On February 25, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Monday, February 24th, 2020…but before we begin, submitted for your perusal, this snippet from Jim Freeman’s Best of the Web:
“…For those who are appalled by the estimated $10 trillion in tax increases on rich people and businesses already proposed by Mr. Sanders, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg pointed out that such taxes are just the tip of the iceBern. Here’s more of the NBC transcript with the former mayor discussing the Sanders agenda:
BUTTIGIEG: He’s honest about the fact that taxes will go up on anybody making more than $29,000 to fund his health care plan, although, again, a little bit vague about how the rest of that gets…
SANDERS: You’re not being honest. Premiums would be eliminated.
BUTTIGIEG: But you’re still raising those taxes. And when you do it…
SANDERS: But we’re saving people money because they don’t pay any premiums, out-of-pocket expenses, co-payments, or deductibles. They’re going to be much better off.
(APPLAUSE)
BUTTIGIEG: But where is — where is the other $25 trillion supposed to come from? At a certain point, you’ve got to do the math.
Here’s hoping both reporters and rivals will focus more on the math behind the Sanders proposals—as well as his failed ideology—before allowing him to seize control of a major U.S. political party.“
While we understand Freeman’s point, his concern about Bernie heralding the Dimocrats’ doom leaves us somewhat befuddled; after all, shouldn’t any Conservative eagerly anticipate the prospect of a Communist seizing control of the Dimocratic Party, thus consigning it to the dustbin of American history?!?
We sure as hell are salivating over the ever-increasing likelihood.
In a related item inspired by this parody of the Beatles‘ All My Loving forwarded by James Nichols…
…consider these two 2011 classics which counter Progressive visions of money growing on trees and unicorns passing rainbow-colored, carbon-free gas…
…then consider the tens of additional trillions Bernie Sanders wants to spend, without the faintest clue whatsoever from whence the money will come. It’s not so much he doesn’t know where the cash is coming from, as much as he knows it just ain’t there!!!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the last week of February with the Useless as a…
…segment, courtesy today of John Bolton, who finally found it politically expedient to weigh in on the Progressive impeachment charade:
Bolton contended that the House “committed impeachment malpractice,” drawing some grumbling from the audience, saying “the process drove Republicans who might have voted for impeachment away because it was so partisan.” He also said he didn’t expect the Senate to vote against having him testify.
“People can argue about what I should have said and what I should have done,” Bolton said.“I would bet you a dollar right here and now, my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome.”
Spoken with all the courage of the Cowardly Lion, John. Wow: one whole dollar! Bolton’s willingness to risk it all is right up there with James Bond’s devil-may-care habits when spending his own funds:
Here’s the juice: rarely, if ever, has anyone ever lost all credibility with us in as fast a fashion as John Bolton.
Next up, in a scene right out of the movie Contagion, FOX News reports…
“Ukraine’s effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the new virus outbreak plunged into chaos Thursday as local residents opposing the move hurled stones at the evacuees and clashed with police. Officials deplored the violence and the country’s health minister pledged to share evacuees’ quarantine for two weeks in a bid to reassure protesters who fear they’ll be infected.
Buses carrying evacuees were finally able to reach the designated place of quarantine after hours of clashes. The masked evacuees, exhausted by the long journey, were peeking through bus windows as they drove slowly under a heavy police escort.Stones shattered a window in one of the buses, but the evacuees appeared unhurt.
Since the early morning, several hundred residents of the village of Novi Sanzhary in Ukraine’s central Poltava region had cut the road to a sanitarium intended to host the evacuees, fearing they could become infected. Demonstrators, some of whom appeared drunk, put up road blocks, burned tires and clashed with riot police who moved to clear access. One protester tried to ram police lines with his car…”
Though we never gave much thought to Ukraine’s relative status among the nations of the globe, we certainly never believed her to be a member of the Third World. We may have been mistaken.
For more on the subject, we turn to the WSJ, which explores…
“Last Friday, a group of disgruntled “queer activists” interrupted Pete Buttigieg’s campaign event in San Francisco. One of the protesters, Adiel Pollydore, told the Guardian that she decided to protest in part because “Pete Buttigieg represents a very small percentage of the experiences of queer and trans people in this country, being white and being cisgender and being a man, being someone who is highly educated. We know queer and trans folks of color, especially black queer and trans folks, live at the intersection of so many systems of oppression in this country.”
We would not want the “highly educated” speaking on Ms. Pollydore’s behalf.
The protester’s objection to Buttigieg’s melanin count and intact genitalia — “Why aren’t you a trans black woman, Mr. Mayor?” — highlights an ongoing debate on the left about the former mayor’s sexuality, and whether he is, in the words of Masha Gessen of The New Yorker, “gay enough” to represent the LGBT community.
