Highlights of the News
Light Up Christmas! Walmart is doing its part to promote mostly peaceful protests.
Donald John Trump is still our president.
ITEM 1: The Epoch Times reported, "As of Dec. 18, 3,150 people reported what the agency terms 'health impact events' after getting vaccinated.
"Those who are experiencing these 'events' are 'unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work,' or 'required care from a doctor or health care professional.'
"The incidents were reported through V-safe, a smartphone application. The tool uses text messages and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins, and allows users to quickly tell the CDC if they’re experiencing side effects.
"The CDC and Pfizer, which produces the vaccine with BioNTech, didn’t immediately respond to request for comments."
1.1% have a negative reaction to the vaccine.
Nothing to see here.
Well, except for the three-eyed fish.
We should have stocked up on the HCQ and zinc, and rode this one out.
ITEM 2: Lockdown Larry is in covid 19 quarantine.
The New York Post reported, "California Gov. Gavin Newsom will quarantine for 10 days after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Sunday night.
"The staffer came into contact with Newsom and a few other colleagues, Newsom’s office said in a statement to KGO.
"Newsom tested negative for the coronavirus on Sunday and is expected to be tested again in the coming days, his office said.
"The governor’s office said Newsom will 'continue to follow state and CDC guidelines.'"
Sure he will.
Just like he followed them when he partied at the 3-star restaurant called the French Laundry.
ITEM 3: Breitbart reported the covid 19 relief package includes:
$169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476).Unspecified funds to “continue support for not-for-profit institutions of higher education in Kabul, Afghanistan that are accessible to both women and men in a coeducational environment” (page 1477).$198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and $23.3 million for “democracy programs” (page 1485).$130,265,000 to Nepal for “development and democracy programs” (page 1485).Pakistan: $15 million for “democracy programs” and $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486).Sri Lanka: Up to $15 million “for the refurbishing of a high endurance cutter,” which is a type of patrol boat (page 1489).$505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to “address key factors that contribute to the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491).$461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counternarcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496).$74.8 million to the “Caribbean Basin Security Initiative” (page 1498).$33 million “for democracy programs for Venezuela” (page 1498).Unspecified amount to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago “for assistance for communities in countries supporting or otherwise impacted by refugees from Venezuela” (page 1499).$132,025,000 “for assistance for Georgia” (page 1499).$453 million “for assistance for Ukraine” (page 1500).
The entire bill is 5,593 pages long.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Working with Red China, Washington created this crisis and exploited it in an effort to destroy small businesses, destroy President Trump, and destroy the dollar by printing up trillions to fund self-indulgent nonsense.
ITEM 4: Breitbart reported, "Congress has agreed to shrink funding and detention beds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, just as pro-migration groups are warning that a wave of wage-cutting economic migrants will rush north" if Biden gets away with his election steal.
The story said, "If ICE does not have enough detention beds, it must release the migrants into the United States, where they will take jobs from Americans to repay their smuggling loans. The loans often use family farms and homes as collateral, putting migrants under extreme pressure to work for wages far below Americans’ levels. This profitable economic process spiked the number of migrants from low levels in 2009 to almost one million in 2019."
The will of the people be damned.
Americans have rebuffed 20 years of open borders propaganda. These are illegal aliens. They do not belong here. Congress promised in 1986 to get rid of them upon passage of an immigration reform bill.
They sold us out.
ITEM 5: Just the News reported, "Google informs children when their parents are monitoring their account activity, the tech giant confirmed this month, with the company claiming that doing so is a way of balancing the interests of both parents and children.
"Google's child-notification policies received attention when film director Robby Starbuck claimed on Twitter that his 7-year-old child had received a warning from Google that his account was being monitored."
Only Google is allowed top use the Internet to spy on people.
Well, Google and Red China. And Obama.
Children have rights. Adults do not.
ITEM 6: Zero Hedge reported, "Our friends at Open The Books continue to expose government waste - and fraud - and in their latest investigation, they have shone the spotlight on one of the largest wastes in the US government: the Social Security Administration.
