Who are the frailest among our “frontline” workers?

Police?
Firefighters?
Nurses?

Nope! It’s teachers…..

“‘They’re overwhelmed’: Area school systems add mental health days for educators”

“School districts nationwide are canceling classes for what they are calling mental-health days, saying students and staff need the breaks to …”

“Richmond County Schools is giving everyone an additional five days off. Students and staff will now have the entire week off for Thanksgiving, Jan. 28, Feb. 14 and March 4.”

“Both Henrico and Hanover Schools are looking at all options for ways to reduce stress and promote mental health in the school system for students and staff.”

“A mental health day is never wrong.” 
“Our mental health is as important as our physical health. You have to take care of you first, or you will be no good to your students.” 

“Mental health days can be a game changer.” 

These wise words were written by teachers in our WeAreTeachers Helpline on Facebook. They were written in response to an educator who wrote in seeking advice. She really wanted to take a mental health day—she was afraid she might soon have a panic attack from all the stress—but it was a busy time of year. She was worried, hesitant, and stressed.

The teachers were loud and clear in their feedback, though. Yes, teachers should be able to take mental health days. And no, they shouldn’t feel guilty one bit.

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NFL is OK with defunding the police

  • Well heck it is a strategic move to keep players on the roster what with all the felons in their ranks  . . .
  • Were you aware:

It was the NFL  in 2016 who would not allow the Dallas Cowboys to have decals on their helmets honoring the 5 police officers murdered by a ‘BLACK SUPREMACIST’.

A very few years later:

NFL Helps in Funding to DEFUND POLICE

“The Community Justice Exchange is working towards a world without prisons, policing, prosecution, surveillance or any form of detention or supervision,” the group states on its website. Its work includes publishing a roadmap to “prison abolition.”

More reading:

The NFL’s “Inspire Change” program includes funding for groups trying to defund or abolish police departments. A banner promoting the “Inspire Change” initiative is seen at an October 2020 game between the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Football Tea

The NFL gave $300,000 to the Oregon Justice Resource Center (OJRC), the group disclosed to local media. It’s unclear how much the NFL gave to the Vera Institute of Justice and Community Justice Exchange, though the NFL has donated tens of millions of dollars as part of the “Inspire Change” program, according to the league.

Vera and the Community Justice Exchange have been NFL grantees since 2020, while the OJRC first received funding from the NFL this year, according to the league.

The Community Justice Exchange, which didn’t provide a comment by press time, aims to get rid of not only policing and prisons, but also immigration enforcement, according to its public statements.

“The Community Justice Exchange is working towards a world without prisons, policing, prosecution, surveillance or any form of detention or supervision,” the group states on its website. Its work includes publishing a roadmap to “prison abolition.”

The group also runs the National Bail Fund Network, whose chapters include the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a group that gained notoriety for bailing out rioters and alleged domestic abusers, among others, during the summer 2020 riots. Vice President Kamala Harris was among the high-profile figures who promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund last year.

The NFL’s support for the group includes supporting “75+ local community-based bail and bond funds, working to end money bail and pre-trial detention at the local level and immigration detention at the national level,” according to the NFL’s “Inspire Change” website.

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At SCOTUS Thomas , Alito and often Gorsuch are all we really have

The view of the rest of the Supreme Court essentially allowing states to deny religious exemptions re COVID vaccination is atrocious.  It strikes us in principle (and in science) as allowing the state to require one to participate in a snake-handling “service” featuring poisonous snakes.

Now the Fifth Circuit issued a truly remarkable rebuke of Biden lawlessness on other matters, as to process, procedure, legal reasoning and fidelity to the law as regards immigration policy.

The 5th Circuit Delivers a Shockingly Ruthless Rebuke of Joe Biden’s Lawlessness

Meanwhile, later today we hope to have up a commentary on recent finalized redistricting matters in Iowa.