One would think Buttigieg’s gay bona fides are obvious…
…Unlike those who are noticeably “queer,” Gessen argues, Pete Buttigieg has always appeared relatively normal (he can “pass” as a straight man) and therefore could “choose the circumstances and timing of his coming out.”This experience, in turn, led him to adopt a political platform that — in Gessen’s telling — is “profoundly, essentially conservative.”She concludes that Pete Buttigieg’s life experience and ideological commitments make him “a straight politician in a gay man’s body.”
It’s difficult to think of a sense in which a candidate whosupports unfettered abortion access,compellingreligious business owners to violate their consciences,abolishingthe Electoral College,reengineeringthe Supreme Court,decriminalizingillicit border crossings, grantingamnestyto more than 11 million illegal aliens, andbanningall new fracking ventures might be understood to be “profoundly, essentially conservative.”
(“Facts.”)
…All of Gessen’s argument could, in earnest, be reduced to “Pete Buttigieg isn’t really gay because he doesn’t agree with me about politics.” That implication is clear enough in the “straight politician in a gay man’s body” quip, suggesting that gay men are authentically gay only if they hew to the political program prescribed by Masha Gessen…”
The Gospel according to Gessen; sorta like the Bible according to Buttgag: selectively edited to the point of utter inaccuracy. Then again, God Himself does not promise eternal damnation to those who misrepresent the likes of Mayor Pete.
Speaking of the afterlife, in today’s installment of the No Sh*t, Sherlock! segment…
Though we in no way mean to speak ill of the dead, as the late, great Bill Paxton observed in one of his early appearances on the Big Screen…
Incidentally, the 1983 adaption of Pat Conroy’s Lords of Discipline, which if you haven’t seen it is WELL worth your time, saw Paxton first team with Michael Biehn (“Reese” in Terminator, “Hicks” in Aliens) and William Hope (“Gorman” in Aliens).
As long as we’re on the subject of those a couple cans short of a six-pack, first, consider the following story from FOX:
“A couple missing for over a week in Northern California were found alive on Saturday morning by rescuers who had given up hope of finding them alive.
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference that Carol Kiparsky, 77, and Ian Irwin, 72, were found around 10 a.m. on Saturday in “very dense drainage [ditch] that was overgrown with foliage” near Tomales Bay, a narrow inlet about 30 miles north of San Francisco.
…The couple, from Palo Alto, was last seen Valentine’s Day, at their Airbnb rented cottage near Inverness, a town at the foot of the bay. The couple never checked out the next day as planned and failed to show up for an appointment on Feb. 16, which sheriff’s officials said was highly out of character for them.
“[They] left for a hike on Valentine’s, got lost at dark, and don’t know what happened,” Schneider told reporters on Saturday. The couple, who were unprepared for a long hike, were wearing lightweight clothing and had no food as night temperatures fell into the 30s.
At some point, the couple may have fallen and Kiparsky attempted to find help alone. She tied parts of her scarf to branches in order to get back to her partner, Schneider said. “They thought this was the end for them,” he told reporters.
…The area where officials were searching on Saturday was a new location and considered to be an implausible spot to find the missing couple. “It doesn’t seem they would have made it much farther because of how dense the vegetation is,” Schneider said Saturday.
…”When they were found, they were very appreciative. Ian started singing when the helicopter arrived on scene,” Schneider said. The couple was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia and were “doing OK,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Irwin is a leading Parkinson’s disease researcher. He was a chemist on the team that originally identified an agent responsible for the outbreak of Parkinsonism among heroin addicts in 1982, according to the newspaper. Kiparsky is a prominent linguist and author of several books on language, including 1975’s The Gooficon: A Repair Manual for English.“
We must confess this story left us scratching our head, particularly when we saw this photo of the singing Mr. Irwin being airlifted out of the drainage ditch:
We’re gonna go out on a limb here and suggest, since rescue helicopters generally evacuate their patients vertically vice horizontally, and ‘cuz there’s a “very dense drainage [ditch]” immediately below Mr. Irwin in the photo, this overly-educated, below-average-common-sense-couple spent 8 days in a ditch next to a paved road.
Contemplate the dubious benefits of Progressive higher learning.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Speed Mach…
Ed Hickey…
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of a Canton…
“A 36-year-old Ohio woman twice called 911 to report her emergency — her parents canceled her cellphone service, according to a report. But the only response Seloni Khetarpal got was a felony arrest, according to The Smoking Gun.
The woman called 911 on Feb. 13 to complain that her folks had cut off her service and she demanded that police respond to her family’s Canton home, the news outlet reported. Khetarpal was warned that 911 was only for legitimate emergencies — but the “belligerent” woman called again two hours later and insisted that her complaint was valid, according to a criminal complaint cited by the outlet.
She was charged with disrupting public services, a fourth-degree felony, and booked into the Stark County jail. She was released on $2,500 bond and is due in court Feb. 27.
…It was unclear why her dad, a gastroenterologist, and mom, a pediatric dentist, canceled their daughter’s phone service.“
Let alone, at her age, why they were paying for her cellular service in the first place!
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