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Wednesday Open Comments

Why the whole fight over the debt ceiling was a waste of time and doesn’t really matter.  What McCarthy did and how Republicans voted was irrelevant in the long run.

Mark Levin Explains Why the Debt Ceiling Negotiations Didn’t Matter: The System Is Broken

On Life, Liberty, and Levin on Sunday, Mark Levin used his opening monologue to reveal some sobering truths about the coverage of the debt ceiling negotiations by the legacy media. He cited reports by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the trustees of the Social Security system that show that federal spending has gone completely insane. Levin calls it frightening. Notably, Levin points out that all the reports he cited came from the Executive Branch, controlled by the Biden administration. He openly questions whether anyone in Congress bothered to read the reports, never mind the upper echelons of the Biden administration, and concludes our federal government has become irrevocably broken.

Levin said:
Because our Constitution can save us. We have all these conservatives in the House and the Senate that are upset at what’s taking place. Not one of them gets up and talks about Article V. Why is that? They know, I know, you know. If you didn’t know before, now you know. We are on a horrendous path, and no bill passed by Congress is going to fix it. I’m all for taking as many conservative principles and applying them as possible. But we have a structural problem. It didn’t happen yesterday. It’s happened over a hundred years. Our Constitution gives us a way out. And if the state legislatures, the state representatives, the state senators would understand their power… they actually have more power than the Congress and the president put together… there are now twenty state legislatures that have adopted a resolution for a convention. NOT a constitutional convention. A convention of states. A meeting of state delegates. You still need 34 states to ask for it. You still need 38 states to ratify it. So it’s not easy. But I have to ask myself, where are my fellow conservatives in the House and in the Senate? Where are the conservatives running for president? If you want to save the country, at least fiscally, this is what you have to do!
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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    More required reading and I’m on vacation. Well this one is likely a must read so I’ll try make some time to check it out. Well The NJ Jelly Roll has tossed his hat in the ring and I’m always amazed at the hubris of most politicians and how so many of them have such delusions of grandeur. Folks like Chris Christi, Asa Hutchinson, Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley, John Sununu and Vivek Ramaswamy that don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever being elected President. And don’t get me started on the ones that NOBODY has ever heard of outside their tiny little world like, Perry Johnson (I have no idea who he is where he came from or what office he’s held) and Doug Burgum who apparently is/was the Gonernator of North Dakota. My daddy would call these losers big frogs in a small pond. Pitiful, jus’ pitiful. ~Jed Clampett~

    BTW; It’s another day in paradise here and I’ll be out floating the pool table smooth gulf by daylight or so.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh wait! I left out John Bolton,……BAWHAHAHAHA! You’re kidding right?! Oh and I know not all of them have declared and a couple have bowed out but they all thought about it. 😉

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona tried to blame the poor showing on the pandemic, a lack of funding for schools, and “censorship”, the plain fact is that classes in history and civics are disappearing. Only seven states require civics instruction at any time up to eighth grade, and it is almost exclusively Republican state lawmakers who advocate such a requirement, usually over ferocious Democratic opposition. Just 49 percent of eighth-graders report having taken a civics class, while 68 percent had taken a U.S. history class. The history figure may seem more encouraging, but it still means that nearly one-third of American eighth-graders have never been taught the history of their country in any methodical way, while more than half haven’t had any classes in how American government functions.

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/nations-report-card-steep-k-12-history-civics-decline

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I see where Chuck Todd is stepping down at Meet The Press and is being replaced by Kristen Welker.

    It seems to me that they are trading in one “resting bitch face” for another.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Vivek Ramaswamy is, without the slightest doubt, the smartest person in the Republican primary.  I am a big fan and while I don’t think he has a chance to win the nomination, his intelligence and carefully crafted arguments will hopefully force the other contestants to up their game and respond to his high caliber reasoning.  Vivek also has guts, plenty of them, and is fearless in what he believes.  I think he will be a bombshell in any debate.  His fellow aspirants risk looking like idiots or elevating the whole discussion.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Watching the morning news and the views of the NYC skyline. The smoky haze is unreal. Must be miserable up there, Texpat.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Athena Thorne asks a very good question..

