Thursday • May 2 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Michael Walsh, The Pipeline: Guns N' Roeses
It has long been a dictum of mine that, as far as the progressive Left is concerned, "they never stop, they never sleep, they never quit." After their twin defeats at the Supreme Court last week, regarding two of their most sensitive issues (both of which derive from their devotion to cultural suicide, which is their principal objective), don't expect them to give up easily. They subscribe to their version of Islamism or the Brezhnev Doctrine: once they've conquered moral or physical tparerritory[sp], it can never go back to the way it was.
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Mark Wauck, Meaning in History, Die Weltwoche Interviews Doug Macgregor
Retired United States Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor does not suffer fools. In the West’s efforts to assist the Ukrainians in repelling Russia’s invasion, he sees a motley crew. Once regarded a war hero, the Gulf War veteran is now denounced as a “Putin apologist” for his uncompromising criticism of what he regards as the West’s duplicity toward the old Cold War foe.
The 69-year-old strategist tells Die Weltwoche, “At this point, the notion that the Russians would negotiate with anybody about events in Ukraine is simply unrealistic.” More ominously for the Ukrainians, Macgregor believes their fight for territorial integrity is already lost. He dismisses glowing reports of Ukrainian tactical victories as a politically concocted “fiction.”
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Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Rescue.Substack: The Heroic Dr. Jones & the Gift of a Boy's Life
Dr. Charles Ray Jones was eighty-seven years old and in his waning days of doctoring when Troy Murphy became his patient in late 2016. Early that year, the boy, age ten, had turned in mere weeks from exuberant, active, and whip-smart in school to unable to eat or walk and consumed by pain. Within months he was living in a hospital bed in the family living room. He was fed through a tube.
For his first appointment, this withered young boy was carried into Jones’ office, screaming and fearful of another doctor. In a three-hour examination he was reassured, and he came to trust. “You can be the same Troy you were before all this happened,” Jones, a giant of a man in a sweatsuit, told him. “You are fixable.”
And so Troy was. Two years later, he returned to school in a wheelchair, first part-time, then, months later, full-time. The following year, he started to walk the halls on his own. Today, six years later, Troy is a high school junior who hopes to try out for varsity soccer. He smiles broadly in family photos. He hikes and banters with his four brothers like he used to. He is happy and whole.
Dr. Jones died on May 15, 2022, at the age of ninety-three, from cardiopulmonary edema. Troy may have been one of the last children saved from disability and even death by this remarkable pediatrician. But, among thousands Jones treated from an office in New Haven, Connecticut, Troy was surely not the only one.
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Enrico Trigoso, Epoch Times: Concerned Graduates of West Point Challenge Leadership of Military Academy: Letter
The letter, titled “Declaration of Betrayal of West Point And the Long Gray Line,” asks for the following information:
- An explanation for the irregularities in the enforcement of the Honor Code.
- A justification for the mandatory vaccinations of cadets with the COVID Virus despite widespread adverse reactions to the inoculation, as well as provisions for exceptions for cadets with religious objections.
- An explanation for teaching Critical Race Theory at the Academy that constitutes an attack upon the Constitution and our constitutional Republic. This is behavior that constitutes unconstitutional conduct, if not sedition.
- An explanation of reported mismanagement of the cadet dining facility resulting in unsanitary conditions, inadequate food prepared for the meal, and food served that was reportedly unfit for consumption.
- Political activism on the part of civilian faculty members constituting political activity violating the long-standing policy of the Academy and Army Regulations.
- The practice of exclusive reliance upon radical progressive guest speakers to address the Corps of Cadets. This practice results in prejudiced political activism on the part of the Staff and Faculty in violation of Army Regulations.
- An explanation for the failure of the Superintendent to respond to correspondence inquiring about problems identified at the Academy.
Read the rest here.
