We are not in the habit of watching illegitimate, Marxist el presidentes address Congress. We never bothered watching any Democrats speak anyway. Some say it’s important to listen to what they’re saying.
We read what Obama said during his first term. Former Vice President Biden’s illegitimate address to Congress was simply a checklist of all the goals Obama set for Marxist America back in 2009.
Biden congratulated himself for successfully rolling out the COVID-19 vaccines. He didn’t do that (to paraphrase Obama); Trump did. He said America was now on the way to prosperity again. We were extremely prosperous under President Trump. Even I had a job.
Then Biden’s friends, the Chinese Communists, unleashed the COVID virus, which new documents that have appeared support the claim that it was, in fact, deliberately bio-engineered and directly related to the previous SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS viruses.
Talk about pay-for-play. The Chinese gave Hunter billions, gave the United States and the world the Wuhan Flu, and helped put Biden into the White House through the use of covert hackers all over the world who hacked our electoral systems to give Biden, in some cases (as I understand it), 120 percent of the vote.
Now that the economy is ruined, Biden gave himself five stars for sending out relief checks to Americans, which Trump had already been doing, though the price is so staggering that the country will probably be permanently underwater in terms of national debt.
He made no mention of when the FDA is going to actually test the new vaccines for safety. They’re still being distributed under emergency use authority to stem a pandemic unleashed by on us by an enemy country. What’s more, we’re still under lockdown over a year later. Millions of small and even medium businesses have been shuttered, their owners ruined.
Only the companies that were deemed “too big to fail” are still standing and made record profits in the trillions in the last year. This “pandemic” were the ideal conditions for creating an oligarchy with Biden as the autocratic leader and figurehead.
He spent part of the speech championing a Right to Organize bill to defeat businesses in Southern states that have Right to Work laws already in place. He also plans to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, a fee companies that I would work for already balk, especially if they’re small businesses.
Then he went on to lionize George Floyd, the Minneapolis criminal convicted of eight crimes between 1997 and 2005, He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion in Texas in which he held a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
When Minneapolis police pulled him over after reportedly passing counterfeit money, he refused to get out of his. He immediately complained of not being able to breathe, rambled on about wanting to be put on the ground. The officers got him into the patrol vehicle but then he began kicking and flailing about until the officers felt obliged to take him out of the vehicle again.
Officer Derek Chauvin was the lead officer who put his knee on Floyd’s throat. Floyd continued to wail in protest that he was dying. Admittedly, more than sufficient time passed when Floyd was passive. Other officers questioned Chauvin, asking whether maybe it was time to roll Floyd over. Chauvin didn’t answer but seemed to be waiting for the ambulance.
The medical examiner reported that Floyd’s windpipe was broken. Chauvin was found guilty of various degrees of homicide and sentenced to 40 years in prison. There will always be questions. Floyd was high on what they call a “speedball.” Did that affect his physical condition? The officers laid him out right beside the patrol’s exhaust pipe? Did that contribute to the situation? If Chauvin was worried about the growing crowd, why didn’t they call for back-up? Finally, why didn’t they just shut Floyd into the car and drive off with him?
Floyd was certainly a victim. He shouldn’t have died, although would he have anyway? Was he, in fact, dead before his windpipe was broken (paramedics could have performed a tracheotomy). But he wasn’t a martyr and certainly no hero that cities should have burned across the country for his sake.
Standing upon Floyd’s body, Biden championed a renewed effort at civil rights and healing the “racial divisions” in our country. America would be better served by a lesson in simply obeying the orders of police if and when they stop you and not do something stupid that’s going to get you shot.
Since before the 1960s Watts riots, minority communities have failed to learn this lesson.
Then Biden introduced his $5 trillion dollar plan to improve the country’s “infrastructure,” which includes abortion clinics, free college education, and critical race theory in all schools.
He spoke about the American Rescue Plan. Except that that’s rather like the arsonist picking a firehose to put out a house fire and then congratulating himself on his heroics.
We’ve spent years warning against the encroaching Marxism in the corporate world, in the Media, and in the schools. Now, we’re told is the time to fight. Well, how exactly do you fight people who lie, cheat, and steal? Who create economic ghettos in which to stir up minorities against the majority of decent, hard-working Americans? How do you fight drug cartels and international conglomerates buying up banks and using false claims of climate change to determine winners and losers?
It would take a revolution and we’re just not ready for that.
Yet.
Our best hope is not in the political arena anymore but in the field of alternative media and education. We have to continue to counter the Marxist message. Listen to former Vice President Biden’s words? Why? There’s nothing the old weasel could say that we don’t know already.
We saw what happened on January 6th when we tried to make our voices heard in Washington, D.C., a strategy I never felt would work. The Capitol is simply a nuclear reactor filled with corrupt, contaminated politicians who don’t care a whit about the people. They’re not going to listen to us.
They listen to their own constituents, who can burn down cities with impunity. We are the “bourgeois,” the “enemy,” opposed to free rides, reparations, and “spreading the wealth.” If we’re not wealthy ourselves, we’re the “dupes” of the wealthy, according to Marxist theory.
That’s why Marxism failed in the early 20th Century. The workers wanted better working conditions, understandably, and even better wages. But they didn’t want to put their company out of business and run it themselves. Envy is a poisonous tendency to try to curb; it’s stubborn and easily manipulated.
