AS OF today, Philadelphia murders are up 42 percent over last year. Most of this year’s murder victims, like the employee of a Lowe’s store who was shot nine times as he was walking through the parking lot, did not become national stories. They did not precipitate an outbreak of peaceful looting and shooting. They were not killed by systemic racism. They were in most cases black victims killed by other blacks.

Their families won’t make big money or appear on TV crying. They don’t fit the script. (more…)

I believe Donald Trump will be “re-elected.” The consolidation of global governance we are witnessing needs civil unrest to continue unrolling.

Trump voters are not going to supply that chaos if Biden is elected.

It’s hard to imagine any other outcome. (more…)

  THE World Economic Forum, which is largely responsible for the manufactured crisis of the coronavirus, or what it calls "The Great Reset," makes some predictions for 2030. It sees this future as good. ... And we'll even get an occasional cheeseburger.  

FROM the excellent collection of essays The Sword in the Mouth by Caryl Johnston:

Because the body was, to feminism, the inescapable fact, feminists directed considerable animus against the constraints of biology. Either by chance or design, feminists went to bed with the Archons of Big Medicine, who were only too willing to bankroll themselves by altering the terms upon which men and women had heretofore propagated themselves. The feminists failed to see how they had merely substituted one patriarchy for another. Mary Shelley, the daughter of one of these great feminists, the 19th-century Mary Wollstonecraft, had already seen which way the wind of anti-biological feminism was blowing, and created the famous Dr. Frankenstein of legend. As the wife of libertine poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley had experienced the dross left behind by freethinkers and once declared that she was sick of them. But anti-biological feminism was gold in the hands of the medical men, the source of endless revenue puffed as “liberation” — from having children, from being a mother, maybe even from being a woman! The current Ivy League fad of transgenderism is only the latest round in this saga, perhaps the last stop before one may opt out of the task of being human altogether….. (more…)

EVEN though almost no one is dying from Covid and the reported total death toll for the year remains at 1852 people, Ireland’s government, using the by now well-established fraud of rising “cases” of people who are not even sick, has imposed a new lockdown starting today and has said that “periodic lockdowns” may be necessary. The Guardian reports:

Ireland is to close much of its economy and society in a second Covid-19 lockdown that imposes some of the severest restrictions in Europe.

Non-essential shops will close and people are asked to stay at home, with a 5km (3 mile) travel limit for exercise, to curb surging infection rates, the government announced on Monday evening. (more…)

 

JOE BIDEN’S career would have ended in 1987 in any political system that valued integrity.

In September of that year, he lied — boldly and repeatedly — about his academic credentials.

In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.”

As for receiving three degrees, Mr. Biden said: ”I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors – I said ‘three’ and should have said ‘two.’ ” Mr. Biden received a single B.A. in history and political science. (more…)

TRUMP in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday: "Dr. Fauci's a very nice man ... He loves being on television and we let him do it. Sometimes he says things that are a little bit off and they get built up unfortunately. But he's a nice guy. I like him. But he's called a lot of bad calls ... I don't hold that against him if I did I wouldn't have him. I think he's a nice guy." [bold added] When asked if he would fire Fauci, "I don't want to. I don't wanna hurt him." Trump, the Swamp Maintenance Man.  

ALAN writes:

My old friend Serendipity came to visit me one day recently. I was looking for old newspaper articles when I came across something entirely different from what I was looking for, but of equal interest.  It was an article about a six-year-old girl whose guardian brought her to the office of a nerve specialist in St. Louis “to find out what was the matter with her.” This was in 1908.

Turned out nothing was the matter with her.

What the matter was this: Too much, too soon.  

“She is simply suffering from nervous exhaustion,” the doctor said to a reporter.

“Life to that child is nothing but a continuous stereopticon view. Fancy living in front of a moving-picture machine all the year round! I wager that your nerves would go to pieces, and that’s just what is happening to this baby. She has been around the world once and she is never in one place more than two months at a time and frequently not more than two weeks.  Can you imagine how harassing that would be to you?

“Well, a child’s nerves are a thousand times more sensitive than a grown person’s. (more…)

MY HUSBAND had lunch with an old friend yesterday. They sat on a park bench next to a river and ate greasy sandwiches. My husband's friend had a daughter who was in her early thirties. He was very fond of her. She died a year and a half ago under tragic circumstances. He mentioned, matter-of-factly, to my husband as they were chatting on the bench on a beautiful fall day that every morning he wakes up with tears rolling down his cheeks. Every morning, he cries again. Sometimes one person's sadness is so powerful -- and understandably so -- that it seems to engulf the world in flames. We who are relatively happy --- we live on this burning globe.  

I'D RATHER bake biscuits than be a Supreme Court judge.  

“IT’s a beautiful tradition of getting family together,” [Anthony Fauci] told Yahoo News on Thursday during a live Q&A. “I think we need to realize things might be different this year, particularly if you want to have people who are going to be flying in from a place that has a lot of infection – you’re going to an airport that might be crowded, you’re on a plane, and then to come in -- unless you absolutely know you’re not infected -- there are many people who are not going to want to take that risk.” "Fauci said his own children, three daughters who live in different states, have decided against coming to see him this year." [Source] That's sad. Perhaps they know. I, on the other hand, strongly support Fauci receiving visitors. In jail.