It’s Monday, March 29th, 2021…but before we begin, just when you thought The Land of Fruits & Nuts couldn’t get any crazier, this item from the New York Post via George Lawlor confirms you’re wrong, as now a proposed…

California bill would ban ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ departments in stores

 

Thus it should come as no surprise to learn via NRO of the…

Bonfire of the Sanities: California’s Deranged Revival of the Aztec Gods

 

“Apparently, for the sake of the state’s schoolchildren, we need to set the record straight on the blood-soaked worship of ancient deities.

…As I noted a few weeks ago, the most astonishing part of the curriculum is the section that deals with religion:

Students are to be taught that white Christian settlers committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes when they arrived in the New World by murdering Native American gods and replacing them with the Christian God. According to the curriculum, this replacement ushered in a regime defined by “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide,” and the “explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity.” But all is not lost, we are told. For students will learn that they have the power and the responsibility to build a social order defined by “countergenocide,” which will eventually supplant the last vestiges of colonial Christianity and pave the way for the “regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.”

The curriculum presents the pagan gods of the Aztec empire as worthier objects of study and veneration than Jesus of Nazareth. This presentation does not rest at the level of theory or academic inquiry. As Christopher F. Rufo has observed, teachers are encouraged by the authors of the curriculum to lead their students in an “ethnic studies community chant,” which takes the form of worship offered up to these deities:

Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka — whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism — asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”…”

‘Cause the Aztecs were a beneficent breed, a peaceful people wanting nothing more than quiet coexistence with their neighbors.  You know…like the Romulans…the Klingons…or the ChiComs.

Hell’s bells (in this case, quite literally!), why not just worship Satan outright?!?  After all, that’s what they’re essentially doing.

Still, as this item from Newsmax forwarded by our brother Rob relates, like Masterpiece Cakeshop’s heroic, stoic Jack Phillips, there are many who will continue the good fight while a breath remains in their body, such as the…

College Student Reinstated After Suspension for ‘Man Cannot Become Woman’ Post

 

“…The reinstatement comes after Stevens was suspended in November for posting a video to his Instagram account in which he said, ”A man cannot become a woman, and a woman cannot become a man.”

The school said Stevens’ statements ”call(ed)into question” his ability to ”maintain a classroom environment protecting the mental and emotional well-being of all of [his] students.”

It insisted he complete a ”remediation plan” which included removing his Instagram videos, tempering his social media posts, and attending school-approved training. It also insinuated that he must accept the liberal ideology on homosexuality and transgenderism…Owens said he would not comply with the demands for “re-education” training…”

Thank the Lord for all victories, whenever they come, no matter how small, but particularly during this Easter week.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of Balls Cotton, an editorial from Newsweek (along with the accompanying video contrasting the recruitment ads of our thoroughly modern Military with a likely opponent’s) in which Aaron Reitz, MAJ, USMCR, an Afghanistan War veteran and Texas Deputy Attorney General for Legal Strategy details the transition…

From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today’s U.S. Military

 

Billy Mitchell, John Paul Jones, George Washington and George Patton…among others…must be rolling in their graves!

“…The truth is that today’s military is running on the fumes of our vastly superior forefathers and the ever-shrinking proportion of each branch that still does truly heroic work and accomplishes truly extraordinary feats. The rest is a bloated military-industrial complex given over to Fortune 500-style corporate progressivism.

And if it’s bad in the Marine Corps, imagine how much worse it is in the other services.

America’s enemies are laughing at us. Frankly, we deserve it. But it doesn’t need to be this way. To get back on top, our military must reject “extremism” training, reverse all the progressive policies enacted over the past several years, return to a true meritocracy and focus exclusively on the only thing that matters: winning wars.

We need a military fit for real warriors—not the social justice kind.“

Want to know the end game for the Dimocrats’ deliberate dulling of the pointy end of our spear?  We’ll let Tucker tell you:

Here’s the juice: Dimocrats want a Military ignorant of the Constitution, thus willing to be employed against its fellow citizens in the seizure of their firearms.  And trust us, it will be done in the name of “the people” and the “greater good”.