We must trust in God to help us live in peace and prosperity, as He always intended for Man to do.
My county in New Jersey is offering free, walk-in COVID vaccinations at the old Modells on Route 46 in Woodland Park. They’re not talking about the old, old Modells, which was located on Route 46 in Clifton nor the more recent old Modells on Route 46 in Totowa which is now the Formann Mills carpeting store by the old, torn-up railroad crossing.
No, they’re talking about the new, old Modells which must have been abandoned during the 2008 Obama downturn, which is now the little-advertised Passaic County supercenter for COVID vaccinations.
I was already to do it the other day. Only I got my days mixed up, not to mention my old Modell locations. The vaccinations were for Thursday and Friday, and it was Wednesday. How could I have forgotten that it was Wednesday?! Former Vice President was going to be giving his illegal first address to Congress.
But by the time I got home, I’d heard ill-omened news about a sick friend who’d gotten the Moderna vaccine. Granted she has very serious health issues. But some of her less serious health issues are the same as mine. What’s more, I live alone? What if the symptoms came on to suddenly and I couldn’t even get a phone call to my younger brother who lives five minutes away but works all the time or my older brother, who lives farther away but is retired?
I had an earlier chance to get the vaccine but Big Brother was away on a trip. Now he’s back but hearing about my friend’s problems, I’m not so sure this is such a good idea. He has no intestinal issues to worry about; I do, of the inflammatory type. His lungs are incredibly healthy. You can hear both my brothers bellow from a half-mile off. I can’t be heard from two feet off! The doctor okayed me for the vaccine. But I think he forgot that I have underdeveloped lungs and IBS.
He reads my blog. I want to hear from him again before I take this leap, because I’m really scared. The vaccine center is open for walk-ins tomorrow as well. Or I can call them for an appointment.
Here’s the thing: the two vaccines available (the Johnson & Johnson and the Moderna) are live vaccines. They’re also experimental. The FDA only approved them for emergency use and for people over 65, although now everyone can get them.
This is what Wikipedia, that incredibly unsound source of information has to say, links and all:
Many countries have implemented phased distribution plans that prioritize those at highest risk of complications, such as the elderly, and those at high risk of exposure and transmission, such as healthcare workers.[4]Stanley Plotkin and Neal Halsey wrote an article published by Oxford Clinical Infectious Diseases that urged single dose interim use in order to extend vaccination to as many people as possible until vaccine availability improved.[5] Several other articles and media provided evidence for delaying second doses in the same line of reasoning.[6][7][8]
As of 27 April 2021, 1.06 billion doses of COVID‑19 vaccine have been administered worldwide based on official reports from national health agencies.[9] AstraZeneca-Oxford anticipates producing three billion doses in 2021, Pfizer–BioNTech 1.3 billion doses, and Sputnik V, Sinopharm, Sinovac, and Johnson & Johnson one billion doses each. Moderna targets producing 600 million doses and Convidecia 500 million doses in 2021.[10][11] By December 2020, more than ten billion vaccine doses had been preordered by countries,[12] with about half of the doses purchased by high-income countries comprising 14% of the world’s population.[13]
It’s about time the authorities admitted that COVID is related to SARS and MERS (the Middle Eastern version).
According to studies published in 2005 and 2006, the identification and development of novel vaccines and medicines to treat SARS was a priority for governments and public health agencies around the world at that time.[18][19][20] As of 2020, there is no cure or protective vaccine proven to be safe and effective against SARS in humans.[21][22] There is also no proven vaccine against MERS.[23] When MERS became prevalent, it was believed that existing SARS research may provide a useful template for developing vaccines and therapeutics against a MERS-CoV infection.[21][24] As of March 2020, there was one (DNA based) MERS vaccine which completed Phase I clinical trials in humans[25] and three others in progress, all being viral-vectored vaccines: two adenoviral-vectored (ChAdOx1-MERS, BVRS-GamVac) and one MVA-vectored (MVA-MERS-S).[26]
Since January 2020, vaccine development has been expedited via unprecedented collaboration in the multinational pharmaceutical industry and between governments.[27] According to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the geographic distribution of COVID‑19 vaccine development puts North American entities having about 40% of the activity compared to 30% in Asia and Australia, 26% in Europe, and a few projects in South America and Africa.[27][28]
Multiple steps along the entire development path are evaluated, including:[14][29]
the level of acceptable toxicity of the vaccine (its safety),
targeting vulnerable populations,
the need for vaccine efficacy breakthroughs,
the duration of vaccination protection,
special delivery systems (such as oral or nasal, rather than by injection),
dose regimen,
stability and storage characteristics,
emergency use authorization before formal licensing,
optimal manufacturing for scaling to billions of doses, and
dissemination of the licensed vaccine.
Challenges
There have been several unique challenges with COVID-19 vaccine development.
