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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Wesley says... 035

1) There are people in  Chicago whose biggest influence of their life is Diann Burns.

2) An Unseen God and an unseen virus conspire to promote FEAR!

(remind you of anyone?)

3) "Do you want an untested vaccine that will change your DNA?" "Sure.  Is everyone else taking it?"

4) Bullshit tastes like filet magnon these days.


5) My mind has been so open, my brains fell out a long time ago.

6) Most people outsource their thinking.

7) If this population couldn't stop the Iraq war, they sure as hell ain't going to stop the upcoming slaughter.

8) When the mental institutions were emptied a whole new wave of politicians was born. (SSC comments)


9) I don't want to be around stupid, scared people. I live in the woods.

10) Thanks for wearing The Mask.  It tells me you are sick. Now get away from me.


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REBELLION BREWING [UPDATED]

...What we are seeing in Minnesota, and elsewhere around the country, is not a sane approach to public policy, but rather the manifestation of a proto-fascist urge to exercise total control over everyone’s life. In this regard, Tim Walz is certainly among the worst, but he is not alone. The sad reality is that millions of Americans have happily dispensed with just about every known freedom–you can’t leave your house without government permission!–in hopes of avoiding a respiratory virus that is dangerous to the elderly whose health is already severely compromised, but not noticed by most under the age of 70 who contract it. Home of the brave, indeed.


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At least THIS church leader gets it and is speaking out

TRT 49 sec

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Spineless Christians*

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Not So Odd

 

POSTED ON  BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN CRIME

THE “ODD MIX” OF CHICAGO LOOTERS

The Chicago police arrested 43 people who participated in the looting spree along the city’s Mag Mile earlier this week. Who were these looters?

According to the Chicago Tribune, they were “an odd mix of peer-pressured college students, out-of-work parents, and convicted felons.” It would be interesting to know how much time the convicted felons had served, and for what crimes. Their looting could be another product of America’s under-incarceration problem.

Ostensibly, the looting was a response to a police shooting in the Englewood neighborhood. Yet, according to the Tribune, none of arrested looters was from Englewood.

In fact, no one who made a statement in court upon being arraigned even mentioned the incident. Not only was the police shooting a pretext for the looting, it was so far from the looters’ consciousness that they forgot to mention it.

The prevailing motive of this “odd mix” wasn’t “police brutality,” it was the desire to snatch free stuff and, at least some cases, to smash things. In other words, envy and resentment, not “social justice.”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/the-odd-mix-of-chicago-looters.php 

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America is becoming a nation of tattletales

One of the disturbing aspects of our five-month-long descent into Wuhan virus madness is that Americans are becoming a nation of tattletales. Too many people are responding with alacrity when their local government tells them to report their fellow citizens for violating executive orders of dubious practical or legal merit. We tend to think of tattletales in a negative light. In the schoolyard, being a tattletale is a social crime. Children instinctively feel that the tattler isn’t telling information to preserve the other children’s wellbeing. The tattling is, instead, one of the ways unlikable children ingratiate themselves with the adults in charge. At a more extreme level, totalitarian states deliberately create a climate of fear in which neighbors and even family members spy on each other to protect themselves. It is one of the vilest ways in which despots maintain power.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/america_is_becoming_a_nation_of_tattletales_comments.html#comments-container

from Comments: 
LeoTheLion
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The 2 dollar dictators are relying on two pronounced human weaknesses or flaws that exist in a great many people. The first flaw is that many people lack any real sense of meaning in their lives. I know this is perverse, but way too many people gain a sense of personal importance by snitching on their fellow human beings. This helps to temporarily alleviate their lack of true self-esteem which is gained by genuine personal accomplishment. The snitch feels he or she is accomplishing something by tattling on a fellow human being. The second flaw in a great many of today's Americans is their lack of understanding of the concept and philosophy of structured liberty. They see nothing wrong with government mandating that healthy people must stay at home, or wear masks in public. Washington. Jefferson, and Madison all realized there are places government must not go, if men are to live in liberty. They would be aghast at both what is being done at the state and local government levels in regards to this pandemic, AND to the ACCEPTANCE of the state and local governments' dictatorial actions by a large segment of the citizenry.


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McCormick Place hospital’s cost to taxpayers? $1.7 million per patient. How the deal happened.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s aides defend her push for little-used coronavirus hospital built by Walsh Construction as important ‘insurance policy’ at a time of ‘immense emergency.’