Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

Thank you, Buffalo

Your call for peace and unity is exemplary and worthy of the ‘City of Good Neighbors’ name recognition.

It makes one born and bred in Buffalo on the east side, living there for 21 years and working his entire life in the City proud to see its living up to a reputation well deserved.

The evil that entered our city and caused so much death and suffering has been captured and will cause no more harm. Hopefully, there will be no further violence causing harm to innocents.

[Lee Chowaniec]

A new agenda for the Democrats starts at the middle ground

It is time the Democratic Party and the so-professed, non-socialist / moderate Biden ‘woke’ and realized their shift to the left was antagonizing 76% of American voters. Unfortunately, lurking in the background to take the Democratic Party further left should Biden not run in 2024 are candidates like Sanders and Warren.

A new agenda for the Democrats starts at the middle ground

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...4dc110ba2327e3

Amid record-high inflation, a sinking stock market, a crisis at the southern border and surging crime rates, Americans have grown deeply pessimistic about the country’s trajectory and increasingly wary of the Democratic Party’s ability to effectively lead.

While Democrats likely won’t be able to completely reverse their bleak political prospects ahead of the midterms, the party can significantly improve its position by adopting a new, more centrist agenda with two broader areas of focus.

First, Democrats need to get tougher on crime and illegal immigration and seize the middle ground on both issues. Republicans have worked — with some success — to tie rising crime rates and the crisis at the southern border to a broader narrative that Democrats are weak, ineffective and support lawless policies.

In order to reframe the issue, Democrats should make a concerted effort to craft, propose, and promote centrist solutions to both crises, while also making a good-faith effort to achieve a “grand bargain” with Republicans on each issue.

In doing so, Democrats can help shield vulnerable members of their caucus against G.O.P. attacks that Democrats are too far left, while also showing voters that their party is committed to solving problems in a bipartisan fashion. If Republicans block either effort, Democrats will be able to call Republicans out for their obstructionism and cast the G.O.P. as extreme partisans.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Don’t screw it up, Mr. President

The Buffalo community should take pride in the way it has conducted itself trying to understand and heal itself after the tragic mass killing conducted by a single evil / racist individual residing 200 miles away.

State and local politicos, police, and judicial administrators have performed magnificently to defuse a potential timebomb. Many members of the Black community are angry the shooter seemed to have escaped close scrutiny by law enforcement that spends a disproportionate amount of time policing Black neighborhoods. That is understandable!

President Biden will be visiting Buffalo today to offer condolences and hopefully words that will help unify and heal a suffering community; hopefully not spouting political rhetoric that will not only divide our community but further divide our country. Promising to be a uniter, he has been anything but!

[Breezy]

Thank you, Buffalo

Your call for peace and unity is exemplary and worthy of the ‘City of Good Neighbors’ name recognition.

It makes one born and bred in Buffalo on the east side, living there for 21 years and working his entire life in the City proud to see its living up to a reputation well deserved.

The evil that entered our city and caused so much death and suffering has been captured and will cause no more harm. Hopefully, there will be no further violence causing harm to innocents.

You can take your bull**** comment here and shove it!

One of the writers at the Buffalo News wrote yesterday:

"If Gendron pulled the trigger, there are lot of unindicted co-conspirators who will quickly try to absolve themselves of any responsibility but can never wash Buffalo’s blood off their hands."

I immediately thought of you Lee Chowaniec and Had enough yet.

Your writings on here, specifically with the repugnant Had enough yet, provide a wink and a nod, and over and over and over, with similar themes devolving over the years into hateful posts and highlighting "them," people other than you. Your co-conspirator Mark Blazejewski is listed as the Erie County "leader" on the repugnant Make NY Red Facebook group, where the Niagara County "leader" called for the hanging of a Black member of the United States Congress. (By the way, evil June Chapman is a horrible and detestable woman spreading hate with her Make NY Red page) You never once called any of them out, and Make NY Red has come up on Speakup NUMEROUS times because of Blazejewski.

You Lee Chowaniec ARE part of the problem.

Get a life!!!

[mark blazejewski]

You can take your bull**** comment here and shove it!

One of the writers at the Buffalo News wrote yesterday:

"If Gendron pulled the trigger, there are lot of unindicted co-conspirators who will quickly try to absolve themselves of any responsibility but can never wash Buffalo’s blood off their hands."

