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by | March 12, 2022 · 12:59 pm

Reminder!

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by | March 12, 2022 · 11:03 am

Ukrainian Genocide

At the entrance to the Kiev Memorial Park, there is a sculpture of a very thin girl with an extremely sad look, holding several classes of wheat in her hands. Behind her, you can see the Candle of Remembrance monument that marks the Holodomor.

In 1919, Ukraine was pressured into joining the Soviet Union. Ukrainians, who then considered themselves a Central European nation like Poland, not an Eastern European nation like Russia, were trying to restore Ukraine’s independence and resisted.

Not wanting to lose control of Europe’s main source of grain, Stalin stole the land and its produce, leaving the nation that produced the most wheat in Europe without a crumb of bread.

Between 1932-1933, starvation killed between seven and ten million people, more than the Jews during World War II. At the peak of the Holodomor, 24,500 Ukrainians died every day. People were literally starving to death on the streets. Stalin then settled the emptied Ukrainian villages with Russians.

Today, 28 countries around the world classify the Holodomor as a genocide.

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by | March 12, 2022 · 10:22 am

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BORDER: The Democrats’ $1.5 trillion omnibus legislation would provide funding for border security in eight foreign nations—many of whom are U.S. adversaries—while providing no new money for security along the U.S. border.

COVID-19: During a Zoom session with other doctors, Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency room physician in New Orleans, Louisiana, apologized for criticizing proponents of the Great Barrington Declaration. CLICK https://www.bitchute.com/video/iZzFossdMcoS/ [:23] to hear a video clip. “I’m sorry because I believe now you guys were correct. And you were correct from the beginning. These policies were harmful.”

In other news, United Airlines announced that unvaxxxed workers can return to their positions on March 28. Cuz, you know, case rates are falling. And/or the midterms are coming.

GENDER: “But most important, by far, is assignment of the organ brain at birth. Many of my progressive friends behave as though this organ should have been a gall bladder. (A gall bladder may reduce the diarrhea flowing from apertures near the brain, such as the mouth.) Following her organ-affirming operation, my friend will be a trans-organ person, more specifically, a person with a gallbladder in her head, or, if the gall bladder was accompanied by stones, as is often the case, she will be a person with rocks in her head.”

Read the rest @ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/confession_i_was_the_one_assigning_sex_at_birth.html.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT: Last December, a jury found him guilty of five of the six felony disorderly conduct counts he faced, one for each time he was accused of lying to police. On Thursday, he was sentenced him to 30 months of felony probation, including 150 days in the county jail. Smollett was also ordered to pay restitution of $120,106 to the city of Chicago, and a $25,000 fine. The judge denied a request to suspend the sentence, and ordered that Smollett be immediately placed in custody. Smollett continues to insist he’s innocent and shouted repeatedly, “I am not suicidal.”

LENTEN MEDITATION: [8:08] – Re: walls that have kept us from even communicating – I’m a devout Catholic who was led to a personal relationship with Jesus by a Baptist. I have also taught RCIA (classes for those wishing to enter the RCC, often from other Christian traditions). So I’m very familiar with the similarities and the differences between various Christian denominations.

Back in the late 90s, when I was new to the ‘net, AOL had some Christian chat rooms that I tried visiting under different screen names. If I came in and talked about my Catholic friend who loves Jesus, I could have a great conversation with the others, telling them what “my Catholic friend” said about what “she” believes. BUT if I came in as a Catholic who loves Jesus, I would immediately be bombarded with the usual litany of supposed errors my church teaches, all of which she was teaching from Apostolic times until now.

The best experiences I’ve had with non-Catholic Christians have been when we had time to get to know one another in some non-denominational context. After they got to know me, they’d often get around to asking, “You seem to be a Christian the way I understand Christianity. What’s the deal with [Purgatory, Mary, etc.].” And then I’d get to explain and, universally, the response would be, “I never thought of it that way. I don’t agree, but I see how you can be a Bible-believing Christian and a Catholic at the same time.“

PROJECT VERITAS: [4:38] – The undercover video trended on Twitter, particularly the part when Rosenberg said the FBI was involved on January 6. Twitter suspended the accounts that posted it.