    What Happened to America’s Ambulance Chasers?

    However, there are bountiful corporations that clearly operate outside the realm of good faith and have caused death and life-changing injury to thousands, perhaps millions of people. Deeply sympathetic, photogenic, well-spoken victims are everywhere, if one cares to look for them. And the companies that caused the harm are sitting on billions upon billions of dollars just waiting to be looted. These potential moneymakers are so ripe, they’re about to fall off the vine.

    So why isn’t anyone suing?

    The biggest mystery of all is the lack of lawsuits against the malignant pediatric “gender affirming care” industry. If there was ever an opportunity for a massive class-action suit demanding restitution for gruesome bodily harm resulting from deception and abuse, this is it.

     

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    5 Shannon

    It’s not as bad as it was yesterday.  There are different kinds of smoke haze.  I said yesterday it was like 6 houses on fire, but that’s not accurate.

    Cured, dried firewood has a nice almost sweet smell when burned.  Houses and buildings have the darker smoke with the chemical components burning like roofing, paint, insulation, furniture, etc.

    Forest fire smoke has the same smell as when you are in the woods, need to build a fire and chop up some green saplings to light.  It has a distinctive, acrid, almost bitter smell and taste.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat @ 6:49 AM, I agree whole hardheartedly about Ramaswamy but he is unelectable. Also I meant to come back and comment on several of the nominees but didn’t have time. I have a lot of respect for Tim Scott and Larry Elder and they have some appeal as token blacks but I don’t think they could win the nomination. And yes I said it, not that I THINK they’re tokens but all the Democrats and Deep Staters think they are. Of course my objections of Haley and Hutchinson is that they’re NOT conservatives and Hutchinson is a just a Goober.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My wife asked me a couple days ago, Mike Pence? Mike Pence, why is he running for president?? I said same as all these others that have no shot, who knows.

    Rush used to say it was so they could wear the “Former Presidential Candidate” label. I don’t know if it’s as simple as that, ego, do they end up with a little cash? Doesn’t seem worth it.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, now, Tony Busbee is going to  lead the defense team for AG Paxton in the impeachment trial.

    It’s going to be a full-blown Houston lawyer show.

    How bizarre.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One thing that some of the talking heads say is that folks like Tim Scott might be shooting for VP while Haley might be looking at a cabinet position.

    do they end up with a little cash? Doesn’t seem worth it.

    Remember David Duke made a living keeping campaign contributions. He ran for years after he was shammed out of the Republican Party.

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #8

    Guess they all decided they wanted to just go ahead and make it a Texas size hoedown.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

     I agree whole hardheartedly about Ramaswamy but he is unelectable.

    Most candidates have a “failure run” which, IMHO, serves more to give them name recognition and force the media to at least take a glance at them.  Depending on how Vivek does in debates and appearances, it can help or hurt a future run.  Or this exercise may result in him holding a cabinet position or maybe help him run for governor somewhere – a stepping stone to future presidential runs.

    Here’s to hoping that his presence and his arguments drag the others into his wake, and make the hard discussions happen.  I also, am impressed with the dude, and hope he is more successful than currently in the polls.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought Busbee had backed out of the fray?

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I worked late last night, getting important stuff done.  Bills to pay, IRS payments to make, etc.

    Today is more catching up, dropping off a check with our investment guy, and serious packing.  I leave for vacation Friday, a whole week with LD & Fam.

    Almost jiggly with excitement…but first, I’m gonna run over and see if the C&C has dropped.  Y’all may go for a whole week without my review of the column.  I’m taking a computer with me, so we shall see.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    THE FAKE NEWS TEST ☙ Wednesday, June 7, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Your roundup today includes: more accurate intel on the terrorist attack on the Kakhokva dam; episode one of Tucker’s new twitter show drops; Trump issues new campaign pledge that rips the Overton Window right out of the frame; British superstar DJ’s turbo cancer; stunning UFO story drops, but what does it mean?; WaPo exclusive reveals the Nordstream terrorists were Ukrainian military; and an uplifting description of people saving kids.