I immediately thought of you Lee Chowaniec and Had enough yet.

Your writings on here, specifically with the repugnant Had enough yet, provide a wink and a nod, and over and over and over, with similar themes devolving over the years into hateful posts and highlighting "them," people other than you. Your co-conspirator Mark Blazejewski is listed as the Erie County "leader" on the repugnant Make NY Red Facebook group, where the Niagara County "leader" called for the hanging of a Black member of the United States Congress. (By the way, evil June Chapman is a horrible and detestable woman spreading hate with her Make NY Red page) You never once called any of them out, and Make NY Red has come up on Speakup NUMEROUS times because of Blazejewski.

You Lee Chowaniec ARE part of the problem.

Get a life!!!

You piece of hateful of Uni-Party revolutionary garbage, you are a liar because I am not a member of Make New York Red.

Lying in order to target members of this site who disagree with your political perversion is not going to unify this area, nor will it restore life to the dead, or lend comfort to the grieving survivors.

Didn't you cause enough trouble for my family when you posted this is 2020?

Wouldn't it be a real hoot if BLM picketed you, Mark Blazejewski?

You'd sure have it coming! LOL They have been noted in a lot of media reports doing just that, lately.

You are the one who celebrates violence and human suffering, not my family or myself.


Your comments are nothing more than twisted political theatrics; the ultimate manipulation of social media for evil, yes and by that I mean Satanic, purposes. The reasonable readers of this forum will quickly identify your written venom for what it is: a dark attempt to exploit human tragedy for cheap political gain.

The readers of Speak Up know of your tactics, and can follow the development of your hateful scheme on the link below, beginning with post #538.

https://www.speakupwny.com/forums/sh...cansdale+cabal

You simply serve no positive public interest on this forum.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Will the National Security Strategy defund the government?

An interesting read. Can’t wait to see the final product. Restructuring is needed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...48b1ebba893653

President Biden’s National Security Strategy is set to be released at any time, and if it follows the interim version faithfully, it will be radical — and doomed to failure.

That is, unless a dependency mentioned like an afterthought on the second-to-last page sees the light of day. It’s easy to miss; just a few sentences, buried after much fuller coverage of looming threats such as China, Russia, climate change and equality. No one is talking about it, but it’s crucial — the single most important piece of guidance, and it goes like this:

“Because traditional distinctions between foreign and domestic policy — and among national security, economic security, health security, and environmental security — are less meaningful than ever before, we will reform and rethink our agencies, departments, interagency processes, and White House organization to reflect this new reality.”

Why, among all other pressing national security concerns, is this the most salient? The Interim National Security Strategy approaches national security in terms of human security, addressing the many causes of human vulnerability: armed conflict, human rights violations, environmental challenges, and resource deprivation. In doing so, it places a remarkable burden on the existing national security apparatus, which is structured to meet the traditional definition of security: protecting citizens against external aggression and internal subversion.

[Lee Chowaniec]

The White House continues to declare its policies are working

While the country is rightfully focused on the heinous mass killing in Buffalo and the crazed views of an 18-year-old radicalized, white supremist, healing will not come treating all Republicans as racist and it will also convince a lot of centrists that the "racist" label is meaningless because everyone eventually gets called "racist."

It is equally important for the 76% of individuals polled citing the country is headed in the wrong direction to not lose focus what caused them to come to that determination – the economy, inflation, a border crisis, supply shortages, a stock market that dropped 1,164 points today, etc. Consumer confidence is crashing and Biden's approval rating is now at 39%.

The following report puts into perspective where we are and possibly heading under Biden and his failed domestic and foreign policies. Go center old man, go center!

Imagine the Unimaginable
By: Victor Davis Hanson
May 12, 2022

Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.

Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.

In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader Vladimir Putin now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war.

A 79-year-old Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power.

After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving on how best to exploit this rare window of global military opportunity.

The traditional bedrocks of the American system—a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system—are dissolving.

Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation is at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable. The necessary remedy of high interest and tight money will be almost as bad as the disease of hyperinflation.

There is no southern border. Expect over 1 million foreign nationals to swarm this summer into the United States without audit, COVID testing, or vaccination. None will have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigration law.