In the second part of the video, Rosenberg mentions the Steele dossier and “the ridiculous pee pee tape that, of course, doesn’t exist.”

When PV confronted Rosenberg with his remarks, he said, “Will I stand by those comments? Absolutely.”

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: [4:02] – Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D., is suing the District of Columbia over being denied a religious exemption from the vaxxx mandate. In addition, she has natural immunity.

UKRAINE: [6:55] – LifeSiteNews reporters Tim Jackson and Michael Hogan traveled to the Polish-Ukrainian border to record their stories and encourage the financial and prayerful support for these victims of war.

VAXXX: Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota, was driving back from the hospital after receiving his second COVID shot when he nearly veered out of his lane. “It was like someone suddenly blew a dog whistle in my ear.” Poland says the ongoing ringing in his ears has been relentless and life-altering. He believes there may be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of fellow sufferers around the world.

In other news, a North Carolina war veteran who was denied a kidney transplant because he had chosen not to take the COVID-19 jab will now receive a kidney at a hospital in Texas where there are no COVID vaccine requirements for transplant patients.

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by | March 11, 2022 · 3:36 pm

The Clown Administration

APPROVALS: A WSJ poll found Republicans are currently up 9 points among Hispanics and up 27 points among Black voters.

ELITIST HYPOCRISY: As they lecture us to buy electric cars and force us to wear masks on airplanes …

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1502344128050380803 [:09] to hear him do his creepy old man whispering thing about how the stock market is going to blow up. A tweeter reminded us that this is the same guy who said, “You’re not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

FUEL PRICES: I guess “Putin Price Hike” didn’t poll well … so now he’s blaming somebody else for his mess.

VFAUXTUS: When asked, “How long should we be bracing for this historic inflation and some unprecedented gas prices?“, Number Two Clown said, “In terms of the discussions that President Iohannis and I had, they ranged in subject including the issue of the Black Sea and I’ll let him explain in more detail as he would like. Uh, but, we are, again, fully aware and apprised because we are in constant communication with the president with his administration here, about the concerns that they have about the entire region and frankly about the vulnerability. All you have to do is look at the map.” CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1502301540962476032 [1:04] if you must.

Best comment: “The group project where she thought her partner would do all the work.”

Another gem @ https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1501952043699040256 [:16] that Ian Miles Cheong satirized as, “I’m standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who’s also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.”

I’ll spare you the clip for this one: “The UN has set up… a process… by which there will be… a review and inestigations and we will, of course, participate as appropriate and necessary.

“We all watched (shrugs) the televison coverage… of just yesterday. That’s on top of everything else… we know and don’t know yet… based on what we’ve been able to see. And because we’ve seen it or not doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened…

“But just limit it to what we have seen… pregnant women going for healthcare… being injured by… I don’t know, missiles, a bomb? In an unprovoked, unjustified war… where a powerful country is trying to take over… another country. Violate its sovereignty, its integrity, for the sake of what? Nothing that is justified or provoked?

“Absolutely there should be an investigation, and we should all be watching! I have no question the eyes of the world are… on… this war… and what Russia has done in terms of this aggression and these atrocities. I’ve no doubt.”

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by | March 11, 2022 · 10:11 am

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BILL BARR: CLICK https://rumble.com/vwunue-the-real-story-oan-bill-barr-then-and-now-with-jason-miller.html [8:20] to hear an OANN report about RINO Bill. I remember when Trump nominated him, people said he was a “straight shooter.” Yeah, no. He was and is an elitist swamp rat who never stood up for a single thing that mattered when he was Trump’s Attorney General. “He likes his money. He likes the swamp. And he likes cheeseburgers. … He’s just a plus-sized version of James Comey.”

CANADA: Welcome to the New World Order where truth is fungible and morality is whatever advances the Left’s political agenda.

Case in point: When talking about Canadians who peacefully protest his harmful policies, he called them white supremacists and members of a fringe minority with unacceptable views. He said they just take up space and questioned if we should tolerate them.