    ***

    The first episode of Tucker’s new internet show, “Tucker on Twitter,” aired yesterday (10 minutes), and began with the Kakhovka dam story. Elon Musk promoted the new episode, garnering over 25 million tweet views in just the first 11 hours.

    Tucker’s new Twitter show is even snarkier and more sarcastic than Tucker’s old Fox show, if that’s possible.

    https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419

    Tucker ended his show describing how during the Cold War, most Russians thought the United States was a third-world hellhole, because that’s all their captured media ever told them. Only a handful of Russians lucky enough to have shortwave radios ever heard a different story. Tucker said:

    Fifty years later, it is bewildering to consider the irony here. We’re the ones who live in ignorance now. The US Government has managed to classify more than a billion so-called “public documents.” So at this point, we can’t possibly know what our leaders are doing. We are not allowed to know. By definition, that is not a democracy. Yet it’s fine with the media. Secrecy is a powerful tool of control. “Stop asking how we got so rich! Here’s another story about racism! Go eat each other!”
    That’s the program. That’s how most of us now live in the United States. Manipulated by lies, silenced by taboos. It is unhealthy, and it is dehumanizing, and we are tired of it.
    As of today we have come to Twitter, which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blanket.

    Preach, brother, preach.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C:

    Trump’s campaign came out and announced that he’s going to investigate Big Pharma, specifically as pertains to the rise in children’s health illnesses and issues, including autism.

    … Among other things, he said:

    “In recent decades, there has been an unexplained and alarming growth in the prevalence of chronic illnesses and health problems especially in children. We’ve seen a stunning rise in autism, autoimmune disorders, obesity, infertility, serious allergies, and respiratory challenges. It’s time to ask what is going on.”

    /snip

    The first thing that fascinates me is that we now have major candidates for both parties — Trump and RFK — who are both airing the same message: vaccines are potentially dangerous for children. Captured media will do everything it can to mute that message. It won’t be easy…

    Captured media CAN’T ignore Trump.

    The second implication of Trump’s statement is so vast it’s hard to process. An Overton Garage Door has obviously been rolled open. It used to be political suicide to talk about autism and vaccines,…

    This development must seem nearly miraculous for all the parents of vaccine-injured children who have been sidelined, gaslit, dismissed, marginalized, and labeled dangerous misinformation spreaders.

    To be fair, Trump has some problems with this strategy. RFK has repeatedly said that 2016’s candidate Trump asked him to lead a similar panel, but then cancelled it. …

    What’s significant is that a majority of Republicans, including both Trump and DeSantis supporters, plus over 20% of democrats who support RFK, are sick and tired of Big Pharma and its suitcase of shots for babies. …

    Think about it like this: it’s not significant that Trump said it. … He didn’t invent the issue. Trump just figured out this is the right time to make the argument.

    Justice will come. It IS getting there. Justice is a universal force that cannot be stopped; it is unstoppable.

    Childers asks the important question: “What happens when the majority of Americans believe the conspiracy theory? Is it still a conspiracy theory, or has it become something else?”

    All of those memes come to mind.  You know, the ones that say “I used to be called a conspiracy theorist.  Now you can just call me right on the issues.”

    So, what DOES happen when the huge yacht of public opinion finally manages to make that turn?  I don’t know about the usual childhood vaccines and the arguments about autism, etc., but there is a truth that those numbers have risen.  What is the cause?  If nothing else, any investigation into it will be helpful, whether it is vaccines or not.  Correlation is not causation – something to be careful of when discussing these issues.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department:

    In case you hadn’t heard, Jamie Foxx’s friend announced that Jamie is both blind and paralyzed after receiving his booster shot, which had been mandated by the production company in charge of the film he was on at the time.  His career is over.

