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June 21, 2020
At the Milkweed Café...
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Spread the news to all the local butterflies.
It’s Now Clearer Than Ever Before, Science Bends Itself To Fit Left Wing Politics
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2020/06/20/bastasch-science-bends-itself-to-fit-left-wing-politics?__twitter_impression=true
@nytimes
· Jun 21
Theodore Roosevelt's statue will be removed from the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The memorial has long prompted objections as a symbol of colonialism.
https://nyti.ms/2YZX7Ui
Where are my manners? Happy Fathers Day--my son is back at his old job (and much happier) so that's gift enough for me, but he bought me a big bag of mushrooms at the Midtown farmer's market yesterday and I ate most of them for dinner tonight. Mmmmm . . . mushrooms.
He's become a gourmand, a cook, and herb gardener, and knew the names of most of the six varieties, but I only eat them.
Those Trump and Biden vids are depressing--both of those guys are older than me!
Narr
I'm becoming the cranky old bastard my father didn't live long enough to become--it's the least I can do to honor him
"Milkweed" is a wonderful flower which has a constellation almost named after it - in summer the bright stars above Antares (that big red star that is always in the southern skies in summer from the United States) are considered by us humans, so far away from the stars themselves, to be part of a constellation whose Latin name is very very close to the real word that people who lived long long ago and spoke what we now called Latin called milkweed.
Trust me. I could talk about the Greek words, too, but that would be showing off. It would be interesting to some people, though, but those people don't need me to tell them about Greek philology, they already know, or at least want to know, which is almost as good, and maybe better.
Where were you people last night? We all thought this would be the MEGA MAGA counter protest for the ages. Instead, crickets. Chickenhawks gonna Chickenhawk. Looking forward to hearing more of your fears talking big about your guns and ammo and the coming civil war. Keep apocalyptic hope alive.
What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom? Bullshit, man!
is Brett still your Favre-ite QB
...or has he gone too Far?
Brett Favre explains how Colin Kaepernick is similar to Pat Tillman. https://readsn.com/2YY84FR
Howard - please read the twitter feed of Carlos Osweda for enlightenment on "where you people {were} last night}.
You know, there is a lot about this world that you can learn, if you try.
Seriously, "chickenhawks" ?---- walk into the local VFW and tell the Trump supporters there your honest opinion of them.
The TR statue outside NHM in NYC is, let's face it, weird. Commissioned in 1925, it has been attacked for years and almost removed before. Why? Because it depicts TR on a horse with a Native American and African man, both primitively dressed, following on foot. The sculptor called them 3 heroic figures, but it can easily be given a different meaning.
Roosevelt was considered a moderate on race issues, dubois considered him too moderate so he endorsed woodrow wilson the pne who was pals with thomas dixon who wrote the book 'birth of a nation' was based on
Lysenkoism is alive and well at Michigan State University.
"Today for #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM, the GEU and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for the removal of Stephen Hsu as VP of Research and Graduate Studies at @michiganstateu."
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"We are faculty, students, support staff, and allies within and outside Michigan State University demanding that Stephen Hsu be removed from his position as Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation.
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By signing this open letter we ask MSU to follow through to its commitment to be a diverse and inclusive institution and to change its institutional and administrative practices so that the passion and talent of Black scholars, Indigenous scholars, and other scholars of color (BIPOC) can be recognized and fostered within these university halls."
"We currently have 820 signatures."
"See another internal letter started by MSU faculty, currently signed by 546 faculty, staff, and graduate students at MSU, here."
This is truly disgusting.
“Looking forward to hearing more of your fears talking big about your guns and ammo and the coming civil war. Keep apocalyptic hope alive.”
Yes, they sure do get animated when talking about their their favorite subjects, guns and the coming civil war. Boogaloo on, Trumpies!
Readering: "The TR statue outside NHM in NYC is, let's face it, weird. Commissioned in 1925, it has been attacked for years and almost removed before. Why? Because it depicts TR on a horse with a Native American and African man, both primitively dressed, following on foot."