CLICK https://twitter.com/Harry__Faulkner/status/1501626486419345409 [:52] to hear him blather on about listening to others and trying to understand their point of view … in Europe … YESTERDAY.

DELTA: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1501817700619673602 [2:20] to see a Delta employee demand a passenger reverse his “F*** Biden” hoodie. When he took off his mask to comply, she had him evicted from the airplane for not wearing a mask! It turns out she was totally lying when she said the company had a policy against the slogan on his shirt. It doesn’t have any clothing policies beyond the mask thing. I wonder if she would’ve had a problem if the shirt had said “F*** Trump.”

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: The Left’s facile “solution” to high gas prices is “just buy electric cars” totally ignores a whole range of economic and environmental issues. Just one of these is the availability and cost of lithium, which is an essential component in EV batteries.

For example, claiming that EVs are supposed more “green” ignores the fact that the world’s limited supply of lithium is buried deep in the earth’s core, where it is difficult to mine. In fact, lithium mining is similar to coal mining, oil drilling, and fracking, all of which the enviro-left consider unacceptable.

In addition, while the price of lithium is currently fairly low, if demand increases, we can expect that to change, possibly by a whole heckuva lot. When the price of lithium goes up, so will the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion batteries and subsequently the purchase price of the vehicles that use them.

GAS PRICES: FAUXTUS refers to the high prices at the pump as “Putin’s price hike.” Ron DeSantis has a more accurate name: “Bidenflation.”

CLICK https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1501693602124255237 [2:14] to see a montage of Biden’s hostility to American fossil fuel production.

And just FYI … that oil he magnanimously released from our emergency reserve? Back when oil prices were at rock bottom, because U.S. production was sky high, TRUMP bought it to replace the oil Obama had released and never put back.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice; these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words.” – St. Therese of Lisieux

LOCKDOWNS: A new CDC report highlights the high cost kids paid to keep them “safe” from a virus that poses little risk to them. Pediatric emergency room visits due to mental health conditions skyrocketed during the pandemic. From March 2020 to October 2020, pediatric ER visits for mental health conditions increased 24% among kids ages 5 to 11 and 31% among adolescents ages 12 to 17. Among adolescent females, the number of ER visits for eating disorders doubled.

Even worse, the lockdowns didn’t work. Two new studies conclude that they “had little to no effect on Covid-19 mortality” and “should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

MASKS: A retrospective study of school children in Catalonia, Spain, from Sept. 13, 2021, to Dec. 22, 2021, showed that kids who were not required to mask had a lower incidence of COVID-19 than did those who were required to mask.

CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1501627210146324485 [:33] to see what California schools are still doing to children.

NEW YORK: I must’ve missed the memo about how my sucky state legalized recreational marijuana use. But one of my alert readers tipped me off to the Dems’ super duper plan to give cannabis retail license priority to those who have been disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of marijuana prohibition, which includes individuals convicted of a marijuana offense before its legalization on March 31, 2021, and the relatives of convicted individuals (parents, guardians, children, spouses and dependents).

PEOPLE’S CONVOY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vwvr6s-real-america-dan-ball-w-oans-stefan-kleinhenz-u.s.-trucker-convoy-update-38.html [5:55] for an OANN update.

PEST CONTROL: The EPA has approved the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in certain areas of California and Florida. The Aedes aegypti, whichcarries diseases like dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus, was first detected in the U.S. in 2013 and has been spreading ever since. The modified mosquitoes are males carrying a gene that is lethal to offspring. It will be great if this works, because chemical pest control harms the pollinators we really need.

TRANS: Gender activists are deeply anti-woman.

UKRAINE: [4:37] – Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church talks about the impact of the war on civilians, thanks those taking in refugees and sending humanitarian aid, and says people have told him they have seen “luminous angels” over the country. He believes Kyiv’s patron, St. Michael the Archangel, as well as the the whole Heavenly Host, fight alongside the Ukrainians.

