Our state has evidently lost it’s collective mind. I have no words for what I’ve been reading lately, from mass shootings, unbelievable brutal behavior, and the mind-psychosis in the larger cities. What are they putting in the water?

From the article: The Left insists on putting wildly inappropriate books in elementary school classrooms and libraries. They pretend it’s part of a “diverse” curriculum that teaches tolerance, but it’s really a diseased attempt to indoctrinate kids into LGBTQ+ activism. There have been multiple times when a parent or official tries to read from these books at public meetings, only to be told it’s “inappropriate” to do so. 

They don’t see the cognitive dissonance in this position, of course, and they complain that removing these inappropriate books from the shelves are “bans” (they’re not). But sometimes they’re refreshingly honest, like in this story out of North Carolina.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Rodney Trice was called in to answer questions about the district’s alleged violations of the state’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, and when he was asked about a book titled “Granddad’s Pride,” Trice defended the work, which has men in BDSM gear kissing.”

Read the entire (infuriating) story here

Caveat: This is neither to condemn nor glorify the man. He simply spoke the truth then, and we see the same in America, today. There is a common denominator. There is also a solution.

h/t WRSA for the memes

Rereading Atlas Shrugged has reinforced the fact of the sanction of the victim. We are not fight tyranny: we are enabling it.

I want you to keep these numbers in mind the next time you hear some nitwit US politician or pundit ranting about Iranian sponsorship of terrorism. Hands down, the US is a bigger sponsor of terrorism than Iran by a fact of at least 12.

Here are the numbers from Larry Johnson, Sonar 21.

Larry is only here comparing the Iranians to the USA. He does not mention the numbers with regards to the terrorism in which the United States government has engaged beginning in 1861 and forward in unnecessary wars of aggression.

For the critical thinker, for the skeptic, for the one seeking justice and to remain ethical and true to a moral code, it is important to reject the American myth and accept historical facts. Such is not a pleasant nor comfortable endeavor, neither does such require that one support or approve of the adversaries of the United States. It does often require one to condemn the actions of one’s country. Demanding that one’s country obey it’s own foundational Constitution, international law, and simple decency should be the very definition of Patriot.

Yeah … right …

You’ll note he also admits that Iran cannot even reach the US with its missiles—so what is the whole war about anyway? North Korea certainly can reach the US, and already has nukes, and routinely threatens to use them against the US and its allies, but there’s not a peep from the Israeli-owned dotard about that.

WSJ now reports that the Iran war has snuffed out hopes of US standing any chance in helping Taiwan during a hypothetical Chinese intervention. (And why is that our business, anyway?)

It says it could take up to six years for the US to replenish the spent munitions, and that’s if US doesn’t squander another major portion of them, which it may very well do if Trump resumes military actions as many now predict he will. (Who cares about the national security of the United States? It’s only Israel’s that matters).

The Economist analyzed leading indicators to conclude the situation is already dire, and if the Strait doesn’t soon reopen it can get catastrophic. (Crash the world economy, starve the poor, break the backs of the American taxpayer, destroy Persian civilization, but make Israel ‘Greater‘).

Continue reading Simplicius …

Reality recognition or nuclear nihilism?

The world is threatened by a blockade more deadly than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. That blockade is the refusal among the West’s ruling class to allow entry of any thoughts not conforming to their prejudices, slogans, and unattainable objectives. Their minds are more tightly sealed than Hormuz or Bab-el-Mandeb ever has been. In their credentialed arrogance they preen about their intelligence. They are fools repeatedly rushing in where no angel would tread.

If President Trump’s Iran adventure represents what now passes for his and his administration’s mental processes, the U.S. and the world are in grave danger. This fiasco in progress has bypassed every marker of intellectual proficiency. It offers no cognizance of history, geography, or military reality, no recognition of past mistakes, no lessons learned, no acknowledgement that their may be things about which its perpetrators are ignorant. It’s bereft of elementary common sense, much less wisdom tempered by experience and humility.

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