The urgency to create a vaccine for COVID‑19 led to compressed schedules that shortened the standard vaccine development timeline, in some cases combining clinical trial steps over months, a process typically conducted sequentially over years.[30]
Timelines for conducting clinical research – normally a sequential process requiring years – are being compressed into safety, efficacy, and dosing trials running simultaneously over months, potentially compromising safety assurance.[30][31] As an example, Chinese vaccine developers and the government Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention began their efforts in January 2020,[32] and by March were pursuing numerous candidates on short timelines, with the goal to showcase Chinese technology strengths over those of the United States, and to reassure the Chinese people about the quality of vaccines produced in China.[30][33]
The rapid development and urgency of producing a vaccine for the COVID‑19 pandemic may increase the risks and failure rate of delivering a safe, effective vaccine.[28][34][35] Additionally, research at universities is obstructed by physical distancing and closing of laboratories.[36][37]
Vaccines must progress through several phases of clinical trials to test for safety, immunogenicity, effectiveness, dose levels and adverse effects of the candidate vaccine.[38][39] Vaccine developers have to invest resources internationally to find enough participants for Phase II–III clinical trials when the virus has proved to be a “moving target” of changing transmission rate across and within countries, forcing companies to compete for trial participants;[40] clinical trial organizers may encounter people unwilling to be vaccinated due to vaccine hesitancy[41] or disbelieving the science of the vaccine technology and its ability to prevent infection.[42] Even as new vaccines are developed during the COVID‑19 pandemic, licensure of COVID‑19 vaccine candidates requires submission of a full dossier of information on development and manufacturing quality.[43][44][45]
Organizations
Internationally, the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator is a G20 and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative announced in April 2020.[46][47] It is a cross-discipline support structure to enable partners to share resources and knowledge. It comprises four pillars, each managed by two to three collaborating partners: Vaccines (also called “COVAX“), Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Health Systems Connector.[48] The WHO’s April 2020 “R&D Blueprint (for the) novel Coronavirus” documented a “large, international, multi-site, individually randomized controlled clinical trial” to allow “the concurrent evaluation of the benefits and risks of each promising candidate vaccine within 3–6 months of it being made available for the trial.” The WHO vaccine coalition will prioritize which vaccines should go into Phase II and III clinical trials, and determine harmonized Phase III protocols for all vaccines achieving the pivotal trial stage.[49]
National governments have also been involved in vaccine development. Canada announced funding for 96 research vaccine research projects at Canadian companies and universities, with plans to establish a “vaccine bank” that could be used if another coronavirus outbreak occurs,[50] and to support clinical trials and develop manufacturing and supply chains for vaccines.[51]China provided low-rate loans to a vaccine developer through its central bank and “quickly made land available for the company” to build production plants.[31] Three Chinese vaccine companies and research institutes are supported by the government for financing research, conducting clinical trials, and manufacturing.[52] Great Britain formed a COVID‑19 vaccine task force in April 2020 to stimulate local efforts for accelerated development of a vaccine through collaborations of industry, universities, and government agencies. It encompassed every phase of development from research to manufacturing.[53] In the United States, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a federal agency funding disease-fighting technology, announced investments to support American COVID‑19 vaccine development and manufacture of the most promising candidates.[31][54] In May 2020, the government announced funding for a fast-track program called Operation Warp Speed.[55][56]
Large pharmaceutical companies with experience in making vaccines at scale, including Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), formed alliances with biotechnology companies, governments, and universities to accelerate progression to an effective vaccine.[31][30]
COVID‑19 vaccine research samples in a NIAID lab freezer (30 January 2020)
After a coronavirus was isolated in December 2019,[57] its genetic sequence was published on 11 January 2020, triggering an urgent international response to prepare for an outbreak and hasten development of a preventive COVID-19 vaccine.[58][59][60] Since early 2020, vaccine development has been expedited via unprecedented collaboration in the multinational pharmaceutical industry and between governments.[61] By June 2020, tens of billions of dollars were invested by corporations, governments, international health organizations, and university research groups to develop dozens of vaccine candidates and prepare for global vaccination programs to immunize against COVID‑19 infection.[59][62][63][64] According to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the geographic distribution of COVID‑19 vaccine development puts North American entities having about 40% of the activity compared to 30% in Asia and Australia, 26% in Europe, and a few projects in South America and Africa.[58][61]
In February 2020, the WHO said it did not expect a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the causative virus, to become available in less than 18 months.[65] The rapidly growing infection rate of COVID‑19 worldwide during early 2020 stimulated international alliances and government efforts to urgently organize resources to make multiple vaccines on shortened timelines,[66] with four vaccine candidates entering human evaluation in March (see the table of clinical trials started in 2020, below).[58][67]
On 24 June 2020, China approved the CanSino vaccine for limited use in the military and two inactivated virus vaccines for emergency use in high-risk occupations.[68] On 11 August 2020, Russia announced the approval of its Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use, though one month later only small amounts of the vaccine had been distributed for use outside of the phase 3 trial.[69]
The Pfizer–BioNTech partnership submitted an EUA request to the FDA for the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (active ingredient tozinameran) on 20 November 2020.[70][71] On 2 December 2020, the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) gave temporary regulatory approval for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine,[72][73] becoming the first country to approve this vaccine and the first country in the Western world to approve the use of any COVID‑19 vaccine.[74][75][76] As of 21 December, many countries and the European Union[77] have authorized or approved the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates granted emergency marketing authorization for BBIBP-CorV, manufactured by Sinopharm.[78][79] On 11 December 2020, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine.[80] A week later, they granted an EUA for mRNA-1273, the Moderna vaccine.[81][82][83]
On March 31, 2021, the Russian government announced that they had registered the first COVID-19 vaccine for animals.[84][85][86][87][88]
Vaccine types
Conceptual diagram showing three vaccine types for forming SARS‑CoV‑2 proteins to prompt an immune response: (1) RNA vaccine, (2) subunit vaccine, (3) viral vector vaccine
Vaccine platforms being employed for SARS-CoV-2. Whole virus vaccines include both attenuated and inactivated forms of the virus. Protein and peptidesubunit vaccines are usually combined with an adjuvant in order to enhance immunogenicity. The main emphasis in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development has been on using the whole spike protein in its trimeric form or components of it, such as the RBD region. Multiple non-replicating viral vector vaccines have been developed, particularly focused on adenovirus; while there has been less emphasis on the replicating viral vector constructs.[89]
Many vaccine technologies being developed for COVID‑19 are not like vaccines already in use to prevent influenza, but rather are using “next-generation” strategies for precision on COVID‑19 infection mechanisms.[27][28][34] Several of the synthetic vaccines use a 2P mutation to lock the spike protein into its prefusion configuration, stimulating an immune response to the virus before it attaches to a human cell.[90] Vaccine platforms in development may improve flexibility for antigen manipulation and effectiveness for targeting mechanisms of COVID‑19 infection in susceptible population subgroups, such as healthcare workers, the elderly, children, pregnant women, and people with existing weakened immune systems.[27][28]
RNA vaccines
Diagram of the operation of an RNA vaccine. Messenger RNA contained in the vaccine enters cells and is translated into foreign proteins, which trigger an immune response.
