Question 13
At the VMA music awards Sunday, they gave 'a big shout out for the people in Haiti.' That's great. How will we know it worked?
If you missed the VMA awards, you might look for it. It was incredible, with an emphasis on shouting announcers, unintelligible lyrics, lots of skin and buttocks, indecipherable ads, a woman with a chair on her head, and a lesbian scene with a crucified woman. It was like an old-time sideshow.
Do you think the ChiComs will be able to cut back on their anti-American propaganda budget?
Aaaaannndddd......AOC at the Met Gala! Ticket, $30,000:
In the gospel last Sunday, Christ tells the apostles that he is going to suffer, die, and be raised from the dead. Peter tries to talk him out of it and Christ says, "Get behind me, Satan." This is reminiscent of the temptation in the desert. There is a lot of spiritual logic in the conversation (You do not think like God) but there is an underlying quality in both suggestions Christ rejects: both are displays of power, not acts. Both separate him from us. Both are easy solutions to the problem, salvation at the point of a gun.
Display vs Act--is there some application to modern times?
A new study from Israel confirms that natural immunity to Covid-19 is superior to vaccine-induced immunity, even with the Delta variant. So are there some who are better candidates for natural immunity than vaccines?
Diffidence is rather an unfailing, pervasive awareness of the limitations of all human reason, of even any number of human minds, and especially of one’s own. The gentleman’s diffidence follows from recognizing that he can never see all around his constantly changing world.--Shirley Robin Letwin on the 'gentleman's virtues.' Connotation of unworthiness or inferiority not in the observers but in the evidence observed?
A network of fake social media accounts linked to the Chinese government has attempted to draw Americans out to real-world protests against anti-Asian-American racism and popular but unsubstantiated allegations that China engineered the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, according to U.S. security firms. Will the lies and manipulation ever stop? Will the future select out only the mendacious?
China’s ongoing crackdown on the country’s entertainment industry stepped up a notch on Thursday after the state media regulator called for the boycott of “sissy” boybands and effeminate men on television, the end of reality talent shows, and a ban on vulgar social media influencers among a raft of other measures.
“Sissy idols” is a direct reference to boy bands that enjoy massive popularity in China. Acts such as TFBoys, Uniq, Super Junior-M and Exo-M have been the long-running target of criticism for wearing makeup and being focused on high fashion as opposed to what the state considers traditional masculine interests. The new regulations have now codified existing criticism.
The regulator is also calling for a boycott of stars who flaunt their wealth online or on social media, a ban on people that trade in entertainment gossip as well as “vulgar” social media influencers.
Four dissenting Supreme Court Justices warned last year that the majority’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma would cause chaos in the Sooner State and beyond. Their warning is coming true in the underreported story of the year, as Justice Neil Gorsuch’s misguided opinion has created legal and economic havoc. It's worth looking up. Is this a special insight into the mindset of the Left and its chaotic legacies?
A new study from Israel confirms that natural immunity to Covid-19 is superior to vaccine-induced immunity, even with the Delta variant. So are there some who are better candidates for natural immunity than vaccines?
Diffidence is rather an unfailing, pervasive awareness of the limitations of all human reason, of even any number of human minds, and especially of one’s own. The gentleman’s diffidence follows from recognizing that he can never see all around his constantly changing world.--Shirley Robin Letwin on the 'gentleman's virtues.' Connotation of unworthiness or inferiority not in the observers but in the evidence observed?
A network of fake social media accounts linked to the Chinese government has attempted to draw Americans out to real-world protests against anti-Asian-American racism and popular but unsubstantiated allegations that China engineered the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, according to U.S. security firms. Will the lies and manipulation ever stop? Will the future select out only the mendacious?
China’s ongoing crackdown on the country’s entertainment industry stepped up a notch on Thursday after the state media regulator called for the boycott of “sissy” boybands and effeminate men on television, the end of reality talent shows, and a ban on vulgar social media influencers among a raft of other measures.
“Sissy idols” is a direct reference to boy bands that enjoy massive popularity in China. Acts such as TFBoys, Uniq, Super Junior-M and Exo-M have been the long-running target of criticism for wearing makeup and being focused on high fashion as opposed to what the state considers traditional masculine interests. The new regulations have now codified existing criticism.
