POLITICAL: Too much politics is killing everything!

Thursday, April 8, 2021

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/no_author/major-league-baseball-risks-losing-the-last-of-its-politics-weary-viewers-after-moving-game-over-georgias-election-law/

Major League Baseball Risks Losing The Last of Its Politics-Weary Viewers After Moving Game Over Georgia’s Election Law
By Michael McCaffrey
RT News
April 6, 2021

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Sports fans like me are simply exhausted by the endless hyper-politicization of everything in our culture, and we look to sports to escape, not to be politically assaulted. MLB would be very wise to avoid playing politics any further and instead focus on fixing their ailing game and playing decent ball.

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It’s killing any patience I have with the “theater”.

The NFL pseudo patriotism was a “big straw” in breaking “this camel’s back”.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Can “we” ever end “free” public education?

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

https://www.cato.org/blog/school-choice-move-it-too-late

MARCH 30, 2021 12:21PM
School Choice Is on The Move. Is It Too Late?
By Neal McCluskey

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Unfortunately, private schools have suffered for over a century from a chronic threat to their health that has been the underlying condition in numerous COVID-19 losses: they have had to compete against “free” public schools that receive large taxpayer subsidies. And as the chart below shows, such subsidies have been growing for decades.

Given the massive problem of having to convince people to pay twice for education – first taxes for public schools, then tuition – it is not surprising that the nation has lost at least 133 private schools, enrolling around 21,000 students, due to the economic effects of COVID-19. Most had been suffering from serious financial ailments long before that.

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In the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, Gooferment Skrules have a ruinous effect on property taxes.  The Teachers’ Union runs the State and unlikely to change.  If we could KILL the whole concept of “free” “public” “education”.

Maybe if the First Amendment argument could ever get traction, then we could convince a court that the teaching of “secularism” amounts to teaching the worship of the Gooferment as a state “religion”.

Financially, “free public education” is a killer from a real estate tax perspective.

The political influencie of the Teachers’ Union is an anti-democratic tour de force. Given the inbreeding of teachers and politicians “We, The Sheeple” can never be free of these parasites.

I especially object to teachers serving on Boards of Education in town nearby where they work.  It’s an interlocking conflict of interest.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Cui bono from DC “statehood” — the leftist “Democratic” party

Sunday, March 28, 2021

https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/sorry-dems-but-dc-was-created-purposely-so-it-would-not-be-a-state/

Sorry, Dems — but DC was created purposely so it would NOT be a state
By David Harsanyi
March 26, 2021 | 7:32pm | Updated

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First, because they were concerned about the seat of federal power being controlled by a hostile or intrusive state government. Second, because they knew that if the capital were in a state — much less its own state — the people would vote to grow and accumulate federal power. Both situations were incompatible with the proper separation of powers and state rights.

Today, though, Democrats want to localize one of the only things in the Constitution that is actually federalized — while federalizing everything else.

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The Democrats clearly want to admit Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to shift the balance of power.

Between that and the unrestricted “illegal immigration”, the Democrats want to be in power for ever and ever.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: D’s more upset about sexual harassment than the nursing home deaths?

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3942450/posts

dems are bothered more by sexual harassment of a few women than they are the killing of 1000’s of elderly
Flopping Aces ^ | 03-15-21 | DrJohn
Posted on 3/15/2021, 4:25:13 PM by Starman417

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Andrew Cuomo completely mismanaged the COVID crisis. His ineptitude caused the deaths of thousands of elderly. He ordered nursing homes to accept COVID positive patients and sounded very crass

“Older people, vulnerable people, are going to die from this virus,” Cuomo added. “That is going to happen despite whatever you do, with all our progress as a society, we can’t keep everyone alive. Older people are more vulnerable.  That is a fact that is not going to change.”

Worse, he lied about it.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide confessed privately this week that the administration suppressed the true COVID toll in the homes. She also offered an apology — not to the thousands of New York families who needlessly lost loved ones thanks to her boss’s mismanagement but to Democratic lawmakers put in a difficult “political position with the Republicans” by the coverup.

Then he became dismissive about the elderly deaths

“New York State, we’re only about 28%, only, but we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes — but who cares?” he asked. “Thirty-three, twenty-eight, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home, they died.”

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Personally, I am surprised that the coverup of the NY nursing home deaths hasn’t drawn its own criticism.

Isn’t the saying “It’s not the crime, but the coverup”?

AND, I’m also absolutely flabbergasted that there has NOT been and avalanche of wrongful death suits against all involved.  Guess the ambulance chasers are afraid of reprisals from the politicians and bureaucrats!

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POLITICAL: A “political hit job” on a potential Democratic 2024 Presidential candidate?

