Friday, October 28, 2022

#1 This day 1976-----Chicago - If you leave me now - 1977 (HQ)

Energy suicide!----Saudi Issues a Warning to Biden About the Dangers of Draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Saudi Issues a Warning to Biden About the Dangers of Draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve - Katie Pavlich
"Saudi Arabia is warning that President Joe Biden's politically motivated draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve could cause serious problems for the United States in the near future.
...The SPR is now at its lowest level since 1984 with just 17 days worth of supply left. 
  • The White House has been vague about when the Biden administration plans to refill the reserve after Democrats rejected a 2020 proposal from President Donald Trump to fill the SPR at $20 per barrel...

They're not ALL geniuses?


 

Harvard Economist: Dem Spending Helped Cause Inflation, Fed 'Didn't Want to Get in the Way' of Biden, Likely We'll Have 'Deep Recession'

Harvard Economist: Dem Spending Helped Cause Inflation, Fed 'Didn't Want to Get in the Way' of Biden, Likely We'll Have 'Deep Recession'

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Fox Business Tonight,” Professor of Economics at Harvard University and former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Ken Rogoff stated that Democrats “spent too much too late” after the coronavirus pandemic and that’s one of the reasons for high inflation and the Federal Reserve “waited too long because they didn’t want to get in the way of the Biden administration’s growth plan,” and now we have a “very high” probability of a recession and the odds are “more than 50% that it’s going to be a deep recession.”

COVID School Shutdowns Caused Historic Learning Losses for Kids, Government Report Shows - The Political Insider

COVID School Shutdowns Caused Historic Learning Losses for Kids, Government Report Shows - The Political Insider  BY THE CENTER SQUARE - By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
"Pandemic-era shutdowns caused historic learning loss for grade school students, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education.
..Math took the hardest hit, but reading scores did not fare well either.
For perspective, 
  • fourth grade math scores had progressively increased by 28 points since 1990, but then dipped 5 points since 2019, taking scores back to the early 2000s levels.
  • For eighth graders, math scores dropped eight points from 2019, erasing a significant amount of the the gains made since 1990...

AM Fruitcake



History for October 28

History for October 28 - On-This-Day.com
Charlie Daniels 1936 - Singer (Charlie Daniels Band)
  • 1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
  • 1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
  • 1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
  • 1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy.
  • 1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed.

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Tudor Dixon Slams Whitmer, Biden Open Border Allowing Fentanyl into Michigan

Tudor Dixon Slams Whitmer, Biden Open Border Allowing Fentanyl into Michigan

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon slammed her Democrat opponent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden during Tuesday’s Michigan gubernatorial debate for allowing illegal drugs — such as fentanyl — to pour across the southern border.

Focus group stuns CBS News host with bipartisan agreement on nearly every issue: 'None of you are very optimistic' - TheBlaze

Focus group stuns CBS News host with bipartisan agreement on nearly every issue: 'None of you are very optimistic' - TheBlaze

Margaret Brennan, moderator of CBS News' "Face the Nation," was shocked Sunday that a bipartisan focus group agreed woke policies are bad news for children. In fact, the focus group essentially agreed with one another on every issue. What happened?

The way we were-----Hurray! A YouTube channel which is aimed at debunking History Debunked

"Four months ago, a YouTube channel was launched with the intention of exposing History Debunked as the work of a crazed and irrational bigot. 
Alas, the success of this new channel has perhaps been more limited than its author might have hoped for."

