Category: Opinion

  • An Explosion On The Beach Sends Innocent Bystanders Running For Cover

    An Explosion On The Beach Sends Innocent Bystanders Running For Cover

    Some beachgoers were (un)lucky enough to get an extra dose of near-death experiences on the 4th of July when a large portion of their fireworks went up in flames creating chaos and confusion.

    A truck delivering a load of fireworks in Ocean City accidentally set them off that Sunday AM, terrifying innocent bystanders who were in the area. Ultimately it merely served as a preview of what was to come.

    The Ocean City Fire Dept. made a statement saying, “There was an unintentional discharge of fireworks that were being set up on the beach for the Town’s fireworks show.” They added, “During the unintentional discharge, employees of the fireworks company received minor injuries and refused transport to the hospital by Ocean City Paramedics.”

    No serious injuries were reported but this really could have turned ugly fast.

    This incident follows the LAPD bomb squad attempting to dispose of thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks but accidentally blew up a truck in a southside neighborhood instead.

    Just remember to be extra careful around BBQ and explosives and leave blowing stuff up to the professionals.

  • Tokyo Olympics Continue Under State Of Emergency

    Tokyo Olympics Continue Under State Of Emergency

    After growing concerns of the Delta variant surging through multiple countries, Japan has declared a state of emergency that will go into effect on Monday and last through Aug. 22.

    This means the Tokyo Olympics will be held under these extra emergency measures and without any spectators for this year. The state of emergency was issued aimed at containing the rapidly rising number of COVID-19 cases throughout Japan.

    Marukawa said Olympic organizers came to the agreement to hold the games without fans, according to Reuters. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach met with organizers and officials in Japan.

    “We have shown this responsibility since the day of the postponement,” Bach said via Kyodo News. “And we will also show it today, and we will support any measure which is necessary to have a safe and secure Olympic and Paralympic Games for the Japanese people and all the participants.

    “Taking into consideration the impact of the delta strain, and in order to prevent the resurgence of infections from spreading across the country, we need to step up virus prevention measures,” Suga said.

    Organizers previously allowed venues to be filled to 50% capacity but crowds not to exceed 10,000.

    Athletes, media, and sponsors were the only type of foreigners allowed at the games.

    The main focus of the most recent state of emergency is a request for bars, restaurants, and karaoke parlors serving alcohol to close. A ban on serving alcohol is a key step to tone down Olympic-related festivities and keep people from drinking and partying. Tokyo residents are expected to face stay-home requests and watch the games from home.

    Tokyo reported 896 new coronavirus cases Thursday, up from 637 a week earlier.

    About 11,000 Olympians and 4,400 Paralympians are set to enter Japan over the next few weeks with tens of thousands of officials, judges, administrators, sponsors, and media members. The IOC said more than 80% of residents of the Olympic Village will be vaccinated.

  • Death Toll Continues To Rise As More Bodies Are Pulled From The Rubble

    Death Toll Continues To Rise As More Bodies Are Pulled From The Rubble

    Crews have retrieved four more victims’ bodies from the rubble that was the Champlain Towers. That brings the official death toll to 64 with 76 people still unaccounted for. Only forty of the victims found have been identified.

    Earlier this week Surfside officials called off all rescue efforts and announced they would be reorganizing the mission to focus on recovery.

    “The work continues with all speed and urgency,” she said. “We are working around the clock to recover victims and to bring closure to the families as fast as we possibly can.”

    At midnight Wednesday, the mission shifted from a search and rescue operation to a recovery effort, meaning authorities had little hope that they could find additional survivors two weeks after the condo collapsed in the middle of the night on June 24. Many of the victims were found crushed to death in their beds.

    The decision to end the rescue effort came after crews completed a search of the last area where they expected to find “voids,” or pockets of debris large enough to possibly contain survivors.

    Authorities did search voids they hadn’t been able to access previously – but they found no one alive.

    No survivors had been found since the first few hours following the abrupt partial collapse, which happened as dozens of victims were believed to have been asleep.

    Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky said it could take weeks to finish recovering victims’ remains and removing rubble from the site.

    An extensive investigation into the cause of the collapse is ongoing and at least a half-dozen lawsuits have been filed in connection with the tragic incident.