    ***

    BBC News ran a story yesterday headlined, “Michael Bibi: Dance Music DJ Diagnosed With Rare Cancer.” The good news is it’s moving slowly though, so … oh wait.

    Yep. It’s turbo cancer.

    /snip

    Bibi…told fans Monday his cancer was “moving fast,” so he had to immediately start aggressive, inpatient hospital treatment. He’s been diagnosed with an ultra-rare primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). ‘Lymphoma’ means it starts in the lymphatic system, and ‘primary’ means it started particularly in the lymph of his brain or spinal cord.

    Guess what was Bibi’s first symptom? Tinnitus. Purely coincidentally, I personally know three jabbed people with new tinnitus diagnoses.

    /snip

    Prayers for this young man’s complete recovery, and that justice would swiftly be delivered to the people who did this to him. Lord, how long must your people cry out for justice?

    ***

    For him and all of the nameless victims, may the Lord provide them and their families peace and comfort in their struggles.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Crap,… over yonder, I spotted an old ad for the Widow Maker, Kawasaki Mach III 500. Pretty neat stuff.

  21. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Buzbee to have a press briefing at 2PM today.

    Buzbee is the latest big-name attorney to join the fray in Paxton’s impeachment trial. Texas legal giants Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin will serve as the lead prosecutors for the House impeachment managers, lawmakers announced Thursday.

  22. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #17

    Under a thousand bucks. Dang.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. Childers is, ahem, “highly skeptical” of the space alien reports.  Let’s just say it’s too perfect, too well timed, to lay smoothly down as truth.  He suspects this may be the next “pandemic” issue for governmental control, since using viruses has left a nasty taste in too many mouths. I’ll skip his long discussion on the topic, but it leads into another discussion … the dam and the information leak thereof:

    I’m proposing a four-part formula to test for fake news:

    • √ It’s something that isn’t new, it happened a long time ago.
    • √ The ‘news’ is that it is coming out now.
    • √ The ‘news’ comes from sketchy or anonymous sources.
    • √ The news is inflammatory or controversial.

    Fake news is propaganda. Even if the underlying facts are true, it is still a psyop.

    /snip

    Anyway, WaPo reported that a CIA report that was circulated to Germany and other unidentified European countries last June …warned that a Ukrainian source described the planned attack [on the dam]. The article disclosed highly specific details…

    Laughably, the ‘top secret intelligence report’ also carefully insisted Zelensky never knew about the attack. WaPo even wrote t…the former comedian’s hands are clean on this one. So don’t blame Zelensky, and don’t even try to say he’s responsible for what his own military does. What nonsense.

    Curiously, the general that WaPo did say was responsible, Valery Zaluzhny, has been the center of a swirl of rumors lately that he’s either been killed, was fired, or has been arrested…. So he’d be a perfect fall guy.

    WaPo says its story was “confirmed” by anonymous “officials in multiple countries,” which were also unidentified. Why not? Here’s the explanation:

    The Post agreed to withhold the name of the European country as well as some aspects of the suspected plan at the request of government officials, who said exposing the information would threaten sources and operations.

    Uh huh.

    Finally, WaPo tantalizingly said that unidentified “investigators” had … matched explosive residue from the Nordstream bombs to some powder that was conveniently found somewhere in the sailing yacht, Andromeda. It was totally not planted.

    The WaPo did hint at one paradox this …poses to the Biden Administration. After the attacks, Biden and his propaganda ministers immediately accused the Russians of blowing up their own pipelines. But, if the CIA had this credible intel months before, that means the Biden Administration was straight up lying.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Last up at the C&C is this clip from the guy who inspired the latest Caveziel film “Sound of Freedom”.  I really want to go see this film.  It comes out July 4th, I believe.

    Listening to this clip, I am horrified.  “Harvest time”!?

    https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1666348957453414401

    Ten thousand missing children.  TEN. THOUSAND.  In one country.  Just imagine the culling going on at the southern border.  The kids who disappear off of our suburban streets.

