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Wednesday's podcast: Review of a very partisan State of the Union Speech

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/8/2023 1:39:55 PM

      Review of a very partisan The State of the Union...George Harrison 1958....Jules Verne (1828-1905)  ......and other stories.....Click to listen:

Wednesday's video: Review of a very partisan State of the Union Speech

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/8/2023 12:25:12 PM

      Wednesday's video:      Review of a very partisan State of the Union Speech.........        Review of a very partisan The State of the Union...George Harrison 1958....Jules Verne (1828-1905)......and other stories.....        P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.                                     

Railroads With Torn Up Tracks

K T Cat
2/8/2023 5:46:00 AM

 ... end up going off the rails.#winningI recently came across Moms4Liberty and added them to my reading list because of things like this. It's an expose on Social Emotional Learning (SEL), which is another way of saying "Secular Religion." Their essay focuses on whether or not SEL is religious and therefore unconstitutional, but I have a much more basic concern. The people pushing it are nave to the point of self-destruction.In that essay, there's a link to a foundational document on SEL. Here's an excerpt.Five Stages of Religious ChangeThis is not the first major shift in the American religious landscape. Studying previous sea changes, historian William McLoughlin has adapted Anthony F. C. Wallaces map for cultural[...]

Smothered Chicken

K T Cat
2/7/2023 2:31:21 PM

I've been trying to do this the right way for a long time and I finally hit it out of the park. I followed the recipe from Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, but the method is the same for almost all the smothered chicken recipes out there. It's a simple, 4-step process.Season the chicken and then dredge it in seasoned flour.Fry the chicken until it's about halfway done. Paul recommends a deep oil bath, but others are fine with just a thin slosh of oil.Make a roux with the oil and saut the Holy Trinity plus the Pope in it. If you used a lot of oil, pour all but about a half cup out. You don't need a ton of roux, just enough to saut the vegetables.Put it all in a Dutch oven and add a lot of chicken stock. Cover and simmer for[...]

Maybe teaching racial division and hatred wasn't such a good idea after all

W.C. Varones
2/3/2023 7:04:10 PM
Doctor cycling in California run down, stabbed by driver screaming about white privilege: A doctor cycling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California was mowed down by a driver who then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the cyclist to death while screaming white privilege slurs. Dr. Michael Mammone, 58, of Laguna Beach, was on his bike in Dana Point when he was struck by the driver of a white Lexus. The driver allegedly sped through a red light at an intersection before running over Mammone on Wednesday afternoon, KABC reported. He then jumped out of his vehicle and stabbed the victim multiple times in the back before bystanders tackled him to stop the attack.

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Islam Makhachev: Facing winner of Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler just a good fight for the fans

UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev doesnt see big implications from Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler. McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) will coach The Ultimate Fighter 31 opposite side ...

Islam Makhachev unbothered by Dana Whites response to UFC 284 promotion complaints: I dont think bad about people

Islam Makhachev is not upset about his pre-fight saga with UFC president Dana White ahead of his super fight with Alexander Volkanovski.

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Does Federal Right to Abortion Survive Overturning Of Roe v. Wade? Federal Judge Raises Possibility 

James Nault

Supreme Court in Dobbs case considered only the Fourteenth Amendment in finding no federal right to an abortion, but the Thirteenth Amendment may also confer such a right, Judge saysThe post Does Federal Right to Abortion Survive Overturning Of Roe v. Wade? Federal Judge Raises Possibility first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Forcing Pharmacies to Provide Abortion Pills 

Mary Chastain

TX AG Ken Paxton: The Biden Administration knows that it has no legal authority to institute this radical abortion agenda, so now its trying to intimidate every pharmacy in America by threatening to withhold federal funds."The post Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Forcing Pharmacies to Provide Abortion Pills first appeared on Legal Insurrection.