90 Miles From Tyranny

Sunday, August 16, 2020

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1081

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Democrats No Longer Believe In Hard Work To Get Ahead, They Believe In Grift, Theft, And Redistribution To Get What They Want.

The Society They Envision Will Spiral Into Poverty, Despair, Starvation, Murder, Political Imprisonment And Finally Totalitarian Rule.

All Will Be Equal In Misery Except For The Ruling Class.

Vote Like Your Life Depends On It. It Does.

Double-Amputee Veteran Skydives with American Flag, Trump 2020 Parachute

A skydiving double-amputee veteran jumped out of an airplane Friday to help kick off the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

“Sergeant First Class Dana Bowman has done over 4,000 parachute jumps from an airplane, and today he parachuted in with the American Flag at the Veterans Ride,” according to Black Hills Fox.

In addition to the flag, Bowman’s parachute read: “TRUMP 2020 Keep America Great,” the outlet noted.

Americans would not have the freedoms they enjoyed today without the sacrifice of the nation’s veterans, Bowman said, adding that he still found jumps like his most recent one quite moving.

“You know it is so exhilarating to be an inspiration to a lot of them. Some are looking for hope. Hope for despondent, courage to the timid, and strength to the weak,” he commented.

Years ago, the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team member suffered a terrible injury while serving his country.

“Way back in 1994, I was in a mid-air collision on the Army Parachute Team, The Golden Knights. A mid-air collision that took the life of my teammate and both of my legs,” Bowman explained.

The group was a demonstration and competition parachute team of the United States Army, according to its website.

The team’s creed read in part:

Under a canopy of black and gold I fly the colors of the Army. I volunteered to become an ambassador of my service and I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, high standards, and esprit de corps of the United States Army Parachute Team. The memories, achievements and legacy of all my predecessors are my responsibility; I will not fail them.

Bowman’s fellow veterans caught the flag before it touched the...

She's Pissed, Her Knees Are Sore And It's HER TURN!!!

How the Media Drives Radical ‘Wokeness’

“Fake news” isn’t the only media problem in 2020.

An important analysis in media trends of the past decade shows how activist journalism is promoting radical racial “wokeness.”

There was a time when the woke ideology was firmly ensconced in the ivory tower and limited to radical corners of our university system. But now it’s everywhere, and America seemingly can’t stop talking about race, racism, and anti-racism all the time.

More than that, the George Floyd protests have turned into the 1619 riots, where the very idea of America is being called into question as a part of some grand racial reckoning.

But where is all of this coming from?

An in-depth analysis at Tablet magazine from Zach Goldberg, a doctoral candidate in political science at Georgia State University, shows that at the very least, America’s most elite media institutions have been the conduit for these ideas to become ubiquitous.

Once obscure academic jargon like “white privilege” and “microaggression,” Goldberg notes in his Aug. 4 piece, has been picked up by liberal journalists while the word “racism” has been redefined.

As I wrote in my analysis of Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and the “anti-racist” movement, racism is “not just an individual act of discrimination or prejudice toward a person or a people based on their race.”

Instead, racism is a “collective condition leading to inequities in society.”

Being racially colorblind or demanding equal treatment under the law now are considered racist if societal inequities persist.

In his Tablet piece, Goldberg lays out just how rapidly and widely “wokeness” has been disseminated among Americans. The chief culprit being media, more specifically elite media institutions such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

That process accelerated over the summer, Goldberg writes, as countless articles in these elite publications, typically portrayed as straight news, “illustrate a prevailing new political morality on questions of race and justice that has taken power at the Times and Post—a worldview sometimes abbreviated as ‘wokeness’ that combines the sensibilities of highly educated and hyperliberal white professionals with elements of Black nationalism and academic critical race theory.”

“Wokeness” is a term most Americans were mostly unfamiliar with even a few years ago, but now its prevailing ideas are everywhere. Wokeness, which combines elements of Marxist ideology and critical race theory, increasingly has become the dominant ethos of America’s higher education institutions, newsrooms, and...