Where I Stand
by Martin Gurri
Famous personalities and important organizations have stumbled over one another in the rush to confess their own sins and condemn their country of oppression. Others have maintained a prudent silence. I find that I’m too old to fear the wrath of inquisitors but just young enough to feel compelled to take a stand: an unfortunate combination. So, this is it. This is my stand.
I believe the United States has been a beacon of freedom in the dark night of history. Millions who felt downtrodden have left home and followed that beacon to our shores. My family was among them. My daughter’s high school graduating class in Fairfax County, Va., represented 90 languages of origin. All came in search of something that could not be found elsewhere.
American freedom means an open path, a ramshackle adventure, a vast frontier across which you make your own way untrammeled by the dictates of political power or the humiliations imposed by bigotry. That holds true no matter who you are or where you come from. I arrived in this country as a child immigrant, not speaking a word of English, in the bad old days before the youngest (hence most virtuous) of my readers were born. My earliest memories were an almost visual awareness of that astonishing frontier of freedom. There it was, far and wide. The direction was up to me.
and this,
When I first came to Virginia, it was a one-party state like the Cuba I had escaped, controlled by a gang of thugs around Harry F. Byrd, whose rule was dedicated mainly to the principle of racial separation. That’s what systemic racism looked like in real life—and I was here when it ended. Schools and housing were segregated—I watched that end, too, with amazing rapidity.
Virginia was not the worst of the Southern states, but the threat was always there, the fear was always there, along with the secret crimes, the night riders, the rule of violence. That was the “system” that made racism “systemic.” Many died and many more risked their lives to end that.
By All Means, Read the Whole Damn Thing.
I saw this quote from an article about the speech tonight: Biden made it clear he is stepping down voluntarily, drawing a stark contrast with his predecessor. I call BS on that. He also said he “could serve four more years”. If he felt that way, why is he “passing the torch”? That old saw about you can tell when… Read more »
I picked up two packages of “I’m about to dieeee!” ground pork on sale and two chubs of ground beef while out shopping today. I mixed ’em and browned ’em, and then packaged them in some large snack bags for storage. Those bags have been sitting in my kitchen drawer for some time now, so I’m glad I found out… Read more »
He’s not a lame duck. He’s a dead-man-walking duck.
Chiron on FoxLiveNow says it it currently partly cloudy and 113°F in Phoenix.
I don’t think this guy is gonna make it 179 days until the next inauguration.
I notice that the staffers have arranged B’s family photos behind him. Trying to make us see him as a family man and not a corrupt grifter, I suppose.
Considering the last four television appearances by Biden, it’s quite obvious that his makeup artist was a DEI hire.
Does Biden ever speak without lying?
I think I just answered my own question.
When I found out my eggery was having a sale on their misfit eggs, I made it there before they closed today. Fifteen dozen eggs for $40, pasture raised. Misfit eggs are those they can’t sell to the stores, either because they are too small, too big (some of those things have to hurt the chickens coming out!), or the… Read more »
Kamel gets her 15 minutes of fame before they replace her at the demononic convention.
Besides.
the creature from the Kenyan lagoon will still be running the show so nothing will change. He’ll still be driving the country into the 9th circle of Dante’s Hell and inferno with a lot of help from the joined@thehiprepublicant’s.
If nothing else, Barack Obama will get his “I told you so”. He and James Carville are the only ones on the Left out there saying Kamala doesn’t have it. I don’t think Obama is a highly intelligent guy, but he has excellent political instincts and is a natural at playing to win the ruthless game. Carville is a catty,… Read more »
The King has spoken and he’s got worries. Axios and GovTrack and all the other sleazy outfits can erase all they want to, but it’s already in the public mind and memory. Former president Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential bid because he doesn’t think she can beat Donald Trump, according to a source close to the Biden family.Following Joe… Read more »
Tonight Biden really steps down and we get Resident Kamala
They do this in plain sight. Damned amazing. No shame. GovTrack is the much cited rating site for politicians. In 2019, they ranked Kamala Harris as the most leftwing member of the US Senate, even more so than Bernie Sanders. Mollie Hemingway pointed out they deleted every shred of it from their archives today. Axios, the news organization, claimed Kamala… Read more »
This is juicy and now the NYT and WaPo have to submit to subpoenas, interrogatories and depositions about all this in the middle of the Trump vs Harris campaign. Beegee Wellborn goes on a long-winded schadenfreudian tour of the lawsuit filed by Trump against the Pulitzer Prize committee for awarding Prized to the NYT and WaPo fro writing endlessly about… Read more »
Guy gets his face slapped so hard his head does a 360.
