Tuesday, October 25, 2022

BREAKING: PA Senate Debate an UTTER DISASTER for Fetterman

 

On Monday, John Fetterman’s campaign desperately sought to lower expectations for their candidate when he faced off against Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz—even going so far as to suggest that they expected Fetterman to lose.

I can assure you they didn’t lower expectations nearly enough.

I watched the entire debate, and  I have to admit that I sometimes felt bad for Fetterman. I’m sure he expected to have bounced back from the stroke quicker and stronger than he has, but Tuesday night’s debate performance merely demonstrated just how far he has to go in his recovery. Without a doubt, Pennsylvania voters, and indeed the nation, saw firsthand that he is not capable of being a U.S. senator.

A condition of the debate was the allowance of a closed-captioning system to accommodate Fetterman’s cognitive impairments. The moderators were transparent about the system, but the system couldn’t help Fetterman articulate his positions clearly—at all.

From the beginning, it was clear that this was going to be a rough night for Fetterman, who opened up the debate by announcing, “Hi, goodnight, everybody.”

It got worse from there. “Hi, goodnight, everybody. I’m running to serve Pennsylvania. He’s running to use Pennsylvania. Here’s a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat. I’m also having to talk about something called ‘The Oz Rule,’ that if he’s on TV, he’s lying. He did that during his career on his TV show. He’s done that during his campaign about lying about… our record here,” Fetterman said, struggling to find the right words. “And he’s also lying probably during this debate. And let’s also talk about the elephant in the room. I had a stroke. He’s never let me forget that. And I might miss some words during this debate, mush two words together, but it knocked me down, but I’m going to keep coming back up. And this campaign is all about, to me, is about fighting for everyone in Pennsylvania that ever got knocked down, that needs to get back up, and fighting for all forgotten communities all across Pennsylvania that also got knocked down that needs to keep get back up.”

But answering questions was where he really struggled.

“We all have to make sure that everyone that works is able to,” he said. “That’s—that’s the most American bargain, that if you work full time, you should be able to live in dignity as well true.”

Are you following? It gets worse.

“And I believe they haven’t have any businusses being being. You can’t have businesses being subsidized by not paying… individuals that just simply can’t have avave [sic] to pay their own way.”

Other times, he seemingly blanked when asked to clarify his positions, such as his past opposition to fracking in 2018 versus his alleged support of it now.

Fetterman ought to have been prepared for a question about his refusal to release his medical records, and he botched that response as well.

When Dr. Oz brought up the incident where Fetterman chased down an unarmed black man, Fetterman also failed to respond in a meaningful way.

It was cringeworthy to see Fetterman unable to articulate a simple position, like what he would do about the rising cost of tuition. When asked, he replied, “I just believe. I just, making it that much. It-it-it costs too much. And I believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition allow families to be able to afford it.”

What does that even mean? Not much.

In the end, this was unlike any other debate I’ve ever seen. It was abundantly clear that John Fetterman’s cognitive impairment was an obstacle he couldn’t overcome. Despite the accommodations made for him, it was questionable whether he could comprehend speech, and he clearly couldn’t even speak coherently most of the time. In contrast, Dr. Oz was polished, no doubt benefiting from his years of experience as a television personality, but he was articulate when it came to discussing the issues. I can’t imagine that even Democrat voters who watched that debate felt confident that Fetterman can do the job.

I hadn’t seen Dr. Oz in action before Tuesday night, and I honestly didn’t think much of him before. After seeing his performance and his knowledge of the issues, I feel significantly better about his candidacy now.



Voldemort Defends Harry Potter Author JK Rowling

 

Ralph Fiennes, the actor who portrayed evil wizard Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise, has come out swinging, defending author JK Rowling over the abuse she’s endured for speaking out about gender identity and trans issues.

“JK Rowling has written these great books about empowerment, about young children finding themselves as human beings. It’s about how you become a better, stronger, more morally centred human being. The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling,” Fiennes told the New York Times.

“I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women. But it’s not some obscene, uber-right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.’ And I understand where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a woman.”

Rowling has been the recipient of death threats for not being woke enough for the LGBTQ cult.

Fiennes also panned “cancel culture” in the interview, saying, “Righteous anger is righteous, but often it becomes kind of dumb because it can’t work its way through the grey areas. It has no nuance.”

Wisc. School Board Passes Sexually Explicit Curriculum, Despite Protests, Violating 1st Amendment in Process

 

The Wauwatosa School District in Wisconsin held a board meeting last night that drew protesters due to the inclusion of sexually explicit material in their curriculum. Parents showed up on both sides to tell the board what they thought of it. Outside the event was a protest that was attended by Moms For Liberty and the president of Gays Against Groomers, Jaimee Michell. One of the protesters had a sign with images from the curriculum that a local news channel refused to film, saying they could not show the images on television due to their graphic nature.

Not only are there graphic images but lessons that teach things to seven-year-olds like the vagina has “elasticity that allows a penis to fit inside.” Why a seven-year-old needs to know that is beyond imagining. The curriculum also includes gender ideology that pushes transgenderism on children. Counterprotesters showed up as well, holding “pride” flags, but when questioned by Michell, herself a lesbian woman, they admitted they were straight. It’s hard to understand why straight people are waving gay flags in support of giving explicit material to kids. Michell told them what she thought of it very plainly.

“You’re making the gay community look really bad,” Michell told them, “by supporting the sexualization, indoctrination, and mutilation of children’s bodies.” The women just stood there, mute, waving their rainbow flags.

 

When Michell tried to speak to the board during public comment time, the board president, Dr. Eric Jessup-Anger, tried to intimidate her by demanding she dox herself in a public meeting that was being broadcast online. Michell is a Wisconsin resident. Board members who don’t like being confronted often try to make unlawful rules to stifle speech. Jessup-Anger went a step further and tried to discredit Michell by pointing out that she does not live in the district. That information is irrelevant to public comment time. What Jessup-Anger did has been litigated in other states many times and found to be unlawful and intimidation of the citizenry by government agents.

The exchange can be seen below.