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by | March 11, 2022 · 9:47 am

COVID and Chiropractic Care

This article by Robert Curry is reproduced in full here, without apology to American Thinker, which has removed at least two important articles I’m aware of … and I’m not even a regular reader!

If you have been troubled by the rapidly declining claims for the efficacy of the COVID vaccines and boosters or by the rapidly rising reports of problems with the vaccines and the boosters, you might be interested to know how it came about that COVID did not panic chiropractors.  It’s a fascinating story, and I was privileged to learn it firsthand.

I enrolled in chiropractic college just in time to get a powerful lesson in one chapter of that amazing story.  A contingent of students who had completely recovered from childhood polio under chiropractic care enrolled around the same time I did.  They were in my class and in classes before and after my class.  To hear their stories of what chiropractic adjustments had done for them became part of my chiropractic education.  They helped me in another way, too: their conviction about the power of chiropractic adjustments helped me make the transition from a student to a doctor capable of meeting the enormous challenges of chiropractic practice.  They were inspired and determined to be great chiropractors, and they inspired me, too.

The old-timers, just then passing out of the profession, had similar tales about an earlier epidemic.  Chiropractic, officially born in 1895, was still very new, and there were few chiropractors when the Spanish Flu hit in 1918.  But chiropractic adjustments worked for victims of the Spanish Flu just as they were later to do for polio victims.  Medicine had little to offer, so people tried chiropractic, and those who did spread the word.

This is when political medicine discovered chiropractic and set out to strangle it in the crib.  You have not read about chiropractic and polio, and you won’t read about chiropractic and the Spanish Flu elsewhere, either, but I learned about it, as we say, from the horse’s mouth.  I met senior chiropractors who had gone to jail for practicing chiropractic, men whose sacrifices paved the way for the much easier path my classmates and I were to travel.  All of those heroic pioneers I met were inspired by their personal knowledge of the complete recovery of victims of the Spanish Flu who were fortunate enough to be treated by chiropractors.

Chiropractic did not then and does not today have a treatment for the Spanish Flu or for polio.  Chiropractic does not treat conditions.  The aim of chiropractic is always the same — restoring the patient to health by means of chiropractic adjustments.  The purpose of chiropractic adjustments is to enable the patient’s natural healing response.   

In my first year in practice, one of my patients showed up for his appointment in terrible anguish.  He had just been told that his girlfriend had only hours to live.  She was in a coma and in intensive care at the nearby hospital.  I was listening to his outpouring of grief when he suddenly asked me if I thought I could help.

Later that day, an ambulance pulled up in front of my office.  The young woman was brought into the office on a gurney.  She was still in a coma.  The ambulance attendants placed her on an adjusting table, her mother took a chair next to her in the treatment room, and my associate and I took turns adjusting her in between adjusting our regularly scheduled patients.  We each adjusted her several times in the course of the day.  The astonishing sight of a girl in a coma arriving in an ambulance was passed down by word of mouth in the reception room, so all the patients that afternoon knew the story.

When, toward the end of the day, she walked out of the treatment room, the waiting patients leaped to their feet, cheering and applauding.  The next day, she came for a normal appointment, driven by her mother; the following day, she came on her own.

This was a great learning experience for me — it taught me a deep lesson in what we chiropractors refer to as chiropractic courage — but my greatest leap in understanding chiropractic happened when I was only a student.  A profoundly accomplished doctor had generously invited me to “assist” him in his practice.  I took patient histories, recorded exam findings, and made treatment records.  Early on, I took the history of a terribly ill young woman who had recently been told by doctors at the Mayo Clinic that there was nothing that could be done for her, that she should get her affairs in order and prepare for the end of her life.  She had originally set out on her path to many doctors and eventually the Mayo Clinic because of two hideous lesions, one in her upper arm and one in her buttock on the opposite side. 

She was a blessing to me.  I had been taught that chiropractors treat patients, not conditions, but I did not understand what that meant, not really.  She taught me to understand what I had been taught. 