Police are underfunded and increasingly defunded. District attorneys deliberately release violent criminals without charges. (Literally, 10,000 people witnessed a deranged man with a knife attack comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl last week, and the Los Angeles County D.A. refused to press felony charges.) Murder and assault are spiraling. Carjacking and smash-and-grab thefts are now normal big-city events.

Crime is now mostly a political matter. Ideology, race, and politics determine whether the law is even applied.

Supermarket shelves are thinning, and meats are now beyond the budgets of millions of Americans. An American president—in a first—casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared from many shelves.

Politics resembles the violent last days of the Roman Republic. An illegal leak of a possible impending Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade that would allow state voters to set their own abortion laws has created a national hysteria.

Never has a White House tacitly approved mobs of protesters showing up at Supreme Court justices’ homes to rant and bully them into altering their votes.

There is no free speech anymore on campuses.

Merit is disappearing. Admissions, hiring, promotion, retention, grading, and advancement are predicated increasingly on mouthing the right orthodoxies or belonging to the proper racial, gender, or ethnic category.

When the new campus commissariat finally finishes absorbing the last redoubts in science, math, engineering, medical, and professional schools, America will slide into permanent mediocrity and irreversible declining standards of living.

What happened?

Remember all these catastrophes are self-induced. They are choices, not fate. The United States has the largest combined gas, coal, and oil deposits in the world. It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and ensure the cleanest energy development on the planet.

Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. He kept printing trillions of dollars for short-term political advantage, incentivizing labor nonparticipation, and keeping interest rates at historical lows—at a time of pent-up global demand.

The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.

Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories—“modern monetary theory,” critical legal theory, critical race theory—now dominate policymaking in the Biden Administration.

The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism. Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.

Is not that the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from 18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?

The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022. Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Joe Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.

Why? The Left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.

So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing, cancel culture, de-platforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.

Meanwhile, left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme Court decisions, illegally cancel student debts, and likely by the fall issue more COVID lockdowns. They will still dream of packing the Court, ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding more states, and flooding the November balloting with hundreds of millions more dollars of dark money from Silicon Valley.

When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous – as we shall see over the next few months.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Social Security and inflation: good news and bad news

It was sometime in mid-2021 when Biden and the Federal Reserve predicted a transitory inflation period. Experts are now predicting inflation may last well into 2024. Seniors on Social Security are being advised not to worry as they could realize a COLA increase of 8%, or even higher. There is a downside.

Last year, it was announced that the COLA rise would be 5.9 percent. This was done at a time when annual inflation stood at 6.2 percent, so was slightly behind. Now, with inflation at 8.3 percent, this increase was woefully short of what was necessary. That 5.9% increase isn’t keeping up with the rate of inflation today — and that is what is really difficult when you are trying to live on a fixed income.

According to the Senior Citizens League, seniors could get 8.6% benefits increase next year. This would take effect in January 2023. It means that a retiree who is getting the average monthly benefit of $1,657 this year would see their payment increase by $142.50 per month, or $1,710 per year. This would be the largest increase to monthly Social Security benefits since 1981, when Americans received an 11.2% raise. And it far surpasses the raises seniors received in recent years, which ranged from 0% in 2016 to 5.9% in 2022.

It may seem like great news that seniors are getting the biggest benefits increase in more than four decades. But the reality is that it's not a good thing for seniors or for anyone else.

The COLA is calculated each year based on the consumer price index, which shows how prices have increased from year to year. In other words, it's based on inflation, so a big raise means the costs of goods and services have gone up dramatically. So while retirees will get more money on paper, they won't enjoy any more buying power with their bigger checks. In fact, their money isn't likely to go as far for two key reasons.

The first big issue is that Social Security raises have not accurately kept pace with the actual increase in spending older Americans have experienced over time due to the way the COLA formula is structured. The shortfall is substantial, with the Senior Citizens League estimating that benefits have lost 40% of their buying power since 2000.

The second issue is that most older Americans rely both on Social Security and savings to help them make ends meet. And inflation hits savers hard, as the buying power of seniors' invested funds will also decline when prices go up. Since seniors typically need to be invested conservatively to avoid undue risk of loss, their returns may not be high enough to avoid losing substantial ground when inflation is surging so much.

