Author Archives: Dana Pico

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Tuesday morning rant

Sometimes I get on a roll when commenting on The Pirate’s Cove. In response to the commenter styling himself Elwood P Dowd, I ranted:

The very good and noble Mr Dowd wrote:

Yes, everyone makes mistakes. Mr Teach was celebrating the deaths of two evil men while ignoring burning alive as many as 50 children, women and men.

Those “two evil men” weren’t brave soldiers on the battlefield, nobly resisting the advancing Israeli soldiers, but cowards who started a fight they couldn’t finish, hiding amongst the (purportedly) innocent children. How many ‘innocent’ Germans were killed as the Allies closed the noose on Germany, seeking to capture or kill Adolf Hitler and his henchmen? How many ‘innocent’ Japanese were burned to death in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, as the US softened up the country in preparation for invasion? Continue reading →

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Did the Libertarian Party just help the GOP?

Yahoo News reported:

Former President Trump was met with mixed reactions at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday as the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee suggested that he should also receive the Libertarian presidential nomination. “Only do that if you want to win,” Trump told attendees. “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years,” he added.

Mr Trump was widely booed at the Libertarian Party Convention, and of course they didn’t nominate him, or Robert F Kennedy, Jr, who also sought the Party’s nod. Instead they picked Chase Oliver, the openly homosexual Georgian perennial candidate. And, just as President Trump said, the Libertarians will get a small percentage of the vote. Continue reading →

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Bidenomics and Bidenflation.

Lisa Nicholson, photo from her TikTok

I noted, just yesterday, that my family have done pretty well when it came to real estate. According to Zillow, our house, which we purchased in September of 2014, is worth more than twice what we paid for it, 109% more. The small rental property we bought in December of 2021 is now supposedly worth 52% more, and the house our older daughter bought in September of 2020, in a more expensive city than ours — we live in a low-cost, poor county — is worth 31% more.

As it turns out, my family are not the only ones who’ve noticed.

Woman Breaks Down Why She Couldn’t Now Afford the House Bought 3 Years Ago

by Alyce Collins | Friday, May 24, 2024 | 10:16 AM EDT | Updated: 11:05 AM EDT

Becoming a homeowner is something that millions of Americans aspire to, but with house prices on the rise and mortgage rates hovering around 7 percent, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for people to turn that dream into a reality. Continue reading →

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics Who are you going to believe, Joe Biden, or your lying eyes?

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

The official inflation rate has come down from its highs earlier in the Biden Administration, and the Democrats are arguing that inflation has been whipped, that wages are rising just as fast as prices, and even a little bit faster. But Erin McCarthy of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote something that just doesn’t go along with the Democrats’ meme. Continue reading →

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The Golden Rule

Have you heard of the Golden Rule? “He who has the gold makes the rules!”

We have noted, many times, how deep-pockets donors have reacted very badly to the tolerance of anti-Semitism on campus. Several major corporate CEOs have said that they would not hire Harvard students who signed a stupid document blaming Israel for Hamas’ October 7th attack, and at least one CEO has said he will never again hire anyone from Harvard, MIT, or Penn following the three presidents’ debacle. Continue reading →

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If someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently?

‘Aayden’ Gallagher, photo from New York Post on Twitter.

I have asked this question previously: if someone was actively trying to sabotage the concept that #TransgenderWomenAreWomen, what would he be doing differently from what the ‘transgender women’ are doing right now when it comes to sports?

The usual conservative outlets carried the story of how ‘Aayden’ Gallagher, a male, won the Oregon Girls’ 6A 200-meter state championship race, and was roundly jeered by the spectators. But now even the liberal credentialed media are reporting on the story. From NBC News:

Transgender teen booed after winning girls’ track race at state championship

High school sophomore Aayden Gallagher won the 200-meter race at the state championship event in Eugene, Oregon.

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Some deluded American leftists might think that they are organizing the pro-‘Palestinian’ protests, but much of it comes from the professional agitators.

Intelligent people have already been wondering just how much of the ‘student’ activism in support of the ‘Palestinians’ and Hamas has been led not by the students themselves, but professional activists. We have previously noted that the majority of those arrested, 13 out of 19, as the Philadelphia Police ‘broke up‘ an attempt to occupy a Penn building, and 26 out of 33 arrested as the pro-Hamas ‘encampment’ at the University of Pennsylvania was broken up were not students there. Continue reading →

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Israel busts yet another Hamas tunnel and weapons cache

Hamas weapons captured, photo by IDF. Click to enlarge.

It was not quite two weeks ago that President Joe Biden threatened to withhold American weapons shipments to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent the Israel Defence Force into Rafah. The obvious question becomes: did Hamas have weapons stockpiled in Rafah, or did them move some from elsewhere into Rafah, hoping that Israel would kowtow to the dummkopf from Delaware’s demands?

IDF troops raid Hamas compound, seize weapons cache from hidden tunnel in Rafah

IDF troops say they eliminated ‘dozens’ of Hamas members

By Anders Hagstrom, Fox News | Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 1:40 PM EDT

Israeli forces conducted a raid against a Hamas compound in Gaza on Tuesday, uncovering a tunnel and a significant cache of weapons and explosives. Continue reading →