Its very important to progressives that Asian-Americans feel themselves to be threatened by whites. Far too important an agenda item to be left to mere facts and fate.
From a different direction, Slate chatted with a properly progressive prof who was intent on explaining that any notion of Asian-American tension with Blacks is just lazy thinking. Are you remembering Korean-American shopkeeprs standing on their store rooftops during the LA riots? Or Al Sharpton leading protests against Asian-American deli owners in NYC? Don't be lazy!
And if you use that frame, you make it an Asian-Black thing, you’re focusing on the two groups and taking attention away from the larger structures of power in which they’re embedded—not just racial structures, but also capitalism. Think about the relationship between Korean merchants buying a liquor store in Compton, and their Black customers. This is about capitalism, the way it creates divisions between groups and deems certain people disposable.
Slate closes with solid advice from the professor - even if you're getting assaulted by a Black person, remember the real enemy!
But I think it’s important, when looking at violence against Asian Americans, not to lose that context. When Asian Americans understandably feel fear and anger and sorrow about these attacks on our own communities, I think we also have to ask ourselves, Are we fighting for Black lives as hard as we’re fighting for our own? It’s in moments like this that it’s really difficult to remember, because we’re afraid and upset. But to remember that we are advantaged, compared to Black people, is what it takes to be a good ally—even though it can be very hard, at times like these. But I think these are the moments when it’s the most important to do it.
I have top of the line multi clad stainless pots and pans. I will look into that. Thanks!
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | March 20, 2021 at 11:55 PM
Stephanie— that sounds way overpriced for propane. When we moved into our house in South Carolina it was out in the country so no gas. The propane company gave us the tank to use as long as we filled it with them, and ran the gas line to the stove too. They had a $9/month minimum charge and about the only time I used that much gas was when we hosted Thanksgiving! It was pretty amusing when the giant truck would back down the driveway and the guy would top off the tank with a little PFFT and that was it!
Ok that was 29 years ago (yikes!) but it’s hard to believe that it’s gone up that much.
Posted by: cathyf | March 21, 2021 at 01:27 AM
I think Propane is a green house gas. I'll call Sloppy Joe to check tomorrow.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 01:36 AM
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article250090249.html
Party’s over: Miami Beach closing causeways, imposing spring break South Beach curfew
Got to chase away those white supremacists.
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 01:41 AM
Your best bet is that fishwrap almost bears no relation to whats actually happening by commission or omission.
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 01:49 AM
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/march/navy-prepared-inspections-not-war
Navy Is Prepared for Inspections, Not War
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 01:50 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/us/miami-beach-crowds-clevelander-covid/index.html
Coke and Miami Beach are both telling us that they don't want our business.
I intend to take their advice.
When one ELECTED CLOWN makes such ridiculous rulings, it infects ALL OF THE COMMIES in the food chain.
What did you have for lunch Mayor Gelber???
An INCOMPETENCE BURGER??? Was it a POWER lunch.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 01:57 AM
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-immigration-united-states-1efbf1f357a5210d2433b48820b9aa54
Biden is on his heels amid a migrant surge at Mexico border
That's an odd headline for AP.
Of course, the article manages to blame Trump for much of it.
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 02:10 AM
Biden can't speak, he can't think, and he can't walk up the stairs to AF1. Does ANYONE believe that SLOPPY JOE is actually making decisions???
First and foremost, he could make a decision to BOMB DENVER, and his MILLENIAL CLOWNS, would take him by the arms, and walk him back. Yes he's a fuktard Commie, but he does NO DECISION MAKING.
He is incapable, and has been his entire life.
Give me one example of a BIDEN SUCCESS in his rancid disgusting life. Cash from CHINA does not count.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 02:24 AM
The Miami Beach lockdown seems to be generated by the fear that the officials may be blamed for an outbreak of Covid.
They'd be visionary if they allowed it to continue and nothing happened.
I doubt the media would allow that meme to exist considering their usual coverage.
I remember the coverage of the Sturgis bike rally. Nothing really happened, but they went out of their way to prove that something, we're not sure what, happened.
People are stifling themselves in fear of condemnation of something that probably won't happen.