"What they have uncovered is that last year alone, Social Security admitted to $8 billion in improper and mistaken payments.
"The punchline: when they dug deeper, they found that there are 6 million active social security numbers of people aged 112 and older... even though only 40 or less or those people exist in the world.
"The root cause of this colossal abuse: failure to verify death. And yet while you won't read about it in the papers, the four-year total sum to US taxpayers is roughly $2.8 billion, which in today's numbers when trillions are thrown around may not sound like much, but add up all the other areas of government waste, and soon you end up with far greater numbers."
$8 billion here, $8 billion there, and pretty soon Social Securoty stops running out of money.
ITEM 7: OilPrice.com reported, "Despite the swift industrial recovery from the pandemic, factories in areas in China are working only part-time, and residents in several provinces are asked to save electricity, while authorities are turning off street lights and billboards, warning of coal shortages this winter.
"In at least three provinces in China, authorities have ordered limits on electricity use, saying there could be shortages of coal, The New York Times reports.
"At the same time, Chinese authorities vehemently deny that the potential shortages have had anything to do with the diplomatic spat with Australia, which has turned into a true energy trade war, with China banning imports of coal from one of its major suppliers.
"Still, China has admitted there is a problem with electricity supply in parts of the country, just ahead of the winter season when Chinese industrial activity has been recovering very well from the COVID-related economic slump earlier this year."
Chairman Xi banned imports of coal from its top supplier, Australia, in a fit.
Red China's goal was to be like the United States.
Now it has achieved California's rolling blackouts thanks to stupid policy decisions by its political leaders.
ITEM 8: The International Business Times reported, "Attorney General William Barr on Monday rejected the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter or the 2020 election.
"President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have largely criticized Barr for having not revealed the investigation into Biden’s son prior to the election. Many urged the attorney general to convert the probe into a special counsel inquiry. "
The man is a disappointment because he served the Swamp, not the nation.
ITEM 9: Just the News reported, "Joe Biden's 33-year-old niece, Caroline Biden, has been sentenced to five months of probation in lieu of jail time following a guilty plea in relation to a 2019 DUI charge."
The story also said, "She was previously convicted in New York of running a $110,000 credit card scam, and in 2013 she was charged with resisting arrest after allegedly assaulting a police officer in New York."
She skipped jail that time too.
Just like Hunter has since he was 18. He's 50 now.
BLM had a point. There is a two-tiered criminal justice system. It is based on connections, not race.
ITEM 10: The Sun reported, "Brits have been urged to stop panic-buying ahead of Christmas, after shoppers feared border closures would leave them without a holiday feast.."
The story also said, "The Prime Minister tried to ease fears this evening, reassuring the public that there was no need for the panic-driven demand on supermarkets.
"Mr. Johnson said: "It is vital first to stress that these delays - which are only occurring at Dover - only affect human-handled freight, and that is only 20% of the total arriving from or departing to the European continent."
"He added: 'These delays only apply to a very small percentage of food entering the UK, and as British supermarkets have said, their supply chains are strong and robust, so everyone can continue to shop normally.'
"Sainsburys and Tesco both said they have enough food for customers over Christmas, but warned of potential shortages of items like lettuce, cauliflower and citrus fruits if the freight ban continues.
"Brits were pictured outside supermarkets from 5 am before leaving with trolleys piled high - despite authorities pleading the public not to stock-pile."
He came into office with such high hopes. Now he has all the credibility of the New York Times.
My advice to my British readers is to stock up. You never know what the mask Nazis will close next. Suddenly I side with the hoarders in those awful shows.
ITEM 11: Newsweek reported, "Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday that legislation had been drafted to move control of Austin policing from the Austin Police Department (APD) to state law enforcement officials months after the city passed cuts to the city’s police budget.
