tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25068431722035799322024-03-18T07:39:35.444-07:00Walt Whiteman's WorldCandid comments on politics, religion and the sorry state of the worldWalt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.comBlogger5152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-69510269436022797602024-03-18T07:38:00.000-07:002024-03-18T07:38:38.588-07:00A precious child of God<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_gT8wcM0986aRb0oNkvj6Gwd0d0GOwaUPzwaX56HjuUJxVjHMEjjWiYknF1DtmF7s-pXS8kQwPlXn9mVvFw5bfuKYysHGn9EJ2UEiDrSK01at8V309evonCondPDZorUw57LyfbZPCAuclGFhtxp3l_SpAwHCNEbpAoKaTGwvWo0zaRozVmOmBXascE/s1024/01HS0XZGJRVNT0VBTY222ACS4N.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_gT8wcM0986aRb0oNkvj6Gwd0d0GOwaUPzwaX56HjuUJxVjHMEjjWiYknF1DtmF7s-pXS8kQwPlXn9mVvFw5bfuKYysHGn9EJ2UEiDrSK01at8V309evonCondPDZorUw57LyfbZPCAuclGFhtxp3l_SpAwHCNEbpAoKaTGwvWo0zaRozVmOmBXascE/s400/01HS0XZGJRVNT0VBTY222ACS4N.jpeg" width="560" /></a></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-5562087590962834812024-03-17T10:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:30:02.643-07:00VIDEO: Fact-checking the media's "Trump calls for 'bloodbath'" hysteria <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZF8x6aWBgDAPB7pB817CH0SS44c8JjOgFKUds10MtM9GNcTg7CJfXpTvOfj0lEkFK53Zu5puQxdQNXzWBXi1fDeCJnte1dtwm8lG88vcVjSfU_32CwjXarpNp_6QQmzvCHmELLoTalS3kp__xJQzukgYv8DB3DVc3_kuGMlRrfzSlpg34S8QcOzpSMA/s280/Bloodbath%20fake%20news.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="251" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZF8x6aWBgDAPB7pB817CH0SS44c8JjOgFKUds10MtM9GNcTg7CJfXpTvOfj0lEkFK53Zu5puQxdQNXzWBXi1fDeCJnte1dtwm8lG88vcVjSfU_32CwjXarpNp_6QQmzvCHmELLoTalS3kp__xJQzukgYv8DB3DVc3_kuGMlRrfzSlpg34S8QcOzpSMA/s1600/Bloodbath%20fake%20news.png" width="251" /></a></div>"WTF?!?", said I to myself, said I, when I heard something like the stories (word chosen carefully) on the early AM news. <div><br /></div><div>I didn't listen to President Donald Trump's speech last night, but couldn't believe he would be so careless in his choice of words as to predict, let alone call for, anything like an insurrection or revolution or a "bloodbath".</div><div><br /></div><div>For years now, as the divisions in the American society get more and more pronounced, pundits and SJWs and others with political and social engineering agendas have talked about cultural wars, political wars, and even "civil war", but almost no-one believes there could be an actual shooting war, let alone a "bloodbath". </div><div><br /></div><div>It turns out that, at the Buckeye Values PAC rally, the once-and-future POTUS was talking about the <i>financial</i><b> "</b>bloodbath" that awaits the U.S. motor industry if he is not elected, so that China would be enabled to swamp the country with their tinker-toy EVs and other cheap products.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here's what the once-and-future POTUS actually said:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4h82fl/?pub=zpb3m" width="560"></iframe> </div><div><br /></div><div>For the hard-of-hearing <i>[or hard-of-understanding. Ed.]</i>, here's a transcript:</div><div><br /></div><div>"If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now … you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us, no. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected.
Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it … It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it...."</div><div><br /></div><div>The usual critics -- Democrats, RINOs, and the lickspittle media -- jumped on the "bloodbath" word, <i>only</i>, toick to infer scary intentions, even after Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung made clear that Mr Trump had clearly been talking about the impact of offshoring on the country’s auto industry and his own plans to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars. </div><div><br /></div><div>What lesson do we learn from this, campers? Always listen carefully to what is being said, and give the words...<i>all</i> the words...their plain meaning. Just as judges should do with the Constitution of the US of A. Just read it. Don't "interpret" it! End of lesson.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-36291360627539496392024-03-16T13:55:00.000-07:002024-03-16T13:55:42.198-07:00Saint Patrick's Day greetings to ye all! Here we are again, another Saint Paddy's Day gone by and Eire still divided. Not that it matters as much as it did when you and I were young, Magee. Today's Ireland bears little resemblance to that for which our ancestors fought. <div><br /></div><div>Faith, didn't they elect a prime minister who's not only a brown furriner, but gay to boot! And didn't his very woke government just bring forward a prooposal to change the Republic's constitution away from traditional Christian family values? On March 8th, the government called on citizens to vote in two referendums called "the Family Amendment" and "the Care Amendment".</div><div><br /></div><div>The first of these proposals asked to remove a reference to marriage as the basis "on which the family is founded" and replace it with a clause that says families can be founded "on marriage or on other durable relationships". Like "gay marriage", you see.</div><div><br /></div><div>The care amendment proposed to remove women's role in the home, by deleting a statement that says "mothers shouldn't be obligated by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their home duties" and adding a clause saying the state will strive to support "the provision of care by members of a family to one another". </div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks be to God and the Blessed Virgin, the Plain Peepul of Ireland still have enough of the Faith to reject the proposed amendments. 67.69% of voters in the referendum said "NO" to the first amendment. The second, anti-family amendment, was rejected by 73.93%! Did the wokesters in Dublin really think the Irish were going to vote against motherhood?! <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImF3ugFX2DHcXKN5kA_-2ktYhbzYdOiNx1ywe-iGQdiWjymvzV7f0OwxeMxg9_PRayoR-WZIEj2mDZrAOZmoXateHknaUVT0TpRM8cJFl7Mkl32ER8wdagqSwTR3TkFyzhNuiHL2PmZxK2hey8vBG_WrDdA8QuPXPF0cvWhTa5q3Dk9LlE2ifMehZr-A/s2048/StPatricksDayHappy.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1549" data-original-width="2048" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImF3ugFX2DHcXKN5kA_-2ktYhbzYdOiNx1ywe-iGQdiWjymvzV7f0OwxeMxg9_PRayoR-WZIEj2mDZrAOZmoXateHknaUVT0TpRM8cJFl7Mkl32ER8wdagqSwTR3TkFyzhNuiHL2PmZxK2hey8vBG_WrDdA8QuPXPF0cvWhTa5q3Dk9LlE2ifMehZr-A/s320/StPatricksDayHappy.