After a period of care, I again took her history in preparation for her re-exam.  The lesions were gone, replaced by a smooth, normal contour and new, pink skin — but that was not what struck me, and that was not what was important.  Instead of the shockingly ill person I had first met, I was interviewing an attractive young woman with a vivacious personality.  Chiropractic care had restored her to health.  I understood then that her health, not the terrible lesions, had been the focus of her care all along.

Ask a chiropractor if he treats diabetes, and the doctor will no doubt tell you no.  How about ulcers?  No.  Asthma?  No again.  What then do you treat, doctor?  I treat patients — patients with diabetes, patients with ulcers, patients with asthma.  But whether the patient’s problem is great or small, the goal of the chiropractor is always the same: health restored, and restored by the perfectly natural method of chiropractic adjustments, without recourse to drugs or surgery. 

And by the way, that method is American through and through.  It was discovered and developed right here in America.

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by | March 10, 2022 · 10:14 am

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AUSTRALIA: They’re rushing into the End Times down under, hoping to become a cashless society by 2031 or even sooner.

CANADA: The Canadian Bankers Association says that the Freedom Convoy supporters whose bank accounts were frozen will be flagged for life.

Tamara Lich, one of the main leaders behind the Freedom Convoy, has been released on bail, but one of the conditions is that she not speak out against the Canadian government’s COVID rules, not use social media, not attend any COVID protests, and have no contact with the co-accused. Her movements and devices are all being monitored. She planned a peaceful protest, not a bombing!

FAUXTUS: On Tuesday, the Worst President in U.S. History went to Fort Worth, Texas. Listen to how he introduced these three guys. CLICK https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1501323525763653643 [:08]. My favorite tweet: “Thank you for playing today’s game of ‘What if Trump said it?’”

Also on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that FAUXTUS’ efforts to beg oil off Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates failed miserably. In fact, the Saudi Crown Prince and the U.A.E’s Sheikh wouldn’t take even his calls. Both have been vocal recently in their criticism of his policies.

They say their efforts to destroy our domestic fossil fuel industries are about protecting the planet from climate change. But the fact that they’re willing to buy these products not just from other nations, but from other nations that hate us exposes their lie. It’s ALL about destroying the United States, so they won’t have to deal with our pesky selves when they try to take over the world.

GAS PRICES: [9:25] – Best tweet – “The entire Biden Presidency: 1. Cause a problem 2. Deny there’s a problem 3. Finally admit there’s a problem, but blame someone else. Rinse and repeat.” Let’s go, Brandon!

HERO: This one took my breath away – On Sunday morning, a drunk driver swerved at high speed around multiple police barricades that had been set up to protect the thousands of runners and bystanders attending the Armed Forces Skyway 10K Race. When she blew past the last one, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Toni Schuck saw only one way to stop her before she killed anybody.

CLICK https://twitter.com/GLFOP/status/1501287947634712579 [:38] to see the dash cam from Schuck’s cruiser. The other cruiser in the video is a second officer who attempted, but failed to intervene, leaving Schuck the only one left between the drunk and all those people!

Both drivers were injured in the crash. The drunk is in jail facing multiple charges. Schuck is recovering from her injuries at home with her family. You can send her a card via Florida Highway Patrol, 11305 North McKinley Drive, Tampa, FL 33612.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “Behold, Jesus Christ crucified, who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our mediator and advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and he never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.” – St. Charles Borromeo

MARYLAND: The Maryland Senate is considering the “Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022” that would prohibit investigations and criminal prosecutions for women and medical professionals for a “failure to act” in relation to a “perinatal death.” Since a 2020 law defines “perinatal care” as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods,” this bill could mean that during the first four weeks of their lives, human babies would have no legal protection from abuse or neglect … something Maryland law guarantees to newborn baby animals.

PRO-LIFE: Pro-life activists in Visalia, California, convinced the City Council not to give Planned Parenthood a permit for a new location. PP already has one clinic in Visalia.

SUMMER CAMPS: The graphic shows one of four Kentucky witches who are hosting a “Sexy Summer Camp” for children. Lessons will include “sex liberation,” “gender exploration,” “BDSM,” “being a sex worker,” “self-managed abortions,” and “sexual activity while using licit and illicit drugs.“

CLICK https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501238851360096258 [:51] to hear one of the other organizers explain how she teaches toddlers to masturbate as soon as they’re out of diapers.