"The Republican governor had previously suggested transferring control of the city’s police before announcing that a bill had been drafted Monday on Twitter. Details of the legislation are not clear, while any lawmakers who might be planning to file the bill have not yet been identified."
Why should city residents pay taxes if Austin fails to provide basic services?
ITEM 12: The San Francisco Examiner reported, "Facing a more than $650 million deficit over the next two fiscal years, Mayor London Breed told department heads Wednesday to come up with 7.5% budget cuts plus an additional 2.5% contingency should the financial picture worsen.
"The projected shortfall is attributable to slower than expected growth in revenues from a local economy hit hard by COVID-19, rising employee salaries and benefits, and additional costs associated with responding to the pandemic."
Where to cut?
Forbes reported earlier, "Why San Francisco Is In Trouble – 19,000 Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150,000+ In Pay & Perks."
Laying off one-third of them could save a billion bucks.
The city had no problem laying off thousands of restaurant and hotel employees or in closing businesses permanently with draconian and ineffective covid 19 rules.
ITEM 13: Fox News reported, "The Washington Post was accused of publishing a cartoon 'straight from anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda' that depicted Republican lawmakers as rats.
"The cartoon by Ann Telnaes, labeled simply 'All the Republican rats,' named all state attorneys general and U.S. Congress members who 'collaborated with President Trump in his attempt to subvert the Constitution and stay in office' by challenging election results.
"Fox News contributor Steve Milloy noticed the cartoon that featured a rat for members of the GOP, including Reps. Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik, Steve King, Dan Crenshaw, Ted Yoho, Ralph Norman, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy and many more.
"Milloy tweeted an image of the Post’s cartoon alongside Nazi Germany-era cartoons that also depicted Jewish people as rats."
Anti-Semitism is one tenet of communism and fascism alike.
In 2016, Telnaes depicted Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his daughters, then 5 and 8, as monkeys.
Too bad we gave her citizenship because she belongs in her native Sweden, not here.
ITEM 14: John Nolte reported, "The fake entertainment media is already trying to blame Wonder Woman 1984’s crash and burn at the international box office on the pandemic. Don’t you believe it.
"What we have here is nothing more or less than yet another Woketard franchise going down in flames. Number seven by my count.
"Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the 2017 blockbuster debuted on 30,000 screens in 32 international markets and went down like the Hindenburg with only a $38.5 million debut."
But the Hindenburg made a great cover for the Led Zeppelin's first album. I wouldn't mind seeing this Wonder Woman on an album cover. Maybe I'll start a garage band.
ITEM 15: Life News reported, "The U.S. government has officially filed a pro-life declaration with the UN Secretary General. Joined by 34 other countries, the document enshrines the Trump administration’s pro-life diplomacy on the official record of the General Assembly.
"'The United States strongly supports the dignity of all human beings and protecting life from the moment of conception throughout the lifespan,' Ambassador Kelly Craft wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres transmitting the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family.
"Following the letter, the declaration was issued as an official document of the United Nations last week and circulated on December 11, after having been translated into all six official UN languages.
"'The United States, along with our like-minded partners, believes strongly that there is no international right to abortion and that the United Nations must respect national laws and policies on the matter, absent external pressure,' Ambassador Craft added."
Odd that those who protest executing a few dozen murderers each year are cool with killing nearly a million babies in the womb each year.
ITEM 16: The Epoch Times reported, "A Zoom executive worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users located outside of China and ensure the U.S. video-call giant retained market access in the country, according to recently unsealed court documents filed by U.S. federal prosecutors.
"The documents detailed internal communications between Zoom employees, which showed that Chinese security authorities made numerous requests to the company for data on users and meetings that discussed political and religious topics Beijing deemed unacceptable. Zoom complied with most of these requests, at times involving users outside of China.
"The revelations highlight how users outside of China’s shores are increasingly being caught in the crosshairs as the Chinese Communist Party steps up its demands on companies like Zoom to surveil and censor users both at home and abroad. Zoom is a San Jose-based company, whose software is developed in China."