Severe allergic reactions are rare. In December 2020, 1,893,360 first doses of Pfizer–BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine administration resulted in 175 cases of severe allergic reaction, of which 21 were anaphylaxis.[103] For 4,041,396 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose administrations in December 2020 and January 2021, only ten cases of anaphylaxis were reported.[103] The lipid nanoparticles were most likely responsible for the allergic reactions.[103]
Adenovirus vector vaccines
These vaccines are examples of non-replicating viral vector vaccines, using an adenovirus shell containing DNA that encodes a SARS‑CoV‑2 protein.[104][105] The viral vector-based vaccines against COVID-19 are non-replicating, meaning that they do not make new virus particles, but rather produce only the antigen which elicits a systemic immune response.[104]
Inactivated vaccines consist of virus particles that have been grown in culture and then are killed using a method such as heat or formaldehyde to lose disease producing capacity, while still stimulating an immune response.[115]
Subunit vaccines present one or more antigens without introducing whole pathogen particles. The antigens involved are often protein subunits, but can be any molecule that is a fragment of the pathogen.[123]
Oral vaccines and intranasal vaccines are being developed and studied.[137]
Scientists investigated whether existing vaccines for unrelated conditions could prime the immune system and lessen the severity of COVID‑19 infection.[138] There is experimental evidence that the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis has non-specific effects on the immune system, but no evidence that this vaccine is effective against COVID‑19.[139]
Efficacy
Cumulative incidence curves for symptomatic COVID‑19 infections after the first dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine (tozinameran) or placebo in a double-blind clinical trial. (red: placebo; blue: tozinameran)[140]
Vaccine efficacy is the risk of getting the disease by vaccinated participants in a controlled trial compared with the risk of getting the disease by unvaccinated participants.[141] An efficacy of 0% means that the vaccine does not work (identical to placebo). An efficacy of 50% means that there are half as many cases of infection as in unvaccinated individuals.
It is not straightforward to compare the efficacies of the different vaccines because the trials were run with different populations, geographies, and variants of the virus.[142] In the case of COVID‑19, a vaccine efficacy of 67% may be enough to slow the pandemic, but this assumes that the vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, which is necessary to prevent transmission. Vaccine efficacy reflects disease prevention, a poor indicator of transmissibility of SARS‑CoV‑2 since asymptomatic people can be highly infectious.[143] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) set a cutoff of 50% as the efficacy required to approve a COVID‑19 vaccine.[144][145] Aiming for a realistic population vaccination coverage rate of 75%, and depending on the actual basic reproduction number, the necessary effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine is expected to need to be at least 70% to prevent an epidemic and at least 80% to extinguish it without further measures, such as social distancing.[146]
In efficacy calculations, symptomatic COVID-19 is generally defined as having both a positive PCR test and at least one or two of a defined list of COVID-19 symptoms, although exact specifications vary between trials.[citation needed] The trial location also affects the reported efficacy because different countries have different prevalences of SARS-CoV-2 variants.[citation needed] Ranges below are 95% confidence intervals unless indicated otherwise, and all values are for all participants regardless of age, according to the references for each of the trials. By definition, the absence of a confidence interval means that the accuracy of the estimates without an associated confidence interval is unknown to the public. Efficacy against severe COVID-19 is the most important, since hospitalizations and deaths are a public health burden whose prevention is a priority.[147] Authorized and approved vaccines have shown the following efficacies:
There’s more. You can look at the 308 different types of vaccines available on Wikipedia COVID-19 Vaccine, or consult any other source you like.
So here’s the thing, my handsome doctor: I’ll make you a deal. You give me the same contact number you gave my brother Bill, so that I can contact you day or night if I feel like something is wrong (calling 9-1-1 will take me to the worst hospital in New Jersey, so I want to make sure you’re there). If you give me that number (keeping in mind the unfortunate state of my digestive system), I’ll throw all caution to the wind. I’ll play the guinea pig for this only partially-approved vaccine and go get it tomorrow.