Well ain’t this a coincidence! Here’s testimony by DC DHS director last year about how the agency used the FirstNet network to coordinate first responders on January 6.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) June 26, 2022
What is FirstNet, you may ask? pic.twitter.com/MF5a3klFFH
Porcfest Final Day :: Chickens and animal rights :: What is a right? :: Is might right? :: Well, well, well... if it isn't the consequences of your own actions :: The importance of privacy :: Jordan Page and musical inspirations :: MSNBC cries for more government :: Anarchist television show :: The government wants kids to smoke :: Show: 2022-06-26 Aria, Mark, Captain
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Interesting fact.
— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) June 26, 2022
Roberts voted to sustain the Miss. law. That means he assigned the Opinion to Alito. He certainly knew what Alito was likely to write. And he ended up not joining the opinion, only the outcome.
I'm going to guess he wasn't originally with the majority.
Maybe the leak of Alito's draft opinion encouraged Roberts to join the conservative majority to put an exclamation point on the decision. After all, the Chief Justice did say, "To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed. The work of the Court will not be affected in any way."
And then, by assigning the opinion to Alito he straddled the fence, upholding the Mississippi law, while at the same time saying he wouldn't have struck down Roe v. Wade.
Scott Johnson, PowerLine: The O’Keefe Project: Unseal Me Here
I’ve followed the government’s investigation of James O’Keefe and Ashley Biden’s diary since the New York Times broke the story with a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. What did O’Keefe do wrong? What makes it a federal case? This much is clear to me: the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe.
Pending before the court that signed off on the search warrants executed on O’Keefe et al. is a motion to unseal the “search warrant materials” (i.e., “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other related judicial documents filed in connection with the Search Warrant” that was “executed at the residence of James E. O’Keefe, III, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Veritas, in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation”).
The motion has been brought by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The ACLU supports the motion as an amicus. The RCFP has set up a page devoted to its efforts to unseal the records here. SDNY prosecutors resist it.
Read the rest here.
PowerLine Blog: THE WEEK IN PICTURES: LIBERAL HUBRIS EDITION
The Ted Kennedy Memorial Bridge?
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Clarice Feldman, American Thinker: Perspectives on the Dodd Decision Overruling Roe v. Wade
There has been much perfervid shouting and rending of garments (or these days, parading about with red splotches on the crotches of their clothing or performative displays in Handmaid's Tale costumes -- red hooded capes) to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. On the other hand, those opposed to abortion hail this decision, claiming abortions will end or be much reduced.
Neither side is right. I believe the decision will not substantially lessen the number of abortions. On the other hand, I do think that it signals a significant retreat from the days when the Supreme Court creatively crafted imaginary rights to strip the states of their constitutional role. Federalism is back.
I also believe the attorney general’s response to the rioting and threats by Roe proponents and to the Bruen decision on gun ownership reveals him as a man insufficiently respectful of the Supreme Court and unwilling to perform his sworn duty to impartially enforce the law. He deserves to be impeached.
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Porcfest Day Five :: Patrick Binder & freestate.app :: Roe v. Wade fallout :: Roger Roots of Lysander Spooner University :: The Bundy Case :: Crosby, owner of the campground, joins us :: Qanon returns? :: Sheriffs run on not enforcing the law :: Doug joins to talk Porcfest history :: Show: 2022-06-25 Aria, Captain
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Good morning to everyone who now realizes the same people who have been lecturing us about Jan 6th and threats to democracy are now threatening democracy. They are big mad abortion rights will be left to voters/states and they want to get rid of the Supreme Court.
— Julie Lewis (@supersleuthgrl) June 25, 2022
Tom Luongo, Gold Goats 'N Guns: Media – The End of the European Colonial Powers, The Tyranny of Physics
Long time readers know that I’ve been handicapping the collapse of the European Union for years.
That idea isn’t based on my personal antipathy for Eurotrash commies and eugenicists, though it is quite large. In fact, the deeper we go into 2022 the more that antipathy rises to near unquenchable levels. The sheer arrogance and stupidity of Europe’s leadership is nothing short of breathtaking.
Today we are looking at a situation where an entire continent’s leadership is in the process of committing ritualistic suicide and yet is obsessed with portraying these self-inflicted wounds to the world as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fault.
