Ah, brand names, naming rights, forbidden words, and other such fun things!
In a society where the powers that be (economic and political) conspire on this and that, the society becomes (in some eyes, at least) stranger and stranger. And despite the obvious dangers of such things, we have to smile at the results – if not outright laugh.
But there is a serious reason to be concerned.
Continue readingPublisher’s note: Workload, sickness, and other factors caused an unexpected and unwanted gap in publishing. Hopefully, TPOL will be back on schedule now for the rest of May. We will seek to have more, shorter commentaries and look forward to your visits, your comments, and your feedback! Thanks for reading!
Political correctness in 2022 means several things: people – especially innocent people – die needlessly. Matters like diversity, tolerance (and affirmation) supersede essential character traits like courage and competence. Political leaders seek excuses to tolerate and excuse idiots who do horrible things and let even more horrible things happen. Worse, cowardice trumps courage.
The recent insane massacre in Uvalde, Texas is just the latest incident demonstrating this. I was again reminded of the day my wife’s mother died, 22 years ago, the same day two murderers attacked Columbine High School in Colorado. (No, she was not one of the Columbine victims – she died while watching the news of the massacre.)
Sadly, cowards in uniform are enabled by cowards NOT in uniform.
Continue readingAlthough the mass surrender of Ukrainian troops from beneath the steel mill in Mariopol continues, with 1730 troops giving up to Russian forces (according to Russian sources as reported in the Irish Times but apparently confirmed by various others), the West continues to believe that Russia is losing.
That may not, of course, be the case. But most westerners believe it, courtesy of Kiev’s propaganda war, aided by London, DC, and of course New York and Hollywood.
Indeed, the mainstream media so far seems to be ignoring (well, not reporting) that the Azovstal plant’s defenders are surrendering in large numbers. (Although the BBC did state a few days ago that Russian forces have in essence defeated the Ukrainians in the city. And Fox News just published a story about 2 PM EST on Saturday that Russian forces had apparently taken the plant and were claiming total control and victory.) And the alternative media also seems to be ignoring this: World Net Daily, The Blaze, Breitbart and others reported nothing in the past 48 hours.
Continue readingIt’s all fun and games until it is YOUR kind of people that start getting processed.
The Twentieth Century is often considered to be THE Century of Genocide. But it seems that that revered, ancient tradition is far from dead as we near the end of the first quarter of the Twenty-first Century.
The charge is flung freely. By the entire diamond grid of political factions and positions.
Continue readingThe WaPo, chief publication of the government “public-private” partners called the mainstream media, is touting the Democratic “response” to the Buffalo New York killings. Their response in essence consists of once more demanding MORE laws to “prevent” killings by taking more and more guns away from more and more people. AND creating more bureaucratic “law enforcement” and “intelligence” agencies to coordinate federal efforts against “domestic terrorists.”
Continue readingSimon Black shared this little tidbit last week: It’s Official! Justin Trudeau Is Above the Law
Sadly, the Dominion of Canada, once considered to be a gentler and kinder (and even more free) version of the Fifty States, continues to spiral down into just another post-Imperial woke dictatorship. This is just one more example.
Continue readingA few days ago, The Blaze featured a discussion of Uncle Joe’s new media-shill and her supposed conflict of interest. The shill (officially the White House Press Secretary) is a homosexual who is “married” to a CNN correspondent. The article questions whether or not this intimate connection constitutes a “conflict of interest” – and also points out that the outgoing liar-for-hire (Uncle Joe’s shill for the first year-plus of his regime) is ALSO involved in a conflict of interest as she moves from the White House to jobs with not one but TWO networks.
May I submit that these are NOT “conflicts” of interest but instead just two more examples of how the interests of media (especially mainstream media, MSM) and the powers-that-be that rule “America” are in sync: a convergence of interests in continuing to lie and dominate and tyrannize and control the once free people of the Fifty States (and most of the world). They very much share commonality of their interests.
Continue readingHow did the Rural Electrification Act impact America?
The 1936 Act very much sped up the provision of grid electrical power to rural and frontier regions, including AmerInd reservations, across the United States, by providing power where commercial (investor-owned) power providers could not economically provide service, and municipally-owned (government-owned) utilities WOULD not provide service, back in the 1930s. This was done through subsidized, low-interest federal government loans to grassroots organizations organized as cooperatives (and a few public power districts as you find in Nebraska today). It slowed down the massive accumulation of power by local governments – counties and smaller towns – in contrast to many larger cities and towns where providing electrical power joined providing water, sewage, and even trash collection services as yet another political football for corruption, patronage, and control (micro-management control at that). It also provided a limited amount of more competition at least along the fringes of urban/suburban areas.
Continue readingSupply chain troubles continue to bedevil us, as the demon-in-chief continues to wander mentally, verbally, and no doubt physically around 1600 PA. Not that HE is to blame – or that the occupant of 1600 PA should have ANY power over supply chains of anything.
But the sad fact is that Uncle Joe DOES have an insane amount of power over the economy – both actual and by perception and influence, at least to disrupt and destroy.
Including supplying formula. Yes, I know Uncle Joe says the shortage is the highest priority of the federal government right now, and will get better within weeks. How long can a baby go without food before they starve?
Is Uncle Joe to blame? A lot of people want to blame him.
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Why do we have cowards in uniform? (and others)
It appears, according to some reports, that not ALL the cops in Uvalde this week were total cowards: some of them (or so we are being told) were willing to risk their lives and entered the school building to rescue their own children – while other children were dying. (And obviously, the Border Patrol – whether a single Patrolmen or a special team – finally demonstrated SOME courage and finally – AFTER MORE THAN AN HOUR – were willing to attack and kill an 18-year-old insane killer.)
Personally, for someone in their supposed line of work, I still consider them cowardly. Yes, they should value their own families more highly than the lives of strangers or even friends, but that does not mean they should not risk their lives for others – and that is supposedly what they take an oath to do.
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