrels of oil a day to buy 500,000 barrels a day from our enemies is simply...well...stupid.

    • I saw a movie where only the police and military had guns; it was called Schindler's List.

    • Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare, illegals and free college?

    • I just got a full tank of gas for $22. Granted, it was for my lawn mower, but I'm trying to stay positive.

    • If an 18-year-old isn't mature enough to own a firearm, then maybe five years old isn't mature enough to change their gender.

    • Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free.......Just like socialism.

    • The most powerful governments on earth can't stop a virus from spreading...but they say they can change the earth's temperature if you pay more taxes.

    • Want to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers? Ban sober drivers from driving. That's how gun control and COVID lockdowns work.

    • If you don't want to stand for the national anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his. That way a real patriot can stand in your place.

    • If socialism is so good and capitalism is so bad...then why aren't the caravans heading to Venezuela?

    AMERICA MAY HAVE BEEN FOUNDED BY PATRIOTS BUT ITS BEING RUN DOWN BY IDIOTS.

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    The demise of American core values

    Born in the Silent Generation (1925-45), bred by Greatest Generation parents, I found the column written by David Shribman, editor of the Pittsburg Post- Gazette revealing on the continuing demise of America’s values and mores.

    It’s content focuses on the recent survey conducted by NORC, the research arm of the University of Chicago for the Wall Street Journal. It covers the change that has taken place in America’s evolving views, its DNA in the last 25 years - especially regarding patriotism, religion, mores, work ethic, family structure.

    Excerpts from Shribman’s report:

    We are living in a country that has changed in just the last quarter century.

    Memo to members of the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. welcome to another country. Prepare yourself for some vertigo. The Portrait of the country you think you know is going to leave you dizzy.

    Some of this you know: The changing skin color of our American group portrait.

    Back in 1998, when the youngest old War II veterans were in their early 70s, seven out of 10 Americans considered patriotism an important value. Today, when only a tenth 0f those who served in the war remain live, fewer than four in 10 Americans feel that way.
    Back in 1998, two popes ago and when 70 percent of Americans belonged to a religious institution, three out of five Americans thought religion was very important to them. Today fewer than two of five feel that way.

    Patriotism and religion once were regarded as the two bedrock values in American life.

    In the past quarter-century, the number of Americans who think having children is very important has been sliced in half. The central bridge between the Greatest Generation and the boomers may be John F. Kennedy, a World War II veteran whose residency coincided with the birth of the late edge of the Baby Boom, those children were Boomers, and whose political idiom marked and shaped the Boomer generation. our months before he was assassinated, he told the United States Committee for UNICEF that "children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

    That sort of remark – made by a president who won the White House by arguing that it’s time for "a new generation of leadership" – remains common, but the consensus that having children is one of the capstone experiences of human life has vanished. So, too, has the traditional American worship of hard work, where there has been a drop of 4 percentage points since Bill Clinton was resident and said, without irony or self-consciousness, "If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you." Biden might give that speech today, but it would resonate far less with his audience.

    The country is far more divided politically today, and the innards of the survey show a stark artisan divide, with Republicans more worshipful of patriotism, religion, and having children. But one value remains at the heart of that it means to be an American: the value we place on money.

    So what does all this say about the country we now inhabit? That we worship different things, and worship less, than we used to. That the assumptions older politicians bring to current politics are outdated, an especially important factor when the two most likely 2024 presidential nominees are 76 and 80. *


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    Some would offer that the change in America was more influenced by the Hope & Change policies of Obama followed by Biden social programs that led to many now believing we are ‘leading from behind’.

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    Trump indictment: Upside down justice

    Shameless in New York. The New York taxpayer takes it in the shorts again.

    Trump's attorneys sound alarm on Bragg 'taking funding' from NYC 'while people are dying' just to nab Trump

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...4937b85&ei=130

    Trump attorneys Alina Habba and James Trusty ripped Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's fulfilled promise of indicting the former president, both joining the Fox News Channel on Sunday where they voiced concerns over political persecution infiltrating the justice system.

    "This shows how corrupt the New York judicial system has become," Habba told "Sunday Morning Futures" anchor Maria Bartiromo. "They think it's appropriate to take funding away from the city that is falling apart. They are taking funding away while people are dying and there is crime rampant in the streets to go after the leading GOP candidate. It is unacceptable."

    Trusty, another attorney representing the former president, warned "Fox News Sunday" viewers that the historic indictment establishes a legal precedent that will not go away easily. "We should never have prosecutors acting out on political promises to target people," Trusty told host Shannon Bream.

    "He's [Trump] worried that he's the first person subjected to this new model of upside-down justice, of political persecution. It let the genie out of the bottle with this new mode of prosecution. It's not going to go back by itself. It's going to be a problem for generations," he added. Trusty claimed that activist district attorneys are "pushing the envelope legally" and alleged that a "fair-minded judge" could make the right decision, including responding to a motion to dismiss after determining the case lacks sufficient legal standing.

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