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Well, enough politics. To all the Irish -- including those who identify as Irish, those who feel like they're Irish, and those who wish they were Irish <i>[and who doesn't?! Ed.]</i> -- wherever they are -- in Derry, Sligo, Coleraine, Tullamore, Adjala Township and/or south Boston --<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d;">HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY TO YEZ. </span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;">Recommended reading</span>: na Gopaleen, Myles (pseudonym of Flann O'Brien): <i>The Best of Myles</i>, Picador 1977. </div><div><br /></div><div>In particular, Walt likes the chapters titled "The Brother" (how could yez not laugh?) and "The Plain People of Ireland". </div><div><br /></div><div>Many denizens of the auld sod won't be able to read the parts written in Irish Gaelic. <i>[Faith now, I can't read it meself! Ed.]</i> But the Irish are still the Irish, even if they live in a part of Ireland separated from the rest by the foreign (read: English) oppressors. God bless all of them, and haste the day that the Six Counties will be reunited with the rest of the country.</div></div></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-89045605655845494442024-03-14T12:45:00.000-07:002024-03-14T12:45:07.912-07:00USA, Canada no longer in Human Development Index top 10There was a time, way back in the 20th century, when the US of A and Canada ranked in the top 10 countries on the United Nations Human Deveopment Index. In fact, for something like five years in a row, Canada was No. 1 <i>[Wut? Ed.]</i> with the US around No. 5. Citizens (word chosen with care) of North America (excluding Mexico) were healthier, wealthier, and better-educated than those of any other region.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcXsLhKqyQn_c9fcSix4iBSvaLl-advXWeHlnwpPPcYVN2xwcrpSaqwHPf7EiPGGblTaGdrrvNt2VVRfBbRc-3hhZveWsnRihDMC9bEMDscS3l-EtgUg6yQWzSV_Sg9hMfypbsg4LFT4gVBBT5TBWFILkZE_TR9jBqded5J4_AckBUjgihqrO4aMY7to/s686/poorhouses-were-designed-to-punish-people-for-their-poverty.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="686" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcXsLhKqyQn_c9fcSix4iBSvaLl-advXWeHlnwpPPcYVN2xwcrpSaqwHPf7EiPGGblTaGdrrvNt2VVRfBbRc-3hhZveWsnRihDMC9bEMDscS3l-EtgUg6yQWzSV_Sg9hMfypbsg4LFT4gVBBT5TBWFILkZE_TR9jBqded5J4_AckBUjgihqrO4aMY7to/s320/poorhouses-were-designed-to-punish-people-for-their-poverty.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sadly, those days are gone forever. Since the triumph of "liberal progressivism", North American standards of living have fallen below those of northern Europe. </div><div><br /></div><div>It's true that the HDI for the whole world have declined, particularly since 2020, due to Covid, climate hysteria, the greenscam and other factors. However, the Europeans are recovering, whereas under the terminally woke governments in Washington and Ottawa, things just get worse and worse.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Human Development Index is one of the most widely used measures of countries' development. It gauges progress in terms of societal outcomes, including life expectancy at birth, expected and average years of schooling and gross national income per person. The latest figures, released yesterday, show that the global HDI is rising again, but progress has been slow and uneven. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuSsyAIZww8Qav9tRn4RMI9b53hkpFIIeSh9-xdrjRKjLrhTiKxLU6BtXDQhTWN9Tumkhj-ldP9-PbxQl-7JEOdVgMMSNx2P8qIn4so-cVidnx4Axtwb-zFbrncdFF16ksGsvZNWyhx7GvKTgaDH6Pdgw-Uz1AAtT2tWtJY2WqKyAHLTO_9hjosD1Qbg/s420/HDI%20world%202022-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="420" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuSsyAIZww8Qav9tRn4RMI9b53hkpFIIeSh9-xdrjRKjLrhTiKxLU6BtXDQhTWN9Tumkhj-ldP9-PbxQl-7JEOdVgMMSNx2P8qIn4so-cVidnx4Axtwb-zFbrncdFF16ksGsvZNWyhx7GvKTgaDH6Pdgw-Uz1AAtT2tWtJY2WqKyAHLTO_9hjosD1Qbg/s320/HDI%20world%202022-24.png" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The countries shown in darkest squa are those which score highest on the HDI. <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/13/which-countries-have-the-best-and-worst-living-standards" target="_blank"><i>The Economist</i> has published a table</a> showing how the 194 countries tracked by the UN compare. The left column shows the HDI score (1.00 would be perfect). The middle column shows life expectancy at birth. The right column shows expected years of schooling. We don't have room to show the whole table or even the top 20 countries, so have excerpted just Nos. 16 through 22.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzmQJGR5AWqFczF9W6Ycb-2LUl3qgj3A8NLxErloVp54d0f8Kk0tX8iV2Uf4_taMPkmo2lOCSh-6aOeAeOrmGIqdrTjWEXLTxP7uO7V_juHWnPGCjmrLJBJaMIpwj8-Tj9HnmTOfySmeDA5OofVgIKgauPWbJmZ7FITRpSdoMKlM7eBo8HVI0i10tQ9Q/s543/HDI%2016-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="543" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzmQJGR5AWqFczF9W6Ycb-2LUl3qgj3A8NLxErloVp54d0f8Kk0tX8iV2Uf4_taMPkmo2lOCSh-6aOeAeOrmGIqdrTjWEXLTxP7uO7V_juHWnPGCjmrLJBJaMIpwj8-Tj9HnmTOfySmeDA5OofVgIKgauPWbJmZ7FITRpSdoMKlM7eBo8HVI0i10tQ9Q/w640-h464/HDI%2016-22.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Embarrassing, isn't?</b> <i>[Not to Brandon or Blackiie McBlackface, evidently. Ed.]</i> The country with the highest Human Development Index, for the second year in a row, is... wait for it... Switzerland! Cue cries of "They're Number One! They're Number One!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Swiss score is boosted by high incomes and long life expectancies. Other countries in western Europe have some of the highest scores. Some parts of Asia also do well, with Hong Kong and Singapore making it to the top ten. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Elsewhere on Turtle Island -- especially in South America, the Middle East and Africa -- things are worse. Countries such as Peru, Colombia, Libya and Lebanon have made little progress since the global HDI started to fall in 2019. Living standards in Ukraine (100th) and Russia have also dropped. War-torn Yemen, poor and indebted Belize, and Micronesia, an island country at risk of being swallowed by rising sea levels, all peaked in 2010 and have declined every year since. Here are the Bottom 10.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6I7QH8hBxDayjvV3T8vR_qB4Itm5YG2EZPrpEAQ0CcXdZk9ciQc8H6UqhUMs7k-Qv3bOUZ0xqvq9lcSwGUrTk_n1Hel4Koub-P40RGX4x5p_xBOWOUkkxX2mVTv3heJ64khP_jn2gB54qqcHj0wcQLyIgrtembznALShMPopGZzo9ff4MzLoNPyoOiM/s540/HDI%20184-193.