 

But Jessup-Anger didn’t stop there. After watching him do this to several people, I decided I should warn him that he was opening the board to liability. I had intended to just cover the meeting on my live stream but no one in the meeting seemed to know what he was doing was problematic, so I raised my hand to speak on the Zoom meeting. Jessup-Anger chastised members of the public for using the names of the school board members, another thing that puffed-up elected officials think they can demand — calling them “personal attacks.” Bad boards never object to people who use their names in a complimentary way, however, only when citizens are critical of them. But then Jessup-Anger did something really stupid after I began telling him where the board went wrong. He declared that he had the right to “cut off comments that are not in alignment with the dignity of the body,” and he silenced my microphone before my time was up.

This type of action has been declared illegal by the 6th circuit and as such has set a precedent that he would be unlikely to overcome in a lawsuit. The Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University explains:

The court ruled in Ison v. Madison Local School District Board of Education that an Ohio school board’s policy prohibiting “personally directed,” “abusive” and “antagonistic” comments violated free-speech rights under the First Amendment.

The government can’t prohibit speech purely because it disparages or offends, the court said. Doing so would be discriminating against speech on the basis of the viewpoint of the speech.

Discriminating against my speech on the basis of my viewpoint was exactly what Jessup-Anger did by cutting off my comments before my time was up. He declared my remarks about the law “inappropriate” in his subjective opinion. The person who spoke before me, however, used swear words but was not cut off because he was complimentary to the board, calling critics “batsh*t crazy.” My comments contained no profanity, just some mild scolding and warning the board about the potential liability of violating open meetings laws and the Constitution. But Jessup-Anger, with the help of Board Clerk Dr. Jenny Hoag, cut my microphone off prematurely.

This is not what democracy looks like, in case anyone was wondering.

 

PJ Media reached out to Jessup-Anger to ask why the board did what it did. As of publishing, we have not heard back but we will update you if he responds.

After public comment, the board voted to adopt the sexually explicit content in the curriculum despite the public outcry and scolded the critics for not coming forward a year ago when the curriculum was introduced. There is no evidence the community knew what was included in the curriculum until recently.

A montage of the evening can be seen below.


The Rebirth of Mao Zedong

 

Mao Zedong (“Chairman Mao” to the Chinese people) served as the dictator of the People’s Republic of China from 1949, when the communists took over China, until his death in 1976.  Historians consider him the greatest mass murderer in human history, with somewhere between 60-70 million (after birth) innocent deaths to his credit.  This far outpaces Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler.  It would be hard to find a greater fiend in human history than Mao Zedong.

But since Mao’s death, no single individual in the Chinese Communist Party has been able to accrue as much power in his hands as Mao did.  Many have tried, but none has succeeded. 

Until now.

Xi Jinping has become the most dangerous man on earth, because he, without serious challenge, now unquestionably controls the Communist Party in China, a country with a huge economy, powerful military, and the largest population on earth.  At the current 10th Party Congress of the Communist Party, Xi was given an unprecedented third five-year term as President/General Secretary of the Communist Party.  This is actually unconstitutional in China, though the Chinese constitution is about as weighty to the CCP as the American constitution is to Democrats.  The Chinese Constitution states that a person can only serve two five-year terms.  This constitutional coup by Xi would be almost like, well, a President of the United States ordering the FBI to invade the home of a former President to find information that might prevent that former President from serving again.  Not exactly the same, but close.  Xi will now serve a third term, and no doubt, he will be dictator for as long as he chooses, probably for the rest of his life.  He is 69 years old, so he may be around for awhile.

A very bizarre event occurred on Saturday at the CCP meeting, one that solidified Xi’s power and sent a stern message to anyone in the Party who might dare to oppose him.  Former President Hu Jintao was sitting next to Xi when two men came, grabbed Hu by the arms, and forcibly removed him from the event.  Hu is seen apparently pleading with Xi Jinping, who basically ignored him.  Hu is gone, and nobody knows where.

The symbolism here cannot be denied.  International observers speculate that Xi orchestrated the event in order to send a warning to any possible opponents, to anyone who might have even a thought about challenging him.  Nobody will.  Xi is now free to follow any course he chooses, and there will be no serious resistance.

The Chinese people have not been given any clarification as to what happened in the Hu event, nor will they be—at least no true explanation.   The Chinese Xinihua News Agency posted the following hilarious statement on Twitter (which is blocked in China):  “When he (Hu) was not feeling well during the session, his staff, for his health, accompanied him to a room next to the meeting venue for a rest.  Now he is much better.”  Yes, accompanied him by forcibly dragging him out of the meeting.  Hu might indeed be resting peaceably now—with his ancestors.    

Xi hasn’t killed as many yet as Mao Zedong did; he hasn’t needed to.  We don’t know how many Uyghurs he has disposed of, and the number of “disappeared” dissidents who have “disappeared” forever will probably never be known.  The 6+ million deaths from the Wuhan virus can be directly attributed to him, as a new study (more on this in a subsequent article soon) indicates with near-virtual certainty that the virus was created in a lab. I have no doubt that the CCP released the virus into the world intentionally to not only see its effects, but also as a cover for China’s aggressions.  A few thousand Chinese deaths, and a few million others around the globe, are totally inconsequential to the Party that has killed more people than any other in history.  Xi Jinping is every bit as much of a moral monster as Mao Zedong was.  And now he has total power in China.  He’ll stop at nothing to accomplish whatever goals he has.  Taiwan is almost certainly on his radar, and soon, as in, before Joe Biden leaves office.

Xi Jinping, not Vladimir Putin, is America’s greatest enemy.  Americans, because of our western, Euro-centric history, have been slow to catch on that world power is shifting to Asia, and our knowledge of that continent is woefully inadequate.  We need to wake up soon to the greatest threat we face—a new Mao Zedong, who now has control of perhaps the largest military in the world and a huge economy.  Mao didn’t have that.  Xi does.

And we have Joe Biden as President.  

I said earlier that Xi Jinping is the most dangerous man in the world.  Maybe number 2.   After Joe Biden.   Stupidity in power is absolutely horrifying.

This is not good, folks.