 

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Chris Wallace gone from FOX — “new opportunities” indeed

Good riddance.    (also see ed. note below)

Remember, you saw it here first

CHRIS WALLACE IS OUT AT Fox News
In a surprising moment this morning, Chris Wallace took to the air and announced that he is leaving Fox News after 18 years on the job. This is apparently not a retirement either, with Wallace noting that he’s going to pursue other opportunities.

Replacing the “other” Chris (as in Cuomo?).     dlh


The bane of being a part-time political blogging managing editor  — snooze you loose

Dear Readers —   We at V’PAC have lamented that on occasion we have scooped predictions of our betters in the commentariat, but due to time constraints by yours truly never get them out there before the big boys with multiple editors paid to be on task along with fast internet server postings beat us to the “pungent”.

That happened again with our dlh’s post set forth above because, while it was sitting in my in-box to get out there, sure enough it was revealed that Chris Wallace is going to CNN.  Maybe not to replace the other Chris precisely but serve as their “big name” anchor of sorts.  They must have given him a boat-lode of money or maybe he is that dedicated to serving CNN’s liberal bias as he did at FOX, but now without the subterfuge.

Related reading: Is Tucker Carlson Responsible For Chris Wallace Joining CNN?

Well darn, we are left with the solace that brilliant clever minds think alike. So it goes but we will continue to at least once in awhile lead the commentariat not just appear to be following it.  In the meme time enjoy some Chris Wallace selections:

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There’s no cheap stunt a Biden appointee won’t stoop to…

Probably you’re not aware of this at all…Biden appointees are almost universally committed to ‘fundamentally transforming” the U.S. into a country that those who fled the Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela are very familiar with, and found so loathsome. Well, maybe you are aware, but it’s how they are attempting to go about it that is stunning.

From the WSJ: 

“Democrats criticized President Trump for breaking political norms, but his appointees for the most part respected regulatory due process. Mr. Biden’s radicals in a hurry are willing to roll over norms to impose their agenda.”

“(CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra went so far as to attempt a de facto coup against Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Jelena McWilliams, a Trump appointee.

Mr. Chopra wants to use bank merger reviews to exercise more political control over lending.”

Details of this stunt are contained in the Wall Street Journal article linked above. Chopra’s wildly underhanded attempt to advance the ‘Biden agenda” will surprise even the most informed critic of this administration.       dlh

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Debt machinations – the theater of the absurd

What more needs to be said?       dlh

BIDEN MOCKED FOR BRAGGING THAT U.S. PAYS ITS BILLS ON TIME BY INCREASING DEBT.

“An ‘Oxymoron without the ‘oxy’ ….“

President Biden

“This bill will reassure all the economic markets at home and around the world that we’re going to continue to pay our debts when they are due,” Biden says in the video as he signs the bill. “And that’s what this is all about.”

“The United States pays its debts when they are due. That’s why today, I signed a bill to fast-track the process to raise our debt limit…”

The following are some of the most notable responses to Biden’s remarks:

Geoffrey Miller, professor: “The US pays off its existing credit card bills by using new credit cards with higher spending limits. Totally unsustainable.”

Nick Searcy, actor: “This is like paying off credit card debt by transferring your balance to another card with a higher interest rate and a higher limit. The children tweeting for @joebiden are like college kids over drafting their accounts and paying it back with money from their parents.”

Sean Davis, The Federalist: “This is the equivalent of patting yourself on the back for getting a new, higher interest rate credit card to pay down another credit card balance.”

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McConnell and Ernst killing the fillibuster

  • Guaranteeing the uni-party march to fiscal oblivian
  • So is there a filibuster or isn’t there, and is it all just more drama or phoniness
  • Note this articles has been revised from the earlier posting

U.S. Senate Is Doing Away with Filibuster When It Comes to Vote for Raising Debt Ceiling

Do read the article. Because our readers are politically savvy they will understand the considerations surrounding the filibuster, for and against.  Ending it to allow for more fiscal extravagance, aided and abetted by Republicans, members of the minority Party and supposedly the fiscal adults in the room with no concessions from Democrats, well that would seem to be faithlessness.