/yes, its a fake but a real good one
I am perfectly willing to accept any credible evidence proving the Butler County assassination attempt was plotted and planned by the Biden administration or at least with their cooperation. There is plenty of factual evidence now to raise dozens of questions. I’m not going to give any validity to anything originating from a place like 4chan, though.
The older Matt Gaetz gets, the more he looks like Jack Nicholson.
SS counter sniper had perp in his sights for 3 minutes and was ordered to stand down. We learned that he has since been fired. I said it before and the more I see and read the more I am convinced: this was a deep state conspiracy to assassinate Trump. This can not go unpunished and there are lots of… Read more »
Heh
Caught a divorce lawyer’s story of the most brutal revenge story I’ve ever heard: Wife is married to husband, going on ten years. Wife finds out husband is cheating on her. Wife convinces husband to go to St. Lucia for an anniversary trip. They land on the island and wife tells hubby to “go get a table at the restaurant,… Read more »
I just saw a video Over Yonder: [Young man talking into the camera] “Imagine you have to hide a paper clip somewhere in your house. The FBI will be searching your house for 24 hours. If they don’t find it, you win a million dollars.” [Switch to outside scene. Young man grabs a ladder, climbs up to roof of his… Read more »
The Kenyan led totalitariancrats insurrected their wooden dummy puppet right out of office. on mstnc mr potato head reported totalitariancrat insurrections are always good insurrections. No blue chew needed. and the republicant’s, who’ve never met a totalitariancrat corruption they didn’t like, approved of their insurrection. republicant’s greatest skills are kissing totalitariancrat butt and joining in on the blood money sucking… Read more »
Check this out. Mobile phone tracking data analysis from Thomas Crook’s home. Nine different cell phones tracked from the Crooks home in the days before the assassination attempt. The outfit is a subsidiary of the Heritage Foundation. We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.To do this,… Read more »
More comments: Some years ago I read a book written by The New York Teacher of the Year. He stated that children could be taught all that was needed in far less time than is wasted in today’s schools. And yes, it has become a babysitting racket and a money making racket for school districts. When I was a junior… Read more »
A couple of comments from the C&C: My daughter and her husband have started something like a micro school in Utah because they want their children to receive a first-rate education. Many parents have eagerly signed up. They have 2 teachers who want to teach and not belong to an education bureaucracy where they’re hamstrung and compelled to donate a… Read more »
I’m all for this – I’ve actually wondering why this hasn’t been happening already. More good news from Florida. … Politico ran the story yesterday headlined, “‘Microschools’ could be the next big school choice battle. Florida is on the cutting edge.” The sub-headline explained, “Florida just enacted a little-noticed provision that would make it much easier for these schools —… Read more »
Mr. C. points out the hypocrisy of the Dems’ installation of the “multi-color” candidate. /snuffle snort/ The argument that “no one has been disenfranchised” is based on the argument that yeah, those folks weren’t really voting for Biden but were voting for delegates that would vote at the convention. Yeah, Mr. C. is calling bullwiss on that: To rebut the… Read more »
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has peddled a series of hoaxes as a U.S. senator and vice president, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.Here are the seven most egregious hoaxes pushed by Harris, author of the memoir The Truths We Hold. This is one of my favorite Kamala Harris lies: ‘Forced sterilizations’ at Trump-era immigration detention facility In September 2020, a former… Read more »
The Butler police were more forthcoming in their testimony, which I surely understand since the SS was trying to throw them under the bus. Therefore, members of Biden’s Administration knew ahead of time that the shooter’s roof would be unguarded. That fact is remarkably similar to the fact that enigmatic shooter Thomas Crooks also, apparently, knew the roof would be unguarded… Read more »