Soros-Backed Group May Have Used Illegal Money From Biden Admin

 

A George Soros-funded group is being investigated for possibly using federal grants given to it by the Biden administration.

A former Trump administration official and  two congressional Republicans are questioning how Alianza Americas, an immigration advocacy group, got $8.5 million, which came from tax money from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Health Resources and Services Administration. 

However, it is speculated that the money was used illegally for “lobbying.”

Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) wrote a letter to the agency’s inspector general expressing “serious concerns about blatant ignorance or gross negligence of awarding of grants.”

The group is known for following in the Left’s footsteps, calling to defund the U.S. Customs Border and Protection and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

On September 12, the group said that it met with representatives from Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) office to “share about the urgency of defunding” ICE and CBP.

In 2021, Alianza was given a $7.5 million CDC grant “to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate impacts among Latinx and Latin American immigrants.”

The woke group was also given $1 million to increase COVID-19 vaccine status” in certain communities.

“ I have continued to monitor actions taken by the Department and am deeply concerned that taxpayer dollars, in the guise of federal grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), are being used to fund lobbying activities and contacts in the United States and foreign jurisdictions and to promote illegal immigration into the United States,” the letter states. 

“ As members of Congress we take seriously our roles of ensuring taxpayer dollars are used wisely and within the confines of the law, and we are sure you share that goal,” Roy and Van Duyne wrote in their letter. “As such, we are requesting a review of all grants received by Alianza Americas as well as the publicly disclosed actions taken by Alianza Americas that would be in violation of the law and federal regulations,” the letter continues. 


Friday, October 21, 2022

Clyburn Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Inflation

 

“What do you say to people who say, ‘Boy, yeah, but Washington can talk about all these big programs everything else, but I’m worried about the cost of food. I’m seeing the cost of eggs shoot up chicken, gasoline, you know, coming now with the winter, the heating.’ I mean, these are all concerns that hit very directly to people who may say 'you know what’s going on in DC doesn’t think of us’?” host Jose Diaz-Balart said to the House Majority Whip. 

“Well, let me make it very clear. All of us are concerned about these rising costs, and all of us knew this would be the case when we put in place this recovery program,” he admitted. “Any time you put more money into the economy, prices tend to rise.”

President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in March of 2021, and the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act, a massive health care and environmental package, in August of 2022. 

In September, consumer prices were up 8.2 percent compared to a year ago, according to U.S. Labor Department data published earlier this month.

Biden Tries to Scare Americans About Going Back to Trump's Booming Economy

 

Speaking from the White House Friday afternoon, President Joe Biden attempted to scare Americans into thinking a return to President Donald Trump's MAGA economy would be a bad thing. 

When Biden took office on January 20, 2021, gas was $2.37 per gallon and the U.S. was in a rapid economic recovery. Then, Biden and Democrats passed trillions of dollars in new spending, slamming the brakes on growth and exponentially driving inflation on essential products. 

And while Biden attempted to take credit for low unemployment numbers in a number of states across the country, he failed to acknowledge states with the best economies are currently run by Republicans. 

Biden knows the economy is about to come crashing down and Democrats are about to get wiped out in the midterm elections as a result.


Scary Scene as Biden Appears to Have a Physical Issue During an MSNBC Interview

 

Normally, when I write pieces on Joe Biden’s brain going on the fritz, I’m heavy on the snark and jokes about the White House not getting his drug cocktail right. But a newly released MSNBC interview with the president took things to a place where that doesn’t seem appropriate.

In the first clip, Biden appeared to have a physical issue when asked about running in 2024. You have to watch the clip to get the full effect, but the president not only goes silent, but his eyes droop down and he looks like he’s about to fall over for a second. It was so bad that the interviewer reacts in a startled fashion, obviously believing Biden was going to pass out.

It’s also worth noting that there’s an editor’s cut in that part of the interview. Was he actually out of it for even longer than the clip shows?

Eventually, after the interviewer seemed to jolt Biden back into consciousness, the president stumbled through his answer. His pacing was noticeably very lethargic while doing so, and his struggles continued in other parts of the interview.

I’m not sure exactly when this interview was filmed, but it either came right before or right after another incident where Biden spoke unintelligibly to a reporter in Pennsylvania without even realizing it. Something is definitely going on with him, and those in the media refusing to deal with the issue are now complicit in covering up what appears to be a serious issue with the president’s health.

This is really concerning stuff, and no amount of deflecting to Trump holding a glass of water with two hands will change that. What’s in that video should pique the interest of any fair-minded individual about Biden’s condition. The presidency is not a job for someone that should be in a retirement home, and even though we’ve all had our fun in the past, we’ve reached the point where this isn’t funny anymore.

There is no way Biden is actually functioning as the president. What kind of drugs is he taking? What is he doing when he runs off to Delaware every weekend (he’s currently there again)? Why do his energy levels appear to vary so wildly? These are questions that demand answers, and it’s high time the press corps put aside its partisanship and did its job. This is too important to keep sweeping under the rug.

Chris Hayes is worried about the chaos that might interrupt the chaos of the Biden presidency if the GOP wins

 

Yes, we already gave you some he-can’t-be-serious Chris Hayes hot takes today, but he keeps talking, so we have to fill you in. It’s what we do!

Chris is super concerned all you ignorant common folks out there just don’t understand the chaos that will result from a GOP victory in the upcoming midterm elections.

You know, inflation could skyrocket, prices could soar, we could leave Americans stranded in Afghanistan, they might try to take people’s jobs away over personal medical decisions, Russia could invade Ukraine, there could be threats of nuclear war, and they might spend morning, noon, and night comparing American citizens to people who murdered 6 million Jews.

Yeah, that would be bad.

Of all the bubble dwellers on the Left, Chris Hayes’s bubble is particularly opaque.

‘Tail Risk’ sounds like a Secret Service code name during the Clinton administration. Anyhoo …

You all know Twitter had something to say about Chris’s histrionics.

Chris is an overachiever.

Bingo!

Clifton gets it.

The horror! Oh no! Please, not that!

Sweet, sweet gridlock. Now that’s something we could get on board with.