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="540" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6I7QH8hBxDayjvV3T8vR_qB4Itm5YG2EZPrpEAQ0CcXdZk9ciQc8H6UqhUMs7k-Qv3bOUZ0xqvq9lcSwGUrTk_n1Hel4Koub-P40RGX4x5p_xBOWOUkkxX2mVTv3heJ64khP_jn2gB54qqcHj0wcQLyIgrtembznALShMPopGZzo9ff4MzLoNPyoOiM/s320/HDI%20184-193.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Walt notes that 9 of the bottom 10 are in sub-Saharan Africa. The 10th is Yemen, at the south end of the Arabian peninsula, where a Muslim civil war has been going on for years. That's where the Houthis come from. Have you heard that name recently?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We return now [Quickly, please. Ed.] to the Excited States of America, which is fighting its own cultural and political civil wars. The War on Poverty, however, is over. We lost! Here's how the American HDI looks, county by country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJY_IVFCmjP-BZFaPqdF5L2DjC5r2LsB9B3mRR0GIZn11OysMdED3MwDeduuU9PUcwkKa-LGsuABVLFiPS_dzv6WMqmfLwayOl-Zd6U5DtpwF7OBk20rSA2fCHAR2olX78adEEeyZlcnIxvWsmHVxGwW52kkAYy250i86CwoZpKVN-hfZnPzl7NxwWyY/s1667/US%20HDI.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1667" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJY_IVFCmjP-BZFaPqdF5L2DjC5r2LsB9B3mRR0GIZn11OysMdED3MwDeduuU9PUcwkKa-LGsuABVLFiPS_dzv6WMqmfLwayOl-Zd6U5DtpwF7OBk20rSA2fCHAR2olX78adEEeyZlcnIxvWsmHVxGwW52kkAYy250i86CwoZpKVN-hfZnPzl7NxwWyY/s320/US%20HDI.gif" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million American people were living in poverty in 2010, and the poverty rate reached 15.1%, the highest in 52 years. In 2020, the year in which Senile Joe was (allegedly) elected, the poverty rate climbed by 0.9 percentage points to 11.4% from 10.5% in 2019. Do you really think that, as Joe claims, things have gotten better since then? Really?! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ask yourself: What would it take to get the US of A back into the Top 10 on the Human Development Index? How can we Make America Great Again? Well, there's your answer... right there!</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-68422850117466977292024-03-14T06:08:00.000-07:002024-03-14T06:08:03.831-07:00Lest we forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAcxH-vPbUhrtaul_-90-0T95-WhpBP5RnN3zwQ5KTMAe1-YwZESHSeQ1YVZY2uOGCrT1riiKcOUKQVMAUWd46v2apCQ_G8qFdUfaMAP1n19p4xC8Ay7KTgBQBj5Qtaon2oYByvXxC9eG7rNGMArqiTzEGrYMB5YVXaqF7v8u95Si_pARbCX5_i1Qh_o/s1024/Forgetful%20Brandon.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1024" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigAcxH-vPbUhrtaul_-90-0T95-WhpBP5RnN3zwQ5KTMAe1-YwZESHSeQ1YVZY2uOGCrT1riiKcOUKQVMAUWd46v2apCQ_G8qFdUfaMAP1n19p4xC8Ay7KTgBQBj5Qtaon2oYByvXxC9eG7rNGMArqiTzEGrYMB5YVXaqF7v8u95Si_pARbCX5_i1Qh_o/s320/Forgetful%20Brandon.jpeg" width="560" /></a></div><br />I was going to write something clever here, but I forgot what I was going to say.Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-12232463789063165462024-03-14T05:32:00.000-07:002024-03-14T05:32:31.840-07:00Facebook sez Vatican stamps "adult content", vs "community standards"Our Agent 78 is a philatelist <i>[= stamp collector, Ed.]</i> as well as a Catholic. A couple of days ago, 78 listed a small collection of stamps from the Holy See <i>[= Vatican, Ed.]</i> on Facebook Marketplace. Here's what happened next.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpw2gKYxKaN6ki6DyVwTdPVNE4B8U2EFusdyH5dQzIIWnedibOPTOEPxL0XEikWcQ7NCmpdz0YjRDiwFbzaSZ6lT2-w6HVauwMoYon5OyM6od6LACZ3VFvWLoQwl5WrZiquMU7CYIrh2D3xn2jissFdTOXAaAkWcEJUSHwKsiH68NEzyGp5En7WIJsDo/s852/Vatican%20stamps%20listing%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="852" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhpw2gKYxKaN6ki6DyVwTdPVNE4B8U2EFusdyH5dQzIIWnedibOPTOEPxL0XEikWcQ7NCmpdz0YjRDiwFbzaSZ6lT2-w6HVauwMoYon5OyM6od6LACZ3VFvWLoQwl5WrZiquMU7CYIrh2D3xn2jissFdTOXAaAkWcEJUSHwKsiH68NEzyGp5En7WIJsDo/w640-h286/Vatican%20stamps%20listing%201.png" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div>Our agent appealed, and the appeal was denied. Apparently the Karens at FB -- owned by (((Mark Zuckerberg))) -- Think there's something about these little bits of art that violate their woke "community standards". What could the problem be? Look closely!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif8FTSClZZyozWP7GeguwbDe7fEHOoRYG7zBSV2_r9O005nZcQNyPAQTAP-B2v35Ogk981uSvy8b5mWjSwsLFvOxao6XqlQzprcrvcxn-at3VlydNa5h4Hd7lqKj3qNAArUImC7zvRktY1HAe_fW5M13nF89gZef_Lb0MHCBHhR9AsvtaLjaCttZFqXe4/s3033/1+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2151" data-original-width="3033" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif8FTSClZZyozWP7GeguwbDe7fEHOoRYG7zBSV2_r9O005nZcQNyPAQTAP-B2v35Ogk981uSvy8b5mWjSwsLFvOxao6XqlQzprcrvcxn-at3VlydNa5h4Hd7lqKj3qNAArUImC7zvRktY1HAe_fW5M13nF89gZef_Lb0MHCBHhR9AsvtaLjaCttZFqXe4/s320/1+2.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't see anything naughty there. Do you? But, as Vince Offer used to say: wait, there's more! the collection includes this postcard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc9EpCsOHfwKw0TWcM_dZXp4CuQ0MSKAE2dTEySpUljxHrOS6EmVqUA8zDLqJ-VFO8y5NfWz3sV8V18aamBE9AtWJgXRz7g735ouTvFmOKax_V1uj4H-PnGJ2jdgwuv6QzEyu9us1u-AZUYEhbWaJgYipmlBAWxrargBgE00tzJTQoiJiK-zlsfDZGEI/s1949/1353%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1949" data-original-width="1345" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTc9EpCsOHfwKw0TWcM_dZXp4CuQ0MSKAE2dTEySpUljxHrOS6EmVqUA8zDLqJ-VFO8y5NfWz3sV8V18aamBE9AtWJgXRz7g735ouTvFmOKax_V1uj4H-PnGJ2jdgwuv6QzEyu9us1u-AZUYEhbWaJgYipmlBAWxrargBgE00tzJTQoiJiK-zlsfDZGEI/w442-h640/1353%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By George, Holmes, I think you've got it. The wokesters at Facebook aren't anti-Catholic. They're anti-Michaelangelo! Funny, though. You'd think their biases in favour of all that is encompasssed by the liberal queer agenda would welcome publication of depictions of the beauty of the male body. Apparently not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyone who's had similar experiences with ridiculous censorship on Facebook Marketplace is encouraged to share them in the Comments section. Click on the headline and the window will open underneath the text.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-64654851933132848452024-03-13T06:03:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:05:15.092-07:00Brandon, Trump cinch nominations... big deal... change subjectLooks like we're in for a rematch - repeat, not a repeat! - of the stolen 2020 election. Surely American patriots won't let the biggest, riggedest fraud in history happen again!