    For me, it’s not just the horror of kids being sold into sexual slavery, it’s the evil that makes this such a multi-billion dollar industry.  How can there be that big a market for the evil use of children?  How pervasive is this evil in our world?

    O sweet Jesus, you cannot come too soon.

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We have a manhunt going on in the subdivision, fourteen yr old autistic boy a couple houses down ran off with daddy’s pistol yesterday afternoon. He’s done this before, poor kid just goes off track, so far he’s been harmless. I have to hand it to Waller County, they have sure put the resources out to find him. Last time they had a helicopter out searching, last night they had a plane, and a drone. And all kinda vehicles.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The head of CNN, who was trying to make it a legit news organization again, is now out.

    Salcedo just reported it.

    It’s like the drowning guy refusing to grab the life preserver.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #21 TT:  Every day we get a fax here at the office describing a teen, usually female, missing.  Every day.  At least one.  These are US citizens, not the wave of illegal alien invaders.

    The floodgates were opened to enable the human trafficking of underage kids for sexual exploitation.  Apparently, the US parents started watching too closely and the supply was drying up for our elite, so they had to import them from the 3rd world.  Outsourcing to do the depravity that US kids just don’t want to do.  I can’t imagine the horror that awaits those who abuse the kids in the afterlife.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Officers on foot with a dog now, word is they spotted him this morning but lost him again.

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    fourteen yr old autistic boy a couple houses down ran off with daddy’s pistol yesterday afternoon

    I am far from a hand wringing protectionist that wants all guns locked up, separate from their ammunition, making them totally useless for self defense BUTT DAYAAM! If I had an autistic son I’d make damn sure he couldn’t get a hold of a weapon. Mercy!

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 TT:  I wonder how low CNN’s ratings are going to go before their owners pull the plug.  I can’t imagine that they are operating in the black now and I can’t see it getting any better.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bones:

    #21 TT:  Every day we get a fax here at the office describing a teen, usually female, missing.  Every day.  At least one.  These are US citizens, not the wave of illegal alien invaders.

    I’ve always been an advocate for not raising children in an atmosphere of fear, but I do worry about my granddaughters.  Sunshine, especially.  There are certain cultures that put blonde haired, blue eyed girls high on the desirability scale, although any white female of European ancestry would be desirable.

    They walk home together. I’ve tried to discuss this with LD, but she wants her girls to feel more independent and they want to walk home.  It’s not far, thank goodness.  I’ve offered to buy them really loud whistles, as whistles are better at calling for help than screaming, but LD has declined my offer.

    These whistles, btw, will make you temporarily deaf unless you plug your ears.  They are incredibly loud.  I used them during my youth ministry days, to call students in from their personal journaling time.  It could be heard over the whole church campus.  Easily.

    What’s even more horrifying is that it’s not just girls.  Boys get abused, too.

    But you are right about that Special Place in Hell.

     

  32. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Doug Burgum who apparently is/was the Gonernator of North Dakota

    What and/or where is this “North Dakota” of which you speak?

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s a vaccine for melanoma working it’s way through trials.

    Yes, it’s an mRNA product.

    Good luck with that.

  34. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    A PYRO SIGHTING!!

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #26 SD

    I absolutely agree the kid should not have the slightest chance to access a firearm. Actually not sure I believe that part of the story though.

  36. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I will not accept any mRNA “vaccine” ever again.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Okay, play stupid games, etc.

    Perp gets roadkilled.

    Question: the two cars that saved taxpayers so much money – were they police cars?  The image is blurred on those two, but not on the other cop cars. I can’t tell if they had markings or not.

    Were these citizens who were just fed up and decided to help?  I can’t imagine cops doing what they did.

    UPDATE: Yes, they were cops and the perp survived, so now I guess we get another round racist riots. And so much for saving taxpayer money.

    But I wonder…will he continue his life of crime? Of course, if he ends up in a wheelchair…

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    wagonburner! Good to see yoy where the H3!! have you been?

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    33 wagonburner

    Neither will I.