The regulator is also calling for a boycott of stars who flaunt their wealth online or on social media, a ban on people that trade in entertainment gossip as well as “vulgar” social media influencers.
Who thought good taste would finally emerge, brought by totalitarians?
Why don't Afghan lives matter?
The Texas abortion decision does not mean much. It was a procedural decision. But it probably means that the Court has the votes to overturn Roe. Abortion is complex but its legal status is quite simple: the difference between what some people would like and what the structure of the government allows. Isn't this the crux of most things?
President Joe Biden said during a virtual event with leaders in the Jewish community Thursday that he visited the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh following the murder of 11 people during a service in 2018. Synagogue officials responded that he has never visited. Yet no one blinked. Somewhere at some time, did we decide not to take any of these people seriously? Do they know that yet?
How much extra we would need to find to finance Social Security for the next 75 years. Here the change in just one year is alarming. This deficit jumped $3 trillion last year, from $16.8 trillion to $19.8 trillion. That’s a huge change — 18% — in a single year. And note that this figure, for 2020, reflects only part of the crisis.
That figure is how much money we’d have to find right now, in theory, if we wanted to put the trust fund on a financially sound basis immediately.
It’s nearly equal to an entire year’s U.S. gross domestic product.
And to make it financially stable forever? $59.8 trillion, or nearly three times U.S. GDP. And that rocketed $6.8 trillion in a year.
The Texas abortion decision does not mean much. It was a procedural decision. But it probably means that the Court has the votes to overturn Roe. Abortion is complex but its legal status is quite simple: the difference between what some people would like and what the structure of the government allows. Isn't this the crux of most things?
President Joe Biden said during a virtual event with leaders in the Jewish community Thursday that he visited the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh following the murder of 11 people during a service in 2018. Synagogue officials responded that he has never visited. Yet no one blinked. Somewhere at some time, did we decide not to take any of these people seriously? Do they know that yet?
How much extra we would need to find to finance Social Security for the next 75 years. Here the change in just one year is alarming. This deficit jumped $3 trillion last year, from $16.8 trillion to $19.8 trillion. That’s a huge change — 18% — in a single year. And note that this figure, for 2020, reflects only part of the crisis.
That figure is how much money we’d have to find right now, in theory, if we wanted to put the trust fund on a financially sound basis immediately.
It’s nearly equal to an entire year’s U.S. gross domestic product.
And to make it financially stable forever? $59.8 trillion, or nearly three times U.S. GDP. And that rocketed $6.8 trillion in a year.
What amount of money and how much incompetence will get our attention? How about a model for that?
The government was accused Tuesday of wrongly taking credit for, and even actively obstructing, the first mission to get Americans out since the completion of the withdrawal at the end of August. Wait. What?
The government was accused Tuesday of wrongly taking credit for, and even actively obstructing, the first mission to get Americans out since the completion of the withdrawal at the end of August. Wait. What?
A two-commissioner panel of the state Board of Parole Hearings concluded on Aug. 27 that the convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, 77, is suitable for parole. If we agree that jails are not for social revenge and if we agree that people are rarely rehabilitated, what are jails for? Put another way, is there something you can do that just disqualifies you from enjoying citizenship with the rest of us?
A Russian-backed warlord vying for power in Libya has hired ex-senior Clinton aide Lanny Davis and former GOP lawmaker Bob Livingston to lead a $1 million effort to lobby the Biden administration for support. Does the disgusting ever become criminal?
A Russian-backed warlord vying for power in Libya has hired ex-senior Clinton aide Lanny Davis and former GOP lawmaker Bob Livingston to lead a $1 million effort to lobby the Biden administration for support. Does the disgusting ever become criminal?
Four dissenting Supreme Court Justices warned last year that the majority’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma would cause chaos in the Sooner State and beyond. Their warning is coming true in the underreported story of the year, as Justice Neil Gorsuch’s misguided opinion has created legal and economic havoc. It's worth looking up. Is this a special insight into the mindset of the Left and its chaotic legacies?
COVID-19 has a “0.2 percent fatality rate among people not living in institutions.” Fully 80 percent of deaths have occurred among people over 65 and just 358 children under the age of 17 had died of the disease as of July 29, 2021. Does this imply that the medical efforts should be more targeted or is the generalized approach with all its anger and criticism working just fine?
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Still campaigning For AOC, iI deduce
I'd put her up against Dr. Britt Baker
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