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 02:27 AM
Jim nj. Sbw, could recite CHAPTER and VERSE about the ASS-HOE press. His entire lifes work had the AP as part of it. Once upon a time there was competition. UPI died, Reuters sux etc etc.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 02:31 AM
Gus,
I think that XIden* is like a Chairman of the Board Emeritus. He's already been retired, but he gets to pretend he's still in charge.
The committee decides what is to be done and then trots out he and his teleprompter to pretend that it's his idea.
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 02:39 AM
Love you Jim Nj, and I respect you. HOWEVER. This about power UNADULTERATED LUST FOR POWER. It has been obvious since DJT was correct at the outset of this overplayed and demogogoged CHINESE FLU. POWER RAW and DISHONEST POWER GRAB.
Florida has the highest concentration in AMERICA for those ELDERLY PEEPS who might be threatened, or would be threatened because their ELDERLY BODIES are the least likely to WARD OFF the CHINESE FLU.
Florida's DEATH rates for old folks are lower than CALIFORNIA. Lock downs, and MASKS change nothing. 2 thoughts. China gave us this, regardless if you even might believe China, it is VERY VERY CLEAR that they gave us this.
FLORIDA is 29th out of 50 states in death rates.
They have lived relatively FREE. And CALI???
Yep you get it. When COMMIE/RICH BUREAUCRATS like Benito Fraudski and Deborah Birx, who had large family get togethers at her BEACH HOUSE in DELAWARE, PAID FOR BY HER GOVERNMENT SALARY, when these clowns SPOUT BULLSHIT, and continually change their pontifications....it is CLEAR. They are LYING INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT LIFER LOSERS.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 02:47 AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-children-in-border-patrol-custody-hits-15500/
I'm seeing other news reports that try to massage the numbers to make the totals look smaller.
They report on this thing, but not the other thing.
They can dis-aggregate the numbers all they want, but the criminals in Mexico pushing these kids over the border have clearly out-gamed the Biden people.
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 02:59 AM
https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-beach-imposes-curfew-declares-state-of-emergency-over-spring-break-fervor
Swat teams to disperse SPRING BREAK CROWDS, who came to MIAMI BEACH and SPENT their money their.
I'm certain, that these revelers were ALL BLACK.
Meanwhile the WHITE SUPREMACISTS rented hotels, shopped, drank, ate and caused violent crime.
WHITE SUPREMACISTS. In case I failed to mention that.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 02:59 AM
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/21/979653125/protesters-across-europe-clash-with-police-over-covid-19-lockdowns
Miami Beach happening in Europe too!
Posted by: jim nj | March 21, 2021 at 03:02 AM
Jim nj, In order to keep us locked down or to increase their own power,
Name a single REPUBLICAN or CONSERVATIVE that does these things. As a FATHER, and as a 30 year Husband, it is my duty to cut thru the HORSESHIT, and recognize who is putting my WIFE and/or SON at risk. My undergrad is POLI SCI. The COMMIES has bi-passed logic, truth and reason, and put AMERICANS at risk. FOR THEIR GAIN.
I have zero doubt, and I have educated myself.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 03:10 AM
Jim, INSURRECTION INSURRECTION.
How many AMERICANS KNOW that WALLS DIVIDE, WE NEED BRIDGES, yet PELOSI'S authority has the U.S. CAPITOL surrounded by WALLS, and CONCERTINA WIRE to the tune of 3+ miles. How many Americans, know this and/or care. I've never been naive, but it's become crystal clear to me.
THIS IS ALL BEING DONE ON PURPOSE.
Posted by: GUS | March 21, 2021 at 03:15 AM
Foggy at the volcano this morning.
Jane, lava comes in differing flavors. I don’t know which minerals are in the recipe.
Posted by: henry | March 21, 2021 at 05:50 AM
Iceland is built on Basalt which volcanic lava is mostly it's properties. There are over 100 volcanoes in Iceland as it is divided in half by the Eurasian teconic plate and North American teconic plate.
IOW it is volcanic activity central for the world.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 21, 2021 at 06:05 AM
Volcano live webcam
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/20/live-feed-from-iceland-volcano
Posted by: henry | March 21, 2021 at 06:18 AM
clarice shares that cheery news about Tinhorn Flats from earlier this week
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_battle_of_burbank_.html
which we need to offset those (CH's c word is TOTALLY appropriate here!) women who dictate Michigan who arrested this poor gal.