Sunday, March 14, 2021

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-andrew-cuomo-allegation-probe/2021/03/13/id/1013682/

Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax TV: Cuomo ‘Should Stick to His Guns’
By Eric Mack    |   Saturday, 13 March 2021 01:04 PM

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is justified in rejecting calls for him to resign over alleged sexual harassment or misconduct, because there is no guilt by accusation in American, says legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax TV.

“First of all, the most serious allegation, the only one that alleges possible criminal conduct – groping, which in a legal concept is just a made up word – but that’s by an anonymous source,” Dershowitz decried on “Saturday Report.”

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When I first read about Cuomo’s troubles, I called it as I saw it — a “political hit job” on a potential Democratic 2024 Presidential candidate.

CUI BONO:  Kamala Harris, Susan Rice from Team Obama comes to mind.

Of course, he should resign on the basis of “anonymous” reports.

He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence.

I was never a fan of his politics, or some of his “if it saves one life” logic, but this feels like “politics”.

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POLITICAL: Trump’s Last-Minute Pardons Highlight the Problem of Staggering Medicare & Medicaid Fraud | Cato @ Liberty

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-last-minute-pardons-problem-medicare-medicaid-fraud

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President Trump granted full pardons to Todd Farha, Thaddeus Bereday, William Kale, Paul Behrens, and Peter Clay, former executives of a healthcare maintenance organization….In 2008, Messrs. Farha, Bereday, Kale, Behrens, and Clay were criminally prosecuted for a state regulatory matter involving the reporting of expenditures to a state health agency. The expenditures reported were based on actual monies spent, and the reporting methodology was reviewed and endorsed by those with expertise in the state regulatory scheme. Notably, there was no evidence that any of the individuals were motivated by greed…

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Inexcusable!

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POLITICAL: Skepticism – Why critical thinking makes you smarter

Monday, March 8, 2021

It’s not always easy to tell the difference between objective truth and what we believe to be true. Separating facts from opinions, according to skeptic Michael Shermer, theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, and others, requires research, self-reflection, and time.

Source: Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter

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  • Recognizing your own biases and those of others, avoiding echo chambers, actively seeking out opposing voices, and asking smart, testable questions are a few of the ways that skepticism can be a useful tool for learning and growth.

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This is why I like “good” Conspiracy Theories.  One can ask smart, testable questions that will uncover the objective truth!

Cui bono.

That’s my personal favorite.

The recent Cuomo twin pr disaster of sex and nursing home deaths points to the value of this question.  Cuomo, who I believe was regarded as 2024 Presidential material, was eliminated by these “revelations”.  Who benefitted?  Number on on the list has to be VP Kamla Harris.

Prove me wrong?

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POLITICAL: Here’s the opening of the floodgates!

Thursday, January 7, 2021

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pelosi-house-rules-republicans/2021/01/06/id/1004462/

Pelosi Changes House Rules to Squelch Republicans

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
By Brian Freeman    |   Wednesday, 06 January 2021 09:38 AM

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That change was not the only damage done by the Democrats, according to the Review-Journal, as Democrats also essentially eliminated a requirement that legislation which boosts the deficit be offset with cuts elsewhere.

Although the previous rule was clearly not working, since the deficit was booming regardless of which party was in control of the House, “the symbolism here is obvious and will allow Democrats to offer budget-busting legislation on a wide array of dangerous progressive priorities without concern for the long-term fiscal ramifications,” the editorial stated.

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POLITICAL: It’s official; the USA is an oligarchy

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in

The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.

Glenn Greenwald
Dec 28, 2020

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Whether the U.S. was a democracy in any meaningful sense prior to Trump had been the subject of substantial scholarly debate. A much-discussed 2014 study concluded that economic power has become so concentrated in the hands of such a small number of U.S. corporate giants and mega-billionaires, and that this concentration in economic power has ushered in virtually unchallengeable political power in their hands and virtually none in anyone else’s, that the U.S. more resembles oligarchy than anything else:

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# – # – # – # – # 

We’ve already seen the difference in justice for the elite and the poor slubs.

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POLITICAL: Fix the voting frauds!

Saturday, December 12, 2020

VON SPAKOVSKY: How To Make Sure The 2020 Election Never Happens Againhttps://dailycaller.com/2020/12/04/van-spakovsky-how-to-make-sure-2020-election-never-happens-again

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY SENIOR LEGAL FELLOW, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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In fact, that is the first reform states need: requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote not just in-person as in Georgia and Indiana, but also for absentee ballots, as is the law in Kansas and Alabama. That includes providing an ID at no charge for the tiny percentage of the residents of their states who don’t already have one. And states need to modify their driver’s licenses, which are the default national ID card used by the average American every day for many different purposes besides voting, to conspicuously note whether the individual is a citizen or not.

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Sorry, but if this MINIMAL precaution is NOT implemented, then why trust ANY election!

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