Walt will have more to say on that subject as the next eight(ish) months pass. <div><br /></div><div>Then comes R-Day -- "R" for "revenge". For today, let's change, let's change the subject and think for a bit about greenscam. An article on the state of China's economy reveals that the CCP's biggest market for wind turbines and solar panels is... the US of A. </div><div><br /></div><div>While the Chinese keep building more and more thermal power plants (powered by coal, oil and natural gas), they're selling billions of dollars worth of this junk to followers of Al Gore, Deluded Joe et al who keep telling us to "Go electric, go green!" </div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the latest green craziness.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQhByL-X0sbMImntSX9P5pxjjvQ7NNdOI6Vk_tPiRkCNgT8f2GnbLLcXkHTRW7ujf9caV0D2d2c3H7fy1105pwy-gupG7GklDPJEyV7UafG1yGpomCsgqVc1o6FWIx8J1G5qW4Gj3oQ0ErLdz5xmaAggsOQBQbswlkLfbOWuoSi1cTOxbFd9OATr6zfA/s800/last-of-the-coal-powered-sheep59d1ab9c63.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQhByL-X0sbMImntSX9P5pxjjvQ7NNdOI6Vk_tPiRkCNgT8f2GnbLLcXkHTRW7ujf9caV0D2d2c3H7fy1105pwy-gupG7GklDPJEyV7UafG1yGpomCsgqVc1o6FWIx8J1G5qW4Gj3oQ0ErLdz5xmaAggsOQBQbswlkLfbOWuoSi1cTOxbFd9OATr6zfA/s320/last-of-the-coal-powered-sheep59d1ab9c63.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ICYI: Why did Walt call wind turbines etc "junk"? See the <b><span style="color: #990000;">VIDEO</span></b> in "<a href="https://waltwhitemansworld.blogspot.com/2023/10/video-is-wind-power-really-way-to-clean.html" target="_blank">Is wind power really the way to a clean, green future?</a>", WWW 19/10/23.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-42652762988643475082024-03-12T06:01:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:01:17.979-07:00Brandon apologizes, then doesn't apologize, then... ???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsFF8AwbdvvkV-5rrPWeiUXE0CFUuC-tA7TksE7g-U5YiXeQHsr-TFffVKxLOornDETpB3jFNAQW3X5UrqANuFO4o9Esz4ueLo9V0Ea-MJYZxBPrGM6VU-MTpCZBt-F3izMllWqGhthEUzUjrJG216t156wK82cNOqmOLQedQHxSVkUX2Vo4sMk95Jnw/s1024/Don't%20say%20illegal.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1024" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsFF8AwbdvvkV-5rrPWeiUXE0CFUuC-tA7TksE7g-U5YiXeQHsr-TFffVKxLOornDETpB3jFNAQW3X5UrqANuFO4o9Esz4ueLo9V0Ea-MJYZxBPrGM6VU-MTpCZBt-F3izMllWqGhthEUzUjrJG216t156wK82cNOqmOLQedQHxSVkUX2Vo4sMk95Jnw/s320/Don't%20say%20illegal.jpeg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Walt will have something to say tomorrow, after today's primaries.</div><p></p>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-65509236781136487792024-03-10T17:18:00.000-07:002024-03-10T17:18:18.394-07:00"Could you say that again? I didn't get it..."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQB2MYP90vIvfAhbKg7XkEz5uA6SJdY-PXelT1x_nDnxOkR9yn6qvI5XYRzVcavwbjMqpLNuYkuBo8bRldvjEXWjjGb390CMwPcBaFoniBv_uevhcFoPMXien06bfYgJFaHmIbiLe4F8nXplYpR20rLa2lFMtg5_7QCbKyyOh6BC7c1ccJbT9I-OQg5c/s620/Justin-Foff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="620" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQB2MYP90vIvfAhbKg7XkEz5uA6SJdY-PXelT1x_nDnxOkR9yn6qvI5XYRzVcavwbjMqpLNuYkuBo8bRldvjEXWjjGb390CMwPcBaFoniBv_uevhcFoPMXien06bfYgJFaHmIbiLe4F8nXplYpR20rLa2lFMtg5_7QCbKyyOh6BC7c1ccJbT9I-OQg5c/s320/Justin-Foff.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><br />
That's for all our Canadian readers and friends, with the possible exception of Agent 2. Seen today on <a href="https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/03/10/justin-trudeau-am-i-guilty-of-pre-crime/" target="_blank">Blazing Cat Fur</a>. Thanks to Agent 3 for passing it along.Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-10839145928976893012024-03-08T12:12:00.000-08:002024-03-08T12:18:53.210-08:00Laken Riley Act passes House , but Brandon still can't say her nameYesterday afternoon, 7 March 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill that would require the detention of any illegal immigrant who committed burglary or theft. The Laken Riley Act was named for Laken Riley -- <span style="color: #990000;">Say her name!</span> -- a 22-tear-old nursing student at the University of Georgia at Augusta, who was killed <i>[You'd better say "allegedly". Ed.]</i> by José Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old from Venezuela who entered the USA illegally.<div><br /></div><div>The measure cleared the House by 251 votes to 170, with 37 Democrats joining all Republicans present in voting "aye". It was the latest move by GOP lawmakers to put a spotlight on the crisis at the pretty-much-open southern border, which has emerged as a key issue in the 2024 campaign, and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/08/exclusive-tom-emmer-biden-only-talking-about-immigration-because-it-has-become-a-political-liability/" target="_blank">a serious liability for President Brandon</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until <a href="https://waltwhitemansworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/in-cases-you-missed-demented-joes-sotu.html" target="_blank">last night's anti-Trump State of the Union (SOTU) tirade</a>, Demented Joe Biden had carefully avoided any mention of Ms Riley's tragic death, refusing even to mention her name in public. But last night, addressing dozens of legislators and others wearing "Say her name!" pins and buttons, he rose to the challenge... and blew it! Here's the video.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4fgi3l/?pub=zpb3m" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>Among those giving the gears to to the soon-to-be-former President last night was Marjorie Taylor Green, the Republican who represents Georgia's 14th district. All those in favour of Donald Trump choosing her as his running mate, raise your hands!</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, Sr Ibarra has been charged with felony murder, false imprisonment, and kidnapping. No date has been set for his trial, as Fani Willis, who is expected to lead the prosecution, is otherwise occupied.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-25663168844856070682024-03-08T05:51:00.000-08:002024-03-08T05:51:39.834-08:00In cases you missed Demented Joe's SOTU rant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_H3l2BqmPrrOY-2m-bt6IXA3anuobWXjrbfUnfQxIEO_MnpCuFD466IV5NUKElR8dLT-RNoqIqS5_bwj9P6OKaGinw1OQo2ZH3kN05CC7knqpaS36BE4sITHmOcGxfTLtMD2SG0ry8o2mzqnnT5OpuMjQ9PwjTM0YXLDDPsHo3cBoo-k364N6vFMjsc/s1024/01HRCXEJSTECK80HQEF1HCDDQP.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="1024" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_H3l2BqmPrrOY-2m-bt6IXA3anuobWXjrbfUnfQxIEO_MnpCuFD466IV5NUKElR8dLT-RNoqIqS5_bwj9P6OKaGinw1OQo2ZH3kN05CC7knqpaS36BE4sITHmOcGxfTLtMD2SG0ry8o2mzqnnT5OpuMjQ9PwjTM0YXLDDPsHo3cBoo-k364N6vFMjsc/s320/01HRCXEJSTECK80HQEF1HCDDQP.jpeg" width="560" /></a></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-44388350585013001992024-03-07T05:40:00.000-08:002024-03-07T05:40:27.126-08:00Further to yesterday's post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3coejJXwaHEXBo5-jvgcCbdh7FVT0iAPqWpUu4v8UGAApwT0ZgWDHwQBU8hVIMSTTbVg1NsLgVFaRzvEkvdCzWTTkVlWWy5AnN351PghO1wZ3feK0a5SlWx39zE7cYeeLNXRHtW9E0FqgRLZuFZY5mZondaM25ZV0wYodotPaVnFjn9592r9v9etCZRc/s1024/6%20o'clock%20news.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3coejJXwaHEXBo5-jvgcCbdh7FVT0iAPqWpUu4v8UGAApwT0ZgWDHwQBU8hVIMSTTbVg1NsLgVFaRzvEkvdCzWTTkVlWWy5AnN351PghO1wZ3feK0a5SlWx39zE7cYeeLNXRHtW9E0FqgRLZuFZY5mZondaM25ZV0wYodotPaVnFjn9592r9v9etCZRc/s320/6%20o'clock%20news.jpeg" width="560" /></a></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-25859032439000448142024-03-06T13:56:00.000-08:002024-03-06T13:56:56.590-08:00Trump wins 14 of 15 states - libs getting hysterical already<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63f77zz5M7q3ilcYwL3Bz5z0xMWdR82akXhbmxLM0ST_EItWlbP-L8Efh16aTYJRft1YwsZkCLY_07jWG8XG3Qv1V01JStniOHaEjQOP4IYzCRzSHSOs7ZBZF4g_1Z_HRY9Yx-Go6NM33AW4Gts5bdzhHz4Bmo1mZmWc6ZNOS26GT4K36CQ3VKzhM73s/s720/donald-trump-mugshot-082423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="639" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63f77zz5M7q3ilcYwL3Bz5z0xMWdR82akXhbmxLM0ST_EItWlbP-L8Efh16aTYJRft1YwsZkCLY_07jWG8XG3Qv1V01JStniOHaEjQOP4IYzCRzSHSOs7ZBZF4g_1Z_HRY9Yx-Go6NM33AW4Gts5bdzhHz4Bmo1mZmWc6ZNOS26GT4K36CQ3VKzhM73s/s320/donald-trump-mugshot-082423.