“San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community.
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”
“While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,” the draft states.
The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.
“A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the draft states.
To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, “Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years,” and/or, “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.”…”
So many thoughts immediately come to mind, including but not limited to:
Why not $50 million instead of merely $5 million?
Why not the descendants of Blacks born prior to 1940, and why the 1996 cutoff? After all, shouldn’t racism have been ushered out in 1964 with the last Republican mayor?
What about the Rachel Dolezals…
…who identify as Black?
What about the likes of Obama? Do they get $2.5 million for being half-Black?
What about the descendants of the Chinese who were literally used as slave labor building the Central Pacific Railroad?
What about the homeless who cannot prove residency?
So many questions prompted by such incredible imbecility. San Francisco: Too small to be a country, just the right size for an insane asylum.
“House Republicans are demanding to know who visited President Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home over the roughly five-year period in which classified documents were sitting in the garage — but no records detailing comings and goings at the property exist, according to the White House counsel’s office.
Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Sunday demanding visitor logs for Biden’s private residence in light of the news that a trove of Obama administration classified documents were discovered in the garage.“Given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residence’s visitor log,” Comer argued. “Without a list of individuals who have visited his residence, the American people will never know who had access to these highly sensitive documents.”
The White House counsel’s office pushed back on Comer’s request in a Monday statement, pointing out that it’s not standard practice to keep visitor logs for private residences.(Neither is it standard practice to keep highly classified documents in unsecured private residences; And locked garages don’t count, no matter what vehicle is parked next to them!)
…“They knew this happened to President Biden before the election, but they kept it secret from the American public,” McCarthy told a scrum of reporters on Capitol Hill.
Biden’s attorneys discovered classified documents in the president’s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. days before the midterms. Weeks later, on December 20, Biden’s personal attorney notified the White House that additional documents had been found in the garage of his Wilmington home. But the White House didn’t reveal either of those discoveries until January 9.
Some of the documents found at Biden’s former office were marked top secret, sources familiar with the matter told the Washington Post…”
None of which, as Jonathan Turley tweets, plays well for Biden:
The White House is saying that no visitor logs exist for his personal residence in Delaware. https://t.co/vk2wAkDsPk That will not end the headache for the Bidens. Indeed, it may make it worse…
“…“We have to retrain cops,” Biden said. “Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don’t have to do that,” Biden said.
Biden offered similar advice to police officers during a 2020 campaign town hall. “Instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg,” Biden said…”
Joe Biden is life imitating art, in this case this scene from Goodfellas:
In a related item, community asstivists in Houston want the law-abiding citizen who took down the armed taqueria robber charged with something…
…anything!!! For those unfamiliar with the incident, unbeknownst to the intervening individual, the robber’s gun wasn’t real, and him tossing the coffee on the departed when exiting was another expression of his disgust with the perp for forcing him to kill him, just as when he hurled the gun across the room:
We grieve with any mother over the loss of a child, but here’s the juice: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, ’cause on occasion, it’s forever.
Since we’re on the subject of absolute nitwits, FOX tells us a Colorado College science professor believes…
“…Natalie Gosnell, a professor of physics at Colorado College, wants to take an unorthodox approach to teach physics by interpreting it through the lens of race. “Both artists and scientists are just observing things about the world, making interpretations about those observations, and then sharing their interpretation,” Gosnell told Colorado College News.
However, the astrophysicist claimed she struggled to deal with a White-male-dominated industry who don’t share the same sensibilities as she does. Therefore, Gosnell maintains the view that the potential to combine art and science is inhibited by systemic racism and White supremacy.