The Social Security Administration hasn't yet announced the benefits increase for 2023 and since it's based on data from the third quarter of the year (July to September) things could still change. But all evidence suggests inflation will be a persistent problem in the months to come, so retirees should start preparing now for rising prices over time that their bigger Social Security check may not cover.

Where will all the money come from to increase COLA

No sweat, just print it. No one is worried about the national debt anymore – Democrats or Republicans, or too many others.

America’s national debt is currently $30.4 trillion. The 43 percent of Americans who paid some federal income tax in 2021 might receive their monthly statement printed on gold-tinted paper to highlight their $242,985 share of the debt. But all “citizens” could receive a monthly postcard indicating a more manageable debt share of $91,476. Today’s $30.4 trillion in national debt increased by $2.1 trillion from June 2021. At current spending rates, it is projected to reach $41 trillion by 2026.

Now brace yourself for the shocking truth concerning U.S. unfunded liabilities — payments the government owes and promises its citizens without the funds to fulfill those obligations. These payments include Social Security, Medicare Parts A, B and D, federal debt held by the public, plus federal employee, and veteran benefits.

When I last wrote about unfunded liabilities in January 2019, the tab was $122 trillion, with a 2023 four-year projection of $157 trillion. Today, only three and a half years later, unfunded liabilities are $169.2 trillion. More astonishing is the 2026 projection of $214.4 trillion.

Concerned? Uncle Joe isn’t. He plans on spending more and the left are telling him he is not spending enough.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Time for a third party?

Say what, Clinton lied about Trump-Russia collusion? I’m shocked – NOT. My goodness, only Trump, his ultra MAGA crowd, and FOX News are supposed to lie.

GEORGE JARRETT: [Clinton] personally approved the scheme to peddle phony collusion information to the media, that dropped like a bombshell by her own campaign manager, Robby Mook.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...86d928bf2e715a

When Just 39 percent approved of Biden’s job performance in the poll released Friday. Only three-quarters of Democrats are on board with Biden at the moment (a year ago 90 percent) this will damage the Democratic Party more.

Americans don’t care about foreign policy gains (though in Biden’s case his pullout from Afghanistan has been one major exception, they care about their wallets.

When Nancy Pelosi dares to stand before America and declare Biden is doing an excellent job, that his policies are a success, where 80% of Americans disagree and believe the country is headed in the wrong, direction, where Biden’s approval rating now stands at 39%, Musk’s call for a third party has merit!

Musk calls for a third party

Tired of all the lies, disinformation, propaganda from Democrat and Republican Parties and the media, Elon Musk’ call for a ‘more moderate’ third party sounds like what America is ready for.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...c9962a89d78b2a

After harshly attacking the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Musk announced on May 18 that he would now vote Republican. He'd voted for Barack Obama.

"In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party," he said. But Democrats have become "the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican."

But two days after this declaration, Musk made new statements that will bewilder Republicans, who were happy to have the tech tycoon in their ranks.
The entrepreneur wants a political big bang that'll end the two-party system. He sees the current political system as a source of division and not representing everyone.

"I suggest no parties and just direct voting by the people of concise laws that everyone can understand," Musk wrote on Twitter on March 19.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1527319036966899718

Musk goes further and proposes a third party, a kind of centrist party that would become the tent of moderate voices.

"A party more moderate on all issues than either Reps or Dems would be ideal," the billionaire said. "This is what most people in America want, but unfortunately it's not realistic."

[Lee Chowaniec]

Chaos dominates discussions, debates, and opinion

Spot on!

Dare your opinion counter that of the yet to be established ‘misinformation police,’ politicos, media, OR political party extremists you are likely to be shamed, intimidated, and/or subjected to dire personal consequence.

Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned years ago of the connection between rampant falsehoods in public dialogue and violence in a society. Reason has pretty much left the American marketplace of ideas today: Spin, concoction, and misdirection prevail. Violence, in the rhetorical and literal sense, as Solzhenitsyn forewarned, is also now thriving in America’s sociopolitical arena.

America’s rhetorical sphere has descended into chaos

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...3e934162472b07

Healthy civilizations hinge on being able to decide things through discussion and debate. That debate must be based on honest, accurate information that leads to conclusions based on the prevalence of reason. America’s rhetorical sphere today is sorely lacking in those standards. Raw emotion and rage have replaced reasoned debate, and falsehood is a key tool in manipulating public argumentation. Chaos dominates the nation’s deliberations.