(What sheeple Michiganders are!! Recall them!)
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1373458808488534016
If anyone sees a Go Fund Me or equivalent, please post here.
Posted by: anonamom | March 21, 2021 at 07:11 AM
The Morton article linked in the Piece has a GoFUndMe link, Anon
Posted by: clarice | March 21, 2021 at 07:54 AM
I want Go Fund Me for the Michigan gal, who is in jail, not Tinhorn.
They are doing fine--
Posted by: anonamom | March 21, 2021 at 08:33 AM
I see, Anon. It wasn't clear to me.
Posted by: clarice | March 21, 2021 at 08:41 AM
Good morning!
I want to apologize to Old Lurker and anonamom for going off on a rant and berating people for their own opinions It was uncalled for and I am deeply sorry.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 08:49 AM
"Turnout was very high at the caucus with 60-70% of participants being first time attendees."
This is Rafflesburger's area, where he got NO VOTES as a delegate.
This is encouraging. I wonder if it's from that precinct committeeman group I saw on Bannon's show. This is the group encouraging people to get involved locally.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 08:53 AM
Perhaps Xi and minions will relearn what Yamamoto learned in ‘41.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.*
Miss M’s 8:53 points that way.
* made up quote for a movie, but the lesson was real.
Posted by: henry | March 21, 2021 at 08:59 AM
Michael Smith
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I am going to warn you right up front: this is long – and most (if not all) readers will not need the level of specificity contained within. You guys are smart and already get it, but I wrote this for sharing with people who have not yet “got it” to help them understand some of the irrationality and chaos they may be sensing these days, so please bear with me for a few minutes of your day. There is just no other way to till this ground without using multiple plows.
Here we go down the rabbit hole.
It seems the progressive left and their allies in the collectivist and radical camps have decided “white supremacy” is the cause, reason, and outcome for everything these days – even when blacks commit crimes against Asians or each other, it is due to anger caused by white supremacy (or Donald J. Trump, which in their lexicon is just another term for “white supremacy”).
People need to understand from whence this tactic arises and they need to understand the concepts of postmodernism and Critical Theory (the parent theory that gave birth to Critical Race Theory). To do so, they should be familiar with the term “metanarrative” and the names of some people – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, you should already know – but you should also know Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Herbert Marcuse, and Jean-François Lyotard.
The “metanarrative” is a concept much like the One Ring to rule them all of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. In the books and the Peter Jackson movies, the One Ring is essentially a physical manifestation of a metanarrative, one grand narrative to rule all narratives.
Casey Given, writing at the Foundation for Economic Education, describes the metanarrative concept this way: “As the word’s etymology implies, metanarratives are narratives about narratives, giving a grand structural story to human history. In plain English, they’re the tales we’ve been told all our lives about existence from various perspectives. Christianity’s metanarrative, for example, is that humans have been sinful since Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden, but there is hope for salvation in accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. The Enlightenment’s metanarrative is that rational thought grounded in empiricism leads to human progress. Marxism’s metanarrative is that the history of the world has been one of class oppression, and a revolution of the proletariat is the only solution to end poverty, scarcity, and injustice.”
As the definition indicates, metanarratives are typically built from the bottom up. Individual narratives are collected into common group narratives, and then the common group narratives are combined into one grand narrative. As one would expect, through the combination of narratives, the metanarrative that remains is the result of an “averaging” of sub-narratives, the result of a process of “sanding off the corners” as it were while retaining the critical substance that glues all the sub-narratives together.
The world has always had metanarratives – it can be argued that nations themselves are metanarratives. We each live separate lives, each of us with our own stories, and yet we are united by a common national bond, that of being American. In a sense, even our Constitution is a metanarrative and that Western civilization is also a metanarrative.
Whew. Done with that for a moment – now, if you aren’t bored to death, I’ll go to the names mentioned earlier.
