Have we not heard this song before?
The move comes after another violent weekend, with 65 shootings, 18 of them fatal — including three children. “We’re all part of the city,” CPD Supt. David Brown said. “We can no longer turn a blind eye to the violence here.” [emphasis added]
We can’t? Blatant violation of “black lives matter” continues as usual. All who think the police are the problem, please respond.
Let us hear it for a smart, brave young man.
Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday.
Umar Lee, an organizer of the protests, said June 27 that the statue “is gonna come down,” reported Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “This guy right here represents hate and we’re trying to create a city of love. We’re trying to create a city where Black lives matter. We’re trying to create a city where there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia … this is not a symbol of our city in 2020.”
Fr. Schumacher, whose priestly ordination was in May 2019, addressed a shouting mob, attempting to inform them about St. Louis’ life, saying, “St. Louis was a man who willed to use his kingship to do good for his people.”
Meet [him] in St. [Looie, Looie] — where a bold, principled priest can be found.
via CNA
Pay attention to this advice.
Global warming. If you’re still trying to have a child at this point, you’re rooting for human extinction. We’re in a pandemic, don’t create another pandemic. If you hate doing laundry, that’s a clear sign you shouldn’t be considering it. Why would laundry exceed more than one load per week? Look in the mirror. Do you like what you see? Do you like your brief features? Think again, my friend. You might just be setting your kid up to be bullied.
You like to have money. Are you trying to make the wife lose her job? It spells less income for the family and an extra mouth to feed. Even as an armchair economist, you know this is a terrible idea. Heck, if you like your job, there’s no real reason to be giving it up. The task of shaping another human being should be left to the professionals. Did…
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As efforts intensify to purge anyone and anything from Western culture that offends the illiberal left’s sensitivities, the fanaticism which drives the Great Awokening has become abundantly evident.
To question the [error-filled] 1619 project’s factual veracity, for example, is seen as evidence of implicit racism.
Any confidence that the American Founding has something to teach the world is considered an instance of what Marxists call “false consciousness.”
References to reason, evidence, rule of law, or the West’s Jewish and Christian heritages are viewed as the language of someone hopelessly in thrall to “Eurocentric” outlooks.
Thou shalt not think, just emote.
What impresses me, however, is less the historically-illiterate justifications offered for the decapitation of statutes of Christopher Columbus, than the righteous fury visible in the eyes of those shouting slogans like “Rhodes Must Fall!”
Prudence, circumspection, and subtlety are out. Raw emotion and ideological purity are in. You are either with us or against us. And if you don’t endorse everything that we—the woke—think, say and do, be prepared to face the consequences.
The author probes wokery’s resemblances to the French Revolution, at length, including it cannibalism, including guillotining the not far enough left, the Girondins. He concludes with what our current revolutionists can expect.
In this light, those contemporary Girondins who dominate larger municipal governments throughout America and who rule the universities throughout Western countries, would be foolish to imagine that the illiberal left can somehow be placated by letting them riot, loot small businesses, and destroy public monuments.
Words like “compromise,” “tolerance,” and “moderation” do not form part of the lexicon of wokery. After all, once “one single will” has been established [Robespierre got the idea in part from Rousseau], such habits become superfluous.
One of the wokest of the revolutionary woke, he fell out of favor; and he and 21 followers were themselves guillotined. And that was it for the Reign of Terror which he had vigorously supported.
Our current revolutionists?
Perhaps at some point, the woke will turn on themselves as they try to outdo each other in showing whose consciousness has been raised the most. Unless or until that happens, however, anyone who sits on the vast spectrum from the liberal-minded left through to conservative traditionalists should have no illusions that the woke—like Robespierre—will be satisfied with anything less than complete submission.
And that would represent the end of liberty in any meaningful sense as well as the civilization which gave rise to it.
It’s come to that.
via Law & Liberty
In living black and white. Watch it!
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76! “Biden said Thursday. ‘Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.’ Wow! That is quite a pandemic, right?
What he meant to say, I hope, is that the death toll as of Thursday was 122,000 according to Johns Hopkins…
The way the press has kowtowed to Biden so far in the campaign, they may as well be paid staffers.” [He’s their man]
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.™
Will keep that in mind.
via Instapundit
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday, June 2 , 7:56 p.m.
A Buffalo woman has been charged in connection with the incident that injured three law enforcement officers Monday night.
State police arrested 30-year-old Deyanna Davis
after she was released from Erie County Medical Center.
Davis was driving the car that went through a line of officers at a protest on Bailey Avenue hitting three officers, seriously injuring one.
Davis is facing multiple felony charges including aggravated assault on a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon.
She and others were setting the scene for three days later, when the elderly peace activist walked into the riot squad in full display, with God-knows-what on his mind, finding them in no mood to stop and argue with him.
From the even-Steven Wall St. Journal:
Good news: A new study finds that the novel coronavirus has become less lethal over the past few months. While there’s no evidence that mutations are making the virus less deadly, treatments have improved enormously as scientists have learned more.
Doctors have observed that the coronavirus case-fatality rate seems to have decreased considerably since the early days of the pandemic. But a pre-publication study from Italian universities and local public-health authorities comparing the case-fatality rates in two provinces (Ferrara and Pescara) during March and April is the first to show this might be true.
From International Business Times:
An infectious disease expert from Italy who fought long against COVID-19 claims there might no longer be a need for a vaccine since the coronavirus that causes the disease appears to be losing its virulence. SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the virus responsible for COVID-19.
This surprising optimism was voiced by Professor Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Ospedale Policlinico San Martino in Genova, Italy. Bassetti claimed COVID-19 has been losing its virulence over the past month, and added patients — even the elderly — who would have previously died from this highly-infectious disease are now recovering.
“It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it’s like a wild cat,” he pointed out. “Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before.”
Same story many places, here’s from The [UK] Sun:
CORONAVIRUS is getting weaker and could die out on its own without a vaccine, according to a top Italian doctor.
Professor Matteo Bassetti said he is convinced the virus is “changing in severity” and patients are now surviving coronavirus infections that would have previously killed them.
He described coronavirus as once an “aggressive tiger” of a disease, which has now weakened and turned into more of a wild cat.
If his ideas are true and the virus is weakening, there’s a chance COVID-19 could disappear without a need for a vaccine.
He has continually said that in recent months, patients with the virus seem to be handling it much better than they were at the beginning of the global pandemic in Italy.
It’s a world of “it seems” this virus time around. Alleged experts not all on same page. It seems.
Professor Bassetti suggests that the strain of coronavirus could be mutating and becoming weaker, making it less lethal.
He also suggested that improved treatments and more social distancing could be the key to why people are handling the virus better than before.
So keeping your distance remains a valuable caution. Which for some of us some of the time is just fine. Solitary walks are what some of us do anyhow, depending on our neighborhood.
More to come on good (and bad) news from alleged experts and reports of same . . .
Blithe Spirit 