Evidence of the nation’s communication chaos emerges daily, as passion overwhelms thinking. A rich guy named Elon announces plans to buy a social media platform, and an online mob goes berserk. CBS host Gayle King responds to the tragic shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., by claiming that “racism is mainstream” in America. The New York Times is so intimidated by cultural antagonists that it removes the word “fetus” from Wordle. A Supreme Court nominee is afraid to define the word “woman.” And so it goes, in a rhetorical climate of fear and anger.

There are serious consequences to creating a chaotic public communications environment. Political opponents demonize and label each other, effectively ending sensible discussion. That condition was made clear in a study of political polarization last fall out of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. It showed fear and distrust now infect the minds of both sides of the political spectrum.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Scared? Yeah, me too!

So many things to be scared of!

Biden keeping up employment at the gaffe factory

Sad and embarrassing that this man is representing America on the world stage!! And Harris and Pelosi are warming up in the bullpen!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...2a0ca365cc665f

It’s Weekend at Biden’s again, and Dementia Joe Biden has been pondering the dysfunction that plagues these fruited plains. Specifically, Brandon frets about mentally impaired people wandering America’s streets:

“(People) who are just deranged, who are, who are susceptible, who are, who are just lost and don’t know what to do, and they’re easily taken, they’re easily sucked in, and it’s gotta stop, we must admit it, I don’t know why we don’t admit what the hell’s goin’ on. Anyway …”

Got a mirror, Mr. President?

But it’s more than that; much more. Conflicting media reports filled with lies, disinformation, and propaganda leaves one questioning what to believe.

Inflation

On the one hand we read that consumer confidence is at an all time low and 65% of Americans believe inflation will only get worse and that recession is just around the corner. As the country heads into midterm-election season, much of the political discussion has centered around solid economic growth and robust employment versus the damaging impact of inflation. More recently, warnings about the prospect of an economic downturn—which could come in 2023 according to some estimates—have complicated the economic picture in a new way.

Others hold that “Demand booms. Companies aggressively order or even over-order in order to ensure they have inventories. Then demand shifts. Suddenly fears of shortages and empty shelves turn into inventory pileups, gluts, and disinflation.”

2022 Mid-term elections

2020 was a referendum on Trump. Trump was outright hated. Biden would be the unifying, honest savior and make America better again.

Gasoline prices just hit their highest level ever nationwide over the weekend. The president’s approval rating plunged in an Associated Press poll to a new low of 39 percent. The stock market dropped for the seventh consecutive week. Violent crime rates have spiked. A baby formula shortage has alarmed parents. And inflation remains high. “The problem is not messaging — the problem is reality.”

The greatest hope for Democrats appears to be potential Republican acts of self-sabotage: the party nominating outside-the-mainstream candidates or failing to coalesce after divisive primaries. In Washington, much of the Biden agenda is frozen in a congressional morass. The party’s left wing and centrists are busily blaming each other for the state of affairs and clashing over what to do next, with student loan forgiveness emerging as one divisive flashpoint.

People are hurting. People are tired. They are tired of the political and media claptrap rhetoric. They are scared and do not approve of the ‘new normal,’ progressive Marxist policies, the ‘woke movement,’ where housing costs and rents are increasing at alarming rates, and where the middle class is hearing from a Biden administration to tighten their belts and get used to the new normal - where government spending continues uncontrolled, and where the national debt is $30.4 trillion and where Biden’s leftwing is disappointed he is not spending more.

An A.P. poll on Friday showed only 21 percent of Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction. A CBS News/YouGov survey on Sunday showed 65 percent of Americans said Mr. Biden was “slow to react” to important issues and events. And his approval rating among Democrats was at just 73 percent in the A.P. survey. Biden and his cohorts continue to lavish praise on his policies and declare they have been successful.

Monkey pox

The nation has not recovered from the ravishes of COVID and its misinformation / disinformation reports and here goes Biden speaking today on the breakout of Monkey pox, discovered in 11 countries, and focusing on its fatal consequences. But not to worry, he’s on it.