Jacques Derrida invented the concept of “deconstructionism”. Deconstructionism is based on two ideas: first that no passage or text can possibly convey a single reliable, consistent, and coherent message to everyone who reads or hears it and second is that the author who wrote the text is less responsible for the piece’s content than are the forces of culture (such as language) and the author’s unconscious biases and ideology. While deconstructionism seeks to define the “real meaning” of something said or written by delving into the cultural context and individual biases and ideology of the speaker or author, one can see how it can also be used to twist meaning when the “deconstruction” is based on assumption or a willful misreading of history or context.
Michel Foucault is generally credited with the birthing of philosophical postmodernism, “a movement characterized by broad epistemological skepticism and ethical subjectivism, a general suspicion of reason, and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.”
Herbert Marcuse, a member of the Frankfurt School, taught at Columbia University, Brandeis University, and the University of California at San Diego. While Marxism was generally accepted as an economic theory (as Marx himself intended), Marcuse sought to facilitate the translation of Marxism into cultural terms. By applying Marx’s theories of oppression of economic classes to cultural and racial groups, Marcuse gave birth to a new form of class warfare based on ethnicity and race, resulting in both Cultural Marxism and Critical Race Theory.
In his 1979 book, “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge”, the French philosopher François Lyotard defined postmodernism this way, “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives”. Simply put, postmodernism is about the destruction of metanarratives - but in truth, even postmodernism has a metanarrative. Somewhat unsurprisingly, that metanarrative is contradictory because postmodernism’s metanarrative is the destruction of metanarratives.
Ouch. Sorry if that caused a small brain aneurism, but postmodernism and its political vehicle, progressivism, is rife with logical contradictions. Neither can exist without them, which seems to be impossible because in nature, anything opposed to itself cannot exist.
I guess drugs help with that cognitive dissonance.
Now think of how a metanarrative like the United States could be destroyed – one could either attack it from the bottom up, destroying all the individual sub-narratives, or attack it top down, by creating a competing metanarrative to overwhelm and dispel the metanarrative that defines our nation.
As the Marxists finally realized, a bottom-up attack does not work in the US because so many sub-narratives have the defense of being true. Economic division is impossible in an economic system where everyone defines their own success and has the open opportunity to pursue the best way to achieve it. Given the lack of success of the bottom-up attack, they settled on the top-down competing metanarrative approach, giving birth to the OTSR, the Oprah Theory of Systemic Racism: “You are a racist white supremacist, and YOU are a racist white supremacist, and YOU – yes, you over there - are a racist white supremacist, too! Everybody is a racist white supremacist!”
As in the old Ted Turner “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” eco-propaganda cartoon, contemporary Marxists combined the five powers of Marx, Engels, Derrida, Foucault and Marcuse and summoned Earth’s greatest champion, Captain Progressive.
The problem is that top-down metanarratives are not based on existing sub-narratives, they are the opposite, top-down metanarratives assume that they explain all the sub-narratives, that the sub-narratives are dependent on the grand narrative, not that the grand narrative is built upon them.
And that is why top-down metanarratives are typically wrong and almost always political rather than philosophical.
If you are confused, just imagine the synaptic short circuits that go on every nanosecond inside the skulls of postmodernists. It is like a Pink Floyd laser light show at the Hayden Planetarium or living inside a massive thunderstorm cell. No wonder they do not make a lick of sense.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | March 21, 2021 at 09:01 AM
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/former-fed-prosecutor-launches-campaign-to-force-every-business-in-america-to-take-anti-trump-purity-pledge/
Posted by: clarice | March 21, 2021 at 09:01 AM
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/what-lava-made
Lava mostly silicon and oxygen.
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 09:04 AM
That quotw came from somewhere, since yanamoto was never captured.
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 09:11 AM
Clarice, he once worked under Robert Mueller and has been a commentator on MSNBC. He deserves to be former.
Posted by: sbwaters | March 21, 2021 at 09:21 AM
It has never been verified, but this quote from Yamamoto, flying in a plane in the South Pacific, is highly likely: "Oh, shit!"
Posted by: sbwaters | March 21, 2021 at 09:23 AM
Steph--
Not confusing to me, but then Foucault comes up a great deal because most think tanks, however they market themselves are relying on his concept of 'governmentality' for what they are pushing and their utter disdain for the individual, traditionally cherished in the West.
