It’s Friday, May 6th, 2022…and here’s The Gouge!

First up, consider this quote from 46* as relayed by Jim Geraghty:

To Choose to Abort a Child

 

President Biden, yesterday: “The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard.”

I can’t help but notice he used the word “child.” Pro-choice advocates keep telling me it isn’t a child.

If what is developing in a woman’s womb ischild — a human life, not merely a blob of cells that are potential life — we wouldn’t accept killing that child, now would we?

Unfortunately, there are far too many Progressives who literally worship at the altar of abortion…

…with no qualms whatsoever regarding the killing of children.

Since we’re on the subject, here’s one son of the Father of Lies who not only dares to suggest a “child of God” could EVER sanction the slaughter of the unborn, but totally and deliberately misrepresents the thoughts and beliefs of Robert Bork, an honorable man whose character 46* continues to assassinate:

You’ll forgive us for being reminded of a classic scene from Goodfellas

…every time this demented old deviant opens his mouth.

Meanwhile, Tuesday night, The Left was out in force peacefully protesting in Los Angeles, torching the town and attacking the police.  But don’t worry, the Disinformation Governance Board will be all over Biden’s deliberately deceptive, divisive description of his political opponents, ’cause if 46*’s utterances don’t present a clear and present threat to national security, nothing does!

Ben Shapiro gets to the heart of Progressives’ actual concern:

In a related item, evidence of Liberals’ accelerating descent into anarchy continues to mount, as NRO tells us…

Pro-Abortion Group Publicizes Conservative Supreme Court Justices’ Home Addresses ahead of Planned Protests

 

In response to the Monday night leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a leftist group called Ruth Sent Us posted what it claims are the home addresses of the Court’s six conservative justices online in preparation for an organized “walk-by protest” set to take place outside the justices’ homes next week.

Ruth Sent Us plans to dispatch demonstrators to “the homes of the six extremist justices” on Wednesday, May 11, according to the group’s website.

“ANNOUNCING: Walk-by Wednesday, May 11, 2022! At the homes of the six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland. If you’d like to join or lead a peaceful protest, let us know,” the website states.

“Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights. We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics,” the group adds.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose legacy Ruth Sent Us claims to uphold, criticized the legal reasoning underpinning Roe v. Wade throughout her career and predicted it would lead to political instability.

In collaboration with Vigil for Democracy, Ruth Sent Us generated and posted a Google Maps graphic pinning the home addresses of Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Roberts, where they presumably reside with their families. Vigil for Democracy titled the map, “Extremist Justices,” adding, “Where the six Christian fundamentalist Justices issue their shadow docket rulings.” The map has 3,185 views so far.

In Virginia, where three of the six justices live, protesting outside a private home is illegal.

The TikTok account for Ruth Sent Us seems to indicate that some marchers will silently walk by the homes of the justices wearing costumes depicted in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, the Handmaid’s Tale, an increasingly common tactic used by abortion proponents who claim that a Roe reversal represents the first step toward the creation of a dystopian, patriarchal theocracy…”

It’s life once again imitating art, as Socialists employ the symbols from a fanciful tale to represent their far-fetched vision of the future.  Sorta like Biden’s preposterous claim, if they regain power, Republican states might pass laws to ban LBGTQRSTUVWXYZ kids from attending school.  No…just preventing biologic boys from using the bath and locker rooms biologic girls.

Here’s the juice: Biden’s just transferring what Dimocrats did to Black children with their Jim Crow laws onto those who freed them from slavery.

In a second shot of the juice, as Nate Hochman notes at NRO, only ONE party has become more radical on abortion:

“…In March, Maryland Democrats introduced a law that effectively decriminalized letting a baby die due to neglect through the first 28 days after birth. Just a few weeks later, a bill was introduced in the California legislature legalizing death-by-neglect for babies up to six weeks after birth.

Democrats today hold the most unequivocally, unapologetically, and grotesquely radical line on abortion of any major political party in the Western world. So, President Biden, tell us again — and speak slowly, so we can understand: Whoexactly, is “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history”?

