It’s Friday, July 19th, 2019…and 50 years ago tomorrow, Neil Armstrong took the biggest step in human history while uttering the immortal words…
Reports Berkeley, CA has banned any reference to or recording of Armstrong’s incredibly insensitive gender-specific words within the city limits remain unconfirmed.
Since we’re on the subject of The Left’s inability to see the forest of common sense for the politically-correct trees, in stark contrast to the brilliance which took America to the Moon…
“Roughly 150 people, including small children, marched through New York City’s Harlem streets on Tuesday night after federal prosecutors said they wouldn’t bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.
…The protesters could be heard chanting “No justice, no peace!” and “Whose street? Our street!”
Hands held, they blocked intersections…”
Just so we understand this: they marched and snarled up trafficin Harlem. Why inconvenience Harlemites for an incident that happened in Staten Island?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Speaking of Progressives’ dogged attempts to divide us, as the WSJ‘s Jason Riley records…
“In William Julius Wilson’s 1978 book, “The Declining Significance of Race,” the sociologist argued that racial discrimination was no longer the biggest barrier to black economic advancement. His fellow liberals were outraged.Forty-one years later, Mr. Wilson is still right and the political left is still in denial.
Accusations of white racism are all the rage in Washington these days. If you oppose school busing, you’re a racist. If you want immigration laws enforced, you’re a racist. If you’re against slavery reparations or support adding a citizenship question to the census or criticize minority members of Congress, you’re a racist.
One problem is that Donald Trump has adopted the kind of identity politics we usually associate with Democrats. Another is that Democratic presidential contestants in search of black votes have taken racial pandering to new lows. Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., spoke for many of the candidates when he told National Public Radio last week that “white America” needs to come to grips with what he says explains today’s racial inequities. Namely, the “systemic racism all around us.It’s the air we breathe.”…”
We highly recommend reading the rest of Riley’s commentary, though we must make two observations.
First, we’re not in agreement with the assessment Trump has adopted the Dims’ identity politics. We’re rather of the opinion even Jason Riley, a Conservative writer deserving of great respect, has been adversely effected by the MSM’s relentless assault on The Donald, who is no more a racist than the…
…2nd-worst President in American history.
Trump simply puts Americans first; NOT illegal aliens…NOT anti-American Islamists…and CERTAINLY NOT four, foul-mouthed freshman Congresswomen/people/persons/whatever constantly condemning their country with contrived, concocted shortcomings while extolling the virtues of undeniably failed Socialist/Islamic alternatives.
Second, we disrespectfully suggest whatever ill-odor Pete Buttgag’s sensing in the air he’s breathing is owing to the fact he’s repeatedly had his nose in areas of the male anatomy our good Lord never intended other men to savor.
In a related item, courtesy of NRO, A.G. Hamilton poses…
“Democratic infighting reached a fever pitch last week with bickering and personal attacks between members of the “Squad” and other House Democrats. During that period, Squad members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley mostly avoided doing interviews. However, that all changed after Donald Trump’s deplorable tweet thread aimed at the freshman members.
That attack united House Democrats in condemnation and redirected the press’s focus. As a result, those members have suddenly agreed to do interviews again. While it makes sense that those interviews cover the Trump attack, one would think the press would also ask these members some tough questions that have otherwise gone unanswered. That hasn’t happened thus far, but here are ten suggestions for journalists actually interested in accountability from those in power, including those with a D by their name…”
We’d add an 11th: please tell us which country you’d use as the model for your Socialist utopia, one place on the planet where your Progressive principles have successfully been put into practice. Not to benefit of the ruling elite, but the PEOPLE!
Next up, as FOX News details, the goal of The Squad’s relentless attacks on those not of pure enough Socialist thought is finally beginning to dawn on other less-enlightened Dimocrats:
“House Democrats are setting records with their abuses of power, which means they aren’t stopping at just the Trump administration. Witness their new targeting of free-market nonprofits and businesses, straight out of the intimidation playbook.
