Who killed George Floyd?

Readers of this blog know that I believe George Floyd died of Fentanyl positioning. Apparently the prosecutors in the case knew that on June first but said nothing, even though it might have calmed the riots. More here.

The Republican convention was pretty good.  I didn't watch any of the Democrat convention, though now I wish I had so I could compare the two. Here is a summary and analysis of five things to know about the fourth night. There's some more good links at the bottom of the article, including this one about Biden's corruption.

Here's a map and list of the buildings damaged in the George Floyd riots in Minnesota. The list is extensive. Search for "fire" and see almost 150 buildings damaged or destroyed.

Watch this interview with a respected scientist on hydroxychloroquine.

Here's a list of 22 people killed (so far) in the George Floyd riots. Most are black. Their lives mattered.

Joe Biden repeated the false claim in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention that President Donald Trump had referred to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in August 2017. This is a widely held myth in American media, especially CNN.  BBC disputed this claim. Apparently the American media is incapable of googling the transcript.

Once he was pro choice and now is pro life. Here's why.

Lots of good commentary in this article about a white supremist who is endorsing Joe Biden.

In Peru, police went to a nightclub to enforce anti-Covid gatherings as a safety measure. The people in the nightclub stampeded; thirteen were killed and six others were injured. Twenty-three people were arrested, of which fifteen tested positive for the virus.

There is a rebellion inside Scandia National Laboratories over political correctness and reverse discrimination.

Here's a joke for anyone who follows politics. CNN's Cuomo: We're not fact-checking the Democrats because "they are not lying the way Trump does"

This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrest before he was shot in Kenosha Wisconsin.

Scroll down for the survey and comments on the mob attacking Rand Paul after the RNC.

Interesting Statistics

Interesting statistics:

• On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.
• Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
• Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).

There are lots of animal cameras in the wild. This bear took some time to clean the lens for his videos.

Los Angeles is suffering from the same disease as San Francisco. Liberal politicians are allowing the homeless to destroy the city.

This author says the FDA is preventing people from using low cost, but effective Corona-19 tests by blocking medical technology.

You know those hydrogen-powered automobiles that liberals are so enamored of? It turns out that hydrogen is made from natural gas in a process the releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Nuclear power to the rescue, making hydrogen from electricity and water. Of course the liberals hate nuclear power.

An Irish pub has banned Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline. It seems everybody in the pub joins in singing it.

The State Police are abandoning Portland because the DA refuses to prosecute rioters.

‘The President was not encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden.

Remember the lost colony of Roanoke that you learned about in school? They have been found.

Roger Kimball reviews the early portions of the Democrat convention. He thinks the Democrats will profit if the ratings are low.

We have fires in California.  Here's an animated video of every fire since 1910. Some were pretty big.

Peggy Noonan on the Democrat convention: too much misery. The Democrats miss the meaning.

Their convention was marked by a sense of grievance, but voters need to know what they’ll do.

Regular readers of my blog know of my opinion the George Floyd was killed by fentanyl and other drugs. Now a gag order has been lifted and defense attorneys are making the same argument. Read the links in the article for more discussion.

So mail-in ballots are safe? A New Jersey election was invalidated because of rampant mail-in voter fraud.

A teacher, spying on a student in a virtual class, sent police to the home after spotting a BB gun in the room.

Harvard Law prof calls for ban on homeschooling, saying it's 'dangerous' to leave children with their parents 24/7.

I rather enjoyed this commercial by Kim Klacik, Republican candidate in Boston. Watch the video.

The Babylon Bee: Man Who Has Been In Government For Nearly 50 Years Promises To Fix Government

God Bless the USA

Singer Lee Greenwood (and author of the song) got together with acapella group Home Free and the Air Force chorus to record this rendition of “God Bless the USA”. Turn on your sound, fill your screen, and listen. For more Home Free, go here.