Oh, it could get much, much worse if the GOP wins. They could … gulp … bring back mean tweets!!!

Hear! Hear!

In other words, normal people are concerned about real life.

For democracy and stuff.

We think it’s very hard to communicate to the median voter how hilarious it will be watching Chris Hayes when Democrats lose.

Biden's Diesel Fuel Supply Crisis Could Soon Cripple America in Ways Never Before Seen

 

Oil prices and President Joe Biden’s continued draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) have dominated the headlines over the past few weeks, but analysts say a more impactful and serious crisis on the energy front looms: a diesel fuel shortage.

Diesel doesn’t get as much of the limelight as oil and gas, but it should because diesel fuel is the industrial lifeblood of the United States, and the price of diesel alone probably has a more significant impact on inflation and the prices you’re paying at the grocery store over any other factor. Without ample amounts of diesel, semi-trucks don’t move, farms are shut down, and critical manufacturing sectors are crippled.

As Bloomberg noted this week, “The US has just 25 days of diesel supply, the lowest since 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration. At the same time, the four-week rolling average of distillates supplied, a proxy for demand, rose to its highest seasonal level since 2007.”

The Biden administration has remained strangely silent, probably hoping that the dismal news doesn’t hit the mainstream because it’s a total political timebomb waiting to go off, especially as the midterm elections are so close.

Bloomberg noted:

The diesel crunch comes just weeks ahead of the midterm elections and has the potential to drive up prices for consumers who already view inflation and the economy as a top voting issue. Retail prices have been steadily climbing for more than two weeks. At $5.324 a gallon, they’re 50% higher than this time last year, according to AAA data.

Notably, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese recently commented on the emerging crisis. Deese said diesel inventories are “unacceptably low” and added that “all options are on the table,” whatever that means.

Aside from that remark, the White House has done little to nothing about the issue — an issue that could further cripple confidence in the ability of Democrats to lead America through tough times, as they’ve already proven on many occasions over the past two years.

Diesel has also been described as the nation’s “inflation canary,” given that it’s so critically important for everything we need to survive. The bottom line is that without ample supplies and record-high prices for what’s left, Americans will get financially hammered over the winter and into 2023.

Folks, it’s probably going to get really bad out there. The scary part is that the Biden administration doesn’t seem to give a rip.

How bad is this situation truly? Let’s put the pieces together.

We have a historically low supply of diesel fuel, which powers everything that allows us to eat, drink, and live our daily lives. Because of the diminished supply under Biden, we have surging prices, making the cost of hauling goods, farming, and everything else that requires diesel fuel (pretty much everything) higher than ever before, which will cause prices of everything we use and need to increase in the coming months significantly.

Add to that a potentially hard, cold winter for many parts of the country, when heating oil demand will skyrocket, causing prices to soar once again over competition for what’s left in the tank.

I’d say that it’s unbelievable that the Biden administration has let the problem get so bad as to be a potentially crippling crisis for America in the coming months, but it’s not. In fact, it’s quite believable, and it lines up with other jaw-droppingly stupid decisions made by the current White House that many now believe are so bad that they are likely intentional, for whatever sinister reasons.

So, in other words, if you thought prices at the pump, the grocery store, and everything else that affects our lives are high now, you ain’t seen nothing yet, Jack.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

What's wrong with Minnesota



I subscribe to several conservative monthly news and opinion reports such as Hillsdale College’s “Imprimis” and “Thinking Minnesota.” This month, the list of leftist programs that are leading to the downfall of our republic are almost too much to stomach. I will list a few and encourage readers to go to the any of the conservative sources, such as those listed above, to get more in-depth information. My personal list and brief summary is as follows:

The $9 billion budget surplus: If this money is not returned to the people it will be spent on new government programs that will never be retired and therefore result in billions of dollars in higher taxes for all Minnesotans in the future.

Education: Critical Race Theory is being promoted in all areas of education including the University of Minnesota where future teachers are taught that the white race is responsible for all the problems of this era and other related nonsense such as men and women can choose to be whatever gender they wish to be, perhaps evening an elephant or monkey. This education policy is truly a race to the bottom for our children and grandchildren.

Fiscal corruption: One article pointed to the various federal programs administered by the state that will likely be allocated over $400 million for “free food” programs to the poor children in our state. Surely a noble cause, but the practice of allocating of money to irresponsible “non-profit” organizations has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars while accomplishing nothing toward feeding anyone except the organizers of the nonprofits. One investigation now underway by the FBI is seeking to trace $48 million spent on luxury homes, cars and travel. This investigation has been, apparently, stalled by the FBI, who are reluctant to point to various political figures that were likely involved in this and similar fraud.

Roe-Wade: With the potential overturn of Roe-Wade it seems to me that an honest discussion of when human life begins would be more helpful than the absolute “before intercourse” or “one day after live birth.” The two extremes, held by some on the left and the right need to be thought through and provisions made to account for the very rare situations where the woman’s life is in eminent jeopardy. Life of a human being in the womb needs to be protected as surely as any living human in our society.

Crime Issues: The current Justice Department, under Democratic leadership, has reduced sentencing guidelines and refused to prosecute “minor crime,” such as carjacking, leading to a situation where many lawyers and criminals believe that it is, almost impossible to be convicted for anything in Minnesota. It is not just the statistics on crime but how most people sense their own vulnerability that determines the desirability of living in any state or community.

With this short list of issues plus the overall state of the entire country it is clear that the current political leadership will drive Minnesota in the wrong direction and keep it down. We once had a thriving high-tech, manufacturing, farming and mining economy that has been replaced by a problematic high-tax state system and a city core that is increasingly crime ridden and dangerous

What are the Most Haunted Places in Minnesota? 10 Scary Spots

 

Want to get scared this Halloween season?

Consider getting spooked by one of these 10 actually creepy places in Minnesota.

I didn’t want to believe it either, but our state is full of stories about the paranormal. You’ve probably even visited some of these spots, without realizing they’re haunted!

For your warped pleasure, this post rounds up the most haunted places in Minnesota.