The U.S. has recorded two cases of monkeypox — in Massachusetts and City. The list of countries with at least one monkeypox case also includes: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The disease can be fatal but most people recover from monkeypox within weeks according to the World Health Organization.

Scientists have identified two forms of the virus: the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade. The West African clade is less fatal, with deaths occurring in about one percent of infections. The Congo Basin clade can cause death in as many as 1 in 10 people who contract the disease, the World Health Organization said. While data is preliminary, Rimoin says the current outbreaks appear to be connected with the less-deadly West African clade.

“Those at highest risk are people who closely interact with someone infected with the generally mild disease. This includes health workers, household members and sexual partners," WHO said.

But experts say the outbreak is not likely to evolve into a global health crisis because the disease is not easily transmitted and reported cases remain relatively low. "It doesn't have that great a transmission ability," said Dr. Seth Blumberg.

A vaccine developed against smallpox has been approved for monkeypox, and several antivirals also appear to be effective. But according to the CDC, there is no proven, safe treatment for monkeypox virus infection.

Enough to fret about for one night!

[mark blazejewski]

Wow, I guess prophets come from all walks of life, eh?

An immunologist, a whacky computer geek, and a corrupt politicians appear to have prophetic powers and abilities exceeding the divine actors of the Bible!

2017:

January 11, 2017

Fauci: ‘No doubt’ Trump will face surprise infectious disease outbreak

Reference: https://www.healio.com/news/infectio...sease-outbreak

February, 2022:

Bill Gates says Covid risks have ‘dramatically reduced’ but another pandemic is coming

PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 18 2022 1:40 PM EST

May, 2022:

Scared? Yeah, me too!...


Monkey pox

The nation has not recovered from the ravishes of COVID and its misinformation / disinformation reports and here goes Biden speaking today on the breakout of Monkey pox, discovered in 11 countries, and focusing on its fatal consequences. But not to worry, he’s on it.

Or, maybe we are just being played by some really sinister revolutionaries in pursuit of a dark agenda?

The U.S. delegation to the World Health Assembly will submit amendments to the Constitution of the World Health Organization which would constitute an instrument for pandemic preparedness and response.

These amendments will be voted during a World Health Assembly meeting on May 22-28, 2022.

Reference: https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/en/dates...ngs-eb_en.html

I understand that if adopted, these amendments, will supersede United States law, and will not, be subject to the advice and consent of the United States Senate. It would seem, by virtue of its U.N. and WHO membership, the United States will automatically be bound by the amendments.

Just my opinion, but if these amendments are realized, it will be tantamount to the backdoor implementation of a one world government.

The Case Against a Pandemic Treaty

Reference: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/case-against-pandemic-treat

The simultaneous convergence of Russia collusion, the Ukrainian Impeachment, the issue of the 2020 election, January 6, the Ukrainian invasion, the Taiwan ambiguity, now Monkey Pox, seriously?

Nah, we're getting played.

Good Luck, and good night!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Global Warming Memes

Global warming is considered an existential threat to our planet’s survival according to some scientists, the Biden administration, and the leftwing media. Global warming is real but is it cyclical and uncontrollable or is the ‘green deal’ real and doable.

The following climate change memes circulating the Internet are more thought provoking than amusing to those questioning man-made global warming, solution efficacy, and cost.

Michael Blomberg has 6 planes, 3 helicopters, 11 houses and 42 cars. Yet he thinks you should use public transportation.

Overpopulation is a myth. There is so much room on earth that if everyone lived as densely as in New York City the entire world population of 7.8 billion could fit into the State of Alaska – and with an acre of land. Overpopulation is a lie just like everything else to instill fear and scarcity over the masses.

Manufacturing just the battery for an electric vehicle produces the same amount of CO2 s a gas engine does for eight years.

Biden: My policies are working, only you don’t know it!

16-year-old Greta Thunberg, not a scientist, reads from a script, gets 24-hr. media coverage. Climatologist D. Judith Curry has published over 140 books, says global warming is a hoax and gets no media coverage. Media manipulation?

Al Gore, 2009 – The North Pole will be ice free by 2013 because of man-made global warming.

Those who are warning you about rising seas are buying beachfront properties. Those who warn you about COVID are throwing parties and taking vacations. Those who are telling you giving up your guns will make you safe are hiring armed security. Get it yet!