  • HHS Secretary Argues The Government’s Right To Invade Your Medical History Without Your Permission

    HHS Secretary Argues The Government’s Right To Invade Your Medical History Without Your Permission

    Critics have expressed their objection to President Joe Biden’s plan to go “door-to-door” in areas determined to have low vaccination rates in order to bump up those numbers. The White House later explained that the program was sending willing volunteers — not federal officials — to your home. They also added that the government is definitely not snooping on your personal records to see if you have or haven’t been vaccinated.

    CNN Host Brianna Keilar talked to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, about people feeling that it’s not any of the government’s business whether they’ve been vaccinated.

    Becerra responded that it is “absolutely” the government’s business to know the vaccination status of every single American.

    “I wonder if you can answer that criticism: ‘It’s none of the government’s business knowing who has or hasn’t been vaccinated.’ What do you say?” Keilar asked. 

    “The federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic, so it is absolutely the government’s business,” Becerra responded. “It is the taxpayer’s business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy. And so, it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper to make sure Americans can freely associate, and knocking on a door has never been against the law.”

    Keilar pressed Becerra about talks of federally enforced vaccine mandate, something White House press secretary Jen Psaki has repeatedly denied any intention to pursue.

    “There are any number of ways to try to continue to make progress, and the president has demonstrated that he is open to moving in any direction we can to help Americans get safe, be safe, feel safe,” Becerra said. “We’ll continue to provide Americans access. We’re gonna go where you are so that you can get vaccinated.”

    “When you take to a vehicle and you drive with your children in that vehicle, you assume everyone will be as responsible as you will behind the wheel. Unfortunately, not everyone is,” Becerra continued. “Do we prohibit people from driving because they won’t be as responsible as you? We again give people choices and we try to have people be responsible. COVID is no different; the vaccine is no different.”

    According to a Biden admin official, the government is not collecting personal information for non-vaccinated Americans but they are using data from the CDC to locate areas with low vaccination rates. What they do with that information is up for speculation.

  • Delta Variant Has Grown Stronger Than The Current COVID Vaccine

    Delta Variant Has Grown Stronger Than The Current COVID Vaccine

    A new variant of the coronavirus has surged through the U.K. causing a recent spike in COVID-19 deaths. Almost half of the country’s recent deaths have been of people who have been vaccinated. But doctors and scientists still refuse to raise the alarm about the Delta variant which has caused a high proportion of deaths among the vaccinated.

    Scientists actually argue that the figure offers reassurance that vaccines offer substantial protection against the new variant. Delta, which first surfaced in India, has spread to over 85 countries, including the U.S.

    The U.K. is a testing ground for how vaccines are coping. Delta is racing through the country — with 146,000 identified cases in the past week, 72% up on the week before. The country is also a world leader in identifying through testing and genetic sequencing which versions of the virus are prevalent: By mid-June, 97% of cases were Delta infections. And Delta is spreading among a population that is among the most highly vaccinated in the world: 85% of adults have had at least one vaccine shot and 63% have had two.

    The spread of Delta has led the U.K. government to postpone by a month the ending of COVID restrictions until July 19. But ministers are increasingly confident that the unlocking will take place as planned because vaccinations have broken the lockstep between new cases, later hospitalizations, and deaths.

    Data from Public Health England show that there were 117 deaths among 92,000 Delta cases logged through June 21. Fifty of those — 46% — had received two shots of vaccine.

    But rather than suggest Delta is displaying a worrying ability to evade the vaccine and cause severe illness, scientists say those figures support the shots’ effectiveness. There are three main reasons why.

    Of those 50 deaths in fully vaccinated people in England, all were in people aged 50 years and over, the data show. There have been no deaths recorded in double-vaccinated under 50s.

    The data show that, overall, the fatality rate for confirmed cases of COVID-19 has been lower than it was with the Alpha variant, which was first spotted in the U.K. late last year and has since spread around the world. Public Health England pegged the fatality rate for Alpha at 1.9%. It estimates the fatality rate for Delta is closer to 0.3%, which scientists say reflects both mass vaccination and improved treatment for COVID-19. And the vaccine also reduces the chances of catching the virus at all.