The reality is, as the Journal‘s Kim Strassel suggests, given their refusal to recognize their unpopularity can’t be blamed on anything other than their policies, Dimocrats are desperate; For come November, they’ll have nothing BUT abortion on which to run.

Considering gas prices in Maryland which are now at a level Californians would view as a bargain

…forced us to pay $116 and change to fill up our RAM 1500 on Thursday, we find it hard to believe a decision effectively relegating abortion to the states is going to carry the day.

Meanwhile, the Morning Jolt calls our attention to an actual looming catastrophe:

The Global Crisis You’re Not Hearing About

Pay Attention to the Global Food Crisis

 

“…Keep in mind, even if the Russian invasion ended tomorrow — and it won’t — there’s still the issue of the hundreds of anti-ship mines now floating around in the Black Sea, a few of which have ended up drifting into the territorial waters of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania. It’s not going to be safe to send cargo ships through those waters for a long time.

And in addition to a long, long list of other allegations of war crimes, the Ukrainian government says Russian soldiers have stolen “several hundred thousand tons” of wheat as well as agricultural equipment from areas of Ukraine that they are occupying. In a spectacular demonstration of the power of GPS tracking and global satellite signals, the Ukrainians remotely disabled at least two dozen John Deere combine harvesters, tractors, and seeders that had been taken out of the country. But the Russians are likely to strip the stolen equipment for parts anyway.

For what it’s worth, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres said this week that there is no realistic work-around, that until the war in Ukraine ends, the world is going to have a shortage of wheat and corn: “There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.”

There were hopes that India could increase wheat production and make up the gap, but that country is now experiencing an ill-timed, intense heat wave that is expected to reduce this year’s crops. And now that India is unsure if it’s going to have the surpluses it had previously anticipated, it’s considering restrictions on wheat exports. (More on export restrictions in a moment.)

One analyst pointed out that the problem is, at least for now, less a lack of food than a lack of ways to get it where it needs to go. Right now, Ukraine has 15 million tons of grain that can’t fit into its existing silos, because the grain in the silos can’t get exported to any customers.

But the global fertilizer shortage is likely to reduce crop yields in a lot of places, which means we may be dealing with a worse problem in the coming months and years. Using less fertilizer usually translates into fewer crops. And keep in mind that this is not just a far-off overseas problem. “The cost of the fertilizers farmers across Mid-Michigan use has doubled, and in some cases tripled.” No joke, “manure is absolutely a hot commodity.”

The world probably could have done without the comments from U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Samantha Power on ABC News this weekend:

Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer. And even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia. As a result, we’re working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost. And this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway. So never let a crisis go to waste.

Please stop telling us what a great opportunity there is in an oncoming famine. I would love to take the slogan, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” put it onto a rocket, and blast it into the sun. (We’d chip in for the cost, provided Samantha Power and Biden were along for the ride.)

At the exact time that we need to make it easier to get food from one country to another, countries such as Russia, Indonesia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan are making it more difficult or outright impossible to export food. (I’ll cut the Ukrainians some slack for their food-export restrictions, on account of the whole “getting invaded” thing.)

This may seem mundane, but India lost access to 45 percent of its palm oil overnight.

Few of these problems are expected to be short-lived. The numbers in the latest World Bank assessment are eye-popping:

Energy prices are expected to rise more than 50 percent in 2022 before easing in 2023 and 2024. Non-energy prices, including agriculture and metals, are projected to increase almost 20 percent in 2022 and will also moderate in the following years. Nevertheless, commodity prices are expected to remain well above the most recent five-year average. In the event of a prolonged war, or additional sanctions on Russia, prices could be even higher and more volatile than currently projected. Wheat prices are forecast to increase more than 40 percent, reaching an all-time high in nominal terms this year. That will put pressure on developing economies that rely on wheat imports, especially from Russia and Ukraine.