    One daughter was at her new endocrinologist’s office the other day and was asked by the nurse practitioner there if she was vaccinated.  When she said no, the nurse swooned and said how lucky she was and wished that she herself had never taken the “vaccine”.

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I have a question, and not to be rude but is Will Hurd, X-Texas Congress Critter, a Jackass? If not he missed a real good chance. FWIW; I just saw him on Fox News.

  41. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! I have a report on Billy Cat today. As I have been feeding him 3 times a day for 6 weeks now, I am wondering if he will ever trust me. I don’t see him around other people, just in my back yard, but it is clear that he has had some bad experiences with people. He sees me carrying a bowl of cat food, but if I get too close to him, he hisses at me and backs up. He has figured out my schedule so he’s able to be waiting in the gazebo around the time he is ready for some eats. He also remembers the gazebo if it starts raining — I often see him sitting or sleeping under the roof of the gazebo, at any time day or night. However, when he’s not there, he is usually in the yard behind me or the yard to the east, so if he hears me call his name, he glides through his favorite loose fence boards and saunters towards the gazebo. He knows if I’m calling his name, there will be food.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    34 granny

    Dude received the rubber stamp of “denied” at the end.

  43. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    where the H3!! have you been?

    Stuff happens. Life intervenes and needs to be dealt with.

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tucker Carlson’s video from last night has now received over 72 million views.

    In less than tree hours, Carlson had 17 million views. Musk is starting a video platform like YouTube and Tucker is the inaugural contributor.

    I may have to take back some of the mean things I’ve said about Elon in the past.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally – a Democrat who gets it:

    RFK Jr. does what Biden and Kamala WON’T do by meeting the real victims of the border crisis: Democrat says ‘tsunami of migrants defecating in irrigation canals threatens safety of food supply’ and shows extent of ‘dystopian nightmare’

    This is something those liberals in the east don’t figure into their sanctuary city and open border policies:

    He also met local farmers in the border community who have been impacted by the surge in migrant crossings.

    ‘Yuma County provides 90 percent of the green leafy vegetables, like iceberg lettuce, arugula, spinach, and broccoli, to American tables between November and April. 

    ‘The tsunami of migrants walking across farm fields and defecating in irrigation canals threatens the safety of that food supply. 

    ‘Last year, one of their neighbors had to plow under 88 acres of broccoli and personally absorb the $10k per acre cost after migrants tainted irrigation water.’

    So, when all those vegans can’t afford their green smoothies anymore…

     

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In #3 Shannon linked to this column in City Journal about the disastrous results from the destruction of civics and history instruction in primary, secondary and America’s college campuses.

    Data clearly bear out this analysis. According to the 2019 RAND survey, social studies teachers placed the highest educational value on being “tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,” with 80 percent finding this “absolutely essential” and 92 percent feeling “confident” that their students would master that characteristic by graduation. In 2022, some 54 percent of teachers identified “conflict resolution” as the “most important aim” of civics education, with a worrisome 27 percent naming environmental activism and 20 percent “reducing racism” as the objective of civics instruction.

    Non-majors have little difficulty avoiding such subjects in the pursuit of more practical and remunerative degrees. According to a 2016 study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, only 18 percent of colleges and universities require even a single semester of American history, meaning that millions of college-educated parents also have little or no knowledge of history and civics to pass on to their children.

    Here in this Cato Institute survey you see why the elites of the Left are doing this and what are their goals.

    In a newly released Cato Institute 2023 Central Bank Digital Currency National Survey of 2,000 Americans, we asked respondents whether they “favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity.” Not surprisingly, few Americans—only 14 percent—support this idea. Three‐​fourths (75 percent) would oppose government surveillance cameras in homes, including 68 percent who “strongly oppose,” while 10% don’t have an opinion either way.

    However, Americans under the age of 30 stand out when it comes to 1984‐​style in‐​home government surveillance cameras. 3 in 10 (29 percent) Americans under 30 favor “the government installing surveillance cameras in every household” in order to “reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity.”