Why do we have anything to do with Red China?
I forgot.
Chairman Mao, Chairman Deng, and now Chairman Xi bought our politicians.
ITEM 17: The Department of Justice announced, "a joint final rule with eight other Agencies — the Agency for International Development and the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Veterans Affairs — to implement President Trump’s Executive Order No. 13831, on the Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative (May 3, 2018). This rule ensures that religious and non-religious organizations are treated equally in DOJ-supported programs, and it clarifies that religious organizations do not lose their legal protections and rights just because they participate in federal programs and activities."
The announcement said, "This final rule ensures equal treatment for faith-based organizations, consistent with the Constitution and other federal law. It removes requirements in prior regulations that placed unequal burdens on religious organizations, cast unwarranted suspicion on them, and were in tension with their religious liberty rights. This final rule also clarifies that religious organizations do not lose various legal protections because they participate in federal programs and activities, such as the rights to accommodations and conscience protections under the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and other federal laws."
I wonder if after its DACA ruling, the Supreme Court will allow a future Democrat president to scrap this program.
Posted by Don Surber at 12/22/2020 07:00:00 AM 
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28 comments:
Big Jake December 22, 2020 at 7:03 AM
Trump needs to veto this Bill. Let Congress override if they dare.
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dts3204 December 22, 2020 at 7:11 AM
They will cause they are the people's representatives / sarcasm off
Kitty December 22, 2020 at 7:38 AM
Dittos, Big Jake.
JDDeb December 22, 2020 at 8:16 AM
He absolutely needs to veto this bill!
Unknown December 22, 2020 at 8:17 AM
And democracy is the system where the people get what they voted for ... good and hard.
Schlongtavious Lardmaster December 22, 2020 at 8:17 AM
And they wonder why so many people hate them. Problem is, they don’t care.
JDDeb December 22, 2020 at 8:17 AM
He absolutely needs to veto this bill!
JDDeb December 22, 2020 at 8:17 AM
He absolutely needs to veto this bill!
Buzz December 22, 2020 at 9:52 AM
Veto and go on television and explain to everyone what these lunatics have done again with OUR money.
PopC December 22, 2020 at 10:20 AM
I can't believe that we actually PAY our congress critters to come up with "garbage" like this!
edutcher December 22, 2020 at 10:43 AM
And Fake News goes after him for robbing little kids of their Christmas.
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Big Jake December 22, 2020 at 7:06 AM
Both legal and illegal immigration shift demographics in favor of the left. The Dims use illegal immigration as the buffer to preserve massive Third World LEGAL immigration. While we punch ourselves out over illegals we bring in 1-2 million legals from undeveloped nations.
We are chain migrating our nation into oblivion.
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Big Jake December 22, 2020 at 7:08 AM
Proximity rule violation:
We are chain migrating our country into oblivion.
edutcher December 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM
Aren't you the guy who called himself Jake Diamond? Troll and liar just like you.
Came out the last time the Demos tried to steal an election.
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Randy December 22, 2020 at 7:42 AM
Item 6: ” $8 billion here, $8 billion there, and pretty soon Social Securoty [sic] stops running out of money.” Maybe the SS is trying to compete with the Post Office to see who can lose the most money.
Item 13: Funny that Republicans would be pictured as rats, when Democrats literally have the word “rat” in their name. But what can you expect from a political party that uses an ass for its mascot?
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zregime December 22, 2020 at 7:54 AM
I’m old and no longer give a fook about the received opinion of so-called “polite society.” Make me the head of the SSA and those six million checks END. Tomorrow. If anybody is still actually alive, give em my direct number and I’ll rectify the matter. Anyone else who bitches - thus admitting to a federal felony - will be referred for prosecution...not that the Swamp Rats would do a fooking THING about it. Cause that would be RAYcist...
Buzz December 22, 2020 at 9:53 AM
Well said.
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Unknown December 22, 2020 at 8:07 AM
#6 - can't purge all those zombie Democrat voters.