Regarding the resignation of Cheatle, I have an observation before diving into the C&C discussion: I read articles that stated that Cheatle had a relationship with the Biden family before Jill insisted that Cheatle be placed as head of the SS. Assumptions are that Cheatle was put there because she would ensure that her operatives would keep Joe’s real condition… Read more »
Here’s the C&C for today: Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Today’s terrific C&C roundup of essential news includes: Director Cheatle quits under pressure becoming the Secret Service’s second-best female director in history; state police provide crucial link explaining how Crooks might have known the roof would be unguarded; democrats equivocate about their anti-democratic, soviet-style color revolution; an unexpected group objects… Read more »
My rosary making session this morning was….challenging. I’ve never had to string a rosary more than twice. Set a new record this morning. I counted, counted, counted, but still, somehow, when I got done I’d be missing something somewhere. And since it was strung and not wired, it meant the whole thing had to be redone. I’ll be glad when… Read more »
Wait!! If the “B” in LGBTQ means bi-sexual, doesn’t that mean there is only two genders?
Where the EFF are the police and basic security?!? How could they let radical enviro-terrorists into the Watergate Hotel in the first place? Falsely pulling fire alarms is a felony, right?
At a minimum, when the perps get caught, the first thing that should happen (in a Bonecrusher regime) is that they get the crap beat out of them.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE, perhaps end of at the next week, or the beginning of the following week.
Vice President Kamala Harris is actively raising money for a bail fund that busts violent criminals from jail as her nascent presidential campaign signals her candidacy will lean heavily on her roots as a tough-on-crime former prosecutor.Harris urged her followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in June 2020 as Black Lives Matter rioters wreaked havoc in Minneapolis in the days… Read more »
It’s still a mess in Nantucket. The town should go ahead and sue. Due to the blade failure, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has since ordered Vineyard Wind to cease power production until it can determine if other turbines could be affected. Last Wednesday, Vineyard Wind said it had collected about 17 cubic yards of debris, or more than six truckloads,… Read more »
It involves the US visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is already revealing in striking detail how the Democratic Party is turning its back on the Jewish state. Moving away from Israel would be a grave error at any time, but coming in the midst of its war for survival against Iranian-backed terror groups, the move amounts to an outrageous… Read more »
The Houthis are getting severe pushback from the Yemeni citizenry. This is a direct result of Israel blasting their oil facilities in the port of Hodeida.
Seth Mandel at Commentary: The Democratic Party’s changing of the guard is almost certainly a milestone in American politics, a bold notch on the timeline marking a point of departure for the party’s approach to anti-Semitism and the Jewish state. The party’s standard bearer 24 hours ago considered himself a Zionist and routinely condemned—even if his administration took no appropriate… Read more »
For Mrs GJT; The Story of the Yellow Corvette…At the end of the tour and upon returning to Memphis, Ron bought a special vehicle of his own. Even though the crew was well paid, Elvis routinely gave out bonuses or tips, especially at the end of a tour. Ron saved his tip money and in August of 1976, he bought… Read more »
“Customer states” Some of these cars should have been impounded on the spot; absolute death traps. Gross negligence in driving them anywhere. Rust was the big issue in most of them and the used car dealers that sell this crap are putting the driving public at risk just to make a buck.
Dead bug walking, zombie bug.
Watching the local news, they were talking about Governor Ivey’s bill to outlaw D.E.I. at all state universities and they mentioned that the University of Alabama started a new program called Opportunities, Connections and Success and UAB will have Access and Engagement. SO! Did they just keep D.E.I. and change the name? Something smells real fishy here. ~SPITS~
I’m planning on doing just that but I don’t see any link, am I missing something?
Happy Hump Day Bones and Mornin’ Gang
Happy Hump Day! I hope everyone gets to.