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MAY 9,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:  

I'M SO RELIEVED – FROM FOX:  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House issued Mother's Day messages on Sunday as some progressives crusading against gendered terms elect to use the term "birthing people" instead.  "Our mothers are our Guardian Angels, and we carry them always in our hearts, whether or not we are blessed to have them with us," Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote on Sunday. "Happy Mother's Day to you and your family."  "Moms have always built, shaped, led, and sustained this country — and we’re committed to fighting for the safe and equitable workplaces, affordable health care, child care, and equal pay that every mom deserves. Happy Mother's Day," the White House wrote on Twitter.  However, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and pro-choice group NARAL have emphasized the term "birthing people" in recent days.    I don't get the feeling that "birthing people" will catch on.  "Happy Birthing People Day" just doesn't have that ring.

ANOTHER CONTENDER TO CONTEND WITH – FROM BREITBART:  Former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on this week’s broadcast of “CBS Sunday Morning” that she was “absolutely” planning to run for president of the United States in the future.  On the basis of what?  She lost the governor's race by 50,000 votes, yet claimed that she really won.  No evidence presented.  Can we please return to the time when a presidential candidate had to have at least a few qualifications?  I mean, something?  Today the major qualifications seem to be the groups from which the candidate comes.  How many boxes does the individual check off?  Not a way to choose a leader, as we're finding out.

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JUST WHAT WE NEED – OVERNIGHT:  A new, brilliant idea has surfaced.  A new force.  Army?  Navy?  Air Force?  Marines?  Coast Guard?  Oh please.  They're so yesterday.  Read on to see the future.  I know you'll be excited.  Stop laughing.  From Fox: 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive lawmakers are calling for the creation of a 1.5 million-strong group of civilians to work on federally funded projects addressing climate change as part of their sweeping Green New Deal legislation.

Members of the Civilian Climate Corps would receive on-the-job training and work with community groups on initiatives to "reduce carbon emissions, enable a transition to renewable energy, build healthier and more resilient communities, implement conservation projects with proven climate benefits, and help communities recover from climate disasters."

The Civilian Climate Corps would fall under the purview of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent government agency that also runs AmeriCorps and other national service initiatives. The group would seek to employ 1.5 million Americans over five years, calling for coordination between the federal government and local organizations, including unions, according to a copy of the proposal.

The plan draws inspiration from the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, a public relief program established during the Great Depression that gave unemployed young men jobs relating to the conservation and development of government-owned rural lands.

"What we’re going to do is make sure communities like Flint, Baltimore, the South Bronx, St. Louis, rural communities whose infrastructure was never properly built in the first place, are first in line to rectify the injustices of the past and make sure they get everything they need to thrive in the future," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters when introducing the legislation alongside Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.

COMMENT:  How long do you think it would take for the "Corps" to have its responsibilities expanded to enforce compliance with socialist policies?  How long do you think it would take for "progressives" to demand that financing for the "Corps" come from deep cuts in the defense budget? 

I can see them marching in their smart uniforms, carrying their thermometers, singing their songs of allegiance to Barack Obama and AOC.  I can see them waving their 53-star flags, having brought in the new states of District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Beverly Hills.

Is this a nightmare?  Wake me.

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MAY 8,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

UNBELIEVABLE – FROM THE ALLIANCE OF IRANIAN WOMEN:   On April 20, 2021 the United Nations voted to appoint the Islamic regime in Iran, which openly flaunts gender apartheid, to the Commission on the Status of Women via “secret ballots”. Forty three out of 53 countries, including many of the Western democracies, basically voted to approve discrimination against Iranian women and children.  The Swiss-based organization UN Watch called on the lawmakers from 15 EU, U.S. and others to demand that their governments reveal how they voted. The countries that may have voted yes, include Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.  The culprits are not countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or China; they are the Western Democracies whose votes contradict what they preach.  And notice please the absolute silence on the part of Western "women's" groups.  What frauds.  And so are their friends in journalism.

AND OTHER CHEERFUL NEWS – FROM AMERICAN MILITARY NEWS:   The top general over U.S. troops in Africa warned that China plans to establish a new military base on Africa’s western coast capable of hosting submarines and aircraft carriers. The move would expand China’s access to the Atlantic Ocean and provide a base to rearm its naval forces in a potential conflict with the U.S.  In an interview with the Associated Press published Thursday, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) commanding Gen. Stephen Townsend said China has already approached countries along nearly the entire west African coastline, as far north as Mauritania and as far south as Namibia, to pitch the major naval base idea.  “They’re looking for a place where they can rearm and repair warships. That becomes militarily useful in conflict,” Townsend told the Associated Press.  A Chinese military base on the west African coastline could put Chinese forces closer to east coast U.S. than any Chinese bases in the Pacific are to west coast U.S.  And precisely how much coverage of this do you see in the American press?  One article?  Two?  We're asleep again.

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APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE – OVERNIGHT:  One of the parents who began the current revolt against WOKENESS in the schools has surfaced again with a progress report.  These parents are heroes and heroines.  They deserve our full support.  Some are risking their jobs, others are risking smear campaigns launched against them by the woke crowd.    From Daily Mail:

The dad who pulled his daughter from an elite Manhattan private school over its anti-racism policies says the resulting backlash opened his eyes to the 'cancer of cancel culture'.

Andrew Gutmann, who previously spoke out about efforts to 'brainwash' his daughter at The Brearley School, said he'd been shocked to learn how 'pervasive and entrenched critical race theory had become in our schools', in a  New York Post op-ed.

'Nor did I comprehend just how many parents were dealing with the same issues as our family, with close-minded administrations and racist, age-inappropriate and indoctrinating curriculums.' 
Gutmann wrote in The Post piece that he's heard stories at about all levels of education: from Kindergarten-aged kids drawing self portraits with a focus on their skin tone to young adult med school students spending weeks on transgender issues and antiracism in lieu of pediatrics and geriatrics. 

Gutmann penned the controversial 1,700-word letter to Brearley School on April 13 to explain his decision to pull his daughter from the $54,000-a-year school, near Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side, and sent it to 650 families because 'someone had to speak out.'

He blamed much of the problem on Covid, saying schools were able to roll out reforms without any real fight from parents.  

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  I wish the guy would run for office.  However, he's not alone.  As we reported earlier, we're hearing of parent revolts all over the country.  If we can get Congress flipped next year, and conservatives are in charge, that will be a big help.

If you're a parent, consider running for the school board.  That's where the damage is first done, and where it can be prevented.

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