Metanarratives work best without a large store of facts because those get in the way of accepting the sought Generative Metaphor as Donald Schoen of MIT called it. Facts are what made someone like me come up with the alternative phrase Inapt Metaphor.
Postmodernism was ultimately touting the role of the subjective instead of Rationalism/Modernism's push of the Objective. Unfortunately, there is a pincer action going on, which is what I have been working on for several weeks to pin it all down and then reconceive in more ordinary English.
A bridge between the objective and subjective that will reliably guide future action because it is grounded in the unconscious mind and deliberately instilled there.
Speaking of facts, if the Atlanta shooter's motives were antipathy toward Asian Americans instead of sex workers at places he had frequented, why not target nail salons in the area? But that's a factual analysis grounded in the reality of the geographic area and inconvenient to the desire to create ire in the Asian American community.
Posted by: rse | March 21, 2021 at 09:32 AM
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1474131 is an example from the social science research network. Especially troubling because Rose wrote the book Neuro.
Posted by: rse | March 21, 2021 at 09:37 AM
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2021/friendly-fire-how-autoantibodies-could-drive-severe-covid came out on the 19th and is very interesting.
Posted by: rse | March 21, 2021 at 09:43 AM
I only heard about foucault initially because of paul hollander, and i thought what kind of a freek is he?
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 09:44 AM
Guy Benson
@guypbenson
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Sec. Mayorkas blaming Trump for the unaccompanied minor crisis of Biden’s creation on @FoxNewsSunday — asked about lack of journalists’ access to detention centers, he blames COVID & deflects.
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Here is the clip that's more important:
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Byron York comments:
Byron York
@ByronYork
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Biden administration creating powerful incentive for would-be migrant families to self-separate.
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And, at least one person is as suspicious of this as I am:
RadicalNonInterventionist
@Pimpernell13
That is a recipe for human trafficking of children
9:11 AM · Mar 21, 2021·
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When I was listening to one of the guys who covers the Border for Bannon's show, he said the cartels send kids with a phone number in their pocket, the assumption being that the phone number is a relativealready here, but no one knows for sure, and they are sent to live with whoever's at the other end of the phone.
Where are these minors ending up? It's expensive to pay the coyotes to get you across, and the older minors often end up working off the debt in drug-smuggling or membership in gangs. What is happening to the younger ones?
A Spanish-speaking reporter might discover what these children have been told and who their relatives are. I think that is why the reporters are being denied access.
I am really upset about this, as this looks to me like the US policy is now to promote child sex traveling and slavery to the drug cartels.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 09:44 AM
sbw, “oh shit” indeed. The confirmation that a lesson has been learned.
Posted by: henry | March 21, 2021 at 09:46 AM
Yamamoto was the moderate in the control junta as navy minister because of his wide exposure to us culture, i think of him as an analogue to prince turki who was later shunted off to the uk ambassador them us
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 09:48 AM
The TRUMP PAGE
Flag of United States
Eagle
@MichaelDeLauzon
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Biden tore up Trump’s “Opportunity Zones” EO in low income high crime communities. As always the Democrats only care about Illegal Aliens and Sanctuary Cities that protect the gangs. Not a tinkers damn about African Americans, Veterans and low income communities.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 09:48 AM
Byron York
@ByronYork
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From @axios: 'The Biden administration has awarded an $86 million contract for hotel rooms near the border to hold around 1,200 migrant family members who cross the U.S.-Mexico border, DHS officials confirmed to Axios.' https://axios.com/ice-hotel-room
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 09:50 AM
Amom,
The Michigan lady was impressive as hell. If you find a go fund me page, let me know!
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 09:54 AM
How cuckoo was he?
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/007863.html
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 09:57 AM
Dr. Simone Gold
@drsimonegold
Yesterday, one of the largest global protests in history took place; people in 40+ countries gathered to demand their freedoms be restored, their rights be protected, and destructive lockdowns be lifted.
Mainstream media was silent.
You need a voice:
http://AFLDS.org
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This tweet also has photos of the crowds in London, Netherlands and NYC.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 09:57 AM
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/20/the-troubling-effort-to-indoctrinate-our-service-members-on-extremism-blm-a
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:05 AM
MM, you are gracious to apologize.