Explore these places, if you dare. But be warned: you might want to bring a friend (or ten?) along for protection.

PS – Don’t miss our recently updated guide to the best haunted houses near Minneapolis!

1. Forepaugh’s Restaurant (St. Paul, MN)

For this one, we did some good-ole fashioned boots on the ground reporting.

Until 2020, Forepaugh’s was a high-end restaurant located in Irvine Park, a park whose spooky experiences led to us researching whether it was haunted. More on that later…

But while researching Irvine Park, we came across some dark stories about Forepaugh’s Restaurant, located just 90 feet away, which hint that the historic mansion is seriously haunted.

Back in the late 1800s, Joseph Forepaugh had an affair with his mansion’s young maid, Molly. Molly became pregnant and Joseph ended the affair, but Molly was so distraught that she committed suicide. According to reports, she hung herself in the attic by tying a rope to a chandelier and jumping out of the third story window.

Since then, restaurant guests and employees have reported freaky sightings of a woman dressed in 1800s attire, lights turning off and on by themselves, and strange noises coming from the third story attic. In one instance, the disturbances were so bad that it led to an investigation by the St. Paul police, whose K-9 dog refused to enter the attic.

On our own visit, we actually asked some Forepaugh’s employees about Molly. They smiled and said, “Oh yes, Molly! We’ve had quite a few meetings…”

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Forepaugh’s in St. Paul

2. Irvine Park (St. Paul, MN)

Officially, Irvine Park doesn’t show up on the traditional lists of haunted places in Minnesota. But our experience with strange flickering lights in the park, creepy noises, and animals randomly going berserk makes us question otherwise!

And as it turns out, there’s an interesting end to that earlier story about Molly the Maid and Joseph Forepaugh…

Joseph Forepaugh died in 1892. He shot himself… in Irvine Park.

3. Mounds Theatre (St. Paul)

Built in 1922, Mounds Theatre originally hosted silent movies. In recent years, studies by the Minnesota Paranormal Investigators Group, the Minnesota Ghost Hunters Society, and numerous psychics all conclude the same thing: this place is really haunted.

Visitors have reported seeing a little girl bouncing a ball on stage, an usher wandering the isles looking for his lost love, an apparition of a bald man watching a movie, loud sounds of a man sobbing, and more strange photographs than you can count.

Mounds now offers haunted tours each October. There’s a 1-hour standard tour, but for the truly brave, they also offer a 3-hour investigation that runs from midnight to 3 AM. The overnight tour includes a visit to the creepy basement and an opportunity to explore the grounds on your own. You can purchase tickets at realhauntedotours.

4. St. Paul City Hall (St. Paul, MN)

On February 13, 1906, St. Paul City Hall was the site of the last execution in Minnesota history.

William Williams was convicted of murdering a teenager as well as his own mother, and he was sentenced to hanging outside City Hall. Except they botched his hanging. On the first attempt, the rope was too long, and police had to physically hold Williams by the rope until he died from strangulation.

Since then, witnesses have seen apparitions wearing old-style clothing in and around City Hall. Including, you guessed it… a man hanging from a noose.

5. The Wabasha Street Caves (St. Paul, MN)

We’re not sure why St. Paul seems to be the most haunted of the two Twin Cities, but in the case of Wabasha Street Caves, it probably has something to do with this place’s creepy past. 

Before the caves closed in 2020, they offered ghost tours. The tours had tons of wild stories about the caves, including one that was especially bloody – a massive mobster massacre.

As the story goes, a prohibition-era bootlegging operation went awry, leading to a massive shootout between mobsters and tons of people dead. Since then, visitors often reported strange people sitting at the bar, and the cave owners even maintain a collection of hundreds of spooky ghost photos.

Even without the stories, the dark and damp caves, located deep in St. Paul’s river bluffs, can be a spooky place. Here’s to hoping they reopen soon.

6. First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN)

Before First Avenue was one of the most well-known music venues in the country, it was the site of a bus station. As the story goes, a woman was waiting at the bus station for her lover to return from war. When she learned he’d died in combat, she hung herself in the restroom.

Since then, multiple First Avenue employees have seen an apparition hanging in the women’s bathroom. Always in the fifth stall, which happens to be the exact scene of the tragedy.

7. The Palmer House Hotel (Sauk Centre, MN)

The Palmer House Hotel, located in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, is rumored to be one of the most haunted placed in America. It was even featured on its own episode of The Travel Chanel’s Ghost Adventures!

The Palmer House was built in 1901… just one year after a fire burned the old Sauk Centre house to the ground, killing hundreds of people in the tragedy. Today, the paranormal activity seems endless, with guests and employees reporting strange voices, doors slamming shutting, furniture getting rearranged, and most commonly, the sounds of phantom children playing in the hallways.

8. The Glensheen Mansion (Duluth, MN)

A popular tourist attraction and a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth is a beautiful estate on the shores of Lake Superior. Originally built in 1905 by the wealthy Congdon family, this history took a turn for the worse when Elizabeth Congon and her nurse were brutally murdered in the mansion by the family’s adopted daughter.

They say Elizabeth’s ghost still haunts the mansion to this day. The mansion is now owned by the University of Minnesota, who offers creepy flashlight tours for adults wanting to learn all about the mansion’s eerie past.

9. Enger Tower (Duluth, MN)

Enger Tower just looks like a creepy spot. Located in Duluth’s Enger Park, this tall, narrow watchtower is made out of old stones and stands over five stories tall. And it’s supposedly haunted.

In the 1940s, a man jumped to his death from the top of the 80-foot structure. Since then, many people claim to see a strange figure wandering the tower’s top floor. Yet when they enter the tower to get a better look, he’s nowhere to be found. 

10. The Warden’s House (Stillwater, MN)

How’s this for a frightening place?

The Warden’s House in Stillwater was first built in 1853 to house the wardens of Stillwater Prison, the oldest prison in the state of Minnesota.

The last warden who lived in the house was Henry Wolfer. Wolfer’s daughter died from appendicitis shortly after she gave birth to a son, who Wolfer then raised in the Warden’s house without incident.