In Indianapolis, a woman who thinks that kids should be learning “non-binary” vocabulary, taught how to wear a condom, and be “responsibly” introduced to pornography is hosting a “Sex Ed Summer Camp” for kids aged 8-10 years old. For just $250, parents can send their prepubescent youngsters off to be groomed for the next pedophile they encounter.

GRAMMY NOTES: Mama and I are filling half-pans with the watercolors and gouaches that we each have that the other doesn’t. Both of these types of paint can be reactivated with water and used with no loss of quality. We’re having so much fun!

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by | March 9, 2022 · 8:55 am

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AMERICANO: Americano, the first Spanish-language conservative network on satellite radio, just launched. Democrats and corporate media immediately expressed concern about the station spreading “misinformation” among voters. But Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo, the founder of the new network, said that the Left is just afraid. “They’re scared. And they should be. Democrats took Hispanics for granted for too long, and no one thought to create a home for us in conservative media. There is an appetite for this.”

CALIFORNICATION: Three San Diego pre-schools were raided simultaneously by regulators who isolated and interviewed children aged one to four about mask wearing. Parents are understandably furious, especially given that the owners of the three schools had always been open about their no-mask policy.

They figured the kids would not be allowed to wear masks while they were sleeping or eating, so would give each other COVID-19 no matter what. Add on that masks are bad for the development of such young children and they decided there would be no masks in their school.

After 19 months of having no-masks without an incident, the school was forced to mask to avoid being shut down. Thankfully the mask policy expires on March 11.

CANADA: Tamara Lich, one of the key organizers of the Freedom Convoy, has been granted bail by an Ontario court. When she was arrested on Feb. 22, a judge said she was too much of a risk to public safety to be allowed to roam the streets. Her lawyer filed a bail review and the new judge granted bail. He said the first judge had been too subjective.

ENERGY: Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said we could avoid high gas prices if we would drive electric vehicles. Elitist Mayor Pete, whose income is in the high six and low seven figures, is just a titch out of touch with reality.

To start with, there’s the gigantic difference in the average cost of buying and maintaining the two types of vehicles. A recent article at motorists.org (linked below) found that, over the six year average time drivers keep a new vehicle, electric vehicles cost ~$71,770, while gas vehicles cost ~$58,664.

In general, the cost per mile is lower for electric cars. However, this savings has to be offset against the enormous handicap of $2,000/year that electric vehicles carry, plus the significant inconvenience that charging brings with it. For example, it takes minutes to fill up a tank of gas, while it takes hours to recharge a battery. In addition, gas stations are plentiful, while EV charging stations are not.

The U.S. News article breaks down how to calculate the cost of fueling an electric car. It’s not as simple as it is for a gas car.

FAUXTUS: [7:21] – Biden et al. are claiming it’s the oil and gas industry that is keeping us from producing enough oil for our needs. The video explains the lie behind this statement.

KINDNESS: And another kindness story … “About ten years ago, I was on a walk with the family and stopped by a neighbor’s yard sale. “What is about that?” I pointed to a boom box under the table. “Oh it’s broken they said. It’s yours, free.” I took it home, and found the bad transformer that I happened to have a replacement for. Fixed, no one in the house wanted it. A couple days later at dinner, I said “I am taking it back.” After dinner, I tucked it under my arm and walked to the grey house down the street. I rang the bell. I could hear a commotion inside. Nothing. So I knocked on the door, and it opened. Inside, kids were shouting and jumping around. “Sorry, the woman explained – It’s my son’s 8th birthday.” I held out the stereo. “You gave me this last weekend,” I said, “And I fixed it and want to return it to you.” Her eyes opened wide. “It was my son’s and he missed it terribly. Thank you!” Few fixes have carried the essence of that moment like that one.” – Bruce Baker

LEFT vs. RIGHT: They used to say, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” This is no longer true. Quinnipiac polled American voters to find out what we’d do if we were in Ukraine’s position. Stay and fight: Dems 40% vs. GOP 68%. Flee the country: Dems 52% vs. GOP 25%.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.” – St. Catherine of Siena

LIBTARDS: George Takei tweeted this about the Ukraine war. “I know gas is high but we can weather this storm together.” As of 2022, the 83-year-old actor’s net worth was estimated to be roughly $14 million.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1727675547422760 [3:24] to hear how Dave Chappelle responded to the woke mob and what we can learn from it.