Bob in MA
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FLOlson December 22, 2020 at 8:15 AM
ITEM 3: "Working with Red China, Washington created this crisis and exploited it in an effort to destroy small businesses, destroy President Trump, and destroy the dollar by printing up trillions to fund self-indulgent nonsense."
And they will fail. Just as the lying leftist media's gaslighting us into accepting XBiden won the election.
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FLOlson December 22, 2020 at 9:11 AM
The movement against the massive, in-our faces voter fraud is growing:
"GA Senate Committee Releases Damning Report On Election Fraud – Election ‘Untrustworthy’…Recommends Decertifying Electors"
creativedestructionmedia.com
Snowgander December 22, 2020 at 10:09 AM
I've seen that around - and if in some states the legislators understand that they don't need "permission" to convene (any tree or lean-to will do as a venue), then God bless 'em.
I don't know if there's any sort of master plan, but it seems like the sensible plan is to try things but set deadlines for action or you activate something else. Right now, the front-and-center plan seems to be get at least some of the state legislatures to man up and use their Article II authority to nix the fraudulent set of electors and install the correct ones. Of the six "affected" states and the adder that did alternate slates (not sure why NM hopped aboard, but what the heck), it's basically only going to take three of them (depending on the exact math) to remedy the fraud. And it seems that if just ONE of them would do it, that would break the ice and the others would join in.
(And message to GA Senate Committee - just "decertifying" is insufficient; it has to be a replacement.)
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Johnny from Cleveland December 22, 2020 at 8:37 AM
Item 13 - WaPo becomes NaPo (Nazi Post)
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FLOlson December 22, 2020 at 8:42 AM
All that foreign aid money is nothing by money laundering set up by our corrupt Senators. They found a way to take our tax dollars through kickbacks from the foreign countries receiving the aid, for their own benefit, to supplement their begging for campaign contributions.
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Schlongtavious Lardmaster December 22, 2020 at 8:46 AM
8 - Barr is a yuuuuuge disappointment.
9 - the Biden crime family has wider tentacles than the Clinton Crime Family.
10 - Correct. Johnson is not Trumplike, as first thought. He’s just another politician.
14 - I saw something funny this weekend -
My generation had Wonder Woman. Today’s generation has to wonder if it’s a woman.
17 - It’s different. Of course democrats and their judges can scrap PDJT’s executive orders.
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Sam L. December 22, 2020 at 8:59 AM
ITEM 2: Lockdown Larry is in covid 19 quarantine.
The New York Post reported, "California Gov. Gavin Newsom will quarantine for 10 days after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Sunday night.
"The governor’s office said Newsom will 'continue to follow state and CDC guidelines.'"
Sure he will.
Just like he followed them when he partied at the 3-star restaurant called the French Laundry."
I suddenly have this picture of Newsome sniffing lady's French underwear. (My BADDDDDDDDDDD.)
Item 3: Dems are insane, but we already knew that.
Item 10: There's a freight ban? By whom, perzactly? ("Names, Les, I need NAMES!" WKRP In Cincinati.)
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The Old Laughing Lady December 22, 2020 at 9:48 AM
your picture reminds me “Blue light special for BLM in aisle 5...”
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JeremyR December 22, 2020 at 10:26 AM
#1. The members of the AMA who decided on the HQC ban should be arrested, tried for mass murder,then marched to the gallows. Swift and sure. While an execution by crucifixion or breaking on the wheel offers a stronger incentive to not be criminal, a swift one disallows time for reflection and repentance.
I don't like long gaps between sentence and administration of punishment. The only benefit is the condemned have time to find GOD. Sometimes I feel they don't deserve that.
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10: And famines only used to be for Inja.
13: Roosevelt got on fine with the Krauts until he needed a war.
14: Maybe they can do WW2020 where she comes out of retirement to save us from another drug-addled tyrant.
See where he said, "Jill loves shots…I’ve had so many"? |