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;">You don't need me to tell you the results, eh. Super Tuesday was (as he said) really Super for President Trump, who already has something like 1000 of the delegate votes he needs to win the Republican nomination.</span><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Nikki Haley didn't congratulate him though, much like offer support. Having spent some $117 million (of other people's money) to win 20 delegates (from Vermont and the Swamp), she now has the chutzpah to say The Donald nees to reach out to all those who voted for her. Yeah... sure...</span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">I watched the results on the Big 3 for a few minutes last night. I started with NBC but had to change channels after about 5 minutes because I could feel my dinner coming up. CBS and ABC weren't much better. The common theme was that the End of Democracy in America is getting near, and all right- <i>["left-". surely. Ed.] </i>thinking people must do whatever it takes (now that weaponizing the courts has failed) to stop the Orange Man.</span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Here are two samples of the kind of unbiased commentary featured in the lickspittle media yesterday. One is actual, and one is satire. See if you can tell which one is the real libtard hysteria. </span> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Mainstream Media Warn If Trump Is Elected He Might Indict His Political Enemies, Imprison Detractors, And Rig Elections In His Favor</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Mainstream media outlets warned this week that if former President Trump is re-elected, he might indict his political enemies, imprison opposing journalists, and change the voting rules of future elections to favor his party. </div><div><br /></div><div>"If none of the Democrats' 73 indictments against Trump work, Trump might gain the power to have political opponents indicted," warned MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow. "It's terrifying to think what could happen if a President were to wield the power to bankrupt opponents with bogus charges or intimidate journalists with legal threats. We are talking a danger the likes of which we have never, ever seen." </div><div><br /></div><div>Other outlets were reportedly quick to also sound the alarm, with CNN running a four-hour segment on how the DOJ must jail Republicans in order to keep Republicans from gaining the power to jail political opponents. CBS News, having recently seized confidential records from a journalist, called for the imprisonment of any journalist who does not write what the government tells them to write. </div><div><br /></div><div>"It's the only way to stop Trump from threatening journalists," explained CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews. "We have to bend or break every moral and ethical rule in existence to keep Trump from breaking the rules." </div><div><br /></div><div>As of publishing time, Trump had been indicted for mass murder after telling his supporters that he promised to drain the D.C. swamp and get rid of all the corruption in the federal government. <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/mainstream-media-warn-if-trump-is-elected-he-might-indict-his-political-enemies-imprison-detractors-and-rig-elections-in-his-favor" target="_blank">SOURCE</a><div><br /></div><div><b>The <i>New York Times </i>is facing backlash over its coverage of Donald Trump and the 2024 election</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The <i>New York Times</i> is facing a sustained wave of backlash.
The Gray Lady has for several weeks been in the crosshairs of a vocal set of critics and readers who believe that Donald Trump poses a grave threat to American democracy and that the influential news organization isn’t adequately conveying those stakes to the public. </div><div><br /></div><div>Criticism of <i>The Times</i> is nothing new, but as it appears with each passing day that Trump has a real shot of recapturing the White House, the expressions of disapproval have become particularly pronounced.
In the view of its critics, <i>The Times</i> has been far too distracted as of late by worries over President Joe Biden’s age, allowing it to steal attention away from the larger and far more serious danger posed by a second Trump administration. </div><div><br /></div><div>Critics have also argued that <i>The Times</i> covers Biden and Trump with disproportionate standards, placing false equivalence on issues surrounding the current president to those of the former president, who is facing 91 criminal counts and fantasized about being a dictator on “day one.” </div><div><br /></div><div>The latest salvo in the now weeks-long stream of criticism against <i>The Times </i>burst into view over the weekend when the newspaper published a poll it conducted with Siena College that found a majority of Biden voters believe he is too old to be an effective president. That poll touched off a torrent of angry commentary directed at the outlet, with some readers even declaring on social media that they had decided to cancel their subscriptions. </div><div><br /></div><div>“That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias — the agenda — in their poll,” Jeff Jarvis, the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, posted on Threads. “Who made age an ‘issue’? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing’s projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.”
“NY Times, did you ask your random voters whether Trump is too insane, doddering, racist, sexist, criminal, traitorous, hateful to be effective as President?” Jarvis asked, adding, “This is not a poll. It is your agenda.” </div><div><br /></div><div>Bill Carter, a media critic who spent the bulk of his career as a media reporter for <i>The Times</i>, suggested on Monday that the newspaper is, of course, imperfect. Carter conceded that “there are occasions when the paper’s coverage seems less attuned to the changing realities of our political dynamic” and that “not enough is made of the fact that one side treats things like truth and science as opponents to be fought and denounced.” </div><div><br /></div><div>“There might be some point to the accusation that the media have not sufficiently rung the alarms to alert the nation to an existential threat to democracy,” Carter said. “But if Democrats lose to Trump after all THAT coverage, the fault will not be in the media, but in themselves.” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/media/new-york-times-trump-coverage-backlash/index.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">If you can't guess which one is "real", click 'SOURCE' to go to the actual article. You'll see a lot more of that bullshit in the coming weeks, as the lickspittle media, as well as their "progressive" masters, are quaking in their boots. I love it!</span></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-17580132655413363122024-03-06T06:59:00.000-08:002024-03-06T06:59:34.964-08:00Canuckistan to get new holiday<p>Seen by Agent 3 on the CTV News Toronto landing page this morning.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPLjcNdxSp2bkkmTJwPAM6fM_IvfAD-nmw1IniUywQboe5v75URHoJ8bk03L66ujeaxtX4LXiqha1yQF3K6i6N_qk3n2Wh3nk4_TRZc9Y09KLLBcIpmMS3ARQnXm0gX03m6YywZt4yNR4OfERGXsn3o4z6W6nyk15Lpt5tPMlhFeMdGap4i5UbLc-7cs/s586/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="586" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPLjcNdxSp2bkkmTJwPAM6fM_IvfAD-nmw1IniUywQboe5v75URHoJ8bk03L66ujeaxtX4LXiqha1yQF3K6i6N_qk3n2Wh3nk4_TRZc9Y09KLLBcIpmMS3ARQnXm0gX03m6YywZt4yNR4OfERGXsn3o4z6W6nyk15Lpt5tPMlhFeMdGap4i5UbLc-7cs/s320/Untitled.png" width="560" /></a></div><p>And these are the people who we're supposed to trust for accurate reporting?