My hair thinks I’m a guy. I’m a gal. Proud to be a woman. I was born a woman and will die a woman. I love dressing up in pretty clothes, wearing jewelry and perfume, and decorating my home in the prettiest manner possible. I have artificial flowers for indoor decorating for every season and holiday.
I have no great inclination to climb into an engine and break it down and put it back together again. Sports leave me cold. I haven’t the slightest interest in going across the street to the local Irish-style pub and down some ale with the guys. Nothing is more horrifying to me than the idea of putting on a set of fatigues and going out to shoot Bambi at the crack of dawn.
I like guys; don’t get me wrong. I just don’t want to be one. But my hair has other ideas. It always has.
As a girl, my hair was girlish enough. Rather oily and a pretty unkempt. No one, however, would have mistaken me for a boy. Then along came adolescence. One day, Mom decided I needed a haircut. Ever cost-conscious, she decided it would be cheaper to send me to the barber where my father and brothers went to get their hair clipped.
“But barbers are for boys!” I complained.
“Never mind that!” she said peremptorily. “Beauty parlors charge too much because women are vain. We can’t afford a beauty parlor. You’re going to the barbershop!
I plunked myself down in the chair and watched in the mirror as the barber did his thing. When he was finished, I looked at myself in the mirror. I was horrified.
“I look like a boy!” I cried in d dismay.
The barber leaned on the chair and explained curtly, “This is a barbershop where men and boys come to get their hair cut. That’s all I know how to do – cut men’s and boys’ hair. If you come to a barbershop, you’re going to come out looking like a boy!”
Eventually, the hair grew out into a more girlish pageboy. While I was a young woman, it wasn’t a problem. But my hair still thought I was a boy, and forever after the barbershop fiasco it insisted on all growing out over my forehead instead of backward, in womanly fashion.
Having thick hair is like wearing a mop on your head – a woolen mop. I tried hairbands like I used to wear when I was a girl. My hair was so thick, however, that all the hairbands snapped. The only device that would keep my stubborn hair back had thick teeth; it’s almost like wearing a crown of thorns.
Anything to keep it off my head and keep cool, though. It’s not so bad in the winter. But in the summer!
So what I want to know is, in this age of transgenderism and the “Genderbred Man,” why would any parent do that to their child? Why, at ages as young as four and five would they deliberately try to convince the child to think of himself or herself as being any gender, sex, identity, than the one with which they were born?
Parents are taking their young children for puberty-blocking treatments, to prevent the onset of adolescence until they can convince the child that they really want to be the other sex. As soon as they have them, the parents are arranging for the removal of their natural-born genitals and for further hormonal treatments to defy nature and God.
This follows on generations of cultural imperatives against gender-based toys and even colors. For some time it’s been the fashion for parents not to select blue for their boys and pink for their girls. Luckily, the little girls have made up their own minds. The latest fashion for little girls is Disney Princess costumes, which they wear all the time.
For boys, action-adventure heroes are still the rage. Oh, Disney is on board with putting all those girls into the action movies. How influenced girls are generally, is still unclear. Girls are born with inherent envy of their brothers’ “accoutrements.” Scarcely any of them would even dream of giving up their pretty clothes in order to play football with their brothers.
When they’re children and all things are more or less equal, sure they do. I did. But adolescence comes along and pretty much takes care of that. A few girls forget to grow up. A few boys still want to dress up in their sisters’ princess costumes.
But the true number is far below the fantasy that the Liberals paint with their rainbow flags.
Ultimately, this is about destroying the social order of the nuclear family. The nuclear family, you see, represents wealth and power. Children are more likely to thrive in an intact family. Girls who play with dolls will make better mothers than their sisters who drop the baby doll on its head to go out roller-skating.
Children from intact families generally do better in school and in life. They get married and have families of their own. If the grandparents are successful, they leave some of that wealth to their grandchildren in trusts. At the very least, the children will inherit the family home. True, the more children there are, the less wealth there is from the sale to “spread around.”
Unless the family is dysfunctional or there is some outside interference, the boys will rough-house and the girls will cradle their baby dolls. Today, it is that outside interference with the home and the perilous state of marriage that is threatening Society’s future.
The idea of disrupting the nuclear family is an old one, going all the way back to Friedrich Engels in The Origin of the Family, the State, and Private Property. Engels himself never married. He published the book under his own name in 1884, but it was actually Karl Marx’ work. They based their work on the research of a German socialist, Lewis H. Morgan, who insisted that the maternal society is the natural order of things and that men only complicate matters by dominating the family unit, rather than the mother’s brothers and uncles.
In short, it’s not about women at all. It’s about which men on which side of the family control the wealth and property. Feminists would have us throw out all the centuries of real progress and return us to a maternal, lesbian state. They would take us back to the savagery of the Maenads (Greek for “the raving ones), the followers of Dionysus in Ancient Greek, parthenoi (“virgins”) priestesses who, in their frenzy, would tear men to pieces.
Remember that the next time you visit the Parthenon in Greece.
In this vein, we are a society that is tearing itself to pieces and our daughters, in particular, are being taught to cast aside their natural femininity and continue apace the job of razing our society and culture down to rubble. Our men will be Barbie Dolls and our women will be Godzillas.
Sadly, the Liberal response to this charge will be triumphant delight.