Michael Brown is famous for not really saying "hands up don't shoot" before he was killed by a policeman. A St. Louis prosecutor reopened the case. Here are the results of the new investigation.

What's the deal with the coin shortage? It's hitting the laundromats hard.

A story about churches carved out of solid rock in Lalibela.

There's a little spat between the California liberals and the people who depend on hunters for revenue and preservation of the species. They are fighting over African animal trophies.

If you're a liberal, chances are you think the media do a great job. Of course most of the media are liberals. If you're a conservative, you think the media are biased. Here's the results of a study.

Frog eats beetle. Beetle crawls through frog to escape out the back door. Video on the New York Times website.

Guess who wants cops around? Blacks, with bonus discussion of who trusts the media.

Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure. What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.

Willie Brown thinks Kamala Harris should have turned down the job of Vice President if offered.

All of a sudden, the media has reversed their opinions on Kamala. Now they have a crush on this formerly deficient candidate.

Political says that Joe Biden is bland.

Trump just mediated between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and now there will be an Israel Embassy in UAE. They’d be giving Obama another Nobel Peace Prize if he did this.

Scandia National Labs sent a bunch of white executives to a luxury resort to teach them about white male privileges.  Scroll down for some of the study materials.

The derecho storm was in the news, but these pictures from Iowa tell the story.

Hydroxychloroquine revisited.

I just watched Fauci on TV saying that "there is no evidence Hydroxychloroquine works for Covid-19. A differing opinion: an article by a scientist on its effectiveness. More and more I think HCQ was reported ineffective just because Trump was promoting it. Note that it only works when used with zinc so many studies you heard about are bogus.  How come I know this and the professionals don't?

Here's a chart comparing fatality rates by countries that use HCQ verses those that don't.  Click "Show this thread" under the chart for more discussion.

Intelligent Design is the theory that evolution was the result of guidance by a supreme being rather than natural selection. One argument for ID is the example of the "Cambrian Explosion" when a great variety of life forms appeared much faster than could be explained naturally. This writer says that ID proponents were the early recipients of persecution of free speech.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod refused to kneel during the national anthem Thursday night against the Dodgers.

The Woke Movement is the new Puritanism. Racial justice: the new religion?

Fauci threw out the first pitch at a baseball game. On the pitcher's mound, he wore a mask, 60 feet from home plate. In the stands, close to people, he didn't wear it (scroll down).

Americans pay more for prescription drugs each year than people in any other developed country in the world. Trump is working to do something about that.

"Get  woke, go broke" refers to the financial penalty some organizations suffer for adapting to the new emphasis to saying or doing the right things as approved by culture. One example is programs that accurate portray police in action.

A  roundup of conservative commentary from the New York Post.

The Wall Street Journal stands up to its staff and the cancel culture.

Black Portlander changes his mind about the nightly protests after he attends one.

How to cut the crime rate in any city--use the broken windows solution.

There is something called the "cancel culture" where people lose their jobs because of something they said, often innocuous to you and me (see last week's blog). Here's a discussion.

"Bat Woman", the Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out. Needless to say, you can't trust anything that comes out of China.

The Japanese seabirds who fish for the Emperor.

There is a new film coming out on Amazon about Roger Ailes. Read this article before you decide not to watch it.

Trump's polling numbers are bad.  Here's how he could still win in November.

Kind of a fun comic on the scientific method.

The nation has gone insane

The nation seems to have gone insane. The curator of the San Francisco Museum of modern art was forced to resign because he said he would continue to collect the art of white men. Where are the rational people in this society? Where is common sense? Here's more evidence of a world gone mad. And, how about Trader Joes changing its brands?

More here: a coach at West Virginia University leaves after what some consider insensitive remarks.

The New York Times is becoming so antagonistic towards its writers that don't toe the line that one resigned and wrote a scathing report about the atmosphere in the offices of a once great newspaper.

Ethiopia is building Africa's largest dam on the Blue Nile. Egypt is worried about its water supply if they start filling the reservoir.

