Pop Quiz
What playwright is credited with this observation: “Knowledge is power.”?
What statesman said: “Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”?
What playwright said: “The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”?
What American philosopher said: “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”?
What icon of the left said: “The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.”?
True or False? A European King once declared an American named Wha Tho Huk to be the greatest athlete in the world.
Answers at the end of this post.
Wanted posters are popping up at Tesla dealerships from coast to coast…Elon Musk wanted for inflicting the First Amendment on the American people. It is alleged that Musk bought Twitter and then, in an act of insurrection, permitted all points of view to be welcome on the site now known as X. A significant number of infantile former Twitter users claim it was a willful infliction of mental anguish and distress. A Federal District Court judge appointed by Obama issued an injunction claiming that Musk had violated the clear First Amendment protection of censorship because the “specific guarantees in the bill of rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.” Thus spake William O. Douglas in 1965. Another part of the Douglas opinion established a Constitutional standard for counting angels dancing on the head of a pin.
Your tax dollars at work: Our generous bureaucrats sent $10 million to Mozambique to pay for circumcisions. It was also intended to address the high unemployment level among Mohels in that country,
Musk has also been threatened with social media excommunication for the heresy of believing that our tax dollars should be wisely, as well as honestly, spent and fully accounted for. He made the situation worse by claiming the government expenditures should be free of fraud and abuse. Charges have been filed by 437 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other appendages of the Democrat Party. Stacey Abrams was positively indignant that Musk would dare to challenge her distribution of some $2 billion to residents of a small town in Georgia for the purchase of more energy efficient appliances. The global climate filed an Amicus brief.
Your tax dollars at work: $400 million dollars was dispatched to Columbia University because the returns on their $15 billion dollar endowment fund had been reduced by the economic bungling of the Biden administration. As a result anti-Jewish genocide enthusiasts who masquerade as students at Columbia are now being forced to panhandle for funds.
Hilliary Clinton made some sobering remarks in Germany recently. She was lamenting the fact that our overseers in Washington were not adequately controlling the information that was being made available to the voting public. She specifically identified the failure to control social media. No doubt she was targeting the evil Elon Musk and his support of free speech. Happily when the world’s smartest woman speaks almost no one listens.
The callipygian Ms. Clinton came within a hairsbreadth of winning the 2016 election. Her near success was made possible by the Russian collusion hoax that was a confection of her campaign team. We now know that the so-called, and now completely debunked, Steele dossier was financed by Team Clinton and she profited by a Helen Kelleresque media coverage of the document. Any dissenting commentary was stifled, silenced and censored by the social media that were controlled by the establishment at the time. Is it any wonder she believes that greater “control of information” is needed to ensure more favorable outcomes? In particular her winning an election.
In 2020 Team Biden managed to have the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop stifled, silenced and censored by the entirety of the Federal establishment and social media. We now know that the laptop was real and, more troubling, that the FBI had verified it’s authenticity well before the election cycle. Polls have suggested that the election results might have been different if the truth had managed to rear it’s ugly head. Our virago-in-chief, Ms. Clinton, gives the handling of that pesky matter a Siskel and Ebert two thumbs up.
On a far more lethal note the handling of the Covid threat was the perfect example of the bowdlerization of the truth. We now know that patient zero was an employee of the Wuhan Institute of Virology which, contrary to the under oath testimony of the Sainted perjurer Anthony Fauci, was supported financially by the American government. Any hapless soul who suggested that such was not the case was summarily silenced on social media. A number of reputable representatives of the medical community signed the Great Barrington Declaration criticizing the handling of the epidemic. They were sentenced to a social media gulag, their accounts being terminated. Doctors Fauci and Collins worked tirelessly to ensure that the proven prophylactic medications, hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, were demonized and withheld from the public…how many people needlessly died because of these assaults on science?
Your tax dollars at work: The Federal government spent $59 million providing hotel rooms and services to illegal immigrants in New York City. Might that money have been better spent taking care of the homeless that litter the streets of our cities?
It would be fun to confront our national Karen, the perennially intolerant Hilliary, with these examples of censorship or is it just a matter of whose ox is being gored/censored?
This just in from our science editor: wearing a necktie limits the flow of oxygen to the brain and studies show that prolonged use of a cravat will cause cranial oxygen deprivation which will likely turn the wearer into a Democrat.
Hilliary note to self…be careful what you wish for!
Answers to the pop quiz:
What playwright is credited this observation: “Knowledge is power.”? Francis Bacon
What statesman said: “Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”? Pericles
What playwright said: “The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”? George Bernard Shaw, author of Pygmalion, the story of a mixologist who is transformed into our very own lower IQ version of St. Greta of Thunberg, i.e. AOC
What American philosopher said: “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”? Benjamin Franklin
What icon of the left said: “The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.”? Fidel Castro
True or False? A European King once declared an American named Wha Tho Huk to be the greatest athlete in the world. True but you may better know Wha Tho Huk as Jim Thorpe
Linda Strawbridge
Good reading, I look forward to your next one.
The Observer
mohels in Mozambique … priceless. Keep up the Brycisms
Ron
In the words of Ronaldus Maximus, :There you go again”…making me spill my morning coffe from laughter. I must admit, on first reading I didn’t know what a :Mohel” is. Upon finding out, my belly laugh was one of the best ever.
On a more serious note, the increasingly intense democrat reaction to DOGE and Elon Musk may, in historical context, rise to to the level of most important event leading to the destruction of the democrat party. I do not, and will never understand how any American who engages in even a modicum of thinking, (and certainlt the actually intelligent members of the party of which there are some) can possibly conclude democrats have any interest whatsoever in governing, solving problems and moving the country forward in a positive manner.