For about the last month, I’ve been spending my days ridding my little garden of poison ivy. Over the last three or four years, the stuff first began taking over my garden. Then it started climbing up the walls of my building, and finally it began encroaching upon my patio.
You would think our communal maintenance crew would have noticed it, or our landscapers. But no; it seems they didn’t recognize poison ivy. At last, after several summers of battling poison ivy poisoning, I decided I would just have to do something about it myself.
I wanted my garden back! This past weekend, I finally finished the job. Nearly all of the poison, except for one stubborn root which I simply could not root out (I think it must have started growing before they began building this place some time in 1968 or 1969), I have my garden back. I put in new top soil, replanted the irises my late sweetheart gave me (I told him I cherished his irises more than all the cut flowers he could have given me over the years), swept up my parking space and patio of all debris, and dumped a truckload of almost-boulder sized rocks and stones that were making the poison ivy and other vines comfortable.
Some of my neighbors, namely the Garden Committee were not happy with my proceedings. In fact, they were quite outraged. “You had no right to dig up this garden!” “What if somebody falls in!” “What if you fall in?! [They had me there; I’m a klutz. However, I never fell in]. “What if you get hurt?!” They then threatened to report me to The Association and they made good on their threat.
The maintenance manager and I are old friends, though. The next Saturday he came by. He asked me nicely to put the dirt back. I told him that of course I would. He said that the next time I had a problem with poison ivy, to call them. “Well, it’s here right now!” I exclaimed. “There it is. Dig it out!” He looked alarmed, said nothing, and went away.
I replaced the dirt – and then some – but first, I removed all the poison ivy. By the time he returned this past Saturday, the garden was all in order. New top soil, a tidy patio, and my irises just freshly restored. I was just leaning on my rake with satisfaction when he popped up.
He seemed very pleased with the results. He even looked at the other side of the garden and named for me the plants my mother had placed there some years ago. Rhododendrons! So that’s what they are!
One last job remains and that is to plant some peonies. We’d had several nights of frost warnings. But it seems the warm weather is here at last and the peonies can be planted. Meanwhile, my kitchen had become almost a second garden with all the dirt I tracked in. I discovered that my flat loafers were better for gardening than my sneakers, whose soles seemed to attract the dirt.
The kitchen is now all clean and sparkling again and I can resume my blogging in the knowledge that when I go to sit in my garden in the afternoon, I will find only beautiful flowers with no danger from urushiol.
So that’s why I haven’t been here. But I have been paying attention to everything that’s happening. Our sympathies to the newly-widowed Queen Elizabeth II, the oldest reigning monarch ever! She and I share a common birthday. Our companions died only one day, although several years, apart. I sent her a birthday card (along with millions of others, no doubt) to cheer her up.
Ridding my garden of poison ivy was hard work. But I survived it. The question is whether we can remove the poison ivy that is strangling our government and our society. As I was taking one of the iris bulbs out of the ground, I discovered that one bulb was completely surrounded by the poison ivy. I had a job of it to rescue my poor iris from this invasive intruder.
So it is with our students.
I had a dream a few nights ago that I was back on my college campus, I think to take out some opera CDS. I found myself in the Student Union building first, though. I guess I was hungry. As I walked in, I noticed large red signs, with white lettering that read, “NO TALKING!!”
Now I hadn’t been on the campus in a while, although it’s nearby. Perhaps they’d turned the Student Union building into the library and the Student Union (which includes the cafeteria) into the library. I stepped outside to make sure I was in the right place.
Oh yes; this was definitely the Student Center because Black Lives Matter protestors – all of them white – were outside chanting with clenched fists. One of them shouted at me angrily for being racist, having blondish hair and blue eyes.
“Actually, my hair’s gray,” I said to her, showing her the gray roots.
Shouting was occurring on the outside of the building, but inside, it was as quiet as a tomb. The only sound was the occasional beep of a smartphone whose battery was dying. Inside the cafeteria, silence reigned as well. Even here, signs proscribed all talking on pain of expulsion from the school.
I remembered when the cafeteria was a hub-bub of noise, chaos and filth, the school radio station blaring some dreadful music. It was still filthy but quiet. I wanted a hot dog or a hamburger but found I couldn’t buy one: all meat had been banned. Even chicken was off the menu. The grill was gone. The best I could muster were a couple of slices of pizza.
There was no soda (not that I wanted any). Not even diet soda. The cafeteria had a good selection of bottled water and iced teas, which was I really wanted anyway. I found a seat and observed the students. They were all busy on their laptops or cellphones, clicking away. There was no need for the “NO TALKING” signs here. No one wanted to talk; young people haven’t spoken to one another for at least a generation.
At last, I arrived at the library. Black Lives Matter was outside here, too, decrying the racism of White-centric literature.
“What are you going to take out here, you White racist?!” they demanded. “Shakespeare?! Milton?! Mark Twain?!”
“No,” I replied. “Lully, I think. And probably Monteverdi.”
Having no intelligent response to those names (Monteverdi is considered the first great opera composer), they shouted some generic, racist epithets as I entered the sanctuary of the library.
Sanctuary, indeed. The librarian had to issue me a new-generation library card although exactly what I could take out was a mystery. All the books on the ground level were gone, except for a small section for reserved books. They were in a separate room. You had to swipe your library card to get in and could only read the books there.