  • Summer Brings Highest Crime Stats In Years But Joy Reid Says Its All Hooey

    Summer Brings Highest Crime Stats In Years But Joy Reid Says Its All Hooey

    Things have gotten so bad in New York that murders are up 50% compared to this time of year just before the pandemic. Down in Atlanta the murder rate is even higher growing 60% up from last year. Chicago has reports of over 1,900 shootings, up 53% in a city already dealing with its own crime problem. Seattle hasn’t seen a homicide rate this high in over a quarter of a century.

    But Joy Reid heard from friends — perhaps over brunch at an expensive restaurant with a nice view of New York’s Central Park — that crime in big cities probably wasn’t something to worry too much about. 

    Violent crime? It ain’t so bad, at least according to MSNBC’s far-left host Joy Reid.

    Have you heard about the alarming rise in shootings and murders engulfing American cities across the country?

    It’s a beast of a catastrophe, one the absentee President of the United States seems to have no real interest in solving, and the polling shows this could be a huge problem for Democrats in 2022 and beyond.

    Just 38 percent of Americans approve of the way President Biden is tackling the crime crisis in this country – I’d love to meet that 38 percent – according to ABC and The Washington Post.

    Among those 38 percent is Reid, who recently tweeted in response to left-wing journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, “I’ve seen more TV stories about crime than the actual anecdotes from friends in NYC or other big cities bear out. I mean summer is when crime always goes up and Shark Week happens perennially, despite the rarity of actual shark attacks. But it’s … odd for sure.”

    https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1411064812260503568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1411064812260503568%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fopinion%2Fjoe-concha-some-media-members-joy-reid-crime-spike

    https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1411065786123362305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1411065786123362305%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fopinion%2Fjoe-concha-some-media-members-joy-reid-crime-spike

     

    These aren’t the ordinary seasonal spikes Reid is describing. It’s a dilemma that Americans should not accept as something that comes with the season, like sunscreen or the flu.

    Of course, since Democrats are the party in charge of our country and some major cities within it, this crisis won’t get the attention it deserves.

  • BREAKING: Haitian President Viciously Assassinated In His Own Home

    BREAKING: Haitian President Viciously Assassinated In His Own Home

    Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an invasion that occurred in his private residence overnight, according to Haitian government officials.

    First Lady Martine Moïse was shot during the attack and in critical condition at a nearby hospital. Haitian interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph called the attack on Moïse a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act” in a statement, according to Fox News.

    Joseph is in place to take over as interim president while the country of Haiti rebounds from the assassination. The group that targeted Moïse for the assassination has yet to be identified and still at large.

    “The country’s security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti,” Joseph’s statement to the public said, according to CNBC. “Democracy and the republic will win.”

    Haiti has been increasingly unstable under economic and societal pressures.

    Opposition leaders in Haiti have demanded that Moïse step down amid claims that he has overstayed his legal term in office. As CNBC reported:

    Haiti’s economic, political and social woes have deepened recently, with gang violence spiking heavily in Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.

    Opposition leaders accused Moïse, who was 53, of seeking to increase his power, including by approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.

    In recent months, opposition leaders demanded he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Moïse and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap.

  • Cuomo Plays The ‘Disaster Emergency’ Card To Fund His Own Personal Agenda

    Cuomo Plays The ‘Disaster Emergency’ Card To Fund His Own Personal Agenda

    The recent collapse of the Surfside condo building was a disaster. While there were warning signs, no one could have predicted the tragedy that took the lives of 36 people with 109 still presumed to be missing within the ruble. The 100 car pile-up on a frozen Texas interstate earlier this year was a disaster. Hurricans, tornados, and earthquakes are emergencies that leave behind destruction and death.

    Declarations of a disaster emergency are usually saved for those kind of major natural disasters and large-scale events. But Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo thought this issue in the city was worthy of being declared a “disaster emergency,” which would enable him to transfer money around and stuff it into the pokets of those he finds fit.

    “Gun violence is a public health crisis, and we must treat it like one,” Cuomo wrote on Twitter. “This declaration will allow us to give the crisis the full attention & resources it deserves.”

    New York City was experiencing its lowest crime rates in six decades before seeing a tremendous spike last summer.

    The violent crime wave has continued, with shootings up 38% in the first six months of 2021 compared to the same time last year. The spike coincides with the Defund the Police movement’s rise in American politics, as well as general anti-cop sentiment. The political climate has resulted in mass resignations of law enforcement in the city.