Reading the article, the precedent is set, thanks to McConnell and Joni Ernst, et al. It comes down to the filibuster only being available upon agreement between the leadership of the two parties, which means it really does not exist other than to provide political cover in agreed upon circumstances.

The concept that important matters ought to require super majority support is not unreasonable. With the current marginal tri-fecta at the federal level for the Democrats of course they do not want the Republicans to be able to stop their agenda or have to weather accusations as to who is at fault for tying up government or something. It is pathetic that Republican leadership believes that that argument cannot largely be won especially given the insane inflation and the fact that key goverment business, as usual, will go on.  No one will miss a SSA payment.  But the willingness of a group of Republican Senators led by McConnell which includes Iowa Senator Joni Ernst have gone along so effortlessly is pathetic.

Our Senators Chuck Grassley (for other but similar reasons and votes) and Joni Ernst are simply undependable as conservatives. On fiscal matters they will vote for prudence when it is fairly easy, but they can only be depended on to protect and enhance Big Wind and Ethanol subsidies and mandates. They are a bit of a tag-team of late, one takes up the others slack after conservative blow-back is felt to continue to allow the ratcheting of bigger government and fiscal irresponsibility.

Grassley helped bring us to the fiscal cliff with his vote on the first infrastructure bill (with profound process implications for endangerment of the republic that were telegraphed by the Democrats).  Grassley did so using the excuse that the worst of the larger “soft infrastructure” bill will not pass because of Senate protocols or something, even though the filibuster was off the table for that as well.

Now Joni Ernst steps up to help Democrats save face and make the ongoing fiscal insanity a bi-partisan thing. But worse, with her vote the implications are unavoidable. If she protects the filibuster henceforth, she is giving Democrats great power to protect all of their evil policies or she is signaling the filibuster is over and the deliberative institution is dead and the Democrats can do their worst for the next year at least.  In the mean time she tries to have it both ways.    Consider this observation included in the article:

@JakeSherman

interestingly enough, some of the Republicans who voted for cloture on the debt ceiling process change are now voting yes on final passage too. Barrasso and Thune are yesses. This is at a 50-vote threshold, so their votes are not needed. Ernst and Wicker are no.

Schumer and McConnell stop the 40 Senators who might get a better deal by maintaining the filibuster, and down the road after a new Senate, now minority leader Schumer still maintains the filibuster to protect leftest programs. Hell of a deal, Mitch, Chuck and Joni.  Passages from the above linked article are inescapable including this one from leftist Robert Reich:

@RBReich
Serious question: Why shouldn’t voting rights be an exception to the filibuster? Dems are fine with a filibuster exception to raise the debt ceiling. So why not for democracy?

Please Senator Ernst, Senator McConnell, do tell us.  The only option becomes to end the filibuster after a Republican takeover or with this agreement you have empowered Democrats to protect their worst.

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Truth Comes from the Archbishop about the evil being foisted on us

Two statements from a statesman – a defender of culture and freedom and God’s Word.

We often post commentaries critical of Pope Francis and elements of the Roman Catholic episcopacy and priesthood who seem more devoted to leftist causes than a classic understanding of Christian theology not to mention tradition and mores. We realize full well there are great champions, our profound betters, in calling the RC clergy and the Church to task on critical issues of the day.   Archbishop Vigano is one of those, a true prince of the Church.

He has issued two public statements of profound insight and critical importance in recent days which we commend to you. Thanks to Gateway Pundit and LifeSite News for consistently being two of the outlets publishing Archbishop Vigano’s remarks and also SF for forwarding one of the links. We set them forth in their entirety in order to be a back-up avenue in case of the internet chicanery Big Tech is quite capable of.