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. a month ago sent a letter to five separate entities. The recipients included two nonprofits, Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council; a trade association, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers; an oil company, Marathon Petroleum, and a coalition, Energy4US, that includes dozens of union locals and business groups. The letters—sent without notifying GOP committee members—didn’t mince words.
Mr. Pallone explained he was investigating the administration’s move to reform Barack Obama’s auto-efficiency standards. A change to these rules was a given on day one of the Trump presidency. Yet Mr. Pallone insists they were the result of a “covert lobbying and social media campaign.” His evidence was a December 2018 New York Times investigation, which sought to describe a straightforward policy push as a sinister, secret plot orchestrated by (who else?) the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers.
Mr. Pallone then got down to his unconstitutional demands. He insisted that these private entities turn over “all documents exchanged and communications” about the rule with any employee, current or former, of key federal departments and the office of the president. The groups were also ordered to hand over documents and communications they’d exchanged with each other. Mr. Pallone further demanded groups like AFP detail all of their efforts, “whether directly or indirectly,” in “lobbying” or “social media efforts” related to the reform. He gave them two weeks to sign up for his colonoscopy.
...The good news is that at least nonprofits now understand the left’s strategy—to scare them (and those who affiliate with them) out of free-market or conservative advocacy. And they aren’t rolling over for it.That’s evidenced by two impressive letters that landed back recently on Mr. Pallone’s desk, which I’ve seen, one from AFP (which does receive Koch funding) and one from ALEC.
Mark Holden, a member of AFP’s board, pointed out to Mr. Pallone that the sum total of the Times’s crack evidence of AFP’s involvement in a plot was that one of AFP’s 3.2 million members “spoke in favor” of the reform at a public meeting in Michigan. Mr. Holden, in a spirit of helpfulness, revealed that AFP had also submitted a comment in favor of the rulemaking—one of 600,000. The rest of the letter served as a tutorial for Mr. Pallone on the First Amendment and its longstanding protection of free association and speech. AFP is not turning over documents.
Nor is ALEC. Its own letter, penned by Washington attorney Cleta Mitchell, pointed Mr. Pallone to a very public record showing ALEC’s support for a model policy to reform fuel-efficiency standards. She kindly included links to several readily available tweets highlighting ALEC’s noncovert position. She drolly noted that her own investigation turned up nothing in committee rules that authorized Mr. Pallone to snoop into “the activities, programs, or internal operations of a non-governmental, private sector organization’s policy development activities.”
…House Democrats are losing the debate about auto efficiency as the public passes on electric cars, so they’ve moved to shutting down the other side. This is the modus operandi of the progressive left. Mr. Trump wants to make the 2020 election about socialism, but it’s just as important to focus on the thuggish tactics and authoritarianism that accompany Democrats’ march toward that philosophy. Progressives now feel entitled to abuse individual rights without constraint. Imagine that attitude in the White House.“
We don’t have to imagine it: we just lived through eight long years of it!
And in the EnvironMental Moment, as Climate Depot details via Jeff Foutch…
“The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders that if we don’t tackle climate change in 18 months the human race will go extinct in a speech in London yesterday to foreign ministers from the Commonwealth. “I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival,” Prince Charles said…”
“‘For more than two years, the Biden Cancer Initiative has focused on creating and implementing programs and platforms that accelerated progress against cancer,’ Greg Simon, president of the Biden Cancer Initiative, said in a statement. ‘Today, we are suspending activities given our unique circumstances.’“
And what, pray tell, might those “unique circumstances” have been? Why, the same as the Bill and Hillary’s:
“The Bidens resigned from the group’s board of directors in April before the former vice president launched his 2020 presidential campaign. According to the group, they had difficult replacing the Bidens’ “convening power and ability to get issues to the top of the list” in the health care realm.“
In other words, the Biden Cancer Initiative received funding through the same “pay to play” ploy which saw the Clinton Foundation flourish: as long as Joe was the Veep, people were willing to contribute to his cause…which was admittedly less ignoble than the Clintons’.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with the Health Section, courtesy today of the FDA’s dashing of every Irishman’s hopes and dreams:
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