It occurs to me this morning that per your reports that you are regualarly/?daily? subjected to disparagement for your support of Trump, so having people here, a place where you feel you are among like minded, also find fault with DJT might seem like a betrayal of some kind of unspoken agreement.
I hope you can see that a person can be enormously grateful for all DJT has done, but recognize his trust in Fauci and Birx was misplaced and retrospectively to many, clearly a mistake.
He had a huge burden on his shoulders, and no more a medical knowledge than the guy who cuts my grass, I bet. The fog of what this virus was in February and March was very, very thick.
When I told my scheduling partner to put me on our April schedule the first week of March, I fully accepted that based on what we were seeing in Italy, I might well die.
By the end of the month, seeing what I saw in our state, I didn't that was too likely. Our ICU had either very old people, or very heavy people, for the most part. And we'd gotten the message from UNCENSORED youTUbe and Twitter to NOT intubate early.
I credit DJT's early decision to stop incoming from China to have saved our west coast.
I wish he'd felt comfortable trusting his gut about sending us to church for Easter, because it was very evident that is what he wanted to do.
Posted by: anonamom | March 21, 2021 at 10:06 AM
Granted all that, fauci was embedded in the bureaucracy like dr. Wellingtom yueh and his contradictory advice was followed ionnides and atlas weee formulating their theories but they were working against a hail of flak that ferguson was generatimg
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 10:10 AM
anonamom,
I think there is a great deal of truth in what you say today, and probably also what you told me last night.
I also think because I don't have cable, the 2016 election and the Trump administration, as well as the 2020 election, became sort of a morality play and detective novel combined.
Since we don't have television, my only entertainment is the internet, and being cooped up and unable to drive has contributed to my obsession. The problem is, now that I have learned all of this information about the Chinese, the democrats, and the GOPe (not to mention the rest of their accomplices), I am sort of like my daughter's long-haired chihuahua, ready to nip if anyone even LOOKS like they might steal my dog treat!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:12 AM
The Michigan lady was impressive as hell. If you find a go fund me page, let me know!
Hasn't GoFundMe gone woke and cancelled accounts like this? Hopefully some rival has sprung up. Whitmer and the Michigan AG should get the Ceaucescu treatment.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 21, 2021 at 10:13 AM
jimmyk,
I often wish I had a vaporizing ray, but I am afraid I couldn't be trusted to use such a mythical invention judiciously. There are too many deserving targets.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:15 AM
Like thunderball many of the relevant parties got together in october of the previous year and decided the protocold before there was a known case of the bug social distamcimg and lockdowns that includes the gates foundation the cdc john hopkins et al
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 10:17 AM
From Twitter. This made me laugh:
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:19 AM
vince langman
@LangmanVince
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My 94 year old mother was laughing and shaking her head after watching Biden fall down the stairs.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:21 AM
Party’s over: Miami Beach closing causeways, imposing spring break South Beach curfew
There's a real prudishness streak in these state and local nannies. "You may not have fun!" Cuomo for sure, though he seems to want to have 'fun' himself with his female underlings. He still isn't allowing bars to be open, or bar seating at restaurants, and has a curfew on restaurants, as if the virus comes out at 11pm.
Posted by: jimmyk | March 21, 2021 at 10:23 AM
jimmyk,
It seeps into everything they eventually control. Remember how much fun Little League games used to be? High school dances? Reading Sports Illustrated or Glamour? House Beautiful is not so beautiful, anymore, either.
Not to mention they've ruined beauty pageants, restaurants, cigar bars, movies, children's TV shows, etc. etc.
They aren't really prudish, as much as they want to use their supposed morality to make YOU feel guilty and miserable.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:39 AM
Has anyone else seen this story from Friday? Showed up in my local TV feed (ABC affiliated channel) this morning.
https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/military-drone-washes-up-on-beach-in-florida
I don't know where this is in Florida (Ocean Ridge) nor how common this is. Any Floridians or military knowledgeable people, please comment!
Photo and video at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:48 AM
The kittens are learning to climb the baby gate! We have homes for 4. Only 2 more to go!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 10:49 AM
--Hopefully some rival has sprung up.--
There are several.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 10:52 AM
It's no coincidence that Marcuse, Foucault and Marcuse were all effing sexual perverts and libertines.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 11:01 AM
Yes thats a common element dulles didnt live to his alexander pierce role by getting rid of marcuse. You repeated marcuse subsitute wilhelm reich
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 11:04 AM
The french gign should have hunted dowm the likes of foucault and khomeini just for kicks.