Dear friends, Breaker Morant had it pegged:

And as Victor Davis Hanson records at American Greatness, the willing cooperation of career-minded, politically-correct flag and general officers in the evisceration of our Military in the name of social engineering is just one of the factors which help explain…

The Nature of Chinese Contempt for Us

 

“Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the Chinese broadsides.

Apparently, as elite Americans readily confess to inherent white supremacy and racism—highlighting the complaints of BLM and Antifa—the Chinese are happy to agree that such admittedly toxic Americans should not dare to criticize China’s racist policies.

…China welcomes U.S. self-loathing that it interprets as weakness and decadence to be exploited—not as self-reflection to be admired, much less emulated.

In Chinese zero-sum thinking, if elite Americans themselves admit to systemic racism, sexism, and nativism, then they have already done most of the work for Chinese propagandists. China merely recycles such domestic charges to prove that a pathological America has no right to allege others to be racists—as it bullies neighbors with boasts that a dissolute and divided United States is in decline and cannot be counted as a reliable ally.

China is in a race to achieve global hegemony. For a while longer, it seeks sympathetic world opinion—at least until it has achieved unquestioned superior military and economic power.

So for now, China feigns victimhood. And it seeks solidarity with others inside the United States and abroad who claim to be fellow victims of American racism.

Such naked artifice and hypocrisy may seem crazy, given China’s atrocious human rights record. But China views our own exploding budget deficits, staggering national debt, open borders, disingenuous “1619 Project,” the violence of the summer riots, and the epidemic of race-based reeducation workshops as all far crazier—and most welcome supplements to their efforts.“

For purposes of illustration, that’s Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the left…

…Secretary of State Anthony “Wynken” Blinken on the right.

Next, writing at NRO, Charles Cooke suggests why…

It’s ‘Common Sense’ to Prosecute Hunter Biden for His Gun Crimes

 

“…It seems almost certain that Hunter Biden lied when answering the question, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” He was discharged from the Navy Reserve for drug use in 2013; has had constant drug addiction problems since that time, including repeated stints in rehab; continually characterizes himself as an “addict” (he is launching a book on the topic in April); and, in 2019, was kicked out of a strip club for smoking crack. Which matters, because under federal law it is a felony…

for any person in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of any firearmorammunition from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector,knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended or likely to deceive such importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm or ammunition under the provisions of this chapter…

The punishment for this crime is up to ten years in jail.

Politico notes that “prosecutions for it are exceedingly rare,” which is true. But this raises more questions than it answers — among them: “Why is this true?” “What is the point in Form 4473 if it’s ignored?” And “Why, given that we are not bothering to prosecute people who lie about being eligible to own guns, is Joe Biden so keen to add new gun-control laws to the books?”

Over and over again, Joe Biden and his party insist that we need to add more bureaucracy into the gun-buying process. Indeed, were “universal background checks” to be imposed upon the 37 states that have thus far declined to add them, Form 4473 would be a part of every single gun transaction — including, in many cases, wholly non-commercial transactions. Why, if it’s so obviously pointless?

I do not envy the position that Joe Biden is in with his son. But he is the president of the United States now, and he is using his position to call for much stricter laws to regulate the exercise of an explicit constitutional right. If he wants to show that he is serious — and, more important, if he wants to show that he’s not trying to create a confusing thicket of rules that will end up being enforced capriciously — he should be in favor of investigating and, if necessary, prosecuting his son and his friends. It is a federal felony to lie on Form 4473. Joe Biden supports this. It is a federal felony to possess a gun while one is a drug addict. Joe Biden supports this. It is a federal felony to bring a firearm within one thousand feet of a school. Joe Biden not only supports this, he wrote the law.

If only Biden knew someone in the White House who could ensure that such violations were more rigorously prosecuted. Surely, it’s just “common sense”?

Or maybe, just maybe, this is harder than it looks.“

Larry O’Connor goes Cooke one better, opining at Townhall.com if 46* is serious about “commonsense gun safety measures,” he’d IMMEDIATELY call for Hunter’s arrest.