“Let’s Respond to Corruption with Honesty, to Lies with Truth, to Self-Interest with Generous Dedication to Public Affairs” – Archbishop Vigano’s Latest Defense of Individual Rights in Response to New World Order

The Archbishop’s comments:

Dear Friends,

Allow me to address you as you denounce the most controversial and disturbing aspects of the experimental gene serum with great and commendable commitment. Your battle for scientific truth, coupled with increasingly coordinated action by countless scientists and doctors around the world, is opening the eyes of many people who have allowed themselves to be misled by the false promises of health authorities, by the discordant opinions of experts and by media propaganda.

I will not go into the merits of the health issue in itself, as you are much better informed than I am. Allow me to bring to your attention some reflections, observing the entirety of what is happening without focusing on specific details.

It now seems clear to me that the main purpose of this grotesque health charade is the imposition of a control system for individuals, implemented through the so-called green pass. We know that the health passport had been designed years ago, but that in order to make it mandatory it was necessary to create a pandemic emergency and force the population – through blackmail or the threat of sanctions – to allow themselves to be injected with an experimental drug for which the producer, the State, and whoever administers it do not assume any responsibility, pouring it instead onto the patient. Just yesterday, the FDA decided to make public the reasons for approving the Pfizer vaccine only in 2076: this gives ample proof of the criminal mind behind the screen of public health.

We see therefore that we have an elite of criminals, gathered together in the World Economic Forum to conceive the Great Reset and in the United Nations to implement the Agenda2030, who have decided to decimate the population of the planet through some “scenarios” described in detail. They destroy national economies, cause poverty and unemployment, create discrimination and violations of fundamental rights with the sole purpose of controlling survivors, tracing their movements, modifying their lives, deciding their thinking, and establishing their health regime. This work includes the collaboration of rulers, public officials, doctors, magistrates, law enforcement agencies, the media and – as if that weren’t enough – even religious leaders. Calling it a “conspiracy theory” is an understatement: it is a coup d’état pursued with a clear mind and determination, a crime against humanity. Its purpose is precisely to control us: to make us slaves and customers of a system that is about to implode, in which those who have made the most profits in the past creating the crisis, are now preparing to carry out the “fourth industrial revolution” – as Klaus Schwab calls it – to continue accumulating power and money.

The imposition of the health passport and the so-called vaccination are part of this project. It matters little that the Constitutions of the States and the most elementary principles of law are violated with impunity in the name of an emergency that was artfully provoked; it matters little that eminent personalities of the world of medicine denounce the serious side effects of the gene serum and the criminal management of the pandemic; it matters little that the macroscopic conflicts of interest existing between pharmaceutical companies, medical staff, health officials and mainstream information are well known: their narrative does not contemplate refutations, does not accept criticism, does not tolerate the evidence of the facts.

But if an elite has managed to corrupt the rulers and carry out a real coup against the citizens, we cannot respond locally: if the aggression is global, the action of opposition and resistance must likewise be global. I therefore also renew my invitation to you, who as scientists understand very clearly the danger of the experimental drug, asking you to join an Anti-globalist Alliance, in order to be able to counter this undeclared – but no less ruthless and violent – world war in a unitary and coordinated way.

Our enemy is not the virus, but the insanity of those who betray their duties to the detriment of the community, of those who believe they can impose the Chinese totalitarian model and social credit in our nations, in the name of a communist collectivism that takes away identity and freedom to each of us.

This global betrayal must be stopped: let’s respond to corruption with honesty, to lies with truth, to self-interest with generous dedication to public affairs, to the desire for power and money with selfless service and a sense of duty.

We reject not only the pandemic delirium, but the entire castle of horrors of the globalist ideology: the culture of death of abortion and euthanasia, gender theory, the indoctrination of our children, the “cancel culture,” uncontrolled immigration, the demolition of the natural family, the reduction of the protection and wages of workers, the persecution of small businesses. Let’s go back to being proud defenders of traditional values: God, Nation and Family. Let’s return to praying to the Lord, recognizing him as King not only of individuals, but of all nations and societies. Only understanding the war in progress, identifying the opponents and their criminal aims will allow us to resist and win.

If we limit ourselves to looking only at the efficacy of the gene serum, or the reliability of the test swabs, or the response that a single country has given to the spread of the infection, we will never get out.