    Generation to generation they slowly brainwash them to surrender complete control of their lives to a massive, totalitarian regime.  George Orwell looks more like a brilliant prophet than a merely creative novelist as each day passes.

    Even more alarming from a poll of Gen Z in 2020…

    The number of young Americans who have a favorable view of Marxism has increased five-fold in just one year. According to the new survey, nearly one-third of the members of Gen Z – Americans between the ages of 16 and 23 – deem “Marxism” worthy of support. The term’s favorability has skyrocketed to 30% among Gen Z respondents, up from 6% in 2019.

    It is all part and parcel of the master plan.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue – I bit the bullet and ordered my freeze dryer.  Got the oil free pump.  Medium sized machine.

    Now, to name it…Bear Grylls?  The survival guy?

    I’m sure I can come up with something better.  I shall ruminate.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Greta warned us:

    Heads up: Important climate change “Save That Date” in 17 days

    Well, if she wants to die, that’s her choice.  I certainly won’t get in her way.

     

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    They are saying the Lehigh River Valley in Pennsylvania, which runs north to south, is acting like funnel for the smoke from fires over the border in Canada.  It brings it down south to northeastern Pennsylvania and the prevailing west to east winds blow it right towards NYC and the Atlantic.  Bergen County NJ is right in the pathway.

    It got so dark with smoke here at 1:00 PM it looked as though the sun was going down.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    If I were an evil SOB who inserted genes into a virus to make it more transmissible and deadly, AND I produced a ‘vaccine’ that was orders of magnitude more dangerous than the virus is was supposed to prevent; why wouldn’t I put a pathogen/toxin in the test strips?

    I’m not using them anymore – ever.  If it can’t be tested with saliva or me blowing snot out of my nose, then there ain’t gonna be a test on me.

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It is with both a sad and joyful heart that I inform the Couch that Texmo has passed.   Mrs. Texmo will let me know of the arrangements, and I will pass them on to y’all when I get them.

    His journey here is over, with all of the suffering at the end.  He begins a new one now.  A much happier one.

  52. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bones – If I were an evil SOB who inserted genes into a virus to make it more transmissible and deadly, AND I produced a ‘vaccine’ that was orders of magnitude more dangerous than the virus is was supposed to prevent;

    Read Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six”.

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    RIP TexMo.

  54. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #44 Tedtam – AMEN to the happier journey… and sweet reunions with those who went before him.. Prayers for peace and comfort for those he left behind <3 <3 <3

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I told Mrs. Texmo that I was particularly driven to pray for Texmo & Family yesterday.

    I guess there was a good reason for that.

  56. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #41 Tedtam – WHEEEEEEE Dawgies!!!!!!  Now we can share tips and tricks and… and… bore the guys to tears 😉  We got a 5 doz case of eggs yesterday to freeze dry – but are waiting for the divider trays we ordered to come in, so that I can do raw individual eggs… The taters is did yesterday that finished up this morning turned out lovely – we did a couple of trays of shreds for hash browns (or whatever we want to do with them when they are rehydrated), and the others with the pre-made hashbrown patties patties… I vacuum sealed the shreds in a 1/2 gallon jar, and the patties in mylar bags.  Next up is frozen meatballs – just watched a video where the guy took them and cut them in half, mixed into pre-cooked spaghetti and jarred sauce, and used the dividers to make them into meal-sized portions, then freeze dried.   his channel is Live.Life.Simple (Name is “Retired At 40) Lots of information there, as well as Rose Red Homestead

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    RIP TexMo.

    I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.

    He was really a good guy.

  58. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m sitting in the shade in my backyard and my puppy Sarah is really happy to not be in the laundry room.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It is with both a sad and joyful heart that I inform the Couch that Texmo has passed.

    I’ll agree with that statement.

    R.I.P. Texmo and Godspeed home. 

    I keep thinking of what Tedtam said that TexMo said, “I’m not going to make my 50th birthday”. Let that sink in. 🙁

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    May TexMo’s memory be a blessing to all whoever knew him.