Fast forward nearly 100 years later. While taking a tour of the Warden House Museum, a young girl asked the tour guide, “Is the woman always there?”

8 of the Spookiest Sites in Minnesota

 

Twin Cities

  1. First Avenue, Minneapolis
    Interior of the First Avenue stage, lit in purple

    First Avenue music venue in Minneapolis

    Before it was a famous “danceteria,” First Avenue was a Greyhound depot. Legend has it that one of the bathrooms in the 1,550-capacity concert hall is haunted by the ghost of a woman who hung herself in the bus station after her lover—a World War II soldier—didn’t return home. Workers have reported screams and cries emanating from the fifth stall; others claim to have seen a full-body apparition with a noose hanging around its neck, and warn one another not to enter the restroom with the lights off. DJs and concertgoers have also seen the dead woman bogeying down with other specters in the dance lounge upstairs. Curiously, neither the woman nor any member of her frightful entourage has legs.

  2. Mounds Theatre, St. Paul

    The 99-year-old silent movie house and vaudeville theater in Dayton’s Bluff was boarded up for 35 years before it roared back to life in the early aughts. The subject of paranormal TV shows and professional ghost-hunting investigations, the theater is allegedly haunted by a trio of ghosts: a happy little girl who bounces a ball onstage, a cursed old man that lurks in the shadowy corners of the projection booth and a crestfallen usher who lists up and down the aisles in search of his lost love. Immersive ghost-hunting tours (opens in new window) are held here every October; past attendees have described flickering lights, strange smells and inexplicable cold spots.

Duluth

  1. William A. Irvin
  1. The historic William A. Irvin spent 40 years ferrying iron ore and coal across the Great Lakes; today the imposing ship moonlights as a museum. After undergoing a hull restoration in 2018 and 2019, the vessel returned to its berth in Canal Park and reopened for daily tours in May. This October, however, it’ll transform into the wildly popular Duluth Haunted Ship (opens in new window). From Oct. 6 through 29, intrepid visitors can explore the boat at night, feeling their way through the dark engine room and unnervingly empty (or are they?) hallways. Several paranormal groups have conducted investigations here: While some proved inconclusive, others documented bizarre shadows and the sound of footsteps.

  2. Enger Tower
    Exterior of the Enger Tower in Duluth

    Enger Tower in Duluth / Lisa McClintick

    The 82-year-old watchtower at the heart of Enger Park is more than a local landmark—it’s supposedly haunted by the ghost of an unidentified man who plunged from its 80-foot summit in 1948. Visitors have reported seeing a mysterious figure circling in the windows on the fifth floor, yet when they enter the tower to get a closer look the man all but disappears.

  3. Greenwood Cemetery

    It’s easy to miss this unmarked graveyard, tucked behind a prison and a nursing home off Rice Lake Road. But follow the overgrown footpath across Chester Creek and you’ll stumble upon an expanse of rolling green with a harrowing history. Here lie the remains of 4,705 individuals interred between 1891 and 1947—most of them too poor to afford burial in a proper cemetery. The plots were originally marked with wooden crosses, not stone, so few identifiers remain. But as a small, weathered plaque explains, “Many of these were immigrant miners, sailors, farmer, and lumberjacks whose labor helped develop St. Louis County. They were the real pioneers.” Come during daylight hours if you’re curious about the history—but come after dark, say paranormal enthusiasts, if you crave a far eerier experience.

Farther Afield

  1. Palmer House Hotel, Sauk Centre
    Exterior of the Palmer House Hotel

    Palmer House Hotel, Sauk Centre / Kerry Peterson

    This haunted hotel has been visited by paranormal enthusiasts from across the country, including the crew of Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures and, more recently, Dave and Bruce Tango from the Syfy program Ghost Hunters. Room 17 is supposed to be the scariest, inhabited by a phantom prostitute named Lucy who, rumor has it, was murdered at Sauk Centre House, a brothel that burned to the ground more than 120 years ago. (The swanky Palmer House Hotel was built atop its grounds one year later.) Room 22, meanwhile, is haunted by Raymond, Lucy’s mean-spirited pimp. Good news for amateur investigators: The hotel owner speaks candidly about guests’ most chilling encounters.

  2. Lakeview Cemetery, Buhl

    Considered one of the most haunted graveyards in America, Lakeview Cemetery (opens in new window) opened in 1913—around the same time that Shaw Hospital was built. When patients there died of tuberculosis or mental illness, they often were buried in this potter's field, many with little more than a cast-iron cross to mark their grave. Lakeview is surrounded by forest on all four sides, adding to its spookiness. Brave souls who’ve visited describe seeing apparitions in 1920s attire walking amongst the plots, hearing sounds of disembodied voices and footsteps in an otherwise pin-drop silent graveyard, feeling breath on their neck, smelling wretched odors, experiencing flashes of light and having the unsettling sense of being watched.

  3. Crazy Annie’s Bridge, Henderson

    The seemingly ordinary bridge at 270th Street is anything but after nightfall. The bridge earned its nickname because locals say it’s haunted by Crazy Annie, a World War I widow who drowned her three children in the nearby creek before hanging herself from a tree. Visitors who ventured here after 11 p.m. have heard ungodly screams, seen faces floating in the darkness and figures fleeing through the woods and found handprints on their vehicles after returning home. (They also report cops busting them for loitering, so tread with caution.)

Monday, October 17, 2022

Civilization Cannot Exist Without Righteous Retribution

 

The only thing about the fact that a jury found that the degenerate scumbag who murdered seventeen people should not be executed is that it was just one nimrod juror who held out not to give the vermin the death he deserves. Statistically, even in a red state like Florida, it’s difficult to find a group of twelve people without a moral illiterate or two. In blue venues, it’s hard to find any moral literates at all.

Here’s the thing – a civilization that cannot come up with the moral testicularity to execute a creature who murders over a dozen of its children is a civilization in serious trouble. The minimum standard for any culture that intends on surviving – and surviving means dealing with the barbarians within and without – is to take its own side in the fight for survival. Eventually, there will be a backlash. The only question is how ugly it will be.