The rest of the floor contained glass-encased carrels where students sat with their laptops plugged into a central library computer. They could access any book they wanted that the library had pre-approved. Some carrels had laptops for those students who did not have one. I sat down and signed in. At the prompt, I requested, “A Tale of Two Cities.”
The response was negative. The book had been censored for its negative depiction of the French Revolution. I tried “Great Expectations.” Banned. I typed in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Banned. I tried “Don Quixote.” Banned.
“1984.” Banned, with a very long list of its infractions against society.
So then I typed “Fyodor Dostoevsky.” Some poor contestant on “Jeopardy!” this past month was penalized for mispronouncing his name and was informed that he was the world’s greatest author. I thought that honor belonged to Shakespeare? Or Tolstoy. At least “War and Peace” was interesting.
The library had a complete collection of Dostoevsky’s work available as well as most of the late 19th and 20th Century’s most noxious authors, all of them Marxist and all of them dreadful. No wonder the Hitler Youth threw the books into the fire. But here they were, at my college library, all very well-preserved.
I wondered what became of the history books. Calling up “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” I found that it was still there but abridged. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Gone. Churchill’s “History of the Second World War.” History.
Unwilling to believe that any academic library could be so irresponsible, I went upstairs to the second floor to examine the stacks myself. The stacks were all gone. In their stead were sitting areas, marked off and enclosed by glass. In the place of the wooden study cubicles, there were beanbags and teddy bears. A couple of golden retrievers came up to me wagging their tails. Well, I love dogs so I was happy to see them. But what were they doing in the library?
Students sat in the beanbagged areas, rocking back and forth, some clutching the proffered teddy bears while plugged into headsets, while others played with building blocks or colored in coloring books.
I stopped a passing library aide.
“What happened to all the books?” I asked her.
“Oh,” she whispered. “We really have no use for paper books anymore. Everything is online now.”
“Well, what is all this, then?”
“This is the Safe Space Floor,” she replied. “Students come here for meditation and reflection, to get away from the stress of studying.”
“In the library?!” I exclaimed. She scowled at me and gave me a shush! then walked on. Some of the students, startled, stared up at me. One young lady looked at me as if she were about to weep.
At last, I located the Media Center, back on the first floor. I asked for the CD of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607), Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (1673), and Peri’s Erudice (1600).
“These are very rare recordings,” the assistant noted. “Do you have your travel drive?”
“Oh, yes,” I said. “As a matter of fact, I do.”
She took the travel drive and my ID and inserted them into her terminal.
“Fortunately, we have access to all the libraries in the state,” she said.
“Well, that’s great,” I answered. “I was afraid you might not have them.”
“Here they are! I found them at the Juilliard School. They’re downloading now.”
“You have access to Juilliard?’
“Yes. Because we have a Master’s Music program, they granted us access to their library.”
About five minutes she came back with my Monteverdi, Lully, and Peri.
“We don’t get many requests for opera,” she commented. “Are you a Music major?”
“No, history,” I said. “But I am a music lover and I consider music part of our cultural history.”
“Oh,” she said shortly. “This school actually doesn’t consider Western music part of cultural history any longer. That’s why we divested ourselves of our own copies of opera and classical music.”
“Well, I guess it’s lucky for me you have a ‘connection’ to Juilliard then,” I replied.
Outside, the demonstrators, whom I was told were actually a permanent part of the campus life, being employees of the school not students, were blasting “We Shall Overcome” followed by Jimi Hendrix’ 100-car collision of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Glenn Beck reported recently on his broadcast that California’s Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a new, multimillion-dollar Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which will be offered statewide with many of the state’s largest school districts making it a requirement for graduation.
“According to National Review,” he says, “the curriculum is ‘probably the most radical, polemical, and ideologically loaded educational document ever offered up for public consideration in the free world.”
Beck called the newly-approved curriculum “the craziest, most terrifying story I have ever had to report.”
He then read an excerpt from the National Review report describing the curriculum:
Students are to be taught that white Christian settlers committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes when they arrived in the New World by ‘murdering’ Native American gods and replacing them with the Christian God.
According to the curriculum, this replacement ushered in a regime defined by “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide,” and the “explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity.” But all is not lost, we are told. For students will learn that they have the power and the responsibility to build a social order defined by “countergenocide,” which will eventually supplant the last vestiges of colonial Christianity and pave the way for the “”regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.”
Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka — whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism — asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout, “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”
Glenn explained some of the horrifying details of Aztec worship traditions, which California’s educators and administrators seek to “regenerate,” including human sacrifice by the tens of thousands, cannibalism, and the severe and prolonged torture and sacrifice of children.
“Those are the gods that they [the Board of Education in California] think really need to be worshiped and brought back in our understanding because that whole Christian God was only about ‘oppression’” Glenn said sardonically.
“Gang, we are in Biblical-sized trouble,” he added. “We are under attack from the forces of darkness unlike anything I’ve ever seen before … because the soul of our nation, and the soul of children, is at stake.”
We may be in even bigger Biblical-sized trouble than Beck thinks, because while the Bible states that God forbid the worship of idols – just to make sure we got the message, it was both Number 2 (Thou shalt have no other gods before me) and Number 3 (Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image) – the Good Book doesn’t show us just how large and serious a problem it was so.
We have Emperor Constantine and his Council of Nicaea to thank for that, as we mentioned yesterday. They threw out many Hebrew texts, including the Ancient Book of Jasher, because they weren’t considered “scriptural,” the actual word of God. Yet Jasher quotes God directly and gives a good deal more information about the Patriarchs than you find in Constantine’s official version of the Bible.