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 11:05 AM
Thate their crack special forces that jean reno would be a part of,
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 11:14 AM
You saw them in mission impossible fallout, guarding lane.
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 11:16 AM
Biden’s America
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
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ABC's Martha Raddatz to illegal alien who crossed the border: "Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?"
Illegal alien: "Definitely not."
Raddatz: “Did you come here because Joe Biden was elected president?"
Illegal: “Basically”
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1373644858775236613
Posted by: lurkersusie | March 21, 2021 at 11:30 AM
And then Martha gave him the key to the condo next to hers because progs always enjoy living the DREAM they impose on the rest of us.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 11:36 AM
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2BC0B4?__twitter_impression=true
Aerospace firm Motor Sich's assets, shares frozen by Ukraine court
(Reuters) - A Ukrainian court has frozen the assets and shares of aerospace company Motor Sich as part of a criminal investigation, the state security service SBU said on Saturday.
Chinese aviation firm Skyrizon has sought to buy a controlling stake in the privately held Motor Sich, which builds engines for helicopters and planes used around the world, including the Antonov An-225 and An-124 -
(More at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 11:37 AM
This part didn't copy and I didn't realize it, and I think it's pretty important:
" including the Antonov An-225 and An-124 - the world's largest cargo planes."
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 11:39 AM
Foucault was a Mapplethorpe level freak; not sure about Marcuse and Marcuse.
As to anti-Asian prejudice, which ones? Chinese? Koreans? Japanese? Lumping them all together is, of course, racist. Them Mongolians really get to me sometimes, y'know. Next time I see one a them riding a horse with an eagle on his or her arm I might just say something.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | March 21, 2021 at 11:42 AM
Hmmm.
Alex Berenson
@AlexBerenson
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Dr. Jose Baselga, the chief scientist at @astrazeneca, has died unexpectedly at 61.
No cause of death has yet been reported.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 11:44 AM
I never heard of this. Video at the link!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 11:50 AM
Boy prices are skyrocketing. Corn a buck an ear today!
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 11:55 AM
You mean this guy, matt?

Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 11:58 AM
Jane,
They sure are and will only get worse, unless someone gets the administration to get a clue. Otherwise, it's back to the Carter Era inflation and gas shortages.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 12:20 PM
The other great essay on AT after Clarice this morning:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/a_federal_appellate_judge_challenged_supreme_court_infallibility.html
Everything we know is wrong with the Court in one short burst.
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | March 21, 2021 at 12:25 PM
Hey, this should be really fun!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-social-media-platform-return-adviser
Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform' in 2-3 months: adviser
Jason Miller tells Fox News' '#MediaBuzz' the platform will 'completely redefine the game'
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 12:27 PM
We are off to pick up groceries!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 12:31 PM
Anon, here's the GoFund Me page you were looking for:https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-marlenas-bistro-and-pizzeria
Posted by: clarice | March 21, 2021 at 12:32 PM
If Trump just comes up with a format superior to twitter or gab, which is about as hard as coming up with a woman more authentic than Kamala Sutra or Caitlyn Jenner, he'll have a monopoly [and then Hasbro will have to cancel him].
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 12:44 PM
Carrying over
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/the-war-on-the-right-continues
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 12:49 PM
Here’s a buddy’s response to the AT essay I linked above:
The Supreme Court had been my last hope for our Government’s integrity, but with their political stance to not touch the election legitimacy issue such hope has vanished.
Entertaining the wishes of the radical fringe always seems to lead to a dystopian society (see all forms of communism and fascism) - which appears to be where we are now. Up is now down and wrong is now right. In our society one is now forced to celebrate the mass killing of unborn children, sexual perversion, gender fluidity, etc. I am stupefied that after the era of MLK that segregation is now embraced by the left. Meritocracy has now been replaced with “equity” and math is somehow racist. Stupidly it would seem is a protected class.