New Climate Tool (Part 4)

"A demo showing some uses of my online climate tool to check the accuracy of climate claims made by academics and the press. realclimatetools.com"

The Economy Will Never Prosper Under Biden: Here’s Why

The Economy Will Never Prosper Under Biden: Here’s Why - I & I Editorial Board
"...The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) just this morning released its hugely valuable report called “10,000 Commandments,” which is a compendium of the regulatory state. 
In it, CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews lays out the terrible truth about Biden’s regulatory zeal.
  • The first thing you have to understand about federal regulation is how massive it already is, with compliance costs that total more than $1.9 trillion a year.
  • That’s bigger than Canada’s entire GDP. It’s bigger, in fact, than all but seven nations in the world. It works out to almost $15,000 per household.
  • And it is growing at a ferocious pace....
...Crews notes that Biden immediately started overturning Trump-era deregulatory directives, calling them “harmful policies...
Biden also issued an executive order that, as we pointed out on Jan. 29, 2021, was the worst of them all. 
  • It gutted the one minor speed bump in front of new regulations, namely that they had to be reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget and pass a basic cost-benefit analysis.
  • Biden changed the review process to instead be “a tool to affirmatively promote regulations” and “to ensure swift and effective federal action” on everything from the pandemic, to the economy, to racial inequality, to the “undeniable reality and accelerating threat of climate change.”...

Fetterman's Lines Were Canned, But He Couldn't Read the Labels

Fetterman's Lines Were Canned, But He Couldn't Read the Labels
“Hi. Good night, everybody.” That’s how Senate candidate John Fetterman began his first and only debate of the 2022 election, and it turned out to be the high point of his evening.
I watched the whole thing, and it was the longest hour of my life that didn’t involve some sort of surgery.
...The fine folks at the Washington Free Beacon have condensed a full hour of Fetterman’s stroke-addled babbling into 90 seconds:
A few of Fetterman’s bon mots:
  • “He got his Pennsylvania house from his own inlays! From a dollar!”
  • “I do support fracking, and I don’t, I don’t... I support fracking, and I stand, and I do support fracking.”
  • My doctoral believes that I’m fit to be serving, and that’s what I believe is where I’m standing.”
  • “Again, I just can’t just say one thing other than that Dr. Oz would not support and he would support cutting Medicare.”
  • “I just believe. I just, making it that much more, it, it costs too much, and I believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition allow families to be able to afford it.”...



SIMON: Just Like In Communist Countries, The State Is Turning Your Children Against You | The Daily Caller

SIMON: Just Like In Communist Countries, The State Is Turning Your Children Against You | The Daily Caller

In all Marxist regimes, a goal is to separate the children from their parents and make them property of the State. In the Soviet Union, children were encouraged to spy on their parents and report them to the authorities for any anti-Communist remarks. A boy named Pavlik Morozov even became national “martyr” for turning his father in to the Stalinist police. The result of these policies would be the “New Man,” who would safeguard the new utopia and its glorious leaders.

Tucker: Are you getting tired of this yet?

California's Slow-Speed Train to Fiscal Oblivion | The Pipeline

California's Slow-Speed Train to Fiscal Oblivion | The Pipeline
"They don't call it the Golden State for nothing.
  • Late last week came news that even California progressives recognized as a sign of peak nonsense in the Golden State’s gold-plated misgovernment: San Francisco was beginning the planning process to build a single-toilet public restroom at a cost of... $1.7 million. Even Gov. Gavin Newsom, embarrassed by the publicity for this absurdity, has demanded the state funding be revoked. 
  • ...the proposal to link California’s two major metropolitan areas with high-speed rail was finally launched in 2008 with a ballot initiative providing an initial $9.9 billion in bonds for the project that ludicrously claimed would only cost around $33 billion to complete.
No one under the age of reason believed that cost estimate...

Lunch video-----Austria homes will be cold!--I can't believe they let this happen!

"You should see what it's like in Australia now, it's hard growing up thinking one thing about your country while slowly watching everything you thought was great be sold off, cancelled or destroyed due to greed."

Noon-toon



Border Agents Encountered 98 Migrants On Terror Watchlist In Past Year, Smashing Record | The Daily Caller

Border Agents Encountered 98 Migrants On Terror Watchlist In Past Year, Smashing Record | The Daily Caller

Border Patrol agents encountered 98 illegal migrants, a record high, whose names were on the terror watchlist at the southern border in fiscal year 2022, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. The terror watchlist numbers coincide with record numbers of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered an all-time high of nearly 2.3 million migrants at the southern border during the October 2021 to September 2022 time period.