Constantine was attempting to mediate between the growing Christian community, the Jews, and the so-called Gentiles, or pagans who’d been worshipping all manner of idols for centuries. The Greeks had established an entire system of worship, with a high priest at the head of the order, who himself led the others in worship of a being called “The Queen of Heaven” and her son.
The new church adopted these rituals and customs in order to attract new worshippers into the Christian church, the church of Rome, which was only Christian church at the time. In order to appease these new followers, the editors of the Bible threw out any references to the smashing of idols, admonitions against thievery, and of course, the very oppressive restrictions on sexuality which required monogamous marriage.
The Book of Jasher (which is referred to several times in the Bible) tells us that Abram (Abraham) the son of Terah was sent to live with his ten-time ancestor, Noah (his great great great great great great grandfather) in order to hide him from King Nimrod who was told in a prophecy that Abram or his son would bring about Nimrod’s death.
When ordered to bring his son before Nimrod, Abram’s father Terah brought a servant’s son instead, whom Nimrod immediately slaughtered personally. So Abram was compelled to live in hiding with Noah.
As a grown man, Abram went to visit his father. He went into a room where his father kept a collection of idols, Jasher tells us. Abram studied the idols for a long time. He asked them questions; they didn’t answer. He watched to see if they could breathe or see. They could do neither.
So, he asked his mother to cook up a delicious dinner and lay it before them. Abram studied them the entire day. Even though the dinner smelled “heavenly” they didn’t eat a bite, nor did they drink. Perhaps the dinner wasn’t grand enough, he thought.
He asked his mother to cook up an even grander banquet. Again, he watched them the whole day. They ate nothing. Finally, Abram concluded that they were a fake. He took a rod and smashed all the idols. Terah became very angry when he learned what his son had done.
“But they’re all fakes!” Abram cried.
“Well, of course, they’re fakes,” Terah replied. “You can’t expect something made of wood or stone to eat, drink, speak or hear!”
“Then why do you worship them?!” Abram asked in exasperation.
Well, because it was the law, as laid down by none other than King Nimrod.
Nimrod was furious when he learned what Abram had done. Nimrod let Terah off the hook because he wasn’t the one who smashed the idols. But he ordered Abram and his brother, Haran, brought to his court and demanded that Haran give an eyewitness account.
Now, Haran suspected his brother was right. But he also feared Nimrod. If Nimrod agreed that Abram was innocent, then he would give evidence. On the other hand, if Nimrod was displeased, what should he do? Still, Haran knew that God was the Almighty, not Nimrod and he defended Abram.
Nimrod ordered them both bound, hand and foot, and thrown into the fire. God didn’t let Haran off the hook. Although he defended his brother, Haran had doubted and God didn’t accept half-hearted measures.
But God heard Abram’s plea and took compassion on him. For three days and nights, to the amazement of the crowd that had gathered, Abram walked back and forth within the fire. The only things that were burnt off were the linen bonds on his hands and feet.
Finally, Nimrod ordered him out of the fire. He wanted to know how Abram survived for three days while his brother Haran was burnt to cinders.
“The God of Heaven and Earth in whom I trust and who has all in his powe3r, he delivered me from the fire into which thou didst cast me.”
Nimrod and all the people bowed down to Abram as if he were a king.
But he said to them, “Do not bow down to me, but bow down to the God of the world who made you, and serve Him, and go in His ways for it is He who delivered me from out of this fire, and it is He who created the souls and spirits of all men, and formed man in his mother’s womb, and brought him forth into the world, and it is He who will deliver those who trust in Him from all pain.”
“And from that day forward Abram inclined the hearts of the sons of men to serve the Lord.”
The Book of Jasher lists the many terrible things mankind did in those days, even to mutilating animals through a grotesque form of animal husbandry. It was about that time that God brought on the Flood and is probably the reason He also wiped out all the animals, although He later regretted it.
Today, Marxists are carrying on Nimrod’s ignoble and evil works, calling them good and just. Nimrod hated God for bringing on the Flood, in punishment for Man’s wicked deeds – fornication, homosexuality, thievery, rape and all other forms of degradation. That’s why Halloween is celebrated on October 31st – the Eve of the Day of the Dead. It is to honor all those who perished in Noah’s Flood.
The Bible tells us that no one knows the day when God will have finally had enough of us; not even Jesus knows the day, only God. But the Book of Jasher tells us that before He brought on the Flood, He waited until the last of the righteous men had died, until only Methuselah and Noah, his great-grandson, were left. They spent a considerable number of years warning mankind what was coming, which Constantine’s Bible also does not mention.
Methuselah died one week before the Great Flood began.
Those who are worthy in Jesus’ eyes could be swept up in the rumored Great Rapture tomorrow. Or it might take another 120 years of warning, to give mankind time to repent, before the Judgement Day comes.
Frankly, this feels like only the beginning. Enough people like Glenn Beck are denouncing the offenses against God and warning people what may befall them in the future.
However, they need to know the whole story, not just Constantine’s politically-correct version if they’re to understand what’s wrong here. People need to see the parallel between Nimrod throwing Abram and Haran into the fire and the modern punishment for people who refuse to allow their children to be taught to bow before false gods.
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