</p>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-78187666889693219002024-03-05T06:22:00.000-08:002024-03-05T06:22:47.066-08:00"Major blow to democracy"<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpm6jJAsZAOWlNIf6RQ6ntPNlcEdliOZQtcy1WezGmPWmyTB0GKUY4Nz2huRFNtHKX2ulEKLr2vGgxMXPxFxPPHVfVbKPjoiLjTCzwyqzk2Rh-OCbJrouoyFRgXh-XI4_YvwKYfs4n5qtgeJW3vKihiIlonQ-PBEeHaQWV9-NXvojjFWSOpDVlo9OeGE/s809/SCOTUS%20blow%20to%20democracy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="809" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpm6jJAsZAOWlNIf6RQ6ntPNlcEdliOZQtcy1WezGmPWmyTB0GKUY4Nz2huRFNtHKX2ulEKLr2vGgxMXPxFxPPHVfVbKPjoiLjTCzwyqzk2Rh-OCbJrouoyFRgXh-XI4_YvwKYfs4n5qtgeJW3vKihiIlonQ-PBEeHaQWV9-NXvojjFWSOpDVlo9OeGE/s320/SCOTUS%20blow%20to%20democracy.png" width="560" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/in-shocking-blow-to-democracy-supreme-court-affirms-voters-can-vote-for-candidate-they-want" target="_blank">Click here to read the article</a>. Thanks to Agent 3 for passing this along.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-31428761852512564102024-03-04T10:50:00.000-08:002024-03-04T10:50:55.114-08:009-0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4GSjKPhyphenhyphenFVMGAIECctYPQXm-fL5WJa4Ita0S3CAa4X-uzPSZErai5FHGgwnV3FrpoQYbEHe_wRA6c-nptJT3bpjjU9gBmsCEhLNn_CHB441U-969aDUsThAs5gk6UUcnLOKYISVXkrEH_PoDa8nPAHo_Ob3TQxaTJWOm_046eBkWsseoOxGprb4xksc/s640/Donald-Trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4GSjKPhyphenhyphenFVMGAIECctYPQXm-fL5WJa4Ita0S3CAa4X-uzPSZErai5FHGgwnV3FrpoQYbEHe_wRA6c-nptJT3bpjjU9gBmsCEhLNn_CHB441U-969aDUsThAs5gk6UUcnLOKYISVXkrEH_PoDa8nPAHo_Ob3TQxaTJWOm_046eBkWsseoOxGprb4xksc/s320/Donald-Trump.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that Colorado cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot. The ruling was unanimous, including all three liberal justices. <div><br /></div><div>SCOTUS said only Congress can disqualify a candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment's "Insurrection Clause". </div><div><br /></div><div>Their ruling overturned December's 4-3 opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court that the provision prohibits President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency in 2024. </div><div><br /></div><div>As well, today's ruling partially reversed a prior ruling in November that President Trump is not an officer of the United States as defined by the Fourteenth Amendment and that the Amendment therefore cannot be used to disqualify him from appearing on the Colorado primary ballot. </div><div><br /></div><div>The court wrote: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Proposed by Congress in 1866 and ratified by the States in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment expanded federal power at the expense of state autonomy and thus fundamentally altered the balance of state and federal power struck by the Constitution. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Section 3 works by imposing on certain individuals a preventive and severe penalty—disqualification from holding a wide array of offices—rather than by granting rights to all. It is therefore necessary, as Chief Justice Chase concluded and the Colorado Supreme Court itself recognized, to ‘ascertain what particular individuals are embraced’ by the provision. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Chase went on to explain that to accomplish this ascertainment and ensure effective results, proceedings, evidence, decisions, and enforcements of decisions, more or less formal, are indispensable. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass “appropriate legislation” to “enforce” the Fourteenth Amendment. […] </span></div><div><br /></div><div>The court went on to note that Congress did so by passing the Enforcement Act of 1870. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">This case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Granting the States that authority would invert the Fourteenth Amendment’s rebalancing of federal and state power. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">Nor have the respondents identified any tradition of state enforcement of Section 3 against federal officeholders or candidates in the years following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Such a lack of historical precedent is generally a telling indication of a severe constitutional problem with the asserted power. […] </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">The patchwork that would likely result from state enforcement would sever the direct link that the Framers found so critical between the National Government and the people of the United States as a whole. […] </span></div><div><br /></div><div>The liberal justices referred to above -- Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson -- filed a separate opinion concurring in the judgment that no state can disqualify a federal candidate from the ballot.
</div><div><br /></div><div>And that, my dear liberal friends, is that. Your effort to get the courts steal the 2024 election for you has failed. That's all ye know and all ye need to know.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'll return on the Day After Super Tuesday.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-54482101278554036682024-03-03T08:29:00.000-08:002024-03-03T08:29:16.646-08:00"Allahu akbar!" in Zurich<p><i>Ed. here to repost the first three paragraphs of a report which appeared today on the </i>Breitbart News <i>website. The only edit I've made is to "bold" the last eight words.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dWxIpo6cnQCwpsD1veQup94kvEKwg-ui4O-LGOzhOaWz9uBRhjUhvNIDE4j8x2neuhWwrjzaj3oo7-EEGRzhMcC0TC49_HebYJG-FTmhI5LuooPv1JnaKcQbaL55mSmQHHdmm7tYUpL77LNOki2mSssXTCCFb-BdMwehwuxxMKP7wAia_tkemGOtITQ/s500/Allahu%20akbar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dWxIpo6cnQCwpsD1veQup94kvEKwg-ui4O-LGOzhOaWz9uBRhjUhvNIDE4j8x2neuhWwrjzaj3oo7-EEGRzhMcC0TC49_HebYJG-FTmhI5LuooPv1JnaKcQbaL55mSmQHHdmm7tYUpL77LNOki2mSssXTCCFb-BdMwehwuxxMKP7wAia_tkemGOtITQ/s320/Allahu%20akbar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed multiple times in Zurich on Saturday evening by a knifeman who reportedly shouted out “death to all Jews” and “Allahu Akbar” during the attack.<div><br /></div><div>A 50-year-old man of Orthodox Jewish faith was left with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed multiple times in Switzerland’s largest city at the Brandschenkestrasse/Selnaustrasse junction in Zurich District 2. </div><div><br /></div><div>According to the German-language Swiss newspaper Neue Zùrcher Zeitung, a 15-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene of the attack. Police are currently investigating the potential motive for the attack, including <b>the possibility that it was inspired by antisemitism</b>. <div><br /></div><div><i>Ya think?! <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/03/death-to-all-jews-orthodox-jewish-man-stabbed-by-allahu-akbar-knifeman-in-zurich/" target="_blank">Click here to read the rest</a> of the</i> Breitbart News <i>report. If, when the name and identity of the knifeman are revealed, he turns out not to be a follower of the Prophet, we'll let you know. Don't bother to stay tuned.