It is likely that George Floyd, who's death initiated the riots in Minneapolis and the rest of the county, was killed by  the opioid Fentanyl. Getting a conviction of the four officers will be very difficult.

Here's an interesting and disturbing video about how Google and Facebook manipulate elections.

Where is your country? Scroll down to the last two paragraphs.

Less than 30% of Americans think the Redskins should change their name.

Good. The Michigan Supreme Court rules that you can't seize a whole house over an $8.41 delinquent tax bill.

Minneapolis police officers are bailing out after the riots.

A lengthy and thoughtful discussion about structural racism.

America's reporters are liars--one example.

Pretty interesting article on Fauci at the NIH.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement”.  Her legacy also includes supporting eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding, often targeted at poor people, those with disabilities, immigrants and people of color. Of course Sanger got her wish, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.

An article by a black physicist on what it's like to be a black physicist.

A group of Ford employees would like the company to stop making police cars. The adults who run the company declined.

In California, the largest US public university will now require ethnic studies as graduation requirement.

This author is enjoying watching the left make mistakes.

It's nice to see government workers with a sense of humor, but not everybody appreciated the joke. Arizona child welfare workers fired for wearing ‘professional kidnapper’ shirts.

Trump has been right about China for years.

Structural Racism

Is structural racism responsible for economic inequality in Minneapolis? This writer argues that there are other causes.

More on the commentary on Trump's speech at Mt. Rushmore. The critical reaction from the press confirms Trump's claim of "fake news".

Too late for my 4th of July blog, but here's a collection of America theme songs.

A couple, the McCloskeys of St. Louis, became famous for standing in front of their place with guns, fending off a mob of protestors.  This led to a hilarious collection of MEMES; do not miss this.

This student's professors tried to convince him that America is racist. He refused to buy into it.

A neat one-minute CGI imitation fireworks display worth watching.

Here's a book: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!). The link is worth visiting for the summary and the comments from readers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey seem to be locked in a perpetual contest to decide who is the nation’s worst mayor. Just when it looks like one has the edge, one of the others steps up and delivers more incompetence.

When Black lives matter to Democrats, and when they don't.

Supreme Court says employers may opt out of Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate over religious, moral objections.

Johnny Cash and that grand old flag.

Is the pandemic coming to an end? More people are testing positive, but fewer people are dying.

Televangelists Jim Bakker, Peter Popoff, Jimmy Swaggart, Joyce Meyer receive millions in PPP loans. I'm still waiting for my modest amount.

European Bison are being reintroduced to England after having gone extinct 6000 years ago (must have been killed by the flood). Read the article to see what they look like; a little different than American Bison.

Patriotic movies

Fifteen best patriotic movies to celebrate the 4th of July.

We're coming up on corn-on-the-cob season.  Here's an article comparing the best and easiest ways to cook this summertime treat.

Did you see "Hidden Figures", the movie about the black female engineers in the space program? NASA will be naming their headquarters building after one of them.

Where do your salmon come from? Farm-raised salmon are as different from wild salmon as dogs are from wolves.

An interesting take on global warming. "On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem."

More on Hydroxychloroquine: it worked in this study. But they are still not using zinc, the key ingredient.

Is there no statute of limitations on political correctness? Boeing's communications chief wrote an article 30 years ago expressing his opinion at the time and it cost him his job.

A fascinating analysis of the NASCAR Noose, and Juicy Wallace.

Liberalism is a mystery to me. For a movement thats supposed to be so inclusive and loving, it is neither.

Portland is subject to continuing riots and destruction. It's descending into a war zone. I'm reasonably sure that the citizens don't like this.

A man drove into a Black Lives Matter crowd, killing 24yo and seriously injuring another protester. You had to read about it in an Australian report to find out that the driver was black.

Trump gave a great speech at Mount Rushmore. You can tell by the way the media criticized it. Here's the transcript.