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Get Ready for Riots and Leftist Violence if Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

Nobody is Safe From a Corrupted Judicial System

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— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) June 22, 2022

The Verdict Is In: 23% Property Tax Increase for Guilford County, 9% for Greensboro (plus fee increases!)

We had reported here earlier this week about the average 23% increase in property taxes for homeowners in Guilford County.

There is now clarification regarding the increase in the socialist-controlled city of Greensboro. The Rhino Times report that Greensboro homeowners will face a nearly 9% property tax increase. In addition, other fees such as water and trash collection bills will increase also.

The two candidates for mayor, Vaughan and Outling, voted against it. That gives them "plausible deniability" on the campaign trail; but a vote was allowed by the mayor, presumably on the theory that it takes 5 votes to get a budget passed. They had MORE than 5-- seven council members voted in favor.

Remain mindful that the property tax increases cited above are AVERAGE increases. Individual homeowners might face an even greater percentage increase in their property taxes depending on how much their property valuation increased or appreciated. 

New Hampshire Poll Has DeSantis AHEAD of Trump

The report is here.

Seems hard to believe, but Trump's star is fading a bit among some of his supporters because of his continued staunch defense of the Covid vaccines.

It is very early, but we can't jump to any conclusions about Trump's strength during the 2024 primary season, assuming he runs. The primaries are waged state by state; and many of these have their own peculiarities.

Estimates of Death and Disability Due to the Covid Vaccines

A number of researchers and analysts have attempted to look at data that can provide estimates of how many people in the United States have died due to the Covid-19 vaccines or become disabled because of them. Remain mindful these are estimates. I will try to list some of these here of which I have become aware over the last week or so.

• Dr. Spiro Pantazatos estimated 150,000 - 180,000 deaths due to the vaccine over a six month period last year. That works out to one death in 2500 who take the vaccine. Here is the actual paper. The risk apparently increases with each booster taken.
• Professor Mark Skidmore at Michigan State estimated approximately 260,000 deaths due to the vaccine through the end of December, 2021. 
• The MMWR reveals increased deaths in many age groups during 2021 NOT due to illness with Covid-19 itself.
• One analysis demonstrates kids who are vaccinated are much more likely to die than unvaccinated kids..
• A survey-type study, which will have certain limitations, suggests large numbers of people disabled by the Covid vaccines. Another analysis quoted in the article suggests 1.8 million people added to the disability rolls because of vaccine reactions-- or approximately 1% of those who receive the vaccine who become disabled. (HT; Fred)

And they wonder why we have labor shortages. Much of this has been self-inflicted because early treatment was always a viable option for many of these people who were disabled or killed by the vaccines.

Update: Here is another study that tends to confirm the above, at least to some extent.

How The FDA Got the Covid Vaccines Approved for Children

DeSantis on Covid Vaccines for Babies

Gov. Ron DeSAVAGE goes FULL-BLAST on Biden White House, legacy media over vaccines for BABIES pic.twitter.com/QVB6sMnozM

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 21, 2022

Message to Southern Baptists: "Your Denomination is Dead"

This video is just a bit lengthy, and it is from an academic at an evangelical Christian college, but it is well worth watching and listening:

"Juneteenth": The Fraudulent Holiday

I pulled up to the drive-through window at the bank last week and a sign was posted in the window. The bank was going to be closed on Monday, June 20th because of the new Juneteenth holiday.

But wait a minute! Juneteenth falls on June 19th-- i.e., Sunday. But the travel industry long ago had lobbied with the federal government to have holidays fall on Monday to create a 3-day weekend when many people would be more likely to travel.  So the "'...teenth" was celebrated on the 20th. Of course, it was mostly governmental employees and bank employees who got the day off. 

But think about it. This creates three 3-day weekends in a short period of 6 weeks. Aside from the impacts on work output and productivity, there are other issues with creating a superfluous holiday.

African-Americans already have a holiday dedicated to their historic struggles with MLK day in January, which also falls on a Monday. Never mind that Martin Luther King, Jr. was an immoral man who embraced socialism during his latter years. It is still maintained that his memory merits a holiday in his name. 

But it turns out that "Juneteenth" is also suspect as an event justifying a holiday. Although it is represented as marking the end of slavery, in fact, it did not. 

Slaves in the North were not freed with the Emancipation Proclamation. And emancipation truly did not occur until the passage of the 13th Amendment, which occurred much later.

But I suppose we can enjoy going through the motions to appease an aggrieved minority and to get another holiday. 

Unemployment Fraud and Airline Pilots

A good article at the Washington Stand details a GAO report documenting massive unemployment  fraud during the pandemic. It is estimated that the fraud was in the range of $78 billion. That might seem like a small amount in view of the tens of trillions of dollars that have been thrown around because of the way government has responded to the pandemic. But there was a time not long ago when $78 billion was considered to be a large amount of money. 

I experienced a couple of fraudulent unemployment claims at my own business last year; and had to spend large amounts of time intervening with the state Division of Employment Security to get these claims reversed. I have not seen any data about how much fraud we have had in North Carolina; but I expect it has been considerable.

This is the price associated with all the foolishness that was exhibited with the government response to Covid-19. People were encouraged not to work; and employers were forced or encouraged to reduce operations. The unemployment agencies reduced many of the safeguards that had been previously used to prevent fraud. Folks caught wind of this and took advantage.

But the governmental response to Covid still has myriad effects throughout the economy. We have discussed this here previously. One of those effects is a shortage of airline pilots. Because of the highly inappropriate, fear-based response to COVID, airlines shut down to minimal levels of operation because of reduced demand. Pilots were pushed into early  retirement. And now, we have a pilot shortage that  is contributing to tens of thousands of cancelled flights. 

The Book of Proverbs speaks a great deal about foolishness. It is doubtful that the author was referring to governmental leaders and agencies, but given the fact they are human, the messages likely still apply.

Many of us feel that a good bit of this was intentional and planned. That carries us beyond the issue of foolishness.