But he’s not…so he won’t.

Since we’re on the subject of undeniable conflicts of interest, Mr. & Mrs. America, wake up and smell the corruption, as…

Biden nominates swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin’s wife for plum $160K job

 

Two thoughts immediately come to mind: (i) Like Hunter’s $3.5M payment from the Russians, Dimocrats no longer even try to hide their corruption; and (ii) Why on earth does the country need a federal commission to spur development in Appalachia, let alone pay its co-chair $163,000/year?!?  Shouldn’t such responsibilities fall upon the individual states?

Then there’s seven more selections specifically chosen for the inquiring mind:

(1). As Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa recounts, any chance the MSM would have ignored this story had the man in the Atlanta supermarket with all the firearms been White instead of Black?

(2). NRO informs us former CDC Director Robert Redfield believes the Wuhan virus originated inside a Wuhan lab.  Perhaps if Robert Redford…

…had said it, his belief would carry more weight with the MSM.

(3). Again from NRO, A Colorado gun store owner said Ahmad Al-Issa passed a state background check before buying the weapon which he used to slaughter ten people in a Boulder supermarket.  Thus does…

…once again demonstrate utter incompetence at and/or a startling indifference to one of its primary functions.  Maybe if they stayed out of politics?!?

(4.) The New York City Council moved Thursday to end qualified immunity for police officers, the legal doctrine which for decades has protected law enforcement from civil lawsuits alleging misconduct against those they’ve arrested, unless the officer’s actions clearly violated the arrestee’s constitutional rights.  FYI, civil lawsuits require only a “preponderance” of the evidence, a much lower burden of proof than “beyond a reasonable doubt”, opening officers up to financial ruin at the hands of criminal claimants and sympathetic juries.  Who on earth would want to be a New York City cop?!?

(5). As Townhall.com‘s Rebecca Downs reports, Kommielaa’s once again keeping questionable company.

(6). Via Balls Cotton, Plane & Pilot reports how a first officer is suing QantasLink for emotional distress after ONE of a Boing 717’s TWO engines failed in flight, causing her to suffer PTSD.

Yeah,…whatever: it’s not like she was flying the aircraft during the emergency, or as if a 717 can’t fly and land with one engine.

(7). In response to passage of Georgia’s new, common-sense voter law, the National Black Justice Coalition, a Black and LGBTQ civil rights group, said golfers should refuse to play in the Masters unless the law is repealed.

As regards not only the wisdom, but fairness of requiring a picture ID in order to vote, here’s a helpful primer forwarded by G. Trevor:

Sorry, but if massive, election-changing voter fraud didn’t exist, The Left wouldn’t be howling half as loudly at efforts to prevent it.

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

Then there’s three from Breeze Gould…

…seven more from Balls Cotton…

…along with one each from Major Jon…

…and Brenda Berry:

Finally, since we’re on the subject of ignoranuses, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as the New York Post provides this… 

Graphic video showing the moment of deadly Uber Eats carjacking by teen girls

 

Soooo…, last Tuesday, two Black girls, aged 15 and 13, kill a 66-year-old Pakistani-immigrant Uber Eats driver during a carjacking, and all D.C. mayor Muriel “Bowwow” Bowser has to offer since is a tweet on how to protect vehicle against theft.  Seriously?!?

Here’s a third shot of the juice: Had the young Black female carjackers been young White males, and the victim a minority of either gender, sure as Slick Willy scoring on the Lolita Express, Mayor Bowwow would be barking loudly…and constantly.

Magoo

Video of the Day

Tucker highlights what is perhaps the biggest threat to America’s national security. You’ll have gotten the point by the 1:50 mark, but the video is well worth watching in its entirety. These are, at their core, traitors whose positions of power should make you fear for America. As our brother observed, the only people high standards discriminate against are those who can’t meet them.

Tales of The Darkside

Thanks to the MSM’s position as the propaganda arm of the Dimocratic Party, we need an Australian source to report the truth about 46*’s first presser.

On the Lighter Side

The video of Stumbling Joe the MSM WON’T show you!