Remember: if the attack is global, the counteroffensive must also be global. And may God assist and protect us.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Former Nuncio to the United States of America

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Via LifeSiteNews.com

Abp. Viganò: Scientists, physicians must join ‘anti-globalist alliance’ to fight COVID control of humanity

This global betrayal must be stopped: let’s respond to corruption with honesty, to lies with truth, to self-interest with generous dedication to public affairs, to the desire for power and money with selfless service and a sense of duty.

Tue Dec 7, 2021 –
Editor’s note: The following was an address given by Archbishop Viganò at the Truth for Health conference.

 Dear Friends, allow me to address you as you denounce the most controversial and disturbing aspects of the experimental gene serum with great and commendable commitment. Your battle for scientific truth, coupled with increasingly coordinated action by countless scientists and doctors around the world, is opening the eyes of many people who have allowed themselves to be misled by the false promises of health authorities, by the discordant opinions of experts and by media propaganda.

I will not go into the merits of the health issue in itself, as you are much better informed than I am. Allow me to bring to your attention some reflections, observing the entirety of what is happening without focusing on specific details.

It now seems clear to me that the main purpose of this grotesque health charade is the imposition of a control system for individuals, implemented through the so-called green pass. We know that the health passport had been designed years ago, but that in order to make it mandatory it was necessary to create a pandemic emergency and force the population – through blackmail or the threat of sanctions – to allow themselves to be injected with an experimental drug for which the producer, the State, and whoever administers it do not assume any responsibility, pouring it instead onto the patient. Just yesterday, the FDA decided to make public the reasons for approving the Pfizer vaccine only in 2076: this gives ample proof of the criminal mind behind the screen of public health.

We see therefore that we have an elite of criminals, gathered together in the World Economic Forum to conceive the Great Reset, and in the United Nations to implement the Agenda2030, who have decided to decimate the population of the planet through some “scenarios” described in detail.

They destroy national economies, cause poverty and unemployment, create discrimination and violations of fundamental rights with the sole purpose of controlling survivors, tracing their movements, modifying their lives, deciding their thinking, and establishing their health regime. This work includes the collaboration of rulers, public officials, doctors, magistrates, law enforcement agencies, the media and – as if that weren’t enough – even religious leaders. Calling it a “conspiracy theory” is an understatement: it is a coup d’état pursued with a clear mind and determination, a crime against humanity.

Its purpose is precisely to control us: to make us slaves and customers of a system that is about to implode, in which those who have made the most profits in the past creating the crisis, are now preparing to carry out the “fourth industrial revolution” – as Klaus Schwab calls it – to continue accumulating power and money.

The imposition of the health passport and the so-called vaccination are part of this project. It matters little that the Constitutions of the States and the most elementary principles of law are violated with impunity in the name of an emergency that was artfully provoked; it matters little that eminent personalities of the world of medicine denounce the serious side effects of the gene serum and the criminal management of the pandemic; it matters little that the macroscopic conflicts of interest existing between pharmaceutical companies, medical staff, health officials and mainstream information are well known: their narrative does not contemplate refutations, does not accept criticism, does not tolerate the evidence of the facts.

But if an elite has managed to corrupt the rulers and carry out a real coup against the citizens, we cannot respond locally: if the aggression is global, the action of opposition and resistance must likewise be global. I therefore also renew my invitation to you, who as scientists understand very clearly the danger of the experimental drug, asking you to join an Anti-globalist Alliance, in order to be able to counter this undeclared – but no less ruthless and violent – world war in a unitary and coordinated way.

Our enemy is not the virus, but the insanity of those who betray their duties to the detriment of the community, of those who believe they can impose the Chinese totalitarian model and social credit in our nations, in the name of a communist collectivism that takes away identity and freedom to each of us.

This global betrayal must be stopped: let’s respond to corruption with honesty, to lies with truth, to self-interest with generous dedication to public affairs, to the desire for power and money with selfless service and a sense of duty.