Our government is hopelessly corrupt and our press is complicit in its coverup. A nation without borders is no longer a nation. Morality no longer exists except in the hearts of the Patriots. And, yes, our Supreme Court, has actively participated in our Country’s destruction.
My hope is that the pendulum swings back towards man’s more noble nature - a general resurgence of morality and common sense and service. The perversions of our modern era can hardly get worse and at some point we have to hit bottom.
The Pareto Rule, where 80% of the consequences come from 20% of causes, comes to mind. Thus the obvious question would seem to be one of how we rid ourselves of that 20%. If history is any judge a war, revolution or plague is not too far off.
If the 2022 elections reset our politics I’d be much encouraged. However, It has all gone south so quickly that I have trouble seeing that eventuality, especially if the “rules” for conducting such elections have been rigged against fairness and transparency.
It’s morning here and I can hardly believe what I have written. I have always been, and remain, an optimist person. But, what I have written is rather dark. I refuse to believe our fellow countrymen agree with the path the current regime has set for us. The constant barrage of assault against our constitution, our Country, cannot stand, no matter what the medial and communists in our government proclaim. Patriots will hopefully rise up and throw the bums out this next election cycle.
P.S. How is it the Fed’s keep destroying the computer records of the DNC, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Jeffery Epstein, and Hunter Biden? One begins to see a trend.”
Posted by: Manuel Transmission | March 21, 2021 at 12:51 PM
Who is bankrolling Michael Mann?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 12:55 PM
Maybe qatar soros is too obvious a choice, steyn had ticked off that saudi minister and diplomat that waxed prolix about suicide bombers
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 01:01 PM
I expect his university which made big bucks off him and then cleared him in a phony investigation, Iggy
Posted by: clarice | March 21, 2021 at 01:04 PM
MT--
I have been working on those dark plans since this am as a new report from a group I follow is out. About half way through I am taking a walk.
Essentially it's all a rationale for people to now accept being "a node in the network...who both coordinate and are coordinated" apparently to be unaware we are to now be governed globally at a psychological level. They can try, but the reality of what is happening and how is out there and quite understandable.
Posted by: rse | March 21, 2021 at 01:06 PM
Thats true but didnt their other scandal affect them financially.
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 01:09 PM
Indeed
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/how-tamedjews-deny-whats-all-around
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 01:23 PM
Who is bankrolling Michael Mann?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | March 21, 2021 at 12:55 PM
We are, of course. That's why God invented government grants.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | March 21, 2021 at 01:26 PM
Another cold day in Florida. Very rude! Who would have thunk 10 years ago, I’d yearn for heat!
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 02:34 PM
The kittens all have homes! Hurray!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | March 21, 2021 at 02:35 PM
Feels like groundhog day again
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/polls-show-netanyahu-holding-slim-majority-ahead-of-tuesdays-vote/
Posted by: Narciso | March 21, 2021 at 02:40 PM
https://welovetrump.com/2021/03/20/dc-fencing-to-be-removed-after-they-finally-admit-no-credible-threat/?utm_source=PTN&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=PTN
Fence starting to come down.
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 03:08 PM
Jane,
Just an awful day here. Got to 60F but felt like 45F with the wond.
Trying to chase the spring breakers to their dorms.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 21, 2021 at 03:09 PM
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/02/11/stop-calling-it-an-insurrection-n2584502
Stop calling it an Insrrection!
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 03:11 PM
Mid,
We are at our high of 72. But I still need a sweatshirt, and the breeze is strong! I’ve actually spent a few hours inside which is rare for me!
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 03:14 PM
62 & sunny here. Supposedly dry and windy (per weather service, everything is still soaked from snow melt, not much breeze), so I can’t burn the debris pile. Just spent the day creating moar debris and making the pile bigger. (Aka landscaping)”
Posted by: henry | March 21, 2021 at 03:16 PM
Apparently I changed your name JIB, to Mid. Do you like it?
Posted by: Jane | March 21, 2021 at 03:16 PM
In case you may have a first edition of Evelyn Waugh’s “ https://www.rookebooks.com/1930-vile-bodies”, its worth 26K pounds!
https://www.rookebooks.com/1930-vile-bodies
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 21, 2021 at 03:23 PM
...Vile Bodies...
Posted by: Jim Eagle | March 21, 2021 at 03:24 PM