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Idaho State Senator Tammy Nichols and State Representative Judy Boyle #quack forbes.com

If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho. Yep, you heard that correctly. State Senator Tammy Nichols and State Representative Judy Boyle, both Republicans, have co-sponsored House Bill (HB) 154 for Idaho, otherwise known as the “Gem State.”

Yes, apparently, Nichols wants to ban all mRNA technology from the state of Idaho. But wait until you see whom she wants to punish. This bill itself didn’t have a whole lot of verbiage. It simply stated that, “A person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state.” So in other words, this would apply to giving mRNA vaccines not only to humans but also to other mammals such as bighorn sheep if you were so inclined. The next line clarified that, “A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Moms for Liberty #fundie forbes.com

On June 30th, a chapter of a national group called Moms for Liberty lodged a complaint with the state education commissioner about Wit & Wisdom, a curriculum used in more than 30 districts across the state. The complaint singles out a second-grade unit on “Civil Rights Heroes” and four texts in particular.

They include two books about Ruby Bridges, who as a child integrated a whites-only elementary school in New Orleans; one about Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington; and one about a 1947 lawsuit in California brought by a Mexican-American family that led to school desegregation in that state.

The 11-page complaint tries to detail the ways in which the books violate the Tennessee law, but the accusations rest on a peculiar reading of the texts. Focusing on Ruby Bridges Goes to School, which Bridges wrote herself, Moms for Liberty points to photos of angry white people holding signs favoring segregation and claims the book doesn’t mention that race relations have improved. But the text makes clear that these events took place in the past and things have changed. “A long time ago,” the first sentence reads, “some people thought that black people and white people should not be friends.” At the end, Bridges writes, “Now black and white children can go to the same schools. … I tell people that black and white people can be friends. And most important, I tell children to be kind to each other.”

The complaint alleges that the books present an unrelentingly dark portrait of a United States in which all white people are evil. But Ruby’s white first-grade teacher—who teaches her alone after parents pull their children out of school—is presented as a hero. “I loved Mrs. Henry,” Bridges writes, “and Mrs. Henry loved me.” Far from resenting her absent white classmates, Ruby yearns for them to return. When they eventually do, we see photos of Ruby and her classmates close together and smiling.

Henry Binswanger #fundie forbes.com

It’s time to gore another collectivist sacred cow. This time it’s the popular idea that the successful are obliged to “give back to the community.” That oft-heard claim assumes that the wealth of high-earners is taken away from “the community.” And beneath that lies the perverted Marxist notion that wealth is accumulated by “exploiting” people, not by creating value–as if Henry Ford was not necessary for Fords to roll off the (non-existent) assembly lines and Steve Jobs was not necessary for iPhones and iPads to spring into existence.

Let’s begin by stripping away the collectivism. “The community” never gave anyone anything. The “community,” the “society,” the “nation” is just a number of interacting individuals, not a mystical entity floating in a cloud above them. And when some individual person–a parent, a teacher, a customer–”gives” something to someone else, it is not an act of charity, but a trade for value received in return.

It was from love–not charity–that your mother fed you, bought clothes for you, paid for your education, gave you presents on your birthday. It was for value received that your teachers worked day in and day out to instruct you. In commercial transactions, customers buy a product not to provide alms to the business, but because they want the product or service–want it for their own personal benefit and enjoyment. And most of the time they get it, which is why they choose to continue patronizing the same businesses.

Stephen Fincher #fundie forbes.com

"The role of citizens, of Christians, of humanity is to take care of each other, but not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country.”

The Congressman’s remarks come on the heels of his taking the biblical route when responding to Representative Juan Vargas’ (D-Calif.) somewhat different take on the teachings of Jesus. During a recent House Agriculture Committee debate over the Farm Bill (which contains the food stamp budget), Vargas, citing the Book of Matthew, noted, “[Jesus] says how you treat the least among us, the least of our brothers, that’s how you treat him.”