The human cost of this is staggering, with the number of people around the world at risk of famine jumping from 45 million to anywhere from 53 million to 65 million…”

Not that those devoted to butchering babies would care about 65 million deaths in the Third World.  After all, is not…

…a central tenet of the EnviroNazism?!?

All this because a demented old degenerate green-lighted Putin’s unprovoked invasion.  Atta boy, Brandon!

Next we offer a sextet of specially-selected items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). Courtesy of George Lawlor, Just the News reports, according to a motion filed by Paul Calli, the lawyer for Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, in March, Project Veritas was notified by Microsoft, its electronic communications service provider, the government had been secretly seizing and reviewing the media organization’s emails and other electronic information for over a year through sweeping search warrants under non-disclosure orders.  Wake up and smell the totalitarian tyranny, America!

(2). Jim Geraghty notes the Alito leak has unhinged Progressives to the point they believe Clarence Thomas is going to lead the effort to outlaw interracial marriage:

(3). The Journal Editorial Board tells us the Pope just can’t bring himself to condemn Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, choosing instead to blame NATO for Putin’s barbarity.  We’d humbly suggest the Bishop of Rome should…

…and explore the history of Putin’s attacks on Ukraine a little more thoroughly before jumping to unenlightened conclusions.

(4). If you’re wondering how much attention the average American…the average American…is paying to the probable overturning of Roe v. Wade, AEI’s Karlyn Bowman suggests polling data indicates: Not much

(5). Courtesy of Marie Claire via Speed, Rachel Burchfield exposes the personal travel habits of noted climate warrior Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor…

which will undoubtedly seem relatively bizarre to the average human, but highly and hypocritically carbon-intensive as well.

(6.) Moving from the relatively bizarre to the totally incomprehensible, FOX informs , not to be outdone by the DHS creating the utterly unconstitutional Disinformation Governance Board, the DOJ has unveiled its new Office of Environmental Justice, which, as Tucker relates in Moderate Merrick’s own words, is intended to be the Biden clown car’s “central hub” for advancing its radical political agenda.  In other words, NOTHING to do with actual justice.

Wow…

 

Come November, THAT oughta win the support of Americans paying $4.25/gal on average for a gallon of gas!

Make no doubt about it: These people are completely and totally…

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this from Speed…

…along with these little bon mots from Balls Cotton:

Finally, we’ll call it a week with another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as…

Maryland police identify suspects squatting in woman’s apartment while she was on vacation

 

Maryland police have identified the two suspects who were filmed squatting inside a Greenbelt woman’s apartment while she was on vacation. Police said they received valuable tips that have helped identify the suspects. No arrests have yet been made, and the authorities are keeping the suspects unnamed until the investigation is complete.

The victim returned home from vacation April 5 to discover her front door damaged and her possessions cleared out of the apartment. Next, she found a couple lying on her bed together. “[The resident] located two suspects, a black male adult and a white female adult lying on one bed, the only piece of furniture still in the home,” Greenbelt police said.

“Not only were they in my home, but everything in my home was gone except for my bed because he details how he loved my bed so much,” the victim told Fox 5 DC. “And I’m like who are you? And he says my name. He’s like you didn’t pay your rent. I’m like what are you talking about? I paid my rent.” 

As the panicked resident began to ask how they got in and what they wanted, the suspects told her they “took all of their property.” According to police, they then “became aggressive with the victims before fleeing on foot in an unknown direction.”

Here’s hoping the victim remembered to change her sheets.

Magoo

Video of the Day

Laura Ingraham lends the benefit of her SCOTUS experience to what was heretofore an unimaginable breach of trust, one which proves once again there is NOTHING Progressives won’t do to further their perverted pursuit of power.

Tales of The Darkside

John Stossel relates how Dimocrat Ken Siver, the first openly gay mayor of Southfield, MI has no problem whatsoever sticking it to people of color.

On the Lighter Side

Witness as the seeds of truth are planted and sprout in fields filled with ignorance.



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