RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/11/19/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict-not-guilty-trial-media-bias/8686176002/

In our age of rage, Rittenhouse had to be convicted to fulfill the narrative. Acquittal has to be evidence of a racist justice system.

The full acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse is now in. The result was hardly a surprise to many of us who watched the trial rather than the media coverage. The jury spent days carefully considering the evidence and could not find a single count that was supported beyond a reasonable doubt.

In rendering its verdict, the jury fulfilled its core function in our legal system. The jury was designed to protect an individual from becoming the grist of a criminal justice system. As the Supreme Court noted in Duncan v. Louisiana (1968): 

“Providing an accused with the right to be tried by a jury of his peers gave him an inestimable safeguard against the corrupt or overzealous prosecutor and against the compliant, biased, or eccentric judge.”

The American jury is designed to stand between the mob and a defendant; between the government and the accused. The thin line of a dozen citizens can prove the most unassailable wall for justice in our system.

The media’s guilty verdict

https://mailchi.mp/3130fb5a8dda/35b-from-us-taxpayers-funded-world-health-organization-58617?e=0c8ccf8e98

In 2019, the California controller rejected our freedom of information request for the state’s line-by-line expenditures saying they couldn’t “locate” any of the 50 million bills they paid the previous year.

So, we sued them. (California is the only state not to produce their state spending subject to our open records request.)

Yesterday, California Controller Betty Yee’s lawyers closed oral argument in the superior court, by effectively re-treading that most implausible argument:

We can’t locate anything.
 
Not. One. Single. Transaction. A checkbook doesn’t exist. 

It’s offensive to taxpayers across America. It’s offensive to the American experiment that’s premised upon individual freedom and liberty. It’s offensive to every citizen in California who deserves to be able to follow the money.

It’s offensive to all of us.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/the_democrat_coalition_is_starting_to_implode.html

Politico published a delightful story the other day about the fact that an entity called the College Democrats of America, which is the official Democrat party body on American college and university campuses, is imploding so quickly that the Democrat National Committee is thinking about disassociating itself from that body. The problem is that the left’s much-vaunted “intersectionality” and “diversity” are unsustainable in a party that views the world as a small pie, with every victim group vying for top victim status and the biggest slice.

The article’s title and subtitle spell out the problem:

Allegations of bigotry and calls for impeachment rock College Democrats: The situation is so bad that the DNC is considering disaffiliation with the national organization.

Honestly, when you read something like that, you just can’t stop yourself from smiling. And the beauty of the whole thing is that the facts adduced in the article live up to the promise given in the title:

The College Democrats of America — the Democratic Party’s national organization presiding over 500 chapters on campuses across the country — is in turmoil.

The group’s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of anti-Blackness, Islamaphobia and anti-Semitism at each other. Impeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization’s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism.

The conflict has gotten so messy that the Democratic National Committee is considering disaffiliating with the national collegiate organization altogether and creating a partnership with the state groups underneath the national umbrella, according to a Democrat familiar with the discussions. The DNC declined to comment.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/vaxxocalypse_now.html

My first encounter with vaxxport tyranny took place last week at a Los Angeles gym, where I have been a member for two years.  Abiding by an edict from the governor of California, the reception staff asked to see my vaccination card or a QR code before allowing me access to the facilities.  I told the newly anointed gatekeepers that whether or not to partake of the vaccine was a personal medical decision, as in “my body, my choice.”  I made clear my resentment of  the tyrannical invasion of my privacy — especially for the COVID “virus” that has demonstrated a 99.5+% survival rate for healthy, fit people under 70.

To be able to exercise that day, I later succumbed to the pressure, but not before snidely remarking that no one asks for the results of my TB test or hepatitis titer.  After all, those diseases are more infectious and lethal than COVID.

My gym story does not end there.  It took a pleasant twist, and yet drove home a cautionary tale tinged with irony.  But I’ll save that for the end.  The bigger concern is that, across the world, countries are imposing severe restrictions on the unvaxxed.  The unjabbed are denied access to places they should be rightfully free to use.  In some places, such as Australia and Austria, interstate travel is proscribed, and they are mistreated and shamed for refusing vaccines cleared under dubious standards of emergency use approval (EUA).  Their reasonable suspicion that Big Pharma is orchestrating a con game is scorned and derided.  Any fear of vaccine despotism is ridiculed, and protests are ruthlessly put down, minimized, or ignored.

In America, such interdictions — ridiculous as they are — come from the very top.  Recently, President Joe Biden addressed the American people with a paternalistic admonishment: “We have been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.  And your refusal has cost us all.  So please do the right thing.”  Noam Chomsky, the controversial professor emeritus at MIT, provided the most outlandish example of left-leaning academia’s deep, hate-driven need to punish those who differ with their viewpoint.  He proposed that the unvaccinated be segregated and told to arrange for their own food supply without coming into contact with others.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/19/kamalas-collapse/

“It’s hard to miss the specific energy that the White House brings to defend a white man, knowing that Kamala Harris has spent almost a year taking a lot of the hits that the West Wing didn’t want to take themselves.” That was a former aide to Kamala Harris speaking to Edward-Isaac Dovere and Jasmine Wright of CNN. The nearly 5,000-word story, headlined “Exasperation and Dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’ Frustrating Start As Vice President,” tapped many anonymous sources, but California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis was willing to go on the record.

“It is natural that those of us who know [Harris], know how much more helpful she can be than she is currently being asked to be,” Kounalakis said. So the real problem is not Harris but Joe Biden. As Sir Bedivere (Terry Jones) of “Holy Grail” fame might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of politics? 

Eleni Kounalakis is the daughter of Angelo Tsakopoulos, a real-estate tycoon with a net worth of $600 million. According to Greek USA Reporter, Angelo is a “top political donor to the Clintons as well as the Democratic Party,” whose “donations to former President Bill Clinton were rewarded with a night in the prestigious Lincoln Bedroom.” In 2013 Tsakopoulos, “confirmed that Hillary Clinton will seek the Democratic nomination in the next presidential election.”

 Eleni, a protégé of Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, raised more than $1 million for Hillary Clinton in 2008, and that money found its reward. On January 7, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swore in Kounalakis as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary. Kounalakis served until 2013, and in 2015 authored Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in Budapest.

 In 2016, Kounalakis did her best to beat back a presidential run by Joe Biden, with strategic assistance from husband Markos Kounalakis, a columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, publishers of the Sacramento Bee.