LOL
Now do George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, US Grant, memorials to Black soldiers who fought for the Union, WW2 memorials, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, statues of abolitionists, Cervantes, Father Junipero Serra, etc.
Just. Who. Do. You. Think. You. Are. Fooling?
You idiots are on a quest to "cancel" western civilization, which explains your open alliance with islamic extremists, ChiComs, other marxists across the globe along with your demands to rewrite the Constitution in order to establish your more Perfect Leftist Utopia On Earth as well as your book/movie/art cancellations.
Might as well call them burnings.......which is what the left does "best".
Howard: "Where were you people last night?"
Waiting for the latest stories of intrepid Howard's Heroes reporting on the whereabouts of Jewish children and women in schools and in parks.
"We Need to Burn This Sh*t Down… The West Is Falling!" --Black Lives Matter Protest in London
Yep, its all about the Confederacy in the United States.....................not.
I think favre was playing without a helmet ir remembering jenn starger same difference.
dubois considered him too moderate so he endorsed woodrow wilson the pne who was pals with thomas dixon who wrote the book 'birth of a nation' was based on
6/21/20, 9:12 PM
Wilson showed the movie "Birth of a Nation" at the White House. Just another Democrat progressive racist.
Fernandinande, thank you for the links about Hsu. For a long time, I thought STEM was exempt from this PC bullcrap. It is very frightening to see that it is not. The "pro-science progressives" are dragging us back to the Dark Ages.
Chickenhawks gonna Chickenhawk. Looking forward to hearing more of your fears talking big about your guns and ammo and the coming civil war. Keep apocalyptic hope alive.
Howard had unknown allies, except for the CCP which owns Tik Tok.
Jeannie and I had reserved tickets to attend the rally. Although somewhat chaotic with people driving by yelling obscenities at us as we walked, a mean mug or two and a fight or two breaking out around us, everything wasn’t actually that bad. However, finding a gate entrance was quite the task…nothing was clarified – and NO..no protesters were blocking entrances.
We finally found how to get in. At the exact moment we approached the first barrier (police tape) there were police lined up at the tape and at the opening we were greeted by the Secret service or contract military (not sure who they were) at 6:05 p.m. who told us, along with a multitude of others at our gate (there was three separate entrance gates at various locations) that we could not enter.
We asked why? They said that the BOK had reached its capacity and the temperature checkers had left prematurely and acted pretty smug about it which I thought was strange. Some who waited with us said they had friends on the inside who text and told them that there were still many empty seats available. So, we waited at the police tape entrance dumb founded for 20 minutes until the police line started backing up and went through a 10 foot fence and chained and locked the gate. No other explanation.
Further, no one was even allowed into the jumbotron area to watch the rally and speeches outside. We walked with a man on our way back to our car, who was on the inside but decided to leave, who also said that there were many more seats available. This is the absolute first hand truth.
So, we drove home to watch what was left of the rally on TV. We saw many empty seats in the background, hearing nothing but lies from reporters stating that the Trump rally didn’t have the turnout that they expected inside and no one even turned out to rally outside to watch the jumbotron (which is exactly what a supporter waiting with us said the media would say). Nothing but lies! We were lied to! They locked a multitude of us out! They even reported that Trump was surprised at the low turnout. If I can get a message to the President, I will tell him how they duped him at this rally and how he is getting played by those who surround him.”
I don't know these people but I believe them.
A statue of Barack Obama was torn down in Oregon.
Nobody tell readering that the Leftist Collectivists want to erase history.
Tim Murtaugh - Download the Trump 2020 app today!
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Some facts about the Tulsa rally:
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12,000 people made it past protestors thorough the metal detectors
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The lower bowl of the arena holds 9,000 by itself & was full.
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12,000 is about 11,990 more than attended Joe Biden’s last event.
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Over 8.3 million have watched online
In other news
https://mobile.twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/127484083986540954
Miss Ann's definition of "cruel neutrality" obviously encompasses a detachment from the destruction of Western Civilization. WhatEv.
