List of “Pro-Palestinian” Violent Attacks On Jews In The U.S. and Canada
“…The events of the past two weeks have proven, once again, that for many if not most “pro-Palestinian protesters,” anti-Zionism is just a covering for Antisemitism…”
Steven Hayward on the scam that passes for Democrat policy
WHAT HOMELESSNESS AND CLIMATE CHANGE HAVE IN COMMON
Steven Hayward:
“…You can find synoptic leftists who say that climate change requires solving every other social problem in human history, but there is in fact a lesson to be drawn between the explosion of homelessness over the last few years and the renewable energy mania proffered as a solution to climate change.
Let’s start with this NPR (NPR!!) report on the $1 billion Los Angeles is spending on homelessness, with no apparent effect on actually reducing homelessness:
The high public cost of LA’s first sanctioned campground — more than $2,600 per tent, per month — has advocates worried it will come at the expense of more permanent housing. [Emphasis added.]
What a minute—what? $2,600 per month, per tent?!?!
As the kids say, AYFKM!? Only government could spend more for tents than you’d have to pay for a rental apartment even in high-priced Los Angeles. You can shoplift ten tents from a store (without risk of prosecution in California right now) for that amount.
But let’s keep going with the NPR story:
On a recent afternoon, the site was nearly full. A row of port-a-potties stood along one side of the camp. The program also provides showers, three meals a day and 24-hour security. Campers get entered into the county’s database for matching unhoused people with social services and housing resources. . .
According to a report by the city administrative officer, the new East Hollywood campground costs approximately $2,663 per participant per month. That’s higher than what a typical one-bedroom apartment rents for in the city, according to the website RentCafe. While the per-tent cost covers services, meals, sanitation and staffing, some are concerned that the city is investing too much in short-term Band-Aids over long-term solutions.
I’d love to see a genuine audit of this homelessness spending to see how much the bureaucracy, consultants, administrators, and others in the “caring professions” chain of being skim off the top. When I read, two or three years ago, that Seattle’s “homeless policy coordinator” is paid close to $300,000 per year, it was easy to predict that not a single person would be brought out of homelessness, but that the ranks of the homeless would increase.
And the climate scam is just the same—huge sums of money in politically-driven “investments,” tax credits, and subsidies for energy sources that will do little or nothing to solve whatever climate problem we may actually have. Never mind the science; go ahead and concede catastrophe—in fact, the worse the climate problem, the more frivolous and corrupt the whole climate/green energy racket becomes. Just like the homelessness problem. The only real “compassion” is for the bank accounts of the elite “caring” class…”
Democrat governance – this headline says it all.
Biden Shut Down Wuhan Inquiry Out of Spite, Forced to Reverse Course
The adults are back in charge.
More on the Democrat run hellhole of Portland. Democrats. You can’t make it up!
Squatters take over Seattle home, police are forced to stand aside as they clear it out
“…Sammamish is a very upscale city east of Seattle where the price of homes can reach up to several million dollars. One of those homes recently was targeted by a group of squatters who appear to have been using it as a stash house. The scheme was discovered when someone working for the homeowner entered the home and found “12 guns, bulletproof vests, more than 15,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, meth, and more than $40,000 in cash.”
The worker called police who showed up to collect the drugs and the loot. As they were deciding what to do next, two people pulled up on a motorcycle. Neighbors identified them as the squatters who’d been living in the house. Police arrested them for burglary but, because this is Seattle, they were back on the street in a matter of days.
The squatters soon returned to the house and this time they brought friends. Police Chief Dan Pingrey had no choice but to stand by while they loaded up a U-haul with what they claimed were their belongings.
“After they were out of jail, we had a large group trying to get back into the house,” Pingrey said. “No one was supposed to be there. The homeowners were not allowing anyone to stay there.”
Taking the advice of local prosecutors and lawyers, Pingrey said law enforcement is limited in what they can do. His frustrations hit a boiling point when the squatters demanded to be allowed to take property inside the home with them. Pingrey said, legally, his hands were tied and officers conducted a “civil standby.”
Pictures taken by a neighbor show police vehicles lined up on the street with officers watching, as the squatters filled a U-Haul truck with items inside. Another picture shows a garage full of appliances, including an ATM.
“We were not allowed to go in there with them and had to allow them to take this property out,” Pingrey said. “The person who had been illegally living there (was able) to come in and get what they stated was their property.”
That’s right, there was an ATM in the garage. That’s a weird thing to have. Did anyone check to see where it came from? Did the squatters take it with them? Like so much else in this story, it’s not clear…”
Believe it or not, apparently there are Democrats that reject anti-Semitism. Four of them, at any rate.
“Antisemitic at their core”: Four House Dems blast progressive colleagues for rhetoric on Israel, Jews
“…We also reject comments from Members of Congress accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” and committing “act[s] of terrorism.” These statements are antisemitic at their core and contribute to a climate that is hostile to many Jews. We must never forget that less than eighty years ago, within the lifetime of our parents and grandparents, six million people were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust because they were Jews. Israel has long provided the Jewish people with a homeland in which they can be safe after facing long centuries of persecution…”
Four House Dems making clear their displeasure with some progressives over Israel rhetoric. “We also reject comments from Members of Congress accusing Israel of being an ‘apartheid state’ and committing ‘act[s] of terrorism.’ These statements are antisemitic at their core” pic.twitter.com/fSbhqRohAO
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 26, 2021
Mask mandates did not slow spread of China Virus. This was a fool’s errand from start to finish.