This injustice in the Sunshine State – appropriately deplored by Governor DeSantis – is a symptom of the larger problem. You see it manifested across our culture – suicidal tolerance and performative forgiveness. In places like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and other blue cities – it is always blue cities – the inhabitants murder each other with glee. But more than that, they generally act like savages. We have all seen the videos. Random creeps menacing citizens on the subways, packs of thugs raiding convenience stores or shopping malls, pitched battles between groups of aspiring Einsteins in Walmarts, animals cold-cocking citizens who are simply minding their own business. But no one stops them. No one holds them to account. The cops’ shrug, because the blue politicians have told them to stand down. The answer to those of us who protest is always the same – shut up, racist, and also give us your guns so that you cannot defend yourself from what the government refuses to suppress.

And then there is the spectacle of family members of murder victims “forgiving” the criminals as if forgiveness was a simple act and not a process that demands action by the person being forgiven. This bizarre misunderstanding of Christianity is mixed with what seems to be a desire to front to the world as somehow enlightened – “I want to announce that I forgive the barbarians who raped and murdered my daughter. They did not repent, they did not seek forgiveness, and they have not yet been punished, but I’ll do it now anyway. Look at me.” Not that you want to take theological hints from a guy who grew up a Californian Methodist, but the forgiveness of God does not just manifest out of the blue; the one receiving grace needs to take steps to obtain it. These moral posers – and it is posing, sad and horrifying, but posing nonetheless – demand nothing to obtain forgiveness, so the forgiveness they offer is meaningless narcissism.

Yes, in case you are wondering, I am criticizing the family members of rape and murder victims who refuse to demand justice. Their moral voguing is perpetuating a paradigm where more people’s kids die. Forgive those who seek forgiveness; don’t hand it out as moral welfare and be shocked to find a society full of moral welfare bums.

Oh, and forgiveness does not mean letting them out of jail.

Our society must relearn how to say “No” again. No to crime. No violence. No to anarchy. And it is not hard – we know how to do it. Rudy Giuliani did it in New York City, turning the town of “Taxi Driver” and “Death Wish” into the safe, clean, and prosperous envy of the world. Here’s how. It’s simple. It’s not rocket science. It’s not even assembling Legos.

You enforce the law, arrest criminals, prosecute them, and put them in jail for some time commensurate with their crimes. If they commit many crimes, they go to jail for many years. This has the advantage of making them not be around normal people to commit more crimes. But it requires a recognition of the true purposes of the justice system. They are:

  1. To punish criminals, because a bad act requires society’s retribution. That retribution demonstrates that crime will not be tolerated. It also gives victims justice via society, thereby replacing the need for victims or their families to seek justice personally.
  2. To keep criminals in jail, because people who commit crimes should be in a place where they cannot hurt those who do not. Yes, that means more incarceration. Good. Because every criminal whose voluntary acts have resulted in the loss of their freedom means dozens of normal people who do not lose their freedom because of the criminals’ acts.
  3. Rehabilitation, but only to the extent rehabilitation efforts make it unnecessary to have to keep the criminal locked up forever. It is not a right. Rehabilitation is important only to the extent – and history shows it is a pretty damn limited extent – that it prevents more crime. It is not there to help the prisoner except incidentally. It is moral confusion to imagine that because a criminal gets caught that we normal members of society somehow incur a moral obligation to do anything for the prisoner but to provide basic food and shelter and not inflict cruel or unusual punishments. 

Imposing order means harshness. It requires that actual criminals be treated with the swift, sudden, and relentless force that today only people who pray at abortion mills or who take selfies in the Capitol receive. Their treatment by the garbage feds demonstrates that law enforcement knows how to crack down. It’s just that the crackdown should be on actual criminals instead of the political enemies of the Biden regime. Cleaning up law enforcement is another topic and another column, or even a whole book. But one thing that must happen is empowering the properly led and directed police to go after the bad people like they today go after the good people. The Soros DAs must be purged. The restraints on policing thugs must come off. We must collectively shrug when a video shows cops capping or kicking the ass of some degenerate, and if there is a riot then that riot must be crushed. We did that in Los Angeles in 1992 – it is a matter of will.

That is the thing – public order and safety are a matter of will. We know how to do it; we’ve done it. We just have to choose to do it again and reject the whining and wailing of those who benefit politically from letting criminals run rampant. You know, Democrats.

And we inevitably will make that choice. It’s human nature; people can only be pushed so far before they either push back themselves or rally behind someone who ruthlessly will. There is going to be a backlash. The question is what kind there will be. I propose a purposeful, conscious backlash where society says “Enough” and uses the present justice system and structures to stamp out crime. But if that does not happen, then there will be a harsher backlash, one that could easily spin out of control into excess. That’s when civilization starts falling apart. Remember the olden days, when there was no crime in mafia neighborhoods because if you tried to mug Mrs. Andolini on her way home from mass the cops found you in the trunk of a Buick parked in New Jersey divided into twelve pieces? 

Tough but fair. Yet, the reaction to come might not be so relatively orderly and focused. It’s not a problem for you or me, since we’re not criminals, but it might get out of control. Yet that’s still better than normal people living in fear.

Choose wisely. Choose to stop tolerating this chaos.

The American Stasi State

 

I do not take the topic of this week’s missive lightly, and it comes from experience. Back in the mid-80s, I was a young Army Paratrooper Lieutenant assigned to the 325th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy. Each January-February, we did training exchange rotations with the famed Berlin Brigade. They would come down to Folgaria, Italy, and participate in our cold-weather mountain warfare training course. We would deploy to take advantage of their MOUT (military operations in urban terrain) facility. While in West Berlin, by agreement, members of our military could travel into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie.

I remember receiving the safety brief about being situationally aware of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi. They would be shadowing us and ensuring there was no conversational contact with East Germans, beyond purchasing goods. The Stasi was part of a brutal regime that imprisoned its political opposition; many of whom were never to be heard from again. What I witnessed as a young 24-year-old Army officer was something I never wanted my country to experience.