MEDIA MALPRACTICE: Dems and their jerknalist lapdogs lie about Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” bill, because they can’t stand that it would ban teachers or school admin (or any adult) from talking about sexual identity with 4-8-year-olds.

The NPR report is particularly egregious. Not only does the headline call it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but in the text of the article, it refers to “the so-called Parental Rights in Education” bill. Wait, wut? “Parental Rights in Education” is literally the bill’s official title!

CLICK https://twitter.com/FLSenateDems/status/1500865436614893571 [:09] to see what Florida Senate Dems had to say to their GOP colleagues … which demonstrated why nobody with half a brain takes the Left seriously any more.

“The Left is so determined to sexually indoctrinate your kids that they’re treating this like the apocalypse.” – Matt Walsh

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=344765587585212 [1:00] to hear Gov. DeSantis deal with the fake news that attacks with lies, because their actual positions are morally bankrupt.

FYI: The “AGHamilton” who wrote the tweet is not an Attorney General, as I first supposed, but a tweeter who specializes in outing media bias.

PSAKI: CLICK https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1500931378455760901 [:24] to hear Lying Jen say Trump wants Iran to have nukes. It’s interesting how they keep talking about a president who has been out of office for more than a year.

RUSSIA v. UKRAINE: The graphic above was posted Feb 2, 2022 on Facebook. “Mass with blessing of holy water in Ukraine before the war started and suddenly a white dove arrives and poses in the Holy Trinity.”

On Monday, Russia released a list of demands, promising that the war will be over if Ukraine meets the conditions. These include Ukraine ceasing all military actions, acknowledging Crimea as Russian territory, and recognizing two republics in the Donbas region as independent. Russia also demanded Ukraine change its constitution to ensure neutrality, forswearing any attempt to join NATO or the European Union.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1008223673116683 [12:45] to see a recent Newsmax update.

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by | March 8, 2022 · 9:05 am

Ten Years Since Trayvon Died

The awesome Jack Cashill posted the following on American Thinker. I’m reproducing it here, because I want all y’all to read it.

“Why the Washington Post Cannot ‘Correct’ Its Trayvon Tribute”

On February 26, the Washington Post commemorated the ten-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death with a loving and outrageously dishonest video tribute to the fallen 17-year-old. Even more troubling, columnist Charles Blow enlisted former president Barack Obama in this mendacious rewrite of recent history. On Friday morning, March 4, I sent an email to “corrections.” I sent the same email to managing editor Sally Buzbee and several other relevant editors. What follows is what I wrote:

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Before listing the problems, let me establish my credentials to comment. I attended George Zimmerman’s trial and wrote a book on the subject: If I Had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman. I have since gotten to know George and his family well. In 2019, I edited Joel Gilbert’s brilliantly researched book (and film), The Trayvon Hoax. I have a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue.

Now for the problems:

Charles Blow tells us, “The contemporary civil rights movement unfolded directly in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin.” George Zimmerman was rightfully acquitted of murder. To launch a civil rights movement on a lie is a bad way to start one.

Barack Obama expressed his outrage at “the idea that this teenager who was walking down the street could be considered so threatening that a private citizen could initiate a confrontation resulting in that teenager’s death.”

Well, Trayvon wasn’t walking down the street. He was lurking in the shadows on a rainy night in a housing development plagued with break-ins and home invasions by young black men, and Zimmerman did not initiate the confrontation.

In the Post video, we hear George Zimmerman’s edited call to the dispatcher. What follows is the actual exchange:

GZ: Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy, uh [near] Retreat View Circle. The best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

SPD: Okay, and this guy, is he White, Black, or Hispanic?