The first ecological study of state mask mandates and use to include winter data:
"Case growth was independent of mandates at low and high rates of community spread, and mask use did not predict case growth during the Summer or Fall-Winter waves."https://t.co/FAyieg02tJ pic.twitter.com/FVaDF112Q0
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 25, 2021
The great disgrace
California – Democrat governance drives Democrat constituencies to leave state. Democrats.
Snowflake goes remote and relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana
“…Snowflake, the cloud data analytics vendor that held the biggest U.S. software IPO ever last year, has become the latest tech company to jettison California.
In its earnings press release on Wednesday, Snowflake’s dateline showed up as “No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont.” As recently as May 3, when the company announced the date of its first-quarter earnings report, that same line said “SAN MATEO, Calif.”
Snowflake’s SEC filing on Wednesday showed an address in Bozeman for its executive office. The company explained why in a footnote:
“We are a Delaware corporation with a globally distributed workforce and no corporate headquarters. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules, we are required to designate a ‘principal executive office.’ For purposes of this report, we have designated our office in Bozeman, Montana as our principal executive office, as that is where our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are based.”
Snowflake will still have a large operation in Silicon Valley, and even went through a recent massive redesign of its San Mateo office to prepare for the eventual return of employees.
“While San Mateo continues to remain an important location for us, we do not have a single office that is at the center of Snowflake’s operations,” a spokesperson said in an e-mail.
The company’s move to withdraw its corporate headquarters from California follows a trend that started in the midst of the pandemic last year.
Palantir moved to Colorado. Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise left for Texas. Numerous companies consolidated offices and pulled out of Bay Area leases, giving their employees the option to work from wherever they want. Companies have decamped for a combination of reasons, including California’s inflated cost of living, high taxes and an environment that’s increasingly seen as unfriendly to businesses…”
Democrats use skin color to select preferential recipients of tax dollar aid. This used to be called racism. Racism used to dispense tax dollars.
We live in the age of stupid. I suggest Ms. Nixon sell all her belongings and give the proceeds to the poor. Don’t expect others to do your good works, Ms. Nixon.
The CVS on my corner has started locking up basic items like clothing detergent.
As so many families can’t make ends meet right now, I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them. https://t.co/5RsdMTDWqa
— Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) May 22, 2021
This is the level of stupid you can expect from the self-righteous, virtue-signaling left. Others should allow people to steal stuff from them.
Mostly peaceful protests in the Democrat run hellhole of Portland continue. Media – meh, not really news.
Portland protesters have gathered downtown at The Multnomah County Justice Center in honor of George Floyd, who was murdered one year ago today. Portland Police have arrived, followed by Portland Fire responding to a dumpster fire. #Portland #PDX #Protest pic.twitter.com/9tLG0H0jiz
— Independent Media PDX (@NDpendentPDX) May 26, 2021
Democrats, media, big tech hardest hit…
ATF Director nominee wants to ban assault weapons, but it’s too complicated for him to define assault weapon.
ATF NOMINEE CHIPMAN: "There's no way I could define an assault weapon in thirty seconds."
SEN. KENNEDY: "If you won't answer my question, how can I vote for you?" pic.twitter.com/efb1FiYTK6
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 26, 2021
Social media is a disgusting joke
Facebook will no longer spike posts that claim COVID-19 is man-made
Maybe as bad as traditional media?
Worse.
Recent know-nothing, college grads, trained in our liberal universities to be activists censoring speech based on…?
Based on what? Their feelings?
A weapon guide for the uninformed (Democrats)
U.S. media is a disgusting joke, with few exceptions
WaPo Admits It Ignored ‘Tin-Hat Nonsense’ of COVID Lab-Leak Possibility Because … Trump
“…The self-described “fact-checker” of The Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, admits in a splashy article that because Leftist legacy media reporters (my words, not his) didn’t like President Donald Trump, they ignored his warnings that the “China virus” possibly escaped from a Wuhan, China, lab. They denounced it as a “thoroughly debunked theory.” And they ignored him and his legitimate warnings because they believed the usage of the term was racist.
Put another way, political correctness, blind hatred, and leftist wokism contributed to the burying of a key component of the most important story of our lifetimes…”
Update from the Democrat warzone of Chicago
Child Democrat lawmaker makes a fool of herself
AOC Gets Wrecked for Making a Ridiculous Claim About ‘Serving in War’
“…Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who lied about where she was on January 6 in order to ramp up a story of victimhood, is now arguing being on the U.S. Capitol grounds the day of the riot is equal to “serving in war.”…”
Former U.S. Army Green Beret and Congressman Michael Waltz:
AOC doesn’t know what it’s like to come under attack by machine gun fire, mortars or RPGs. She hasn’t seen the horror of roadside IED explosions on bystanders & children. She hasn’t lost fellow soldiers on the battlefield or seen friends permanently disfigured by Taliban attacks.
— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) May 25, 2021
Democrats and media on China Virus origin, then and now.
We live in the age of stupid – and the stupid is getting thicker.
Zuckerberg and Facebook are bad actors
How Zuckerberg Millions Paid for Progressives to Work With 2020 Vote Officials Nationwide
Zuckerberg attempted to, and perhaps did, manipulate the vote to favor Democrats.