Tell Me Again

So please, tell me again that the vaccine is all about the science.

Every.

Single.

Day.

We see another example (scroll down just a bit) of how the getting the vaccine has morphed from "This needs to be done" to get us back to "normal" to a mandate "This will be done,... Or else!!!" Penn State University has announced that if you have not been vaccinated or have not provided a negative weekly test result you will been barred from attending classes. REMOTELY. Yes, PSU has decided to become part of the tyrannical edicts and have barred and removed students who don't toe the line, even though they are only doing their course work via computer.

Conspiracy?

It is kind of interesting times we live in. 

Last year, as covid-19 hit, there were many who stated various so-called conspiracy theories: 

The virus was man made. 

Vaccine passports were going to be a thing. 

The stimulus checks and plus up of unemployment benefits were going to create a labor shortage once the economy started showing signs of recovery. 

Missing Ballots

According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission nearly 15 million mail in ballots are unaccounted for. These are ballots delivered to the wrong addresses,  sent to vacant locations, sent to registered voters who have died, and some ballots that were never requested, were never returned. 

This doesn't necessarily show that widespread fraud DID occur, but it does show that mail in ballots, not properly handled, can create some chaos. Furthermore, there is no tracking system that shows whether or not these missing ballots were used. Where the fraud might rear it ugly head is that these unaccounted ballots could be used for nefarious purposes. Also, if these ballots, that were intended for actual voters, didn't get delivered properly, those people were unable to cast their vote. And remember, the overall difference in 2020 was supposedly about eight million. 

A Difference

While the offices aren't quite on the same level, it is noteworthy to see how the press covered the nomination and subsequent election of Barack Obama and the insurgent recall candidacy of California governor hopeful Larry Elder.

I'm 2007 the press hammered home that Obama was the first black candidate from a major political party. Never mind that Alan Keyes ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, 2000, and 2008. Obama was a first when he accepted the nomination back in 2008. In rereading some of the coverage from that time, and especially on the day he was nominated, it was quite obvious the media was over the moon.

An Inflection Point

The debacle that has become the withdrawal from Afghanistan will be the inflection point of the Biden presidency*. 

Anyone who has been pay even a modest amount of attention is well aware that Biden is a doddering old fool. Those that installed him should be arrested for elder abuse. They knew full well that Biden's cognitive abilities have deteriorated and that he should have never even been running as the democrat candidate. 

Not So Quick Take - Mike Rowe for the Win

The other day a left-wing, progressive writer, Jonathan Last, slammed Mike Rowe with a short little article titled Mike Rowe's Dirty Little Secret. Bad move on his part. Not that I really want to link to a progressive page, but one has to do what must be done. And there is the consolation that I don't think the traffic from my page is really going to even register a blip on their traffic stats.

Mike had put out on his Facebook page that yes, he was vaccinated, but no, he wouldn't dispense any medical advice. He concluded by saying this:

Losing Friends (Maybe?)

The things I am about to say will more than likely cause the loss of some of my more progressive friends. 

I get it, you hated Trump with a white hot rage. But it was interesting that no one could articulate why, and if you attempted to do so, it was based on lies or completely unsupported. Did you hate the booming economy? No? Did you hate peace breaking out in the Middle East? No? Did you hate being energy independent for the first time in a lifetime? No? Did you hate that we were acting like a sovereign nation with borders and laws? No? Maybe? Did you hate that his policies brought China to heel? No? Maybe? Yes? Or was it his mean tweets? Ah, there it is. 

Humans: Divided by Race

We are more deeply divided by race than we have been in 60 years. I firmly believe we had nearly achieved MLKs dream. Then something happened along the way.

Is it really your most sincere desire to see that your grandchildren are judged, firstly, by the color of their skin or gender, and a distant second by their character? That is the path that BLM and CRT are taking us. They insist that we divide and sequester ourselves by skin tone and wedding tackle. Doing so only contributes to dividing us further and deeper apart. I don't know WHY you can't see this. 

Ten Stages of Genocide (Part 1)

Blatantly stolen from Jack Posobiec's Twitter page. With apologies to Mr Posobiec, I have taken his tweet and expanded on it. While you read this many of these stages overlap. Steps taken in Discrimination can/will also be done in Dehumanization, etc.

These are my thoughts and mine alone. This is a long post, so grab a cup of coffee and a danish. I posted two parts

TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE
1. Classification
2. Symbolization
3. Discrimination
4. Dehumanization
5. Organization
6. Polarization
7. Preparation
8. Persecution
9. Extermination
10. Denial

1) Classification. People are divided into "us and them". We have gone so far past this stage that it no longer appears in our rearview mirror. This was one of the first steps Obama took when he became President. What do you think the apology tour was all about? It was to show people how enlightened he and supporters where as opposed to the Neanderthals who preceded him.

Ten Stages of Genocide (Part 2)

Part 2.

6) Polarization. The government broadcasts propaganda to turn populace against the group. The main stream media is filling this role. While they may not be the official spokesperson for the government, they echo and praise every little progressive idea and thought. Everything to do with Russia, Russia, Russia, the Ukraine crap, covid, and now the January 6th issue was the progressive talking points. Hardly a single "reporter" did anything more than just echo what the progressive elites told them to say.