Is there a message here?

 

EXCLUSIVE: Whitmer Administration Closing Down Black Adoption Agency on Friday

EXCLUSIVE: Whitmer Administration Closing Down Black Adoption Agency on Friday
"LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – With Democratic Governor Whitmer’s insistence on supporting abortion and vetoing adoption funding in July of this year, she has shut off resources for state money being available for organizations that provide adoption services.
  • This summer, even with the state awash in tax dollars, Whitmer decided to veto millions of dollars of adoption funding that the Republicans had included in the budget – a budget which was the largest in the state’s history. 
  • Whitmer called the adoption funding harmful and used her line-item veto power to get rid of about $25.5 million of funding which would have been available to support pregnancy resources and adoption alternatives like those offered by the Detroit organization “Homes for Black Children” (HBC)...

I was wondering!


 

"...hinges entirely on the Chinese cartel..."

Facebook Lawrence Fornier
"The Chinese completely dominate the high performance magnet markets.
The whole NetZero / electric energy transition paradigm hinges entirely on the Chinese cartel that controls and benefits from our dependence on their good will."


#1 This day 1964-----The Supremes - Stop! In The Name of Love [The Hollywood Palace - 1965]

Progressives Have Descended Into Madness — And Are Dragging The Rest Of Us With Them

Progressives Have Descended Into Madness — And Are Dragging The Rest Of Us With Them

Demented

1 : mad, insane

2 : affected by or exhibiting cognitive dementia. Merriam-Webster

Tuesday night’s Pennsylvania Senate debate brings into sharp relief the fact that America is really, truly, genuinely, not kidding, experiencing a debate as to whether it is “ageism” or “ableism” to question the fitness for office of:

A soon-to-be octogenarian quasi-president who

  • habitually walks off podiums reaching out to shake hands with the air and then wanders around confused;
  • frequently interrupts himself mid-sentence when he lapses into incoherence;
  • regularly utters policy statements laden with global import that must be immediately walked back by White House staff; and
  • recently looked into the audience seeking a deceased politician – whose passing he was there to commemorate.

A candidate for United States Senate, the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body™, who

  • this year suffered a debilitating stroke yet refuses to release his medical records;
  • in rare public appearances never fails to mangle multiple words, phrases and thoughts;
  • required a closed captioning device to comprehend a journalists’ interview questions; and
  • who opened the debate with the, umm, unusual greeting of “Hi, goodnight, everybody,” uttered unintelligible responses throughout, and bizarrely broke into one of his opponent’s answers and his closing statement with complete non-sequiturs.

The left is sick!


 

Watch: Ron DeSantis Bashes 'Genital Mutilation' for Minors at Debate

Watch: Ron DeSantis Bashes 'Genital Mutilation' for Minors at Debate

DeSantis has taken a hardline policy against the gender transitioning of children throughout his administration and he defended his record against attacks from Crist on Monday, denouncing the practice as child abuse.

“When they say gender-affirming care, they mean giving puberty blockers to teenage girls and teenage boys,” he said. “They mean doing double mastectomies on young girls. They mean chemically-castrating young boys.”

Why I Don’t Trust the Medical System

Why I Don’t Trust the Medical System: - Jordan Alexander
"...Why is it that 62 percent of Americans have only some or little confidence in the medical system?
  •  One possible reason is misdiagnosis. Around 12 million patients are misdiagnosed in the U.S. every year, based on a 2014 estimate. And even if a misdiagnosis is not deadly, it wastes both the patient’s and hospital’s time and resources.
  • Another potential reason is that the first solution to every medical ailment is to prescribe some variety of drug. Forty-two percent of 65-year-olds and older in America are on at least five medications, according to a 2019 report.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 27

History for October 27 - On-This-Day.com
Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
  • 1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."
  • 1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
  • 1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
  • 1927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.
  • 1938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn.
  • 1954 - The first Walt Disney television show "Disneyland" premiered on ABC.
  • 1978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.