We reject not only the pandemic delirium, but the entire castle of horrors of the globalist ideology: the culture of death of abortion and euthanasia, gender theory, the indoctrination of our children, the “cancel culture,” uncontrolled immigration, the demolition of the natural family, the reduction of the protection and wages of workers, the persecution of small businesses. Let’s go back to being proud defenders of traditional values: God, Nation and Family. Let’s return to praying to the Lord, recognizing him as King not only of individuals, but of all nations and societies. Only understanding the war in progress, identifying the opponents and their criminal aims will allow us to resist and win.

If we limit ourselves to looking only at the efficacy of the gene serum, or the reliability of the test swabs, or the response that a single country has given to the spread of the infection, we will never get out.

Remember: if the attack is global, the counteroffensive must also be global.

And may God assist and protect us.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Former Nuncio to the United States of America

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It seems leftist doctrine is between a rock and a hard place regarding eminent domain

Typical, perhaps of”reporting” by certain ’news outlets’, this story raises unanswered questions; i.e. Did the Bruce family receive any compensation when the city exercised eminent domain? (Also, do certain Native American tribes have a claim prior to the “Bruce family’s”?)

ADVOCATES PUSH NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT TO RETURN PROPERTY ONCE OWNED BY BLACKS AFTER VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA.

A landmark law signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sept. 30 provided for a seaside park in Manhattan Beach to be returned to the Bruce family, which owned the land before the city used eminent domain to seize it in 1924. The victory was hailed as a watershed moment, the first example of Black people forcing the return of property that was taken from them by one means or another, often violently, over the years.

At the same time it raised a question: Would the Bruce’s Beach case be a one-off, or a tipping point in a national struggle over Black land ownership? Activists and scholars say there are other similar cases nationwide, but proving them — and getting the current property owners to cooperate — will be a different matter, forcing another chapter in the nation’s racial reckoning and raising thorny questions about how to right past wrongs.

“The reason it’s getting so much attention now is there’s been a precedent set and that’s what’s giving hope to other families,” said Kavon Ward, who helped lead the successful fight on behalf of the Bruce family and has co-founded a group called Where Is My Land aimed at advocating for other Black people who are trying to reclaim lost and stolen land. “This is just the beginning.”

dlh

BUT WAIT!

Hard science says so-called indigenous peoples were not so indigenous after all, or at least not assuredly so. It is not really known who was here first, as if that makes a difference as to ownership and eminent domain, but leftist doctrine says Europeans are interlopers yet pretty much every “indigenous” tribe was, and not shy about conquest either.

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When Democrats want to challenge an election they turn their lawyers loose at the tax money trough

We were unaware taxpayers were so much on the line for the Democrat challenge to the Iowa election process that declared Miller-Meeks the winner for about the fourth time after various jurisdictional audits.  Story at Conservative America Today:

Failed Democrat Iowa Election Challenge Hands Taxpayers $825,000 Legal Fees Bill. (excerpt below, full article at link)

To challenge Miller-Meek’s election, House Democrats used a provision they had previously included in House rules to use public funding to retain counsel to represent their party before the Committee on House Administration. Democrats after that paid top-tier law firm Jenner & Block $699,294 after the election was certified by the Iowa secretary of state following an official recount.

Committee Republicans hired the firm of Jones Day to represent them in responding to the election contest. That firm was paid $126,942 for their work.

So either Jones-Day is a lot more circumspect or really bad at the gorging game. One fifth the Democrat rate — pikers.

To start with, if this is a justifiable expense of any amount, which seems suspect given that the tax supported recount system in Iowa had validated the election for Miller-Meeks several times, why isn’t it structured to be an even handed allotment to be spent evenly?

To the challenger goes the lion’s share?

So if federal funds are properly used this way for “challengers” to federal election “results” — shouldn’t Trump’s challenges in various  states be subsidized to that tune . . . five to one for Trump’s lawyers in each and every individual challenge?

Seems fair.

V’pac

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