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My opinion - Anti-vaxxers who weren't alive when polio was rampant should STFU about vaccines
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I was born in 1953 and I remember as a child
no offense to anyone here from Maine, it is a beautiful state, but the above phrase just doesn't strike the fear I'm sure mainer hoped it would.
Stop telling us what we're going to do. We're Mainers. We do whatever we damn well please.
The Trump administration has transformed a D.C. plaza known as a hotspot of leftist protests into a forum for celebrating one of the too-often-forgotten Founding Fathers and Revolutionary War soldiers.
Freedom Plaza received its current name in 1988 as a tribute to civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. While MLK was personally corrupt, his cause was an excellent and laudable one. That cannot be said of many of the activists who followed in more recent years and transformed the plaza into a scene of chaos and lawlessness to support far-left causes — especially the BLM rioters in 2020.
Not too long ago, activists were screaming their support for serial criminal George Floyd in the plaza. Now, heading into America’s 250th birthday, Freedom Plaza features 13 statues honoring our founding. The number 13 seems to be a tribute to the original 13 colonies. “This exhibition featuring Caesar Rodney and the 12 Soldiers of the Revolutionary War is a powerful tribute to the patriots whose service and sacrifice helped secure the freedoms we enjoy today," Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox News.
For the full story of Caesar Rodney and his midnight ride that guaranteed American independence, read my previous article. You might remember that the Continental Congress actually voted for independence on July 2, though they did not agree on the exact draft for their declaration until July 4, which is why that is considered our national birthday. But on July 1, it seemed as if independence might not happen at all. The independence coalition, which included John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, needed Delaware's vote, and when it came to the proposal from Virginian Richard Henry Lee that “these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states,” the two Delaware delegates in Philadelphia at the time (Thomas McKean and George Read) disagreed with each other.
Rodney, who was a militia colonel as well as a delegate to Congress, was in Delaware when he found out about the situation in Philadelphia. Despite suffering from more than one medical condition at the time, Rodney mounted a horse and rode for 18 hours straight through the night and miserably rainy weather so he would arrive in Philadelphia in time to break his state delegation’s deadlock and vote for independence. The statue in Freedom Plaza shows Rodney on horseback as he made his history-shaping gallop.
A Muslim was murdered outside an Eid service in Minneapolis last week, and initially, it was a story made to order for the left’s victimhood industry. It even seemed to be a genuine example of “Islamophobia,” which is as rare in real life as Nancy Pelosi stock losses. The far left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, swung into action, and leftist politicians chimed in with the requisite displays of outrage and sorrow.
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CrimeWatchMpls reported on X on May 27 that “A shooting took place in the parking lot at Canterbury Park, a Muslim event was scheduled to take place in the Expo Center at Canterbury.” Even though nothing had yet been revealed about the shooter, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Planned Parenthood), who is running for governor of Minnesota, hurried that evening to imply that the shooting was an instance of “Islamophobia”: “On this Eid al-Adha, I’m thinking of Minnesota’s Muslim community and all those gathered in prayer today, especially following today’s tragic shooting at an Eid prayer service at Canterbury Park. My thoughts are with the victim's family and the entire community.”
CBS Minnesota published a story on May 28 that ran hard with the “Islamophobia” angle. In its lead paragraph, CBS highlighted the identity of the victim and the setting of the crime: “A suspect is in custody in connection to Wednesday morning's shooting outside of a Twin Cities Eid al-Adha prayer service, which killed 26-year-old union leader Khalid Ibrahim Abdi.”
Driving its point home, CBS brought in Suleiman Adan, deputy executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). What Adan said — “This is not just a headline for another story across people's timelines, this is a family waking up to a reality no family should ever have to" — was innocuous enough, but just the fact that CAIR was invoked gave the strong impression that the murderer of Khalid Ibrahim Abdi was a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”
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And then the whole house of cards came crashing down. On Monday, CBS had to report the truth: “A Shakopee, Minnesota, man is accused of shooting and killing 26-year-old Khalid Ibrahim Abdi outside of a Twin Cities Eid al-Adha prayer service on Wednesday. Mohamed Rage, 28, is facing one count of second-degree murder as well as an illegal weapons charge, according to the criminal complaint filed in Scott County on Monday.”