</i></div></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-17170113651015125222024-03-03T05:41:00.000-08:002024-03-03T05:41:27.697-08:00Economist warns: the bicycle is the slow death of the planet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAt627-13eqHNTKjxz72IwTWhVU_-mwr9qBxZsu59xJY3IX8TcJNEo1sFePCeHY4aWZ_OpDf4l8yPCTalVSNQUsSe-KbffB-O5Lly2RmxeUA69eZFI5Srm3rATZy9EzUGtR4wFr1_orwRY6fqwCJf5w6En6tG25Qh535y481pQVZZDAbYrhSMmzSHb2Mw/s591/Pope%20bicycle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="439" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAt627-13eqHNTKjxz72IwTWhVU_-mwr9qBxZsu59xJY3IX8TcJNEo1sFePCeHY4aWZ_OpDf4l8yPCTalVSNQUsSe-KbffB-O5Lly2RmxeUA69eZFI5Srm3rATZy9EzUGtR4wFr1_orwRY6fqwCJf5w6En6tG25Qh535y481pQVZZDAbYrhSMmzSHb2Mw/s320/Pope%20bicycle.png" width="238" /></a></div>According to the General Director of Euro Exim Bank, the bicycle is the slow death of the planet. <div><br /></div><div>The noted economist got other economists thinking when he said, "A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. </div><div><br /></div><div>"He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking.</div><div> </div><div>"He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat. Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. [Cyclists] don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product). </div><div><br /></div><div>"On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself." </div><div><br /></div><div>So choose carefully: bicycles or McDonald's? It's worth thinking about!</div><div><br /></div><div>Afterthought: Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to Agent 6, who, to the best of our knowledge, has never been seen riding a bicycle.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Footnote</b>: Did you notice the name of the manufacturer of this fine penny-farthing bicycle. Here all this time I thought Popes were elected by the princes of the Church... for better or (in the case of the incumbent) worse.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-68734284757799694662024-03-01T05:54:00.000-08:002024-03-01T05:54:27.667-08:00"Here's what you do next..."Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan from 1984 to 1993, used to say, "Every day when I wake up, I stretch out my hands. If I don't feel a box, it's a good day!" Yesterday was not a good day for Lyin' Brian, who is reported to have died peacefully, surrounded by his family, not one of whom was seen with knife in hand. A stake will be driven through his heart in a ceremony on Parliament Hill this weekend.<div><br /></div><div>During his lifetime, Mr Mulroney became infamous for "rolling the dice" with his country's future. He lost. He also earned his reputation as Canada's most corrupt PM since Sir John Eh Macdonald. Few will forget his testimony at the Oliphant Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Respecting Business and. Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable. Brian Mulroney [sic] that he had said nothing about having received an envelope containing $1000 bills [since demonetized] because "No-one asked me!"</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfnpJDehkNYNgbc4jlXscBxhj-m7BZx_ubOzWhu0M-0zQTiiB3OHjOoHLNmfCUoNyNFifFhCWvml6YAxMtLZJYLqXua3Dli5NwIAt1YXzBhza3bfo78RS3g5C6bj0VyuZcbWfCdJv9W2cPFSWK46-HK6xITUe2Yo0kKg-0GzwR7vttPzETCeVs94OdXk8/s681/2%20most%20loathed%20Canuck%20PMs.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="681" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfnpJDehkNYNgbc4jlXscBxhj-m7BZx_ubOzWhu0M-0zQTiiB3OHjOoHLNmfCUoNyNFifFhCWvml6YAxMtLZJYLqXua3Dli5NwIAt1YXzBhza3bfo78RS3g5C6bj0VyuZcbWfCdJv9W2cPFSWK46-HK6xITUe2Yo0kKg-0GzwR7vttPzETCeVs94OdXk8/s320/2%20most%20loathed%20Canuck%20PMs.png" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div>In recent years, the turd -- the burnished by regular polishings by the <i>Globe and Mail</i> and the <i>Notional Pest </i>-- occupied the position of eminence grise to current Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. The two are seen here planning discussing the future of Canuckistan and the world at... wait for it... the World Economic Forum. That's all ye know and all ye need to know about Canadian politics.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Memo to Ed</b>.: I am well aware of the adage "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." I just can't do it. No "Ave arque vale" from me.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-74863679680127208192024-02-27T07:59:00.000-08:002024-02-27T07:59:52.568-08:00VIDEO: Why the weaponized FBI is targeting traditional CatholicsLast November, Most Rev. Joseph Strickland was "fired" by "Pope" Francis from his position as Bishop of Tyler (Texas). His crime? Opposing globalism, wokeism, and the leader of the New Church of the World Order. <div><br /></div><div>Following an apostolic visitation (a word with some interesting meanins) in September, several of Francis' cronies in the Vatican advised him Francis to pressure "Bishop Joe" to resign. But the good bishop refused to bend the knee! In October he penned an open letter to the faithful saying "[resigning] would be me abandoning the flock that I was given charge of by Pope Benedict XVI." </div><div><br /></div><div>On 31 October 2023, at the Rome Life Forum of <i>LifeSiteNews</i>, Bishop Strickland read out a letter (attributed to a "friend") which included the question: "Would you now allow this one [Francis] who has pushed aside the true Pope [Benedict XVI] and has attempted to sit on a chair that is not his define what the church is to be?" The letter also described Francis as an "usurper of Peter's chair" and "an expert at producing cowards". </div><div><br /></div><div>Bishop Strickland did not dispute these accusations, and described the letter as "challenging". He then made his own comment that Pope Francis backed the Vatican's "attack on the sacred". He was asked to resign on 9 November, and, after refusing again, was deposed on 11 November 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the prelate has not been silenced. He continues to stand up and speak up for the True Faith, whenever and wherever he can. Last week he spoke at CPAC at National Harbor Maryland. His subject was the FBI's investigation of traditional Catholics, revealed in hearings before the House Judiciary Committee last fall. See "<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-details-extent-fbis-weaponization-law-enforcement-against#:~:text=Under%20the%20guise%20of%20tackling,Richmond%20memorandum%20is%20a%20startling" target="_blank">New Report Details the Extent of the FBI's Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Traditional Catholics</a>".</div><div><br /></div><div>Bishop Strickland was interviewed on this and related topics by <i><b>Breitbart News</b></i>' Matthew Perdie. Listen carefully as he gives a clear and concise explanation of why the liberals, wokesters, and Deep State have a hate-on for traditional Catholics and other Christians.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4dfhp9/?pub=zpb3m" width="560"></iframe></div><div><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Key takeaway</span></b> (at about the 5th minute): “The Catholic Church is, and should be, totally opposed to this woke agenda … <b><span style="color: #351c75;">The Catholic Church should reject [the woke agenda] because it’s a rejection of God. It’s a rejection of who we are: created in the image and likeness of God</span></b>... [Tyrannical leaders] are threatened by those who stand for the truth and won’t budge."</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-35026334800630852752024-02-26T11:26:00.000-08:002024-03-05T06:26:03.082-08:00I know! I know!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRKewub61-3X62tXFHg8BtszpIJyyI13v7b1QhVNGm7tCN1OK3zhpvH6YsbtHqe2lVlWdA6_YR0RpUHnL6tOfc_eUAwv_YnO5nqvp6dWZ7uTMDbp5fl4CdRRQf8TJNjqxnnBxsn061nSJP90LuDhT12Kfec2QzXjdYhn8mlSHsweIUTFWaYSXYb6ebJY/s1024/Ramireztoon.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1024" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRKewub61-3X62tXFHg8BtszpIJyyI13v7b1QhVNGm7tCN1OK3zhpvH6YsbtHqe2lVlWdA6_YR0RpUHnL6tOfc_eUAwv_YnO5nqvp6dWZ7uTMDbp5fl4CdRRQf8TJNjqxnnBxsn061nSJP90LuDhT12Kfec2QzXjdYhn8mlSHsweIUTFWaYSXYb6ebJY/s320/Ramireztoon.jpeg" width="560" /></a> </div><div>Speaking of Demented Joe... here's the latest evidence, complete with video, that Brandon has lost the plot: "<a href="https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/biden-calls-xi-the-russian-leader-knab/?utm_source=sheri&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">Biden Calls Xi the Russian Leader, Botches Lincoln Quote, Forgets Obama’s Name in Disastrous Speech</a>", by Kyle Becker, in <i>Trending Politics</i>, 25/2/24.