“As an astrophysicist, I’m a product of institutions that are steeped in systemic racism and White supremacy,” Gosnell said. “The tenants of White supremacy that show up [in physics] of individualism and exceptionalism and perfectionism… it’s either-or thinking, and there’s no subtlety, there’s no gray area. All of this manifests in the way that we think about our research, and what counts as good research, what counts as important research.”…”
That’s because it’s astrophysics, dear, not gender studies, modern art or interpretive dance. And why does the professor think this way? Again, it’s life once more imitating art, in this case Grandpa Joe’s most memorable line in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:
Turning now to International News of Note, The Morning Jolt wonders why the Davos elites are always coming up with sacrificial solutions to unimportant problems which require nothing from them:
“…The leaders at Davos often offer some version of a pledge, “We’re going to make your life better,” and yet their proposals usually end with your being asked or required to give up something.Infamously, back in 2016, the World Economic Forum Agenda website featured an opinion piece by Ida Auken, a member of the Danish parliament, under the headline, “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, have no privacy and life has never been better.”
A lot of people on social media have contended that Auken’s vision of the future is a formal goal of the World Economic Forum, while a lot of fact-checkers have dunked on those contentions, claiming it’s disinformation. The truth is somewhere in between: Davos never formally endorsed it, but Auken’s vision wasn’t greeted with wholesale rejection or derision, either. The WEF eventually took her article down, but it’s worth reexamining as we advance into the post-pandemic world of ride-sharing, shared office space, pop-up restaurants and retail establishments, etc.:
I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much. . . .
In our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there. . . .
Once in awhile, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy — the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.
Maybe some people find that vision delightful. Most of us would find it a frustrating nightmare. You don’t own clothes? You share them with other people?All of them? Even the underwear?
Who the heck wants strangers holding business meetings in their living room when they’re out of the house? Who wants to wait for kitchen equipment to be delivered so they can start cooking? Is cupboard overcrowding really that much of a global problem, or is this an urban European apartment-dweller thing? (Apparently where you keep your toaster is a heated topic of debate over on the NRPlus Facebook page.)
Auken writes, “When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people.” And yet, in just about every country and community, you can see how a lack of work and idleness can bring out the worst in people. Many, many people need work to feel productive, consequential, and responsible.
The Auken vision is like life in a college dorm or group house, with no boundaries — and our real-life experience demonstrates that when something is shared by everyone, it usually gets ruined by the worst-behaved among us.
Interestingly, Auken felt a need to add a clarification after the piece was published: “Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading — for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development.”
Okay, here’s my contribution to the discussion: As Charlie Cooke said of the gas-stove banners, bugger off. Very few of us see owning our own homes, owning our own cars, and owning our own clothes as a major problem to be solved, the sort of crisis that requires Danish legislators and global business elites to gather and come up with a plan to rescue us.Nobody asked you to do this, global elites: The world has a giant pile of real problems, so why are you trying to save us from owning stuff? And hey, have you noticed that everybody who attends Davos owns a lot of stuff? I don’t see any Davos attendees giving up their homes, luxury cars, or private jets, or swapping underwear.
Where do the biggest problems in the world come from?
Your mileage may vary, but I would nominate these for the top ten: the mind of Vladimir Putin; the territorial ambitions of the Chinese military; the Wuhan Institute of Virology — or wherever Covid-19 originated; the labs and offices of the technological tinkerers who keep trying to make apps like Tik-Tok even more addictive to vulnerable and impressionable young people; the schools near and far that fail to give young people the education they need to succeed in the world; the busybodies who tie up businesses in knots in an attempt to make them serve an ideological agenda; drug cartels and smugglers; human traffickers; and Islamist terrorists, who are still bombing churches, stabbing cops, and trying to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction, even if they don’t generate the headlines they used to get.
And if you want an eleventh to focus on climate change, we can throw in China Energy Investment, which is the driving force behind China’s expanding use of coal.
You want to solve problems, Davos crowd? Go focus on those.“
We’ll go the Jolt one better and suggest they all mind their own d*mn business.
And in today’s installment of the EnvironMental Moment, John Stossel’s guest, formerNYT‘s science writer John Tierney suggests, “If you want to save Flipper, throw your plastic bottle in the garbage”, as most recycling does more harm than good:
Which explains why Tierney is the formerTimes‘ science writer!
