On November 15, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Friday, November 13th, 2020…and once we’ve finished picking up the pieces of the mirror we dropped after being startled by a black cat running in front of us while walking under a ladder, we’ll get on with the show.
But first, we thought this Veterans Day edition of Best of the Webwell worth reprinting, as Jim Freeman recounts the truly stirring story of…
An incredible account of a most amazing soldier. Christ said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”, an expression of caring and concern by which Alwyn Cashe lived…and died. We’re proud to have served a country where, as Admiral Chester Nimitz observed of the Marines and sailors who fought and died on and around Iwo Jima, such uncommon courage has so often been a common virtue.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Since the fat lady hasn’t even begun to warm up, and you still can’t separate the wheat from the chaff, we lead off the Friday the 13th line-up with a selection of what we consider items of interest:
“A member of apparent President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force advocated for a new lockdown in the United States, saying it would invigorate the economy and decrease the number of coronavirus cases.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies, for cities, states, county governments. We could do all of that,” Dr. Michael Osterholm told Yahoo Finance. “If we did that, then we could lock down for four to six weeks.”…”
Meanwhile, fellow Biden Wuhan virus task force member Zeke Emanuel has stated the U.S. mustn’t bogart the eventual vaccine. This from the ObamaScare architect who hinted people shouldn’t live past 75, which is particularly ironic now that he’s agreed to serve under a possible President who would take office at age 78.
In the interest of fairness, we should note for now Emanuel is advocating the export of any vaccine only after medical workers, first responders and the most vulnerable among us have been inoculated and the rest of the country has reached herd immunity. Though inquiring minds would love to know whether, in Emanuel’s opinion, the “most vulnerable” include those over 75.
“Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it.
What “unity” really means, of course, is capitulation. America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during the Obama years. Now, as then, the media will pretend that the moral fabric of the nation must be mended after Republican rule. It’s pretty transparent. When Democrats win the presidency, we are treated to solemn calls for national restoration and political harmony, and to the expectation that, for the good of the nation, the opposition will embrace decorum and pass legislation they oppose. When Republicans win elections, grown women put on knitted hats depicting their reproductive organs and stomp around Washington protesting, all to a hero’s welcome.
…Unity is found in comity with your neighbors, in your churches and schools, in your everyday interactions with your community. Politics is not a place for unity. It is a place for airing grievances. And we’ve got plenty.“
As do we; and thus, like Festivus, any Biden…or Harris…Administration will begin…
Depend on us to keep you updated…such updates to include, if rumors forwarded by James Nichols prove accurate, articles and video clips from Trump Television, dependent of course upon The Donald being defeated. We could easily see Tucker, Hannity, Laura and four of the members of The Five jumping ship in a heartbeat…assuming their departure were accompanied by a sizable stipend! We’d love to see the Murdochs try to run FOX News with a primetime lineup featuring only Bret Baier. Then again, Megyn Kelly’s looking for work.
Turning from the sublime to the ridiculous, courtesy of George Lawlor, the Daily Mail reports how…
It should be noted the open window was in keeping with Lyft’s Wuhan virus measures, and the company responded to this hypocrite’s complaint by stating that the driver had acted in accordance with their policies.
Since we’re on the subject of Progressive poltroons, as AEI‘s Fred Hess details…
“Since March, millions of students have been out of school. Nearly half of the nation’s 50 largest school districts haven’t yet reopened or are only now planning to do so. Hybrid reopening plans have been a start-and-stop, hit-and-miss endeavor. Given the mounting evidence that the public health risks of reopening schools are modest and manageable, it’s no surprise that parents are growing more supportive of in-person schooling.
Here is a moment for educators to rise to the challenge: to insist that schools safeguard the well-being of staff but also that they find ways to serve their charges. Unfortunately, a rather different narrative has taken hold. Indeed, last week, El Paso teacher Lyn Peticolas took to Education Week—K-12 education’s newspaper of record—to publish an op-ed titled “What Demands to ‘Open Schools Now!’ Sound Like to a Teacher” in which she ardently denounced the “coronavirus-deniers” who hurl “vitriol” at school districts for not reopening.
Utterly ignoring that thousands of private schools havereopenedwithout incident, that many thousands of public schools have safely opened their doors, or the graveconcernsabout remote learning, Peticolas waxes enthusiastic about the miracles of virtual teaching before declaring that the “sole aim” of those seeking to reopen schools “seems to be to cause strife and unrest.” She goes on, at great length, to explain how overburdened and underappreciated teachers are.
Indeed, the notion that only the callous and the cruel would ask teachers to return to school has become something of a meme in the edusphere. As an CNN op-ed by teacher Elana Rabinowitz proclaimed, “I teach public school. I love my students.I don’t want to die.”In a tack that must surely have prompted an eye-roll or two among some of the nurses or first responders busy working a second shift as homeschool parents, Rabinowitz thundered, “We want to be there for the kids, especially now. But who will be there for us—the educators? The ones who…are literally being asked to risk our lives so the economy could go back to normal?”…”
As a Kristen McConnell wrote in The Atlantic back in early August, “I’m a nurse in New York. Teachers should do their jobs, just like I did. Schools are essential to the functioning of our society, and that makes teachers essential workers.”
It’s obvious neither the carping Peticolas nor repining Rabinowitz have ever watched Platoon, else they’d know…
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this meme from across the pond, courtesy of Bernard Taylor…
…along with one each from Balls Cotton…
…Speed Mach…
…and Larry Hoffman:
And last, but certainly not least, another from our sister-in-law Jackie:
Finally, since we’re on the subject of businesses we’re boycotting, we’ll call it a week with this, courtesy of a customer looking for a reason to complain and a restaurant chain with a spine made of jelly, as…
“Cracker Barrel has issued an apology after a customer at a Connecticut location spotted what appeared to be “nooses on the ceiling.” The restaurant chain later clarified that the “noose” was just the wrapped cord that was attached to one of the location’s décor items, but said it was still “completely unacceptable” that employees failed to notice the resemblance before it was put on display…”
Yeah, 22 years ago, as that’s when the old soldering iron to which the cord was attached was hung…er,…put on display. Maybe Cracker Barrel can comb through their employment records, identify the guilty party…or parties…and fire their unobservant, insensitive a*s…or a*ses. Meanwhile, we’ll continue to take our dining dollars elsewhere.
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