Morgan Vague made one of the greatest innovations in our lifetime. She discovered a bacterium that can break plastic down into harmless enzymes. She was nominated for Times Person of the Year but lost out to Greta Thunberg. Go figure!

John Kerry as Climate Czar: Only Democrats would pick a guy with 6 houses, 12 cars, 2 yachts, and a private jet and tell you that should take a bus or ride a bike to get to work.

Liberals think you can control the weather by using cars powered by coal fired electric generating plants than by gas engines.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Abortion: Extremists and what the polls show

While interviewing Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), CNN’s Dana Bash posed a question that perfectly encapsulates how dark our abortion politics are: Wouldn’t poor children be better off dead?

“Arkansas already struggles to support vulnerable children,” Bash said. “Nearly 1 in 4 children in Arkansas lives in poverty. More than 4,600 kids are already in your state’s overloaded foster care system. Do you really think that your state is prepared to protect and care for even more children if abortion does become illegal there?”

Bash is implying that abortion is a solution to poverty and that children who might end up being born into poverty or put into foster care would be better off dead. It’s similar to what we have heard from Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. Never mind that California has nearly identical rates of child poverty and children in foster care as Arkansas despite being a haven for abortion-obsessed politicians. Clearly, in their minds, poor children or children born into difficult circumstances are worth less than others.

Bash and others resort to dark rhetoric about abortion and the poor because they want abortion to be seen as a numbers game, not a procedure designed to end human life. They want to sanitize the issue as much as possible, trying to paint it as just another healthcare decision or something that is good for the economy. But what they are actually saying is that life is not worth living for some children. That grim worldview must not be accepted.

Who are the extremists? Democrats refuse to say if they would put any limits on abortion.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, like other Democrats, recently framed the right to abortion in absolutist terms. Adams and others have argued that the decision to abort must be left entirely to the woman, without limitations. If adopted into law, that would mean a nine-month-old fetus could be aborted at will.

It's an extreme position, but it's one echoed by other Democratic politicians such as Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who's running for the U.S. Senate.

A late-term abortion without medical justification is thankfully unlikely. However, embracing an absolute right to abortion is legally significant in how a politician interprets the Constitution. Under this approach, a woman could abort a full-term, "viable" baby shortly before going into labor. It would seem to support what President Joe Biden recently described as the right “to abort a child."

Yet, a majority of Americans support limits on abortion after 15 weeks, according to a Wall Street Journal survey. (The United States is one of only 12 among the world’s 198 countries that allow abortions for any reason after 20 weeks.)

Polls show that most Americans reject extreme or absolute positions on either side of the abortion issue. A survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also shows that 65% of Americans would make most abortions usually illegal in the second trimester, and that 80% would make most abortions illegal in the third trimester.

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Economic doom and gloom prevail

Despite the horror of the recent mass shootings and tragic loss of life, the voters are not taking their eyes of the recent economic indicators that are significantly impacting their ability to live day-to-day.

Biden can’t understand the disconnect with voters as he continues to extol his policies as working and continues to admonish the voters for not being patient.

In another report 66% of adults avoid events because of embarrassing finances. It is what it is. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. Americans are hurting and not buying Biden’s messaging.

Majority of Americans say they are ‘getting worse’ financially - poll

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A majority of U.S. voters say that their financial situation is worsening amid rising inflation and mounting fears of a looming economic recession, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shared exclusively with The Hill.

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said that, financially, things are “getting worse,” the highest percentage on record for the poll. That’s up sharply from last month when 48 percent reported that their financial situations were weakening.

Meanwhile, the percentage of voters who say their financial situation is improving is near its all-time low in the poll, with just 20 percent of respondents saying so.

“This is a devastating finding that has been climbing month after month – no matter how they are actually doing, a solid majority believes now they are becoming worse off economically and that is America’s most critical read on the mood of the voters,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, said.

The pessimistic view of Americans’ personal finances comes as the country continues to face the highest rate of inflation in decades. Consumer prices climbed 8.3 percent in April compared with a year earlier, marking the fastest increase in roughly 40 years.

At the same time, gas prices have climbed significantly in recent months. As of Tuesday, the national average price for a gallon of gas has hit $4.598, according to AAA, marking the highest recorded average to date.