Moving on, here’s another octet of items certain to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
“In late May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $399 billion in 2022 and nearly triple over the upcoming decade, soaring from $442 billion to $1.2 trillion and summing to $8.1 trillion over that period. However, if inflation is higher than CBO’s projections and if the Fed raises interest rates by larger amounts than the agency projected, such costs may rise even faster than anticipated.“
When Ronald Reagan took office, the national debt was a mere $738 billion. When he left office, it stood at $2.1 trillion, a result of Reagan bankrupting the Soviet Union and winning the Cold War through a military buildup the Russians couldn’t match, ushering in what was referred to at the time as the “peace dividend”.
Today, as a result of wholly-unnecessary pandemic lockdowns and the resultant fraud-ridden and pork-laden cash giveaways, permanent emergency spending has become de rigueur in Washington. Though such profligate spending might once have been…
“I don’t really care. It’s a sign of disloyalty. There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty because nobody…has ever done more for ‘right to life’ than Donald Trump.“
The man simply cannot comprehend evangelicals are considering an alternative who has all of Trump’s limited strengths and none of his limitless liabilities.
(4). The all-Dimocratic D.C. city council voted to override Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a criminal-justice reform package which, among other bits of insanity, will soften penalties for carjacking and other violent crimes. Hey, what could go wrong?!?
(6). In a forward from Nick, we learn an Arizona man is upset having learned his mother’s body…
…which was given to the Biological Resource Center with the understanding it would be used by neurologists for Alzheimer’s research, was instead sold to the military for “blast testing.” Not doubt we’d share Mr. Stauffer’s outrage had our dear departed mother been strapped to a chair and blown to bits simulating the explosion of an IED.
(8). Meanwhile, did ANYTHING Joe had to say during his MLK Day address have the faintest connection to the civil rights martyr’s work? BTW, he didn’t stutter over the name of the birthday girl, he forgot it; Her name’s Andrea, and there’s no connection between her name and what Joe mumbled.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Balls Cotton…
…and Speed:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with a terribly disturbing and sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as Townhall.com reports on a case which is garnering no coverage whatsoever in the MSM:
We Investigated a Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring. Here’s What We Found.
“A months-long Townhall investigation reveals disturbing new details about the affluent LGBTQ-activist couple accused of sodomizing their young adopted sons—now ages 9 and 11—and distributing “homemade” child pornography of the sexual abuse. Half a year after the shocking story made national news, Townhall is the only outlet following up on the criminal case in Georgia that has since seen zero headlines written about it. We’ve found that it’s far, far worse than what was first reported.
Not only did the married men allegedly rape the two boys who were adopted through a Christian special-needs adoption agency, they were pimping out their children to nearby pedophiles in Atlanta-area suburbs, Townhall’s follow-up investigation discovered.
Recorded jailhouse calls, a trove of never-before-seen court documents, and testimony from a family member who spoke exclusively with Townhall uncover the extent of the physical and emotional trauma the two elementary school-aged brothers endured as well as the red flags that the state overlooked during the same-sex couple’s “faster than expected” adoption process.
The adoptive fathers, 33-year-old government worker William Dale Zulock Jr. and 35-year-old banker Zachary “Zack” Jacoby Zulock—who was previously accused of raping a child—from Oxford, Georgia, have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, felony sexual exploitation of children, and felony prostitution of a minor.
William and Zachary are each facing over nine life sentences. They’ve pleaded not guilty…”
To which we can only add…
Magoo
Video of the Day
ICYMI, we present Part II of John Stossel’s exposé of the absurd unreality that is electric cars. Though we must confess we’re intrigued as to why reducing the demand for one of America’s most plentiful and cheapest natural resources is a GOOD thing?!?
Tales of The Darkside
Karine Jean-Pierre getting nuked by three members of the White House press corps. She might as well be the first Black, openly lesbian, one-legged woman in an ass-kickin’ contest.
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