I could never understand ethnic or national pride.

Because to me pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accidnet of birth.

Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fuckin’ genetic accident.

You wouldn’t say, “I’m proud to be 5 foot 11 inches. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.”

So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or anything?

— the late George Carlin

Correct, Mr. Carlin!

Note to GLBTQ activist-Communists:

“Pride” does not mean shaming or threatening others with violence. Pride is calm, confident and internal.

How Republicans fight: we might charge FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt of Congress and then it will go to AG Merrick Garland who will dismiss it anyway.

How Democrats fight: you’re in prison for 18 years under a Civil War statute we revived specifically to get you when you haven’t committed any actual crimes.

How Republicans select a leader: let’s all tear chunks out of our most popular candidate repeating everything our enemies say about him.

How Democrats select a leader: This is your leader. He’s a vegetable and shits himself. We know that every single one of you will back him 100% at all times even if he shits on your leg.

How Republicans organise: let’s spend 20 or 30 years giving money to the same candidates who never do anything.

How Democrats organise: We’ve turned everything from the American Chamber of Commerce to the NFL and every clothing brand into cheerleaders for Satan. You won’t find a single body or institution small enough that we haven’t turned it into a mouthpiece, purchased it or subverted it. The Alaskan Jam Makers Confederation is on our side. We control the election process and the FBI and we invent crazy shit like Diversity Equity and Inclusion and make it a checklist of things every company has to do to be allowed to exist.

How far Republicans will go: I’ll march right into that PTA meeting and give them a piece of my mind.

How far Democrats will go: Shoot the bitch in the neck while she’s unarmed and stuck in a window then celebrate the murder as the rescue of Democracy.

– Daniel Jupp

Via Richard Ruggiero (on Facebook)

Another positive for RFK, Jr. He claims, at least, that he does not want guns banned. In today’s totalitarian Democratic Party this is heresy as bad as Trump. If Kennedy can gain any traction at all in undercutting Biden, it will make the elites insane.

So if you don’t want Trump or DeSantis, join the Democratic Party and vote for Kennedy. It’s too late to save America through any electoral process, because the system is rigged beyond repair.

Biden WILL be reinstalled, or some other horrific puppet like Harris or Buttigieg will be, if Biden finally and mercifully keels over.

But at least go down fighting, and make the leftists froth at the mouth even more. Questioning their precious vaccines (as Kennedy has vigorously done) drives them mad, and it’s fun to watch.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Wrong.

Capitalism is egoism for everyone, meaning everyone works for their self-interest. We know from Atlas Shrugged (1957) and many other Rand writings, that capitalists trade to make a profit, and this is morally admirable. They are wealth creators. Only the socialists are wealth expropriators.

We should be very grateful to millionaires and billionaires who earn their money through voluntary trade. (Let me make clear that in no way do I sanction dishonesty or breaking the law. Businesspeople who disagree with one or more laws should nevertheless obey them and work within the law to change them.) Honest capitalists provide us with a never-ending stream of goods and services that make our lives better and, at the deepest level, make our survival possible.

But it is important not to forget that customers and employees are also egoists. Free trade is actually a three-way street. The capitalists want to get the highest price possible for what they provide, but customers want to get the lowest price possible for what they buy. The customer’s goal, after all, is not to ensure the producer’s profit. Customers do not sacrifice themselves to the seller. Buyers routinely compare sellers. They look for the best deal they can get and are quite willing to abandon one seller for another in a flash if an alternative value is greater.

The same principle applies to employees. Applicants want the best jobs they can get. If a given employer does not offer what they want, they can and do look elsewhere. If a company does not treat its employees justly, or if the employees witness fraudulent activities, they look for better jobs with no concern for the effect on their current employer’s bottom line. Employees, like customers, are fully expected to look out for themselves.

But it is revealing that capitalists are condemned for being egoistic, but customers and employees are not, even though they all look to profit in their own way.

Why the double standard? It is because, customers aside, the top wealth creators have greater productive ability and thus make a lot more money than their employees. A big point of contention has involved CEO pay as a ratio of the median employee salary. Management guru, the late Peter Drucker, argued that the ratio should not exceed 20 to 1 or it would destroy employee morale.

In 2022, the Wall Street Journal conducted its own study based on available data from 482 of the S&P 500 companies (Wartzman & Tang, 2022). The median ratios were divided into four quartiles. For the lowest quartile the median ratio was 85:1; for the highest quartile 481:1. Overall scores based on combining the five effectiveness factors were compared. The surprising result was that the higher the ratio, the greater the effectiveness. The 481:1 companies came out first, the 8:1 last, with the other two quartiles in between.

This study of, course, is neither the only nor the last word, though it does not support Drucker. But let me make a more fundamental point: there is no proven, objectively right ratio. Drucker’s assertion was not based on any facts. Different studies might find different results.

The real complaints about unequal pay are philosophical. Pay differences, as such, exist because some people are far more productive than others, and this, according to the left, is unfair. (Note: incompetent CEOs should be fired and eventually are. CEO turnover in the U. S. is about 16 percent per year.)

The left’s wish is that everyone comes out almost the same because they wish it to be so. Because some people are, in fact, more able than others, egalitarianism is, at root, a revolt against reality. They want capitalists to produce but not be commensurately rewarded. Although the left does not reject all differences, to them, they “feel” that some differences are just too large, too far from equality, as defined subjectively by them. There must be limits, chosen by them, on achievement. Some people are just too good.

The left, in short, advocates social injustice. They hate the good for being the good (Rand,1993,  op. cit.). If America chooses to exploit the people it should admire, then it is doomed to end up as another failed nation in the dustbin of history.