Vargas also noted that Jesus directly mentions the importance of feeding the hungry.

Not to be outdone by a Godless Democrat, Congressman Fincher responded with his own Bible quote taken from the Book of Thessalonians—“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Marion Tinsley #racist forbes.com

Isnt it funny how the country has a long history of militant black and hispanic groups but these racist decide to pick “WHITE” supremists as the bad guys. These guys are losers who are to politically correct to address the real danger and it would be from Black or Hispanic Supremists/Gangs taking over cities so it would be an urban warfare scenario and not a fight in the open country. If I was still an active duty Infantry Officer I would laugh in the face of anyone who suggested this and point out they were either drunk or just plain stupid. Besides the democrats have always been the party of murder and trash the constitution so they would be the ones attempting to doing all of the things mentioned in the story.

Wait a minute the gangs have already been allowed to take over the cities by the democrats.

Henry Binswanger #fundie forbes.com

Imagine the effect on our culture, particularly on the young, if the kind of fame and adulation bathing Lady Gaga attached to the more notable achievements of say, Warren Buffett. Or if the moral praise showered on Mother Teresa went to someone like Lloyd Blankfein, who, in guiding Goldman Sachs toward billions in profits, has done infinitely more for mankind. (Since profit is the market value of the product minus the market value of factors used, profit represents the value created.)

Instead, we live in a culture where Goldman Sachs is smeared as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” That’s for the sin of successful investing, channeling savings to their most productive uses, instead of wasting them on government boondoggles like Solyndra and bridges to nowhere.

There is indeed a vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity: the Internal Revenue Service. And, at a deeper level, it is the monstrous perversion of justice that makes the IRS possible: an envy-ridden moral code that damns success, profit, and earning money in voluntary exchange.

An end must be put to the inhuman practice of draining the productive to subsidize the unproductive. An end must be put to the primordial notion that one’s life belongs to the tribe, to “the community,” and that the superlative wealth-creators must do penance for the sin of creating value.

And Ayn Rand is just the lady who can do it.

Alex Jones #mammon #quack forbes.com

Topline: The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has sent an official warning letter to Alex Jones and his website InfoWars on Thursday for advertising unproven cures for the COVID-19 coronavirus.

The warning letter comes three weeks after New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered Jones to stop marketing his products, which include “SuperSilver Whitening Toothpaste” and “SuperSilver Wound Dressing Gel” as cures for coronavirus.

Many of Jones’ products include mention of colloidal silver, which is small particles of silver in a liquid solution. The FDA has previously said there is no scientific evidence to show colloidal silver helps with any health issues.

The FDA warning letter orders Jones to correct his misbranding immediately, and contact the FDA within 48 hours to describe the steps he will take to rebrand these products.
Failure to correct these violations, the letter says, “may result in legal action including, without limitation, seizure and injunction.”

As of 8:00 pm ET, the products mentioned in the warning letter were no longer visible on the InfoWars shop website.

Jonathan W. Emord, an attorney for InfoWars, said last week that the products were never intended “to be used in the treatment of any disease, including the novel coronavirus,” reported the New York Times.

Donald Trump #wingnut forbes.com

During a rally in Minden, Nevada, Trump predicted he would win reelection and carry Nevada, a state he lost narrowly in 2016.

“After that,” Trump said, “we’ll negotiate,” asserting that he’s “probably entitled to another four after that” based on “the way we were treated.”

The comments echo ones Trump made during a rally in Wisconsin in August, in which he stated he would win four more years and “go for another four years” because “they spied on my campaign,” likely referencing his unproven “Obamagate” theory.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer-turned prolific critic, has argued that Trump’s comments should not be disregarded as humor, instead asserting that Trump believes he should be the “ruler” or “dictator” of the U.S. and wants to “change the Constitution.”

Cohen predicted that, were Trump to win reelection, “he is going to automatically day number one start thinking how he can change the Constitution for a third term, and then a fourth term.”