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thinking Democrats <i>[Oxymoron of the Month. Ed.]</i> know Joe's goose is cooked. It will be interesting to see how many of them mark their ballots for "uncommitted" in tomorrow's Michigan primary.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-62306684924319377542024-02-25T07:17:00.000-08:002024-02-25T08:22:04.996-08:00Just like the Holiday InnTurns out that South Carolina is not like Pennsylvania or Arizona. Truckloads of ballots did not arrive in the middle of the night to enable Nikki Haley to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. <i>[Did you make that up? Ed.]</i><div><br /></div><div>The lickspittle media raced to be the first to declare a result, with ABC the winner, calling Trump the winner at approximately 7:00:09 EST. Here are the final numbers.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Yn4AXFD8Q619yH8G7VjWfrY_uyAeLkaoJi_r4ocu4Tum6VtNuL56XEqaf3CaVI7v8NOh0fWnJyAyI6yrcSETjCppsYfDRwOjrpJkyKztlwadZSyDlNx-myaFqVJzxaqjPcRyFriCRdzP_Q38BF-p1d7El-HcoEETR9bqybJPISGCj84GmMh2xtBJxfs/s610/Trump-Above-All.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="610" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Yn4AXFD8Q619yH8G7VjWfrY_uyAeLkaoJi_r4ocu4Tum6VtNuL56XEqaf3CaVI7v8NOh0fWnJyAyI6yrcSETjCppsYfDRwOjrpJkyKztlwadZSyDlNx-myaFqVJzxaqjPcRyFriCRdzP_Q38BF-p1d7El-HcoEETR9bqybJPISGCj84GmMh2xtBJxfs/s320/Trump-Above-All.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><b>President Trump</b>: 451,905 votes (59.8%), winning all 44 delegates to the GOP convention</div><div>Nikki Haley: 298,681 (39.5%), winning NO delegates</div><div>Ron DeSantis: 2951 votes (0.4%)</div><div>Vivek Ramaswamy: 728 votes (<0.1%). </div><div>Walt's percentage of correct predictions (see yesterday's post): .990.</div><div><br /></div><div>So... no surprises, then. Just like the Holiday Inn. Walt notes two things.</div><div><br /></div><div>First... the Republican Party belongs to President Trump, whether the RINOs and never-Trumpers (Hello, David Frum) like it or not. Whatever demographic or regional divisions may have existed in the past have been largely swept away. As proof of this, I offer the prospect of Senator Tim Scott being offered the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second... the Dumbocrats must now be seriiously considering showing President Brandon the exit door, while there is still time <i>[about a minute and a half. Ed.]</i> to find another candidate for the presidensity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some Dems are putting on a brave face, saying Demented Joe is the only one who could beat the Orange Man, but the operative word there is "could"... not "will". If you're an independent voter and have to choose between two old white guys with health and legal issues, which one would you trust to pilot the ship of state through the stormy seas that lie ahead. <i>[That's enough metaphors. Ed.]</i></div><div><br /></div><div>That brings us back to "<a href="https://waltwhitemansworld.blogspot.com/2024/01/waiting-in-wings-or-maybe-just-outside.html">Waiting in the wings... or maybe just outside the window?</a>", WWW 22/1/24. Mrs Barrack Hussein Obama would be a plausible candidate, but my guess is that she would only throw her do-rag in the ring once Brandon is tail-lights, and <i>if</i> Deep State has everything rigged so that she couldn't possibly lose.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ms Haley vows to go on to Michigan and Super Tuesday. Whether or not she is able to find the support -- especially financial support -- necessary to do so doesn't matter. She was effectively cooked -- fried -- last night. After Super Tuesday is when the Democratic long knives will come out. Stay tuned.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">To that point</span></b>: "<a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/democrats-would-have-this-election-in-the-bag-if-not-for-joe-biden" target="_blank">Democrats would have this election in the bag, if not for Joe Biden</a>", by Colby Cosh, in the <i>National Post</i>, 25/1/24.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-7892837051377610902024-02-24T08:36:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:36:10.967-08:00"Allahu akbar!" in ViennaAs is well known, there is no prostitution in countries where the Religion of Peace (TM) dominates in law or in fact. Prostitution is <i>haram</i>... dirty... taboo... not good. In other countries, where people are not wise enough to follow the teachings of the Prophet, prostitution and prostitutes must be eliminated. Thus such societies can be cleansed.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXzYL5DXrJVveo4wz83GVNI-4hbmZD1PP19qlqYbK8toNHgVdyBZkBbrfwg4PmrOUbvVQMveC3fgn37rmrJ1Zu91e0AS761MdI_lAvd6OVnusJ2VOMDsjV0ZfhedPf63yRvJHvNOPBYqkg1z4jsg2xMa6hAgMHFIsxjA9Gj4G6R_kUyB5d0EptI3P6Kg/s624/Refugees%20welcome.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="624" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXzYL5DXrJVveo4wz83GVNI-4hbmZD1PP19qlqYbK8toNHgVdyBZkBbrfwg4PmrOUbvVQMveC3fgn37rmrJ1Zu91e0AS761MdI_lAvd6OVnusJ2VOMDsjV0ZfhedPf63yRvJHvNOPBYqkg1z4jsg2xMa6hAgMHFIsxjA9Gj4G6R_kUyB5d0EptI3P6Kg/s320/Refugees%20welcome.png" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div><div>That explains the news just in over the AP mojo wire from Austria, where police in Vienna launched a criminal investigation after three women were found dead in a brothel yesterday. (Brothels are legal in Austria.) A witness discovered traces of blood outside the building, located near the Danube River, and alerted police.</div><div><br /></div><div>"The bodies of the three victims had cuts and stab wounds," said a spokesthingy for der Polizei. Police found a fourth woman inside the brothel, and are questioning her as a witness. The identities and ethnicity of the three victims remains unclear.</div><div><br /></div><div>A 27-year-old man was arrested in the vicinity of the brothel while carrying a knife, which the cops say is the murder weapon. The man arrested, who is even now helping police with their investigations, is... wait for it... an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan.</div></div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-3268489415355121282024-02-24T06:13:00.000-08:002024-02-24T06:13:31.341-08:00VIDEO: Walt predicts the outcome of the South Carolina primary<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4cto80/?pub=zpb3m" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>OK, so it's a Trump ad. Anyone who thinks this is wrong is welcome to put his/her money down. Contact Ed's Barbershop, Fort Mudge. Lifetime pct .989.</div>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2506843172203579932.post-89194389102897988052024-02-24T05:19:00.000-08:002024-02-24T05:19:03.234-08:00Entering the third year of Putin's war on Ukraine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPcg3MO0hYiKpWUQyJxccQUsVJpzziRW6s4rbnVApv25Qz9LyoryHJsw97Z6VJ9co49zPdo7E8wDlMwewbXDm6FqkPxzo31ylB2Xru77QWTqY8be69hRS9Epyn43q92L6OTwpBZuwQWl6R5341pAVNmzhXzT2lHKuTqWoQgVobNurrlmtSaX5QcISbxQ/s500/we-support-ukraine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPcg3MO0hYiKpWUQyJxccQUsVJpzziRW6s4rbnVApv25Qz9LyoryHJsw97Z6VJ9co49zPdo7E8wDlMwewbXDm6FqkPxzo31ylB2Xru77QWTqY8be69hRS9Epyn43q92L6OTwpBZuwQWl6R5341pAVNmzhXzT2lHKuTqWoQgVobNurrlmtSaX5QcISbxQ/s320/we-support-ukraine.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span face="sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">Слава Україні! </span><span face="sans-serif" style="text-align: left;">Героям слава!</span></b></span></div><p></p>Walt Whitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657681123842072884noreply@blogger.com0