Sadly, what I did see then has now infiltrated our country. When Joe Biden stands before an ominous and extremely dark backdrop to castigate millions of Americans as extremists, fascists, threats, and enemies, we have crossed an extremely dangerous Rubicon. This is the mantra of the real fascists, socialists, Marxists, and yes, communists, to disparage their political opposition, dehumanizing them, and setting them up for a “by any means necessary” agenda of suppression, silencing, and eradication. 

America is becoming a Stasi state.

Over the past year, we have seen parents who resisted the indoctrination of their children be attacked. How interesting it is that the National Association of School Boards, of which many state school boards are members, wrote a letter to the U.S. Attorney General demanding that parents showing up at school board meetings be designated as domestic terrorists. And even in the Lone Star State of Texas, we had two dads arrested in their homes, before their families, at night, in Round Rock, Texas, all because they spoke up about transparency and their disagreement with the current superintendent.

 

Democratic Party's Lenin Statue in Seattle, Washington

Recently, the American Medical Association sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General. Their letter demanded that anyone, including journalists, who speaks out against child gender modification, mutilation, surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormonal therapies be investigated. So, in other words, a medical association, which we all know is quite leftist, does not want any speech against surgically mutilating young children. Based upon a video from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, it appears that this is a lucrative business. Matter of fact, Planned Parenthood has opened up a new line of business in child gender mutilation surgery. Take note that a gender mutilation surgery center in San Francisco sought to sponsor a drag event at a gay bar in San Diego for children.

Speaking of California, its state legislature just passed a law, which will surely be signed by Gov. Newsom, that will punish medical professionals spreading so-called Covid-19 “disinformation.” Since when were elected officials smarter than medical professionals? The most severe punishment is the revocation of a medical license. The state government is now interjecting itself into the doctor-patient relationship.

The U.S. Department of Justice just announced it will begin an investigation into Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Why not investigate Kroger acquiring Albertsons? Oh yeah, Twitter is an information platform that the leftists, and fascists, do not want to lose. I guess the world’s richest man is not out of reach for the American Stasi state. And the same DOJ is opening an investigation on Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis for transporting 50 illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard…but no investigation into the Biden administration doing (which it still does) the very same thing all across the nation?

Indiana congressional candidate Jennifer Ruth-Green had her military personnel file illegally accessed and given to Politico for a hit piece that revealed her sexual assault while in Iraq. The U.S. Air Force has come out publicly and stated that it had no record of anyone requesting under FOIA to obtain her personnel file, which Politico said they did. Jennifer Ruth-Green is an Air Force Academy graduate, but sadly, she is a Black female conservative. To the American Stasi state, she is the enemy for being a black woman that is not a socialist or Marxist.

And so it goes when an 83-year-old pro-life volunteer, Joan Jacobson of Michigan, was shot because she believed in the very first unalienable right, life, for the unborn children of America. Or what about 80-year-old Julie Jaman of Port Townsend, Washington, who was banned from her YMCA for complaining about a gender dysphoric male staff member being in the women’s locker room and heckled by the Stasi state brown shirts? Or how about the unfortunate story of 18-year-old North Dakota teenager, Cayler Ellingson, who was run down by a triggered Marxist believing the kid was a Republican extremist? None of these stories received any coverage from the American Stasi state media propaganda wing.

Americans deemed the political opponents of the Stasi state are being targeted and having their homes raided…yet not one single black-clad and masked Antifa leader has been arrested. And even if they were, the Stasi state, meaning Kamala Harris and her ilk, will raise funds and advocate for their being released. And even in our nation’s capital, a new Bastille has arisen, a place to unlawfully detain and hold Americans with their due process constitutional rights being violated.

This is all the result of constitutional conservatives, concerned parents, and those who believe they have a right to free speech, free expression, peaceably assemble, and petition their government for a redress of grievances being labeled as domestic terrorists, fascists, and the enemy. If you are burning down city blocks, attacking law enforcement, and entering the country illegally, that is permitted by the American Stasi state, along with releasing violent criminals back onto our streets.

The midterm elections will determine whether or not our constitutional republic survives or if the American Stasi state expands.

Who knows, perhaps one day, I will have the late-night banging upon my door because I dare to cower in fear, intimidated into silence, afraid for my family. Perhaps I will have my bank account suspended as have so many others. The funding of 87,000 new IRS agents is not in the interest of the American people. It is in the interest of the American Stasi state, to be weaponized against political opponents. 

Unity for the progressive socialist leftists and Marxists means conformity…or else. I find it funny because during the Trump presidency, all we heard from the left was “Resist.” Thanks, y’all, that is exactly what I plan to do…Steadfast and Loyal.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Don't Vote for Angie Craig

 Angie Craig is married to Cheryl Greene.

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Angie Craig received a donation from the Population Connection in 2020.[1]

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Onward Together supported Angie Craig as a candidate for the 2018 midterm elections.[2]

Background

Craig graduated from the University of Memphis. After her education, she worked as a journalist and then at two companies. Most recently she worked for a Fortune 500 healthcare company, St. Jude Medical, based in St. Paul. Craig's work has involved health policy, media and government relations, and corporate communications. She has led St. Jude's Global Human Resources group since 2011, helping create jobs and building a program designed to bring more women into management roles.

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The formation of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus was announced on June 4, 2008, by openly gay representatives Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank. The caucus had 165 members (164 Democrats and 1 Republican) in the 116th United States Congress. The caucus is co-chaired by the United States House of Representatives' nine openly LGBT members: Representatives David Cicilline, Angie Craig, Sharice Davids, Mondaire Jones, Sean Patrick Maloney, Chris Pappas, Mark Pocan, Mark Takano, and Ritchie Torres.

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In 2018 Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC (CPC PAC), the political arm of the 76-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, endorsed Angie Craig (MN-02) for the House of Representatives.[3]

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Shortly after the 2018 election Angie Craig joined the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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In 2018 Angie Craig was endorsed by Council for a Livable World.[4]

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Jan. 3 2019, including Mara Kunin as Chief of Staff, Will Mitchell as Legislative Director, Nick Coe as District Director and Jen Gates as Communications Director.