FACE IT, Miss Ann: you cannot hold yourself out as a neutral observer of the destruction of all the values, precepts and the institutions underlying them, and expect us to VALUE your prissy opinions about NYT articles and the barbarism you refuse to acknowledge.
You're not just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, you're twiddling with their back support settings. "Is that more comfy"?
Meanwhile, the ship in sinking. Fast.
MISS ANN: Can you imagine any future life where you would remotely have a shot at getting the law prof gig you had??? Do you think "cruel neutrality" is the wave of the future?
Over 56 people were shot in Chicago by Father's Day weekend. I'm sure the number is higher now.
Happy Father's Day, Windy City.
Are there any FDR statues going begging ...
Some people say that Trump is devisive.
These same people believe that Americans must be divided between "the children of slaves" and the "children of slave masters."
Howie the fake ex-Marine is hitting the bottle tonight.
Did you enjoy Father's Day a bit too much?
I feel worst for Drago.
a lot of people are offended by necrophilia and incest.
The Pietà should be removed.
The sculptor called it a "religious vision of abandonment and a serene face of the Son," thus the representation of the communion between man and God by the sanctification through Christ, but it can easily be given a different meaning.
The statue of Moses, also by Michelangelo, should be removed, since it too could be taken to be offensive. Although the sculptor carved horns as rays of light, that can easily be given a different meaning.
As "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder", so too unwokeness.
Artist's intent has no bearing in the validity/significance of their work.
Today, unerring Arbiters of Wokeness will lead astute, rational groups in
deciding which works shall remain in public view, and, with the prudent,
respectful use of appropriate block-and-tackle, purge toxic influences
from the public psyche.
we ask MSU to follow through to its commitment to be a diverse and inclusive institution . . . so that the passion and talent of . . . scholars of color (BIPOC) can be recognized and fostered within these university halls
That's why they demanded that a person of color be run out on a rail. Well, they succeeded. Hsu has resigned.
The racists won.
I once wove a lovely hair wreath out of milkweed and ageratum to complete my Renaissance Faire costume.
Sokal failed. My heart breaks.
"John Bolton exclusive interview: Trump does not represent the Republican cause that I want to back,"
Wow.
I don't know how much the Trump campaign paid Bolton to say that publicly, but whatever it was it was worth it!
bolton may take great notes but his reasoning nuts. Impeachment inquiry should have ezpanded and continued for months after even US government had to start doing something about covid. At least he could have made it possible by being a whistle-blower on obstruction of criminal probes.
NY Post June 21, 2020 | 11:20pm
NYC shootings skyrocket as court closures let pistol perps walk free
'City shootings piled up at a rate of one per hour on Saturday — with more gunplay on Sunday — as an NYPD chief warned that hundreds of gun-possession defendants have been allowed to prowl Gotham thanks to coronavirus-closed courts.
“We have over 1,000 people that have been indicted on a gun-possession charge, where the cases are open, and they are walking around the streets of New York today,” Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post.
That tally doesn’t include about 800 additional defendants who are charged with illegally packing heat but have yet to be formally indicted when the courts ground to a halt, LiPetri said....'
https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/nyc-shootings-skyrocket-as-court-closures-let-gun-possession-perps-walk-free/
Rest assured: there will be no statues or portraits of Howard anywhere on this planet.
Ever.
Pretty dead here... Kinda like the Tulsa flop. Stephen Cooper, I did glance at Carlos Osweda's Twitter. He sounds a lot like you and your crazy rantings of self aggrandizing your pain and suffering as a disguise for your hatred for the world. He must be a NOTW adherent. Deplorables are not insane enough to read that tripe.
More people were shot in Chicago over the weekend than there were new cases of Covid identified in the state of Maine.
I'm not able to travel to NYC or Chicago on business these days - frequent journeys for me in the past. I'm therefore not paying to stay in a hotel, not ubering around, not dining out. Not alone in staying away I'm thinking the escalation of violence and descent into disorder will continue. I am not complaining about having to do zoom meetings.
For me, every day is Fathers Day, Francisco D.