GZ: He looks black.

Here is how the Post edited this exchange:

GZ: Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. He looks black.

The Post edited the call to make GZ look like a racist profiler. This was the first of two deceptive edits. When the dispatcher asked Zimmerman which way Trayvon was running, Zimmerman left the car “to maintain a visual.” Upon hearing the wind in the phone, the dispatcher asked:

SPD: Are you following him?

GZ: Yeah.

SPD: Okay. We don’t need you to do that.

GZ: Okay.

The Post edited out Zimmerman’s “okay,” all the better to preserve the fiction that GZ was stalking Trayvon. In fact, GZ stopped following Trayvon and looked for an address where he could meet the police who were on their way.

Writes Blow, “Martin was just 17 years old, a boy, and he was where he was supposed to be. He was unarmed. He was carrying Skittles and a can of iced tea.”

No, Trayvon was not where he was supposed to be. He had been exiled to the townhome of his father’s new girlfriend in Sanford, Florida, after being suspended from school for the third time that school year and kicked out of his mother’s home. Having been caught with stolen jewelry and burglary tools, Trayvon avoided arrest under the same misguided policy that allowed Nikolas Cruz free to kill 17 of his Parkland high school classmates a few years later.

Zimmerman was right about Trayvon. He was high, and he was up to no good. He had gone to the 7-11 not on some innocent mission, but to buy some “blunts” and the makings — Skittles, watermelon cooler — of a drug concoction called “purple lean.”

This unarmed “boy” was an aspiring mixed martial artist nearly a half a foot taller than Zimmerman. Yet, in violation of all journalism standards, the Post only showed pictures of Trayvon as a little boy.

Trayvon had four minutes to run 100 yards to the townhome where he was staying. Instead, he circled back to the spot where Zimmerman was waiting for the police and sucker punched him. The only eyewitness, Jonathan Good, told the jury that he saw a “black man in a black hoodie on top of either a white guy… or an Hispanic guy in a red sweater on the ground yelling out help.” According to Good, the black man on top was “throwing down blows on the guy MMA style.” Trayvon pounded Zimmerman’s head for more than 40 seconds. A 911 call picked up Zimmerman’s screams. Losing consciousness, Zimmerman finally pulled out his pistol and shot Trayvon in the chest. The evidence for this scenario was irrefutable.

To compare Trayvon Martin to Emmett Till is disgraceful.

The case should never have come to trial. With the mob pressing hard, state authorities arrested Zimmerman only after attorney Benjamin Crump manufactured a “phone witness,” a grossly overweight and mentally challenged 19-year-old who claimed to be Trayvon’s “puppy love.” Gilbert found the real 16-year-old girlfriend. I would recommend Blow watch The Trayvon Hoax.

Zimmerman did not face not an “all-white” jury as the Post video claimed. One of the six jurors was an Afro-Puerto Rican. They acquitted Zimmerman because they heard and saw the evidence.

Although the Post chose not to share this info, Zimmerman was a Hispanic civil rights activist, the active mentor of two Black teens, and an Obama supporter.

I have never seen a more consequential story so grossly misreported. The Post has an opportunity here to tell the truth about what happened. That will take some courage. The easy way out is to let democracy die in darkness.

Happy to help or, if need be, shout out about this defamatory nonsense from the rooftops. I am not going to let this level of media malpractice pass.

I would prefer option A. Thanks for hearing me out.

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Four days after sending this email, I have not heard a word in reply, not even a “Thank you. We are looking into your concerns.” Blow and his colleagues were right about one thing. The Trayvon Martin case did launch a new phase in the civil rights movement. They even got Obama to lend his imprimatur, the former president calling the furor over Trayvon’s acquittal, “a galvanizing force in helping to create a broader based movement now known as Black Lives Matter.”

For the Post editors to “correct” this story would be to undermine their own credibility, the legitimacy of Black Lives Matter, and Barack Obama’s place in history. I almost pity them. In their world, they have no choice but to dishonor their profession and let democracy die in darkness.

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by | March 8, 2022 · 7:23 am

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