    God Bless.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.

    He was really a good guy.

    He still is.  Just being a good guy in another room.

  62. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #53 Tedtam  – Amen  ♥♥♥

  63. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just watched two of your guy’s freeze drying videos.  I have so much to learn.  I am excited about prepping the avocado.  Have to work fast, though, in that fifteen minute time frame between “ripe” and “oh crap I missed it”.

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just read a Dr. Malone column.  Wow.

    Just. Wow.

    Gonna turn it into a thread here soon.

    Heads. Roll. They should.

  65. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I drove by our Montrose property (the 11 unit) that we sold last year.  We had a few tenants call us after we sold, telling us how they missed us.  It seems the new management sucks.

    We had contracted with a trash collection company to drag out the three trash cans each week and empty them.  The area where they are kept is next to the carport, under a roof.  Those cans may have been full, but they were never overflowing.  And we took out heavy trash ourselves, because there’s not much room at the sidewalk for large items.

    Someone is obviously moving out, because there’s a big bed and some other furniture blocking the sidewalk.  And the household trash?  It’s in bags almost touching the carport roof.  About to overflow onto someone’s car.

    I called Hubby, and his first reaction was “That’ll bring a rat problem.”  I expressed sympathy for our old tenants, and he did, too.  Then came the inevitable “It’s not our problem any more.”  Both of us find it astounding that the building owners aren’t taking care of their tenants and their property.  We both think they’re just milking the property for all the cash flow they can manage until they sell it to a developer to tear down so it can be replaced with two or more “townhomes”.  Hubby’s seen developers cram four homes onto a lot that size.

    And then, I get a trash company bill for our river property that we sold over a year ago.  Hadn’t gotten one since we sold, we had canceled the contract – and out of the blue, there it is.  Someone’s computer system (or data entry person) reloaded our information into their system.

    Nope, not paying that one, either.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    50 Bones

    I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.

    What?

    There was a Mark Tipton funeral to attend?

    When? Where?

  67. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We got wind of it the day it was happening.  The three of us attending – Texmo, Bones, and myself – had to move fast.  It wasn’t a funeral as such, but a mass as a memorial service.

    We tried to wrangle the keys to old Hammie land after it was over, but for nought.  I gather that by the time we heard about it, Hammie was already buried in Florida, since his only presence was a picture in front of the sanctuary.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I am stunned. I had no idea.

    was there Tipton family there?

    what church?

    you have got to be kidding me.

  69. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #44

    TexMo, it was a pleasure to have you as a blog friend for many years, and we all mourn your loss from our group. Condolences to your family and all your other friends.

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, well.

    As my my mind/memory relentlessly deteriorates, it’s quite possible that I don’t remember that a memorial service was held for Hammie locally.

    It was a difficult time. And no doubt I was in the middle of some personal crisis at the time.

    It all runs together these days.

  71. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #59 Re Hammy’s funeral

    I probably live closer to the location of that ceremony (several years ago now) than any other Hamboner did, but the word came so late that I would be driving in the dark to a location I had never been to before. I simply chickened out. And now I am stunned that Shannon didn’t get the word — although living where he does, he would not have been able to drive there — near-north Houston, sorta close to where he had lived (and died), as I recall — in time for the service.

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It was at the parish church that Hammie attended locally as a young ‘un.  There was family there (we talked to his sister), but there was such a clamoring for her attention that I’m sure she forgot all about those strangers who stalked her as soon as the priest ended the mass.

    We only had a few hours between finding out about the service and it’s beginning.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Rest in peace Texmo.

    Say hey to Katfish for me.

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtu.be/0_P3uCyngkk

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A report that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has taken a plea deal to testify against ex-President Donald Trump is nothing more than “bull****,” according to his attorney George Terwilliger.

    – Newsweek

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    George Washington bridge. Just up the road from Texpat.

  77. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Gettin’ quite the storm here at the Dome.  Glad I went out and pulled a few ‘maters before it started to get really dark and loud outside.

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