Quack Mike on the one hand says trumpsters will crawl over broken glass to vote for dear leader. Out of the other side of his mouth he claims that the slightest obstacles prevented hundreds of thousands of people from showing up in Tulsa. Make up your mind Fatboy
Sweden worked out great everybody! That’s what we should have done everybody!
https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1275022647177314304
"More people were shot in Chicago over the weekend than there were new cases of Covid identified in the state of Maine.”
This is the kind of trenchant statistical analysis and concomitant steel trap logic that brings me back to this blog. This is a real home for deep thinkers, that’s for sure.
Make up your mind Fatboy
From the deep thinking progressives. This really sums up how progressives view the world
“ NYC shootings skyrocket as court closures let pistol perps walk free”
“'City shootings piled up at a rate of one per hour on Saturday — with more gunplay on Sunday — as an NYPD chief warned that hundreds of gun-possession defendants have been allowed to prowl Gotham thanks to coronavirus-closed courts.”
The latest misinformation there apparently is that the gunfire being heard is really fireworks being deployed by the police and the feds against them populace.
Blogger Howard said...
Quack Mike on the one hand says trumpsters will crawl over broken glass to vote for dear leader. Out of the other side of his mouth he claims that the slightest obstacles prevented hundreds of thousands of people from showing up in Tulsa. Make up your mind Fatboy
Has Howard been sneaking around my house again ? The thousands that did brave the obscenity spewing lefties (Were you in Tulsa Howard?) seemed enthusiastic.
AOC boasted of using the Chinese company Tik Tok to register thousands of fake attendees and there was fear of the rioters, like the ones that surround all Trump rallies.
One account: My first Trump rally.
The Madison Rising rock group which entertained at the Trump rally posted an account of abuse by a Southwest Airlines attendant because they had Trump gear in their carry on luggage.
Howard, do you work for Southwest Airlines ?
How cute that readering still believes there was a criminal investigation.
Just precious!
tim in vermont,
I notice your steel trap works as designed.
It has closed on a single issue and stays there.
What a clever design.
Hey Tim,
Have they given a breakdown of percent of deaths in nursing homes? From what I've seen, they went with NY's approach to that care..along with some soft euthanasia.
NY is about same pop as Sweden...about half that of Florida. State comparisons are probably more useful given our size and regulatory structure.
Well, tim in vermont, you missed my point, which is at least half my fault I suppose. That comment was not intended as statistical analysis, trenchant or otherwise. It was intended to note that new Covid case counts was deemed more newsworthy by many outlets than the spike in violence in cities like Chicago and NY. Also more newsworthy than the high and rising number of deaths from opiods.
Poetry is a mean excuse for being 'human'
Like tripping up someone
On the way to the bathroom -
You bully your way out of escuses
The soup on your side table,
Your heart in your mouth
It is no longer acceptable for our 13th state to be called "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." When established by Roger Williams, he sought religious freedom and opposed slavery but the combined colony's trade activities principally involved shipping out Newport-distilled rum (an acceptable slave currency) from the state, returning with slaves and gold.
So "Providence Plantations" has to go despite no slave trade activity up north in Providence- according to the judgement of the newly waked generation. But the fact that Rhode island is not an island is inconsequential. There are ten tiny islands in Narragansett Bay on the ocean side of the state but none bear the name Rhode (which means "Red" in Dutch, referring to red clay along the Atlantic shoreline). The Dutch never lived there so Rhode Island and Providence Plantations needs a new name linked to history, such as "Rum" or perhaps named after pirate and rum runner Thomas Tew. Newport Craft Distillery still makes Thomas Tew Rum.
History is unchangeable. Slavery was the state's "number one financial activity" from 1720 to 1807. Between 1709 and 1807, Rhode Island merchants sponsored at least 934 slaving voyages to the coast of Africa and carried an estimated 106,544 slaves to the New World.
Howard - thanks for reading.
You support the killing of unborn babies, I don't.
Remember that.
You and your kind will be remembered a lot less fondly than you imagine, in future years.
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