EDWIN A LOCKE

Edwin A. Locke is Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Motivation Emeritus at the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Behavior, and the Academy of Management. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (Society for I/O Psychology), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management (OB Division), the J. M. Cattell Award (APS) and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Academy of Management. He, with Gary Latham, has spent over 50 years developing Goal Setting Theory, ranked No. 1 in importance among 73 management theories. He has published over 320 chapters, articles, reviews and notes, and has authored or edited 13 books including (w. Kenner) The Selfish Path to Romance, (w. Latham) New Directions in Goal Setting and Task Performance, and The Prime Movers: Traits of the Great Wealth Creators. He is internationally known for his research on motivation, job satisfaction, leadership, and other topics. His website is: EdwinLocke.com

“On core issues like censorship — the word ‘liberal’ means freedom, and it came from freedom of speech. It’s about freedom of discourse and debate, the free flow of information. And now, the Democratic Party is not only censoring people from the White House, censoring political dissent from the White House; but it’s enveloped in this entire woke culture, which is about canceling people rather than engaging them in discourse and having no boundaries on the kind of things that we’re allowed to talk about. Let’s talk about everything.”

RFK Jr. is an old school Democrat. In the Democratic party of today, there is no room for free speech. In the unlikely event he wins his party’s nomination for President, they will eat him alive, as they did Trump. Today’s “liberals” are savage totalitarians who will stop at absolutely nothing to impose their will on everyone. In all honesty, many who vote Democratic agree with them, not with RFK, Jr.

Then, in a story from Breitbart just this morning:

Facebook-owned Instagram is preventing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is competing with President Joe Biden in the Democrat primary, from setting up an official campaign account, according to the candidate.

“When we use our TeamKennedy email address to set up Instagram accounts we get an automatic 180-day ban,” said the Democrat candidate on Twitter. “Can anyone guess why that’s happening?”

“To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic. Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?”

And the band plays on.

Sometimes the symbolism is the reality. This once great nation is so screwed. We’re paying for the generations-long error of letting the government grow way beyond its base. It could still be reversed, perhaps, but the majority are too ignorant, or too afraid, to tackle the problem head-on. So we’re falling.

“Biden got confused at multiple points, not knowing which way to go or where to sit. At another point, he claimed that he once applied to the academy himself. No record exists of any such application, though he has previously claimed that he received an appointment. That also has never been substantiated.

The president wasn’t done making news, though. Later in the ceremony, he got up to walk off the stage and took a massive fall, leaving Secret Service members scrambling to help him. Consider this a fair warning that the video is painful to watch.” [from Red State, 6-1-23]

When your elderly relative falls, it may mean asisted living is necessary. And surely they’re not fit to be the U.S. President.

Speaking of America’s fall …

Raising the debt limit is an open confession by Congress that they NEVER intend to lower the debt.

Why not cut government 25 percent now and pay down the debt with the savings? Start with the FBI, CDC, NPR, DEA, BATF, EPA, IRS, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Engery, Dept. of Commerce?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

New data shows that teachers are more likely to abuse kids than Catholic Priests, shining light on a disturbing growing trend in public schools.

As sexual abuse by teachers continues to rise, parents and students grow more concerned about the health and well-being of their families. The public education system has embraced grooming techniques that normalize sexual behavior and sexuality in children as young as pre-school. Middle schoolers are now avidly taught about masturbation in class, while pornographic books remain in some public schools for the sake of “diversity & inclusion.” It’s enough to make anyone wonder if this material is truly appropriate for children, and whether public schools are working to educate based on the best interests of the children. And now, it has been confirmed that public school teachers are 100 times more likely to abuse kids than Catholic priests.

In truth, this comparison is based on an aged 2004 report from the Department of Education, and as child sexual abuse in schools has reportedly increased since these findings were released, one may conclude that the incidence is even more likely. In 2011 Texas recorded that teacher sexual misconduct cases went up 27%. In Alabama complaints and investigations tripled. By 2019 the Arizona Department of Education’s investigative unit chief pleaded with the Governor’s Victims of Child Sex Abuse task force claiming that his team is “drowning” in cases.

Many have noted that easy access to students’ personal lives has perpetuated this, thanks to social media and constant internet use. In 2020 The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported the highest number of suspected child sexual exploitation tips through their CyberTipline. The debate over whether minors should be allowed on social media at all has continued on for years, but despite these dangers, many individuals — students and parents included — often vilify Catholic priests when discussing the sensitive subject of pedophilia and child sexual abuse while completely ignoring the ongoing child sexual abuse convictions against public school staff.

The Catholic church has suffered for its lack of transparency and refusal to take full action against priests who harm children. It is common rhetoric to declare that Catholicism is full of pedophiles, and it is true that there have been some shockingly horrific cases, but if parents are going to protect their children they must guide them to beware all dangers, and they are far more likely to experience sexual abuse from a teacher or other school staff member than by a Catholic priest. So why is the public not decrying teachers as pedophiles?

abuse Considering this, 10% (roughly 4.5 million children) of public school students have experienced some form of sexual misconduct by the time they graduate high school, yet of the 77.4 million Catholics in the United States, .01% reported claims of child sexual abuse (10,667 children). It has also been studied and concluded that about 4.4% of all clerics were known to sexually abuse children between 1946 and 2014, yet it is estimated that roughly 5% of men are pedophiles and those numbers do not even take into account the incidence of female sexual predators at all. These numbers make a harsh case against public school employees.

In truth, child sexual abuse is a serious issue no matter who commits it, but as many admit, “prevention is key.” The best way to prevent child sexual abuse is by protecting children from predators and teaching them to protect themselves. Knowing that public school teachers are far more likely to sexually abuse students, parents must ask themselves, once again, is the public education system is really worth the risk?

Jessica Marie Baumgarter