I want another adult for president. An intelligent, knowledgeable, capable, level-headed, sane adult PLEASE!
As trust in the Food and Drug Administration wavers, several states have vowed to conduct independent reviews of any Covid-19 vaccine the federal agency authorizes.
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At least six states and the District of Columbia have indicated they intend to review the scientific data for any vaccine approved to fight Covid-19, with some citing concern over political interference by President Donald Trump and his appointees. Officials in New York and California said they are convening expert panels expressly for that purpose.
"Frankly, I'm not going to trust the federal government's opinion, and I wouldn't recommend [vaccines] to New Yorkers based on the federal government's opinion," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month.
"We want to make sure — despite the urge and interest in having a useful vaccine — that we do it with the utmost safety of Californians in mind," Dr. Mark Ghaly, California's health and human services secretary, said at a recent news conference.
The District of Columbia, Colorado, Michigan, Oregon and West Virginia also have said they'll review vaccine data independently.
Longtime readers of mine know that I don't often do news stories. I'm the verbal bomb-throwing opinion guy here at the PJ Media Ranch; my colleagues handle the heavy news stuff much better than I do. Once in a great while, however, I come across a story that just makes me happy. Also, this one broke around 11 p.m. EDT, which is prime time in my Morning Briefing work day.
The New York Times:QuoteCBS News fired Scott Pelley on Tuesday, jettisoning one of the network’s best-known journalists in a clash over the future of “60 Minutes,” the country’s top-rated news program.
Mr. Pelley, 68, a “60 Minutes” correspondent and a former anchor of “CBS Evening News,” joined the network in 1989. At a staff meeting on Monday, he accused the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” citing the ouster last week of the program’s leadership team and two on-air correspondents.
“We have parted ways with Scott Pelley,” Nick Bilton, the tech journalist who was hired last week as the new “60 Minutes” executive producer, wrote in a memo to the show’s staff on Tuesday night.
The only reason that I wish this story had hit during regular work hours is because the meltdown on the left over this is going to be epic. I mean, real popcorn time stuff. I only had to check X for a few seconds to get my schadenfreude really revved up:
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Any day that Ben Rhodes has his panties cranked up to "Extra Bunch" mode is a good one. For the record, sentences like that last one are also why I don't cover many news stories.
Is there a bigger chasm anywhere in American life than the one that separates the way in which mainstream journalists perceive themselves and the way in which mainstream journalists are perceived by everyone else?
Here’s Scott Pelley, formerly of CBS’s 60 Minutes, complaining about being fired for cause:Quote“I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”
Where to start? First off, if Pelley cared about his job that much, he probably shouldn’t have behaved as unprofessionally as he did when he met his new boss, Nick Bilton. As the Washington Post reports, “Pelley laid into Bilton during a Monday morning ‘60 Minutes’ meeting, when he questioned Bilton’s qualifications” in front of a host of other staff. During that meeting, Pelley also insisted that Bari Weiss, his other boss, “has no qualifications for her job,” and, later, when Bilton organized a private meeting, Pelley continued in the same vein. In his letter firing Pelley, Bilton wrote that Pelley hadQuoterejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. Yesterday’s performative display of hostility — enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation — demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show.
Which . . . well, yeah. There is simply no circumstance in which an employee can behave like this and expect to remain employed. A lot of journalists in this country seem to believe that they belong to an elect class to which the normal rules do not apply. They do not. Journalists are protected by the First Amendment, yes, but they are not more protected than anyone else, and nor do those protections afford them the right to behave like jerks in the workplace. CBS is a private company. It is not, at root, any different than Unilever or Ford or Home Depot. Scott Pelley attacked his boss in public and private. Scott Pelley was fired. Film at 11.
I want another adult for president. An intelligent, knowledgeable, capable, level-headed, sane adult PLEASE! I don't think that's too much to ask.
An even bigger smackdown is that Trump beat Hillary in 2016. Then, after supposedly "losing" in 2020 he came back in 2024 and wiped the floor with Kamala with "too big to rig" happening in every single swing state. He's your president and king now, DUmmies.
Epstein files? Really? Not one single D gave a rat's behind about them while they lingered under Garland and Biden for four years. Then once Trump won both the EC and popular vote in 2024 the "victims" suddenly mattered again. End result: a big fat nothingburger. Not one single person of either party has been charged or indicted.