    “We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence” Cuomo said during his press conference.

    Besides redirecting funds, the order will unlock the door for anyone to sue gun manufacturers and sellers by regarding them as a “public nuisance” under the Bloomberg Law.

  • Biden’s Mental State Challenged By WH Doctor

    Biden’s Mental State Challenged By WH Doctor

    Former White House physician republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson has demanded that President Joe Biden undergo a cognitive test Saturday, according to Fox News.

    “The far left and the mainstream media were demanding that this be the new standard for anybody who’s going to lead our country and be our commander-in-chief and our head of state,” Jackson said.

    “I’m just saying I agree with them at this point — we need to get it done,” Trump’s former White House physician added.

    Former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump took the cognitive exam at the beginning of their second year in office, according to Fox News.

    Jackson, who gave the test to Trump, said it is not an IQ test, but a test for age-related problems such as dementia or cognitive decline.

    “I think he’s demonstrating every single day that there is something going on,” Jackson said, according to Fox News. He added, “You don’t need to be a physician to look at this behavior and see there’s something concerning happening.”

    The former White House physician pointed out many different instances where Biden appeared “confused” he went on to remark.

    Biden’s administration announced in June that he would take a physical exam later this year. The former White House physician pointed out that the White House did not indicate whether or not the cognitive exam will be done during the health screening.

    “I’m just asking them: when you do the physical exam include the cognitive assessment?” he said, according to Fox News. “As far as I’m concerned the standard precedent has been set and they need to follow and do the same.”

  • Gas Prices Are Higher Than Ever And Its Only Going To Get Worse

    Gas Prices Are Higher Than Ever And Its Only Going To Get Worse

    Gas prices have reached an incredible 7-year high under President Joe Biden and as experts say, there is no relief in sight.

    As of July 4, the national gas price average had risen to $3.13, nearly one full dollar more than July 4, 2020, when the average nationwide price was just $2.17, according to AAA.

    According to energy expert Patrick De Hann, who works as the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, gas prices nationwide are forecasted to remain at high prices through the summer months and into autumn.

    Speaking on Fox Business last week, De Hann said gas prices traditionally rise during the early summer, but decline by mid-August. He said that will not happen in 2021.

    So when will gas prices finally drop below $3.00 per gallon nationwide on average? That may not happen until almost winter, De Hann predicted.

    “Instead of seeing prices maybe back down to the mid or upper $2 [range], it may be a push to drop back under $3 per gallon — if that happens,” De Hann said. “Since we’re still going up [in price], it’s a question of when we will probably get back under $3 [per gallon]. I think that should happen, but it may happen more in October than September.”

    But De Hann added an important point: hurricane season is upon us.

    “Keep in mind, too, with the prime of hurricane season now around the corner, there’s so many potential disruptions that could make gas prices even higher,” he warned.

    De Hann attributed Biden’s admission push to “go green” to the spiking gas price.

    “Down the road, absolutely, the Biden administration’s push to go green will probably have more of an impact,” he explained.

    “Since last November 3, the average price per gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. has skyrocketed by 75 cents. The markets clearly see the Biden/Harris administration as one that will work to inhibit U.S. oil production, which will also have the effect of tightening the global market, and traders have responded by driving up the price of crude oil,” Blackmon wrote in March.

    He explained:

    President Biden’s Day 1 executive orders to cancel the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and suspend the program for oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters were just initial shots across the bow. His order to raise the estimate for the “social cost of carbon” by over 700% will inevitably result in regulatory actions that will raise the cost of producing oil in the U.S., as will the coming effort by the Biden EPA to convince the courts to allow it to regulate carbon as a “criteria pollutant,” a topic I’ll address in more detail in the coming days.

    All of these actions and more to come will increase the costs of not just oil and gasoline, but all forms of non-renewable energy for consumers, will make the country increasingly reliant on foreign oil imports, and thus will render the country less energy secure than before. These outcomes are entirely predictable and are in fact features of the Biden/Harris plan, which is in part designed to make EVs and renewables more competitive by raising the cost of fossil fuels and other more traditional forms of energy. That’s not a value judgment: it’s just reality.