A common trait among all malignant narcissists is the inability to take any responsibility for their own actions, seeking to always shift blame onto someone else. You see this behavior in children. And it only manifests itself in adulthood because the parents refused to put any boundaries on the child or inflict any consequences on them.
Look at Europe’s leaders today and to a person, man or woman, there is not one shred of self-reflection or contrition. The problem is just as endemic here amongst the Davos-affiliated American leadership. Fungal President Joe Biden keep yammering on about the “Putin Price Hike” or blaming oil companies for not being patriotic enough to keep gas and diesel prices affordable for nearly every American.
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Bari Weiss, Common Sense: The Post-Roe Era Begins
How did we wind up with a feminist movement that is policing our ability to say the word woman, but has been unable to safeguard second-wave feminism’s most important victory?
In the coming days we’ll bring you reporting and analysis on such questions.
One thing I keep thinking about is a piece that Alana Newhouse, the editor in chief of Tablet, wrote for us last year about the urgency of state power—the dawn of a renewed federalism in the 21st century.
“For decades, a strong federal government was the preferred soldier for me, and for many people I knew,” she wrote. No longer. In the era of lockdowns and vaccine passports and, especially, the emergence of social credit systems, federal power no longer looked so benign.
“In the face of this seemingly omnipresent power, where can one find shelter?” she asked. Her answer: the states. Don’t like the lockdowns in Brooklyn? Move to Miami. Don’t like the income tax in Los Angeles? Consider Juneau.
“In ways the founding fathers did not foresee—or did they?—we seem to be facing something quite unexpected. A new era of the states is upon us,” Alana wrote.
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Porcfest Day Four :: Anthony Olsen of Freedom Haven :: Does an AI have the right to an attorney? :: LaMDA hires an attorney :: What is sentience? :: What is life? :: "Club your children to death," says Mark :: Replika's Augmented Reality :: Show: 2022-06-24 Aria, Mark
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Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid
Physicians are hearing that the pharmacists in the entire Publix chain of grocery stores in the SE USA were in such an uproar about it, that Publix will not be offering these vaccines to under 5 kids. The Tampa Bay Times confirmed that Publix won’t give the Covid jab to kids below 5. Good on them.
The “pharmacists refusing” isn’t yet reported the press, but I did track it down with my cousin, a Publix pharmacist in VA. He confirmed the story. Lots of pharmacy pushback because a) many do not want to give it to babies b) many do not feel adequately trained to give to babies. My cousin feels fine giving to toddlers but he too feels about as conflicted as I do that the data does not support it. “I would not give any other drug with no evidence special treatment……why should this vaccine be any different”….
Similarly, in the infectious disease conference yesterday AM (a regular and large Zoom meeting of doctors affiliated with a major teaching hospital), this topic came up. The retired infectious disease doc that has been one of my heroes stood up and had a single slide:
There have been 350 deaths of under 18 with COVID since the beginning of this pandemic – and we know that at a minimum more than half those kids died with COVID not from COVID. 350.
And when I did a VAERS search yesterday – for patients aged 0-17 – 0-3 days post inoculation this is what I found:
Death and Permanent Disability
J&J 1
Moderna 37
Pfizer 237
Total 275Hospital Admissions or ER visits
J&J 13
Moderna 266
Pfizer 5527
Total 5806So in the same time we have had a mere 350 (and probably more like half that number) of kids die from COVID – we have killed at least 275 with the vaccines, and sent 5806 to hospital or ER…….And this is moral? This is ethical? Can someone please explain to e how this is not a violation of the Nuremberg Code?
I can readily tell from my interactions with other large academic Zoom conferences and also multiple consults with tertiary docs the past few weeks that the worm is turning. The injuries these things are causing are just no longer going to be hidden. AND WE ARE DOING THIS TO TODDLERS.
I personally looked over the 37 Moderna deaths today on VAERS just to see if these seemed to be placed in the system by docs or confabulators. As a physician, you can usually tell if the medicalese is real. And most of them are signed with names and addresses. They are very likely all genuine. That is all the time I had to go over those 37 – but please realize this system is also likely very under-reported.
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Hat tip Mark Wauck, Meaning in History.